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Don’t Play Idle Cards Thougtlessly… They are the Neutrinos of Bridge By Jean Besse

Idle cards are those that can neither make tricks nor prevent the enemy from making tricks, nor act as guards to important cards.

For The Improving Player

South to make 4H (IMPs) West leads the SA, cashes SK, then....

Test Your Bidding: Over Their Weak Jump Overcall

How do you cope with the weak jump overcall with each of these hands?

Tip of the Month: On Promoting Trumps

Suppose you are a defender and have a trump holding of something like:

Seeing through cards By Oren Lidor

Counting is very important: You can count tricks, losers, points and distributions. Notice the bidding!

My Bols Tip By Andrew Robson

Some 25 years ago I wrote a Bols Bridge Tip. If a preemptor leads his suit, he probably has a singleton trump.

Those Part-Scores are Important Too

No matter what form of the game you are playing, you want to be on the right end of the part-score battles, both in the bidding but also in the play and defence.

Vanderbilt 2016 – Final Part 2 by Maurizio di Sacco

CAYNE recorded immediately afterwards its first double digit swing of the match, when Bocchi-Brenner got to an hopeless six clubs, opposite an easy three no-trump in the other room.

Assumptions are Essential by Jay Becker

A shrewd defender makes all kinds of assumptions about the location of the unseen cards. He does not see

An overview of relays systems.

Normal bidding using say Standard or Acol is an exchange of information to show and deny things. If you open ...

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