Friday, April 19, 2024

The 12 Habits of Highly Effective Bidders II by Karen Walker

How does your partner react when you propose a new addition to your bidding system? Some players have never met a convention they didn’t...

Dutch Teams Decide the Swiss in the San Diego by Kees...

Photo Team Snellers: Joris van Lankveld, Berend van den Bos, Wubbo de Boer, Agnes Snellers Berend van den Bos-Joris van Lankveld won no less than three...

Fourth Suit Forcing

Source: Wikipedia Fourth suit forcing (also referred to as fourth suit artificial; abbreviated as FSF or 4SF) is a contract bridge convention that allows responder to create, at his second turn to bid,...

Quantitative slam bidding by Josh Donn

Source: webutil.bridgebase.com    On Sundays, you can enjoy a free teaching session on BBO, hosted by different star players. This one was held, On Sunday, June 14 2015,...

The Dos and Don’ts of bidding By George Cuppaidge

Source: The Dos and Don’ts of bidding;  George Cuppaidge June 2013   Like everything else in bridge, there is no “never.” The best you can do is...

A Misfit? Quit! …A Fit? It’s a Hit

Source: www.barbaraseagram.com/ Un Misfit? Quit! Less experienced players sometimes pick up their hand, count their points, find they have 13 points and no matter what happens during...

The Dutch Junior (and U-20) Teams 2017 by Kees Tammens

Photo: Ricardo Westerbeek-Merel Bruinsteen-Janneke Wackwitz & Michel Schols The final of the Dutch Junior Teams Championship 2017 was decided on the next to last board. Here...

Cue Bidding

Source: www.bridgewebs.com/alton The tools used to investigate the possibilities of bidding a slam are relatively straightforward. Conventions such as ‘Blackwood’ or its offspring such as ‘Roman...

Ask Jerry: 4-4 fit vs -5-3 fit

Dear Jerry, I have heard that an eight-card trump fit that is divided 4-4 is often superior to a 5-3 fit. This makes no...

What’s the Better Fit? The 4-4 vs. the 5-3 By PHILLIP...

Source:  The last paragraph of Saturday’s column generated a few queries. When is a 4-4 fit better than a 5-3, and vice versa? The best analysis...

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