Monthly Archives: December, 2013

Remember: When you play against a great champion, it is best not to double any contracts even though you are pretty sure he is going down!

Dear Jerry: Could you clarify the difference between ‘offensive’ and ‘defensive’ values? —W. Arnold Charlotte, NC

Foto: The winning Austrian team at the 1937 World Championships: from left, Karl Schneider, Hans Jellinek, Edouard Frischauer, Paul Stern (Capt.), Josephine Culbertson (US), Walter Herbert, Helen Sobel (US), and Karl von Blöhdorn

Please help with a small difference of opinion. Is there a consensus approach on how to advance after a balancing 1NT?

UDCA is usually better than standard signals because it avoids wasting a high card to signal positive attitude in a suit and it reduces the possibility of false carding by declarer.

A doctor answers his phone at home on a Friday night.....

In this article we shall look at another way of judging whether your hand and partner fit well enough to bid low point-count games and slams.

Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes won the French team cup together with Geir Helgemo,Tor Helness, Franck Multon and the “boss” Pierre Zimmermann. Foto: Fulvio Fantoni & Bertrand Chamorin

If you can’t see yourself defeating the contract by winning the trick, DUCK IT even at the cost of a trick. By deceiving the declarer you may still cause his house of cards to collapse.

Pierre Zimmermann (Côte d'Azur) won the Coupe de France against the team of Corinne Mohsenem (Guyenne) 68-43.