Monthly Archives: November, 2015

The Saga Continues: Game of Thornes

Just a few minutes we found this video that was uploaded to Youtube and raises many questions...

Bridge & Humor: Bridge in the Vicarage by David Bird

The first David Bird story featuring the monks of St Titus appeared in Bridge Magazine in June 1978.

A reader poses this interesting question by Zia Mahmood

An email from a reader poses this interesting question: "You and partner reach game contract in a major. Both opposition passed all along. You are delighted to...

False Preference by Julian Pottage

False preference is when partner bids two suits and you return to the first suit even though you have a card more in his second suit.

Remembering Freddy by Frank Stewart

My friend Alfred Sheinwold, who originated this column as "Sheinwold on Bridge" in 1962, died 10 years ago this past week. Freddy was a bidding innovator, editor...

Bridge & Humor: Bridge Hands Orbit

The best hand I ever held, and also one of the most frustrating, occurred in a rubber bridge game at the New York Cavendish Club

Opening Leads by Klaus Reps

We are pleased to be able to give you a digest of the lecture given for less experienced players by Klaus Reps.

Counting the Opponents’ Distribution by Patrick Jourdain

Bridge is a game of deduction, judgment and memory. Memory improves with practice, judgment improves if you learn from experience. But deduction is

Blind Leads are for Deaf Players! by David Gold

When Terence Reese made his non-PC remark, 'Blind leads are for deaf players,' he meant that the bidding often tells you what to lead.

Bridge & Humor: Little Old Ladies becoming a legend in Bridge Circles

Today's column contains one more of our stories originally printed in the Bridge World magazine some dozen or so years ago.

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