Source: Wikipedia A "New" Losing-Trick Count (NLTC) was introduced in The Bridge World, May 2003, by Johannes Koelman. Designed to be more precise than LTC, the...

Source: Wikipedia A game try (also called a game trial bid) in the card game of bridge is a bid that shows interest in bidding a game and asks partner to help...

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Source: BridgeWinners Ideas for tools and methods on how to improve your game when you are not a naturally brilliant bridge player  For someone who dreams of...

Source: Wikipedia Rubens advances (also referred to as transfer advances) constitute a bridge bidding method that can be used by a bridge partnership to respond to overcalls. The method was...

Source: http://kwbridge.com/tips.htm When you're declarer Don't play to the first trick too quickly. Force yourself to stop and think when dummy comes down. Concentrate on the opening lead for a...

Source: Wikipedia Gerber is a contract bridge convention devised by William Konigsberger and Win Nye from Switzerland who published it in 1936; John Gerber of Texas introduced it to North America in...

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Source: Wikipedia After opener's one of a suit (X), partner's one of a suit response (Y) and opener's 1-level rebid (Z) (a very common sequence),...

Source: Wikipedia The Vienna coup is an unblocking technique in contract bridge made in preparation for a squeeze play. It is so named because it was originally published by James Clay (1804-1873) after...

Source: Wikipedia In the card game "contract bridge", a splinter bid is a convention whereby a double jump response in a side-suit indicates excellent support for partner's major-suit opening bid (at...

Source: Wikipedia The Smith signal (also known as Smith echo or Smith Peter) is an attitude carding signal in contract bridge showing additional values (or lack thereof) in the first suit led by the...

Wednesday, February 5, 2003 If you don’t see me winning any tournaments for a while, don’t be surprised. It’s not that I am becoming senile...

VII WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Bal Harbour FL; Sept. 13-27, 1986 Source:  With great sportsmanship, Edgar Kaplan and Norman Kay reported in Saturday’s bulletin on a hand where...

VII WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Bal Harbour FL; Sept. 13-27, 1986 Source: Jean Besse and Edgar Kaplan often are friendly adversaries at the commentators table at world...

The October 1969 issue of the ABTA Quarterly carries anecdotes by Harry Fishbein and Easley Blackwood about the conventions which bear their names, and...