This great game is so difficult and complex that it’s impossible to play flawlessly. Although the expert may explain it as “taking a wrong view”, it still comes down to the same thing: we all make mistakes.
My first mentor was Jan Wohlin who taught me and my brother David how to play when I was 13 years old and he was 15. He was a genius how to explain bidding and declaring.
The tournament never finished because the snails had not got beyond the fifth round and were still engaged playing the tortoises when the waters subsided and the Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat." Photo: Edward Hicks, 1846
