Yearly Archives: 2015

Conventions: Inverted Minors Continuation

Do you ever feel like you and your partner are just mingling around after an inverted minor auction of 1minor-2minor?

Master Play in Bridge by Terence Reese

This article is concerned with one of the most important and least analysed forms of defensive play, the attack on entries before declarer can use them.

Counting Out Opponent’s Distribution by Maritha Pottenger

It will pay great dividends for your Declarer play and defense to count suits.

Hope for the ordinary player by Zia Mahmood

This spectacular deal comes from a recent friendly match between the Netherlands and Iceland and features a defence that should give encouragement to ordinary players everywhere.

Test Your Play by Steve Becker

1. You are declarer with the West hand at Six Diamonds and North leads the queen and then the jack of heart. You play...

Punishing X’s of Artificial Bids by Justin Lall

One of the biggest problems of modern science is giving the opponents the chance to double (or not double) artificial bids. However,

Conventions: Transfer Advances Part II by Marc Smith

In Part II we take a look at how the auction continues and consider some deals illustrating the method in action.

Losing a Trick Wins the Game by Victor Mollo

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)

How to Compete over the Forcing 1NT Bid By Neil H. Timm

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

Conventions: Transfer Advances Part I by Marc Smith

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.

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