Monthly Archives: August, 2014

Rio 1979: An Aggressive Grand slam by Roberto Mello and Jose Barbosa by Sergio Marinho Barbosa

Playing against Italy, produced a very aggressive secuence-to reach 7 hearts in board 22.

Bridge Hand of the Year 2011 by Zia Mahmood

Today's deal involves a type of play previously unknown to anyone except Geza Ottlik and Hugh Kelsey...

A Vienna Coup in the 2014 Palace Cup 2014

At the 11th position arrived W. Gawel -R. Jagniewski, in the last board of the event they declared a slam, and declarer had to execute a Vienna Coup followed by a squezze to arrive to his 12th trick.

A 2014 Palace Cup Grand Slam

Consider this Grand slam that helped the winner partnership to overcome the remaining pairs.

2014 Palace Cup

Jacek Kalita & Michał Nowosadzki won the 2014 Palace Cup TOP 16 tournament.

Simple Defenses to Common Conventions Part III

When an opponent Alerts an artificial bid, the common defense is to use double as a lead-director.

Tips for No Trumps by B. Magee

The best advice I can give is: keep it simple and concentrate on the following first steps:

Bridge & Humor: A Funny Story by Matthew Mallory

I play a lot of bridge in U.S. Regional and National tournaments. If you pay attention, you can collect a lot of funny stories. Photo: Matthew Mallory

Besse Shows the Art of Card Play

Part of the art of card-play is to get full value for your high honours.

Simple Defenses to Common Conventions — Part 2

There are lots of cuebids in today's game — control, support, stopper, and Western, to name some. Against these cuebids and the majority of artificial bids, double is...

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