This deal gets my vote for the best defense ever. It occurred during the 1985 International Team Trial to pick the U.S. team for that year's Bermuda Bowl world championship. Try it for yourself first.
Expert defense involves collecting clues about the hand from the bidding and early play and putting all the information into place to solve the puzzle of how to defeat their contract.
Oswald points out to Jim that deliberate failure by third hand to play a high card, not necessarily the highest, but some high card, is known as finessing against your partner and...
The nature of the game is such that sensational plays come few and far between, but, when the occasion does arise, one should of course try to meet the challenge.
As we begin a series on defensive ruffs we should note that most bridge players follow Sir Isaac Newtons principle that a body in motion tends to remain in motion in the same direction.
Counting the known cards in a suit held by various players, next adding their amounts together and then subtracting that total from 13—that simple process constitutes about half of the entire procedure known as "card reading."
