Monthly Archives: February, 2017

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The best available bid is often the least bad alternative.

This is a hard hand. One of the most important lessons of this is that it teaches the need to plan ahead and to keep thinking when things look grim.

Some players, alas, ignore distribution altogether, a serious mistake...

Oswald 'The suicide squeeze is usually worked by a defender, but here is one that declarer worked out against himself "

When-you have-a-choice-of-plays, do you sometimes arrive at a quick conclusion that it makes no difference which one you choose? Such a conclusion is seldom correct.

I was South. It was the best hand I ever held. Quietly, without fanfare, I opened with seven clubs.

West led the king of clubs. Declarer took the opening lead with the ace, cashed the king and ace of trumps, thus marking West with at most a singleton in hearts.

Unlike in chess, where both players see all 32 pieces and the 64 squares on the board, bridge players see only their own 13 cards and, during play, those of dummy. A picture of the unseen hands must ....