British author Victor Mello has delighted us over the years with his mythical Griffins club and the characters who inhabit it. They are lorded over by the Hideous Hug, a very fine technical player who...
I was one of 55,000,000 Americans glued to my TV in late September 1999 when the Americans won their stunning come-from-behind victory over a tough European Team in golf's Ryder Cup.
The idea is that an aggressive, potentially dangerous bid can be a good gamble if it gets you to your best contract or pushes the opponents into a bad one.
This deal, from the first-round Bermuda Bowl match between Argentina and USA1 in Portugal 2005, featured one of the prettiest defenses of the tournament.
Many HE methods pale in comparison to Culbertson’s Rule, which I had read many, many years ago in Jeff Rubens’ great book The Secrets of Winning Bridge.
Once upon a time it was a safe bet to assume that a bid of four no-trumps from your partner in almost any porsition was an ace ask Blackwood convention
