Monthly Archives: June, 2017

Montecatini 2017: Eight and a Half

It seems that the Poland pair, must be Fellini fan, so they let be carried away by his surrealism and related the first board to the second, declaring the slam in NT, although their lack of the ace and the king of club.

Montecatini 2017: Unique Defense

The only lead and the only return to defeat the contract... It seems that Klukowski - Zmuda reinforced their defenses with Leopoldina water before the championship ...

Conventions: OBAR BIDS

OBAR BIDS - Acronym for Opponents Bid And Raise - Balance In Direct Seat. Popularized by Larry Cohen in ...

Montecatini 2017: An Unsuccessful Escape

Escaping is something that also is common in some boards in bridge, sometimes not successfuly, as in this board played in the second round of the R16 Play-Offs.

Montecatini 2017: By Luck Montecatini has a cure for Stress

For true bridge players there is no activity that absorbs them in the way bridge does. But on the way to satisfaction, during the championships there are ...

Montecatini 2017: Montecatini High

Today started the European Mixed Teams Open Championship, with a field of 114 teams. On Round 3 of the ten RR rounds, Board 22 generated important swings on many tables, ....

The Best Defense Ever? by Phillip Alder

This deal gets my vote for the best defense ever. It occurred during the 1985 International Team Trial to pick the U.S. team for that year's Bermuda Bowl world championship. Try it for yourself first.

EBL opens new website on the Internet

The European Bridge League has modernized its internet site, where the bridge players of the world, will have access to all the latest news of the European bridge.

Bridge & Humor: A Zia Mahmood Anecdote

Source: WHAT A LIFE! by Sam Leckie. Tuesday, 17 June 1997

Pre-Montecatini 2017: Analysis Slow and Quick By Jean-Paul Meyer

In June 1997, 20 years ago the 43rd GENERALI EUROPEAN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS was played in Montecatini Terme, Italy. Today we bring you an article ...

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