Archivos mensuales: Enero, 2016

Dear Jerry, Our convention card is clearly marked "weak jump overcalls." Yesterday, the auction proceeded:

It's easy to falsecard by playing a card declarer already knows you hold; it's harder to play a card when its location is not yet known (but soon will be ).

When you, declarer, lead a card towards the dummy, both defenders can see the card you have played and dummy's holding.

But Mr. Pigeon is wont to make these thoughtless plays from time-to-time, which is at other reason why he loses at bridge.

Mr. Pigeon found himself quite suddenly in a game contract on board 11 at the Tuesday night duplicate, and when he saw the dummy, he was certain that the hand would play like a "pianola".

The two teams that finished first and second in the 2011 English Premier League met in the final of the 2011 Gold Cup, Britain's oldest and most prestigious team competition.

Time spent in the study of the fall of the cards and the probable distribution as revealed in the bidding and play frequently results in the making of contracts which to the superficial view appear beset with insuperable obstacles.

So much emphasis is been placed on high card point count that the role of distribution all too often is given a back seat in the evaluation of a hand.

This week's deals have treated declarer's entry management. You can test your play by covering today's East-West cards.

Mixed Raises Part 1: How to Bid and Defend Against Them