Interesting points By Barry Rigal
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• 28 November, 2016
This deal from the second final session of the Nail Life Master Open Pairs produced numerous points of technical and practical applications.
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• 28 November, 2016This deal from the second final session of the Nail Life Master Open Pairs produced numerous points of technical and practical applications.
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• 14 November, 2016Bergen raises became popular in the 80s and are now widely played. They let you make pre-emptive, mixed and limit raises efficiently, though they seem to commit…
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• 9 November, 2016This brings us to one of the more important patches that 2/1 requires. When in my youth I first read about these methods, Edgar Kaplan remarked that the problem with game-forcing sequences was…
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• 8 November, 2016Major-suit jumps to the five-level: This subject was first covered in detail by Alan Hiron in Bridge Magazine 40 years ago…
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• 26 July, 2016Following completion of the transfer, a jump in your own major at your second turn is a mild slam try, showing a …
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• 20 July, 2016Everyone knows that the ace-asking inquiry named after Easley Blackwood is usually initiated by a call of 4NT. We have all had disasters when
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• 7 July, 2016When this hand was originally published a few years ago, the author asked every East-West pair …
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• 3 October, 2015I’m guessing the majority of partnerships play weak twos and weak-jump overcalls, without specifically discussing what the constraints on a jump overcall are.
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• 30 September, 2015It stands to reason that bidding by a passed hand must be different to action by an unpassed hand. Have you discussed the following positions?