A Safe Twelfth by Tim Bourke (AUS)

Source: IBPA Bulletin Oct 2017 Dealer East. Neither Vul 5 3 A 10 9 2 J 8 4 3 A K 5 10 4 2 5 3 7 5 2 Q J 9...

A Complete Bridge Leads Course

Source: http://www.pitt.edu/~timm/ Standard Leads (1) Leading a Trump If you can attack a contract, it is usually best to do so. However, there are times when a trump...

To overcall or not? by Zia Mahmood

Thursday 15 December 2011 The two teams that finished first and second in the 2011 English Premier League met in the final of the 2011...

Norberto Bocchi’s 4 Maxims

Source: Bocchi & Madala Big Bang Bridge In bridge I have 4 maxims I always have respected: the first is that if I have a...

Extra Chance by Tim Bourke (AUS)

Source: IBPA Bulletin Oct 2017 Dealer North. E/W Vul A Q J 9 K Q K Q 4 J 8 5 4 5 2 10 5 4 10 8 5 3 10 9...

Proper Management of Entries By Charles Goren

Proper management of entries is one of the keys to successful declarer play. South failed to appreciate that on this hand and squandered one...

Preemtive Strikes By Mark Horton

Source: 1st YEH ONLINE BRIDGE WORLD CUP (2016) Everyone knows that a preempt is capable of causing havoc at the bridge table - to both sides. (If...

The Four Necessary Conventions By Agustin Madala

Source: Bocchi & Madala Big Bang Bridge A member asked: Can you tell me the four necessary conventions for every day players to be introduced into...

Treat Irrelevant small Cards as Neutrinos by Bobby Wolff

Source: Aces on Bridge — Daily Columns This deal from the 1993 Epson Simultaneous Pairs was played at the top of the Post Office Tower in...

A Norberto Bocchi’s Bridge Story

Source: Bocchi & Madala Big Bang Bridge I will tell a story from when I used to play with Giorgino Duboin (we played 19 years...

Bridge & Humor: I thought you had it by Dick Cummings

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald – 8 Oct 1978 How you avoid losing a trump trick when you hold KJ102 in hand opposite A983 in dummy?” It is...

Bidders Club By Brian Senior

Source: 15th European Youth Bridge Championships  West holds: 10  A K Q J  A Q 3  Q 10 8 7 4 Votes: 4 9; Pass 5; Rdbl...

Suit Combinations and Entries By Jim O’Neil

Source: Suit Combinations and Entries By Jim O’Neil One of the most frustrating things that can happen to a declarer is to have several good tricks...

A Double Revoke by Laurie Kelso

42nd World Bridge Teams Championships Chennai, India • 26 September – 10 October 2015 Official Site  Results  Participants  Bulletins  LiveBrige.net The 42nd World Bridge Teams Championships and the 10th World Transnational...

Entry Management by Frank Stewart

South Dealer, N/S vulnerable 9 5 3 2 Q 4 3 6 5 3 K 7 3 A Q 7 6 10 9 8 7 J 8 8 4 2 8 4 6 5 2 Q...

Chennai 2015: Play Problem # 6 by Yiting Li

42nd World Bridge Teams Championships Chennai, India • 26 September – 10 October 2015 Official Site  Results  Participants  Bulletins  LiveBrige.net The 42nd World Bridge Teams Championships and the 10th World Transnational...

Gazzilli by Frederick Staelens

Source: Free at the Bridge Table I haven’t posted anything on Gazzilli before. It’s one of my favorite conventions which occurs when the auction starts 1M-1NT...

Conventions: What’s the Gazzilli?

Source: Gazilli is more a "concept" rather than a welldefined convention: just as well as there are as many forms of Stayman (or Checkback,...

A trump Promotion That Never was by Victor Mollo

British author Victor Mollo has delighted us over the years with his mythical Griffins club and the characters who inhabit it. They are lorded...