Prevent a Ruff by Jon Brown
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• 17 July, 2017
West led his singleton club, which dummy’s king won. South read the lead as a singleton.
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• 17 July, 2017West led his singleton club, which dummy’s king won. South read the lead as a singleton.
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• 8 July, 2017The most familiar type of elimination play is the “ruff and discard elimination”. The defender who is thrown on lead has the choice between playing on a suit, to your advantage, or giving you a ruff and discard.
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• 5 June, 2017One of the beauties of bridge is that it gives practitioners a chance to reason and infer, rather than project from a position where everything is known, as in chess.
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• 29 May, 2017While sitting at the bridge table, if you do one thing on a regular basis, the game will be much easier — what is it? This deal highlights the technique.
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• 14 April, 2017It was Charles Monk, one of Belgium’s leading experts, and he had a sensational bridge hand to talk about.
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• 9 April, 2017Some of the most difficult problems for the bridge historian concern allocation of credit for conventions or improved treatments. We know…
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• 21 February, 2017“I might add,” Mr. Dale concluded, “that I can see nothing wrong with a contract where one opponent holds eight trumps against you—not as long as you make it.”
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• 20 February, 2017This hand is taken from a famous book Spotlight on card Play by Robert Darvas and Paul Lukacs…
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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,
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• 12 February, 2017In a high percentage of deals there does not seem to be any effective defense, and when the contract is made, the defenders console each other by