Monthly Archives: May, 2015

Assume you become declarer at four spades after West opens the bidding with....Photo: 1952 Spingold: John Crawford, Howard Schenken; George Rapee, Sam Stayman, B. Jay Becker

To be frank, there was not very much of interest in the whole of this set of 20 boards, except for one, which drew the attention of the Vugraph operators from the exquisitely technical point of view.

This is a shortened version of the story told to Colker by Dick Budd of Maine about a deal from the 1999 ACBL Nationals at San Antonio.

This is a true story, true characters, true hands. It happened in a small bridge club of ours in the big city of Istanbul.

The last match for Lavazza played against the Pacini team and Lavazza won 84-36. With this result the Lavazza team showed its supremacy again.

More Championship Photos in BDI Online...

The LAVAZZA - Associato Allegra team like last year won the gold and is the new Italian Open Teams Champion: MARIA TERESA LAVAZZA (CNP) BOCCHI NORBERTO, BIANCHEDI ALEJANDRO, DUBOIN GIORGIO, ZANASI GABRIELE, DI FRANCO MASSIMILIANO, MADALA AGUSTIN. Selfie: Alejandro Bianchedi-Agustin Madala

This deal occurred in the final of the 1992 World Team Olympiad, which saw France defeat the United States in a 96-deal match.

A Bidding problem published in the second bulletin of the Italian Teams championships, with the answers from several world champions.

I once gave up contract bridge. It was the longest 20 minutes of my life. If you, want to know the whole story, it occurred immediately after...