Monthly Archives: April, 2015

BY 'SELECTING the best of the columns that he wrote for a leading London daily, Victor Mollo has attempted to paint a picture of the development of bridge in recent decades ("Bridge Saga" by Victor Mollo Hart Publishing)

Using the 2/1 convention, after a major opening the opponents bid 1NT and announce the bid as forcing. How do you compete?

Most of you play them in no-trump sequences, so you understand the concept. As you know, transfers allow you to describe many more hand types than do natural methods.

When you do something spectecularly good at the bridge table and your efforts are foiled, not by the opponents but by your own dear partner—well ...

Although the bidding and making of games and slams is probably the primary objective of contract bridge, points can be thrown or sotolen in many ways.

I asked my expert panel the following question: What advice would you give to a quartet of up-and-coming bridge players who are about to play a 24-board Regional knockout match against a team that obviously has more experience and more talent?

Bridge conversation is replete with cliches....Photo: Charlie Goren, Helen Sobel, Sidney Silodor.

The wealth of anecdotes that have filtered down through the history of bridge are often too good to be true. Many of them are

You are declarer with the West hand in six hearts and North leads the jack of clubs. You play the...

Showing a great play; Lars Tofte, Emil Jepsen, Dennis y Morten Bilde y Henrik Caspersen, with their captain Hans Graversen kept the Gold Medal.