Yearly Archives: 2014

Agony and Ecstasy in the Far East

Today's deal must have been an agonising business for those who watched it live via Bridge Base Online.

Forcing/Semi-Forcing 1NT in 2/1?

The forcing 1NT convention, is popular... However, the semi-forcing 1NT convention is becoming more popular.

Sheinwold Names Bridge Hand of the Year 1983

About this time each year readers expect me to name the best played bridge hand of the year...Photo: Sammy Kehela

Bridge & Humor: Believe It or Not

As it sometimes happens during a play one of the, in this case, gentlemen had to leave the table because...

Monaco Cavendish 2014: Tactical Bidding

These are some interesting boards played by Jerzy SKRZYPCZAK; Boguslaw GIERULSKI from the runner-up team:

Monaco Cavendish 2014: The XYZ in Action

However, the young Italian used the XYZ conventionto allow the partnership to explore game possibilities using low level bids.

Bridge & Humor: An Unusual Opening Lead by Hugh Kelsey

A low spade? Or possibly a small heart? Both are wrong, and might have cost your team dear.

Why did Besse abandon the percentage play?

Besse knew that East had started with exactly...Photo: Sergio Apoteker, Eddie Kaplan, Jean Besse, Leda Pain, 24th World Team Championships Rio de Janeiro 1979

2014 Monaco Cavendish

TAL Noga-Dana, a sisters partnership from Israel won the Ladies and BURAS Krzysztof-NARKIEWICZ Gregorz from Poland won the Open.

What are friends for? by Zia Mahmood

I believe that Geza Ottlik and Hugh Kelsey's Adventures in Card Play is the best book on the subject ever written.

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