Yearly Archives: 2013

On game day, get an extra 30 minutes of sleep, leave your bridge bucks at home, skip the lines, and go right to your table at game time!

When opening a hand that is 6-4 in the majors, show the...

The opening lead always seems to have a bearing on the outcome of a hand, especially in duplicate pairs where every overtrick and undertrick matters.

There has been a lot of hysteria over the Israeli teams bound (or not) for Bali and even more over the ongoing efforts of Migry Zur-Campanile, who holds an Israeli passport but has been added to the USA2 squad for the Venice Cup, to obtain a visa to travel to Indonesia.

The "standard" use for a 3NT opening bid is balanced with 25-27 HCP's, but that's a hand that can equally well be described via a 2 clubs opening. For this reason, a common use of an opening 3NT is the so-called "Gambling 3NT", showing a solid minor suit and not much else.

A capable defender chooses a lead by visualizing the dummy and anticipating how declarer will play...Try

Team Real: Alexander Dubinin, Andrey Gromov, Eugeniy Gladish & Mikhail Krasnosselski won the 2013 Vilnius Open teams.

Team real won the Teams event. Eugeniy Gladish and Mikhail Krasnoselskiy won the Commercial Pairs.

A capable defender chooses a lead by visualizing the dummy and anticipating how declarer will play. Try using your imagination as South in these lead problems.

The 2013 Vilnius Cup Festival is taking place in Lithuania. The VILNIUS CUP - Open Teams just begun