Yearly Archives: 2016

Play the card you are known to have By J. Jacoby

What could be simpler than to say that when you play the card you are known to have, your opponent may decide not to play you for the card you are not known to have.

Right Play

It is the rare day when, at a notrump contract, declarer holding three stoppers in the opening leader's suit, should properly refuse to win the trick. In today's deal ...

Leads Test By Shencken & Fry

Success in this department requires skill in reading the opponents bidding—including what they did not bid—plus....

Orlando 2016: Day 8

Meckstroth, Rodwell win Blue Ribbon Pairs.

Have you ever felt that none of your partners are on the same wavelength as you? By Susanna Gross

Despite regularly partnering the world’s top players, Zia Mahmood often jokingly moans ...

Recurring headaches – part 3 By August Boehm

If ever there was a game driven by logic, that game is bridge. And yet, the subject of rebidding a five-card suit sometimes seems to defy logic.

Orlando 2016: Day 7

Nancy Passell and Shawn Quinn won the foursession Whitehead Women’s Pairs...

Mr. Champion’s Teaching is An Expensive Habit for Him By Easley Blackwood

Mr. Champion is the type of player who is always trying to teach the Mr Muzzy of the game all about the rule of eleven. Mr. Muzzy is the type who will never learn it. Of course...

Recurring headaches – part 2 By August Boehm

Standard systems, where the opening bid of one of a suit has a wide range — anywhere from 12 to 21 points — contain a built-in headache. The problem comes with...

Orlando 2016: Day 6

The team led by Nick Nickell, erased a small halftime deficit with a 43-17 third quarter and went on to a 154-125 win over the Paul Lewis squad in the Baze Senior Knockout Teams.

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