Listen to the bidding. If it tells you that the opponents have just about enough tricks to make their contract, avoid making an opening lead that might present them with a trick.
Andre Gide, a French novelist and essayist who died in 1951, wrote, "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and saying it all over again."
The worst part of most of those bad penalty doubles is not only that they give away extra points on hands which happen to be lay-down. It's that they...
Almost everybody plays strong 1NT overcalls with systems "on." With much less discussion, we also assume that a balancing 1NT is natural, but the range....
A bridge player uses his brains so furiously that he's danger of getting overheated and exploding if he picks the wrong time of the year for his exercise.
