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 ...
The margin of victory was 79 points, so this deal was hardly the crux of the match, but it involved an extremely rare kind of play—a "one-suit squeeze."
Take a vote among the world's experts for their choice of No. 1 in the world, and you will find Norway's Geir Helgemo heading many lists. Here is a sample of his brilliance.
The only thing that distinguished a grand coup from its humbler brother, the coup, is that in the reducing play it is winners instead of losers that are ruffed.
Elimination really refers to the stripping process preceding the endplay, but as it is also loosely apllied to the endplay itself, I have left it as the chapter heading.
On many no trump hands declarer has to force out two defensive winners before he can run his tricks. It may be essential to force out those winners in the right order.
For much of his life Grant Baze was simply a winning rubber-bridge player in tough San Francisco clubs and a strong competitor in North American Championship tournaments.
