Beginners

The Unblocking Rule by Andrew Robson

Beginners CSB NEWS - 8 December, 2013

An article for beguinners:Making tricks is a combination of cashing the ones you started with (the “top tricks”); and promoting others. Mostly, you do not have enough top tricks for your contract, so...

Bridge – Golden rules

Beginners CSB NEWS - 27 November, 2013

The following golden rules apply in at least 95% of situations so if you follow them you will be doing the right thing 9.5 times out of 10.

Chinese Finesse: Unsound But Oh So Useful by Charles Goren

Beginners CSB NEWS - 15 November, 2013

July 03 1967: Not long ago there were reports out of Peking that Teng Hsiao-Ping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, had been purged from his office because of his addiction to bridge.

Thinking Bridge: Atlanta NABC 2nd Day

Beginners Eddie Kantar - 6 August, 2013

With two equal-length suits, both majors, the suit with the sequence is the preferred lead.

Thinking Bridge: Atlanta NABC 1st Day

Beginners Eddie Kantar - 3 August, 2013

During each day of the NABC, Eddie Kantar, one of the best American bridge authors, explains one bridge hand, this is the first of them.

Hand Evaluation: How Good Is This Hand?

Beginners CSB NEWS - 1 August, 2013

Understanding how tricks are won at bridge will help you to understand how to evaluate your hand. Tricks are won by

Thinking Bridge: SL NABC 4th Day

Beginners Eddie Kantar - 18 March, 2013

The bidding and previous plays must be considered, but those percentages are important to know.

Thinking Bridge: SL NABC 3rd Day

Beginners Eddie Kantar - 17 March, 2013

Taking charge and responding to a takeout double.

Thinking Bridge: SL NABC 2nd Day

Beginners Eddie Kantar - 16 March, 2013

When setting up a long suit, use trump entries before side suit entries

Thinking Bridge: SL NABC 1st Day

Beginners Eddie Kantar - 15 March, 2013

If opener starts with 1 club or 1 diamond and turns up with

When they Redouble…

Advanced Mike Lawrence - 7 March, 2013

Partner makes a takeout double and your RHO redoubles

Do we know the whole story?

Beginners Lynn Berg - 14 July, 2012

I am always sorry for players who shy away from playing notrump - not just because the rewards are greater...

Is that a forcing bid? By Lynn Berg

Beginners Lynn Berg - 14 July, 2012

One of the biggest problems in many bidding sequences is trying to decide if a bid is forcing, or to figure out...

It’s a bidder’s game

Beginners Bruce Greenspan - 3 July, 2012

It doesn’t matter how good your declarer skills are if you’re not in the right contract. Bidding is learning a foreign language.