Yearly Archives: 2016

Which forcing raise with a singleton do you choose? By Steve Robinson

I asked my expert panel: Partner opens one-of-a-major. You have a GF hand with at least four-card support for partner and you have a singleton or void. With what types of hands do you splinter?

Conventions: Ambiguous Splinters

I believe that it was Marty Bergen who first published the idea of ambiguous splinters (he calls them splinters with relay).

Count covers, not high-card points

Sitting north in a team game, your partner opens 1 diamond and, after a pass by west, you trot out 1 spade. East passes and...

Why Transfers?

For the newer player, it might make sense to in a very basic manner explain why you would want to use "transfers" at all.

An Early Lesson in Humility by Eric Kokish

I started to play seriously in 1967, at the Summer North American Championships in Montreal, my home town. As I had less than 100 master points I could not play in the Life Master Pairs...

From the “Bridge Academy Best Hands Gallery” by Avi Cohen

In Boynton, an exclusive small town outside Palm Beach, Florida, in the USA, there is a very peculiar museum annexed to the local bridge club: the Boynton Bridge Academy.

How Much is Your Six-Card Suit Worth by Zar Petkov

Let’s look at this rather average collection featuring a five-card major:

Bridge & Humor: The Great Kibitzers’ Strike by George S. Kaufman

This piece was featured in the 1939 spring bumper issue of the New Yorker magazine and aims its humorous arrows at that most unsung of bridge heroes: the kibitzer.

Hand Evaluation: Zar Points By Zar Petkov

Ever wondered how experts bid “aggressive” games that “somehow,“magically” turn out to be cold?

Best defense of the year 1998 by Matthew Granovetter

My candidate for best defense of 1998 is a misdefense. Yes, you read correctly: a misdefense. Now how could a mistake be the best play of the year?

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