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...

Hand Evaluation By August Boehm – Part 2

Source: February  2016 ACBL Bridge Bulletin   Good hand evaluation depends on deciding how well your secondary honors mesh with partner, plus the...

New Book: Expert Hand Evaluation By Augie Boehm

Expert Hand Evaluation; Augie Boehm, September 2017,142 pp (paperback), $14.95 About the Author Description If bidding were as simple as counting high-card points, most of us would have lost interest...

Turkey’s Youth

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Dummy Reversal does it by Oswald Jacoby

Dummy reversal (also known as reverse dummy) is a technique in contract bridge whereby declarer uses trump cards to ruff from the hand with more (longer) trumps, and retains the trumps in...

The TURBO convention

Source: The TURBO convention Preface The performance of the Italians in the global bridge concerning bidding is outstanding. Their ability to produce innovative and reliable...

The Turbo Convention Story By Norberto Bocchi

Source: Bocchi & Madala Big Bang Bridge Since many ask where the TURBO is born I tell you the story of how this convention was...

Piotr Gawrys

Source: 17th EUROPEAN YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS ( 6-16 July 2000) In the first of a series, we introduce outstanding players who first made their mark in...

Mental Simulation by Justin Lall

Source: Justin Lall Most auctions start with each partner describing their hand to the other until one of them is able to take control. Taking control...

The Importance of the Valet by Dick Cummings

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald – 22 Oct 1989 ACES and kings are jolly good things but today’s column features the important role of an honour card...

Taking a Trick Cheaply at a High Cost by John Brown

Source: Winning tricks The Hand: Q J 8 10 5 Q 10 9 7 4 2 K 8 A 10 2 A K 3 2 A J 8 Q 10 3 South played this...

Placing the Lead by John Brown

The instrument of placing the lead is often closely associated with the hold up play, in that the decision of whether or not to...