Monthly Archives: January, 2017

We are very pleased to confirm that the 5 th World Youth Bridge Open Championship will be held at CITÉ CENTRE DE CONGRÈS Lyon, France

To continue this theme from the part 1: to be a competent bridge player, you don’t need to know a lot about exotic squeeze situations that turn up often in books but rarely at the table. But you do have to be able to ....

I’ve always said that you have arrived as a bridge player when you have learnt to routinely ‘count the hands’.

The Lavazza team: Agustin Madala, Alejandro Bianchedi, Giorgio Duboin, Dennis Bilde, Norberto Bocchi and Antonio Sementa again...crowned champions in Australia

Winning defence does not require exceptional skills or knowledge. Mistakes in this element of bridge, usually very simple, can most often be attributed to laziness – negligence to...

Playing bridge with Tom Jacob at Adelaide Nationals Final, sitting North I pick up this hand:

At all levels of plays, the secret of success lies not so much in playing well as in no playing badly, quite a different thing. The opportunity for brillance presents itself rarely; the oportunity for error lies arround every corner.

Let's suppose you're in a contract the outcome of which appears to depend on a finesse. Whenever you run into such a case, you...

The ruff-and-sluff has been stigmatized as a defensive crime. Although that holds true for ....

Defense is mostly a partnership project. In the vast majority of deals, the defenders achieve their optimum result by