Montecatini 2017: By Luck Montecatini has a cure for Stress
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• 10 June, 2017
For true bridge players there is no activity that absorbs them in the way bridge does. But on the way to satisfaction, during the championships there are …
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• 10 June, 2017For true bridge players there is no activity that absorbs them in the way bridge does. But on the way to satisfaction, during the championships there are …
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• 9 April, 2017Many players think that only experts can make contracts using a squeeze. Actually, many squeezes “play themselves,” emerging without any clever play.
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• 2 April, 2017The margin of victory was 79 points, so this deal was hardly the crux of the match, but it involved an extremely rare kind of play—a “one-suit squeeze.”
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• 22 March, 2017Take a vote among the world’s experts for their choice of No. 1 in the world, and you will find Norway’s Geir Helgemo heading many lists. Here is a sample of his brilliance.
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• 12 March, 2017The only thing that distinguished a grand coup from its humbler brother, the coup, is that in the reducing play it is winners instead of losers that are ruffed.
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• 9 March, 2017Elimination really refers to the stripping process preceding the endplay, but as it is also loosely apllied to the endplay itself, I have left it as the chapter heading.
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• 3 March, 2017On many no trump hands declarer has to force out two defensive winners before he can run his tricks. It may be essential to force out those winners in the right order.
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• 24 February, 2017Bridge is a great, but unpredictable game. You hold:
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• 17 February, 2017This was a seemingly routine board in a team match.
At both tables, West led the ten of hearts. Each declarer
won the first trick with ace of hearts,