Yearly Archives: 2015

Sitting South was Fulvio Fantoni and he jumped to...Photo: Fulvio Fantoni & Simon Fellus

One of the more fascinating subjects regarding play and defense is the ruff and sluff. This play when committed voluntarily by a defender is generally regarded as the mark of a tyro.

Terence Reese regarded by many as the world's greatest player died at his home in London at the end of January 1996.

This was a hand that I declared at the 2010 European Team Championships in Ostende (Belgium) when we played against the Russian Team...Photo: Australian Girls Teams – Ellena Moskovsky, Ella Pattison, Andy Hung NPC, Renee Cooper, Jess Brake.

Have you ever found yourself in this situation: you've preempted on an utterly rubbish suit — no doubt you were non-vulnerable — and your left hand opponent ends up declaring in 3NT. Y

Tim Seres was arguably the most talented player ever to represent Australia. See him at work on this deal, in a...

The basis of all problem solving is processing the data to arrive at a logical conclusion. One of the great novelties, and attractions, of bridge is that the data is not all visible.

Ruff and Sluff is considered the cardinal sin in Bridge. Many Bridge players think like this:

Jeff Rubens, one-time child prodigy and now still a genius of the bridge world...

I had the pleasure of playing against Kantar once. It was at the Spingold in Las Vegas 1984. We were the lowest seed and they were the #1 so we met in round 1.