Daily Archives: Nov 28, 2013

Bridge and Humor: Hesitations

During a high stakes game one day, the legendary Alvin Roth and his partner found themselves defending a 7NT contract.

An Intrafinesse Example by Fernando Lema

The WGM Gabriel Chagas, once explained the way to play this kind of weak suits, he called the technique the Intra-Finesse.

God is Italian by Pietro Forquet

"God is Italian" with this words complained Edgar Kaplan about a couple of miraculous contracts completed by the Blue team during the final of a world championship. Photo: 1974 Pietro Forquet (Ita) y Gabino Cintra (Bra)

Odd/Even Discards

What are Odd/Even (O/E) discards? Also called Roman Discards, they are a discarding method whereby the first card that you discard is an attempt to signal partner as to which suit you’d like led.

Conventions: Negative Free Bids Part 3

One of the benefits of the Negative Freebid (NFB) is that it allows responder to make more natural bids in competition. Access to part 1 and Part 2

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