Monthly Archives: January, 2014

Bridge & Humor

My love would you like to stay in bed, watch movies and eat popcorn?

Conventions: Good-Bad 2NT by Larry Cohen

This highly useful concept can best be explained with an example. Say you open the bidding with one heart, holding:

Showing Controls After a Strong Club by Alan Truscott

The Blue Club pioneered the control-showing response, allowing the opener to judge immediately whether or not the partnership was missing too many aces and kings for slam purposes.

Defence: Active or Passive? by Julian Pottage (Part II)

In Part I we considered the very important topic of whether to conduct a busy or passive defence in suit contracts. Now we examine the same issue in no-trump contracts.

Bridge & Humor: Honey, I’m Home

Two men were playing bridge together and were just leaving to go home at 3:00 a.m.

New Generations, New Ideas

"We need to think differently!" "bridge needs some fresh ideas!" "We have got to be more creative around here!". Foto: Wang Team USA2 U26

Defence: Active or Passive? by Julian Pottage (Part I)

One of the most important things you need to do as a defender is to decide whether to defend actively or passively.

The Culbertson Law on Symmetry

The Culbertson Law on symmetry was based upon his alleged experience that more often than not the distribution pattern in one hand tended to repeate itself around the table.

Agustin Madala Wins the Goren Trophy by Phillip Alder for the New York Times

The Goren Trophy is awarded to the player who wins the most masterpoints during the Fall North American Championships. This year’s winner was Agustin Madala, who ....

2014 Junior World Championships Teams Selected

The Junior United States Bridge Championships (JUSBC), which selected the USBF teams for the 2014 World Junior Championships, to be held in August, 2014 in Istanbul Turkey, took place Dec 31-Jan 2 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. Foto: Adam Kaplan, Zach Brescoll, Adam Grossack, Zach Grossack, Owen Lien, Marius Agica

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