Yearly Archives: 2017

Eliminations Play by David Bird & Martin Hoffman

The most familiar type of elimination play is the "ruff and discard elimination". The defender who is thrown on lead has the choice between playing on a suit, to your advantage, or giving you a ruff and discard.

5th Youth Open Championship

The 1st World Youth Bridge Congress was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 15 to 23 August 2009, hosted at the Yeditepe University, attended participants from 29 countries.

5th World Youth Open Championships

The World Youth Open Championships will be held from August 15th (Tuesday) to 24th (Thursday) in Lyon (FRA).

Entry Planning by David Bird & Martin Hoffman

A diamond lead would have worked well but West led the club Q. How would you play the slam when two rounds of trumps reveal the 5-1 break?

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, ....

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