Yearly Archives: 2014

Responding to Partner’s Overcall

There are many textbooks with instructions for opening bids and responding to opening bids. There is also a lot of

Bridge & Humor: Story of a Crooked hand

There is a story I enjoy reading from "The Fireside Book of Cards" edited by Oswald Jacoby and Albert Morehead and a...

Help your Opponents take the Bait by Marty Bergen

I maintain that you cannot win if you don't give your opponents a chance to make mistakes.

2014 Southamerican Open Ranking by Fernando Lema

After the end of the 2014 South American Bridge Championships in Santiago de Chile, Chile, the South American Bridge Rankings have been updated in the Open Category.

Conventions: “The Smolen”

The starting point is that with 5-4 in the majors and game forcing values, the responder to 1NT goes...

Sanya Vugraph: Finals only on OurGame, not BBO

The WBF has entered into an agreement with OurGame that grants OurGame exclusive rights to broadcast the finals of the events in Sanya. Foto: Jan Martel

All in the State of Mind by Steve Becker

Many contracts fail because the adverse cards are divided in such a way that making the contract is imposible. The contract may be...

Conventions: Splimit, Jump-Reverses & Bluhmer

The Splimit, the combination of two bridge terms SPlinter and LIMIT, is a convention inspire by the Splinter family and

Bridge & Humor: The Stories Should Be Recorded by Phillip Alder

The details of many wonderfully dramatic and entertaining bridge deals have been lost. (Some clubs keep a record of deals of this type.)

Conventions: XYZ by BridgeHands

XYZ allows the partnership to explore game using low level bids and efficiently find suit fits.

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