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.
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.
While sitting at the bridge table, if you do one thing on a regular basis, the game will be much easier — what is it? This deal highlights the technique.
"I might add," Mr. Dale concluded, "that I can see nothing wrong with a contract where one opponent holds eight trumps against you—not as long as you make it."
When beginners learn to play bridge they are taught innumerable things. However eventually everything falls into place and , these plays become sort of "automatic".
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 ....
