Yearly Archives: 2013

Trump Squeeze by Fulvio Fantoni

While we are in Monaco at the Mexican restaurant, our friend Claudio Longa puts the fork down and starts writing cards on the placemat, telling me:

Women’s Online Bridge Festival: 11th to 17th November 2013.

For this event the World Bridge Federation has awarded a special prize to the overall winning player -free entry, with a partner of her choice, to the Women's Pairs Championship which held as part of the 2014 World Bridge Series in Sanya China.

Mandatory Falsecarding

Source: BBO News This article is meant as a repository of mandatory and semi-mandatory falsecards. This is an area where most intermediate-advanced players can benefit...

Conventions: A Gazzilli’s Menu

As the Gazilli is more a "concept" rather than a welldefined convention: we present you here some of the different versions we found over the internet, so you can chose the one who fits you best.

The Bridge World Press Release

A book that consistently appears on bridge players’ top-ten lists is Jeff Rubens’ The Secrets of Winning Bridge, which...

Leading Low from a Doubleton Honor by Rixi Marcus

When, as a defender, you are about to attack from a holding such as J-x, Q-x or K-x, consider the possible advantage of leading a low card.

Danes Conquered the Swedish Elitserien

11-13th of October saw the finish of Sweden’s finest national tournament, Elitserien. The victory was for: Peter Fredin, Johan Dieden, Jacob Røn, Dennis Bilde y Martin Schaltz.

The Bridge Road Warriors: Tucson

The hardest part of my job as CEO of Tournament Bridge Services is evaluating the true potential of the athletes applying for a position within the company. Photo: GS Jade Barrett, and Anna

Who has the Queen? Part IV by Frank Stewart

Test your queen-placing in the following problems.

Conventions: What's the Gazzilli?

Gazilli is more a "concept" rather than a welldefined convention: just as well as there are as many forms of Stayman (or Checkback, or whatever) as the number of bridge players, every pair plays a customized version of Gazzilli

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