Monthly Archives: June, 2017

Pre-Montecatini Day 2 By Fernando Lema

Just arrived to Montecatini!!!...tomorrow I will tell you more...

Bridge & Humor: Invasion and more…

Four marines were playing bridge in a hut on a Pacific island.

Books to Help with Hand Evaluation By David Morgan

One bridge skill that every player can work on by themselves is how to evaluate the strength of a hand.

Conventions: Bourke Relay

Jumping to 3NT may be your first instinct, but this is a bit premature. Imagine if partner has these type of hands:

Safety Play By Steve Becker

A safety play is an effort by declarer to combat a potentially unfavorable distribution of the defenders' cards, there are so many different kinds of safety plays that it is better to...

Put off the finesse until the last possible moment By Easley Blackwood

When you have some kind of a finesse to take to make your contract, put off the finesse until the last possible moment. In the meantime, try to get an accurate count on the opponents' hands.

Pre-Montecatini 2017 Day 1: “But last night” By Fernando Lema

But last night, last night ... last night I was invited to dinner at the house of Alfredo Versace and Emanuela Pramotton, where I shared an incredible evening, with an amazing group of friends.

Replay these hands with me By Peter Goodman

Today's hand builds on our recent theme of planning your play before playing to trick 1 (and re-planning at about trick 3 or 4 if the play provides further information).

Gleaning clues from the bidding and play By Omar Sharif

One of the beauties of bridge is that it gives practitioners a chance to reason and infer, rather than project from a position where everything is known, as in chess.

Hand-Counting Gives Declarer The Extra Margin of Safety By Easley Blackwood

Counting the opponents hands to determine their respective distributions gives you a big edge over the declarer who does not bother to count at all.

Most Read