Safety Play By Steve Becker
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• 8 June, 2017
A safety play is an effort by declarer to combat a potentially unfavorable distribution of the defenders’ cards, there are so many different kinds of safety plays that it is better to…
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• 8 June, 2017A safety play is an effort by declarer to combat a potentially unfavorable distribution of the defenders’ cards, there are so many different kinds of safety plays that it is better to…
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• 26 May, 2017Make humanics your trumps. Study the art of playing the people as well as the cards. Remember that the human factor is allways at work.
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• 12 April, 2017The moral of today’s hand is that one should never give up, even when the cause appears to be hopeless.
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• 12 April, 2017TREATING your partner as if he doesn’t know his business is just as witless in bridge as in the workaday world.
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• 22 March, 2017It isn’t true that you must always return the suit your partner has led. For example you may not have a card of his suit. Or you may…
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• 20 March, 2017Bridge players should be familiar with the defensive principle which states:
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• 11 March, 2017The uglier a man’s legs, the better his golf game, H.G. Wells observed.
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• 3 March, 2017When leading from an honor sequence, standard practice is to start with the highest honor. When following third hand, however, it is best to play the lowest of touching cards.
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• 27 February, 2017Like the Law of Total Tricks, this subject has generated a great deal of literature. Eddie Kantar is one notable world-class player and teacher who has written extensively about forcing auctions.
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• 18 February, 2017This series will cover common mistakes in bidding and play and I will start with a humdinger.