Card Play Practice: Avoidance Play

Hand 1 Dealer South Lead: K West leads the K against your small slam in hearts. How will you play the hand? (You will find that...

Robots already exceeding expectations By Susanna Gross

Source:  Twenty-five years ago, Zia Mahmood offered a £1 million bet that no team of his choosing could ever be beaten by computers. A mere...

Consider 3NT By Andrew Robson

Andrew’s TIP: TWO OUTSIDE ACES AND A TOP HONOUR IN THE SUIT THAT PARTNER HAS PREEMPTED EQUALS NINE TRICKS. CONSIDER BIDDING THREE NOTRUMPS. Source:  Our fourth...

“Pico” Syrup By Fernando Lema & Ana Roth

Buenos Aires, March 20, 2016 Yesterday were played the 2016 Vanderbilt Cup semifinals, where team “Lavazza”, the number one seed, faced the team Bertheau, this hand was the third...

Playing in the 4/2 fit by Fernando Lema

Buenos Aires, January 23, 2017 Yesterday was played the Australian National Open teams Championship, Canberra Bridge Festival (AUS), with a field of 126 teams. The two...

Multon Magic by Brian Senior

ource: 51st EUROPEAN BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Dublin, Ireland How would you like your chances, as West, of making 6 on this deal? North leads the seven...

Trump Reduction by Brian Senior

Source: 51st EUROPEAN BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Dublin, Ireland Looking at the number of trumps in declarer’s hand, you might not imagine that it was possible for...

Trump Reduction and Endplay

Source: 9 - 24 June 2006; 12th WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS On this deal from the fourth qualifying session of the Open Pairs, when Paul Hackett invited...

Lebensohl Over 1NT Interference

Source: www.acblunit390.org In today’s competitive bidding environment, overcalls are made far more frequently. Without long discussion, it is difficult to know what to bid when opponents...

Between 50 and 75 by Fernando Lema

Buenos Aires, May 26, 2017 A few days ago I found the following card play which I found very instructive. Dealer East. Neither Vul K Q 9...

Rubensohl (Transfer Lebensol)

Source: www.acblunit390.org Rubensohl: ( Kantar – Lesson by Bob Crosby) Lebensohl  by responder over a strong NT was invented so that you can compete better or show game...

CBO: College Bridge On-Line

Source: ACBL The club just for college students! If you know a college student that plays bridge, tell them about the new College Bridge Online Club! This exclusive...

Planning the Play by Ira Corn

“The Jack That Souldn’t Have Stayed in the Box” This deal was one of the most interesting hands of the 1970 World Bridge Championship. Bob...

Free Junior Bridge at Wimbledon Bridge Club

Source: Wimbledon Bridge Club Please congratulate our Winners and Runners up from our Summer 2017 Junior Bridge session! We will be running Sunday afternoon sessions from 4-6...

The True Story of the King of Club by Eddie Kantar

Source: http://www.clairebridge.com/ The world championship in Bermuda two weeks ago was my second. I had played in Rio de Janeiro in 1969, when we finished third,...

Keep a Close Watch on Splits by Alan Truscott

Source: Moscow-Pullman Daily News – 3 Oct 1995 What, according to Leon Trotsky, is the most unexpected of all the things that happens to a man? In bridge, the...

Unblocking by Sam Gordon

The Spokesman-Review – 19 Sep 1936 Dealer South. Both Vul A Q 10 Q 8 6 7 6 5 4 9 5 3 9 7 4 3 2 5 K Q J 3 2 8...

There are Two Sides to Every Question by Terence Reese

Source: CAC 1976 Bulletin  April 1976 There are two sides to every question, it is said, and certainly there are two sides to the Bols...

Lyon 2017 A Hand from R 19 by Tim Bourke

Source: IBPA Bulletin Sep 2017 Dealer North. Both Vul K Q 10 8 3 J 9 2 K Q 6 2 6 J 9 7 4 2 A 5 7 A Q 10...

Lyon 2017 a Hand from R 9 by Tim Bourke

Source: IBPA Bulletin Sep 2017 Dealer South. Neither Vul A 8 5 J 9 6 4 K 7 5 A 10 5 J 9 6 2 7 3 10 8 3 K J...