Hand Evaluation: The Validity of Points

Source: The Montreal Gazette – 23 Abr 1981 by Ted Horning The point count system of hand evaluation was developed by Milton Work. Everyone uses it. An...

Point Counterpoint By James Jacoby

Source: Ludington Daily News – 12 Jul 1989 Although the widespread use of point count has made bidding more exact, players weaned on this evaluation...

Test Yourselves!

Source: Australian Youth Bridge Championships 2017 You lead the king of spades. Partner overtakes it with his ace and returns the two of spades, declarer...

World Bridge Series 2018

Source: WBF The 2018 World Bridge Series will be held in Orlando, Florida from 21st September – 6th October 2018. The general schedule of events has been announced and...

Achilles Heel

Source: 13-15 April 2000 5th GENERALI WORLD MASTERS Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thetis, was educated as a young man by Chiron, the centaur...

The first World Junior Teams Championship (1987)

Source: 11th WORLD YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Bangkok,Thailand The first World Junior Teams Championship was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 12–18, 1987. Only five...

The Master Point Press Book of the Year 2005

Source: 2005 WORLD BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Bulletin The Principle of Restricted Talent and Other Bridge Stories by Danny Kleinman & Nick Straguzzi Readers of The Bridge World will already be...

How to plan the play by Klaus Reps

5th WORLD JUNIOR CAMP Vargesztes, Hungary. July 2003 After you have completed the bidding the next difficult part is waiting. As declarer you have to...

Experts Errors By Fred Gitelman

Source: Canadian Master Point Magazine Playing bridge like an expert isn’t about executing backwash squeezes and brilliant coups — at least, most of the time. It’s...

Experts also make mistakes

Eugene Register-Guard – 11 Ago 1975 By ALFRED SHEINWOLD Experts Fall from Grace When the Day of Judgment comes, bridge columnists will have a lot to answer for. We...

Old Timers

Source: 16th European Junior Teams Bridge Championship Great Britain's Justin Hackett is one of the many players who, having won the Junior European Team Championships, has gone on...

The 1999 Levendaal Award for Best Play by a Junior

Source: IBPA (1999) The 1999 Levendaal Award for Best Play by a Junior Winner: Martin Schaltz (DEN) Journalist: Ib Lundby (DEN) Third generation Lizzi and Jørgen-Elith Schaltz were...

The Smother Play by Brian Senior

Though the name does not include the word Coup, a Smother Play clearly belongs to that category of play technique. It is another piece...

Seven Card Suits Should be Trumps by David Gold

Source: Mr Bridge I firmly believe in: "seven-card suits should be trumps." You will almost never lose control when you have seven or more trumps in...

A Lesson Learned Too Late

Source: The Montreal Gazette - 19 May 1938 When the declarer's trump suit is headed by the K-J-10 it is, of course, desirable that the lead be from...

From the “Bridge Academy Best Hands Gallery” by Avi Cohen

Source: http://info.ecatsbridge.com In Boynton, an exclusive small town outside Palm Beach, Florida, in the USA, there is a very peculiar museum annexed to the local bridge...

Bath Coup By Brian senior

The Bath Coup is a very common manoeuvre. It is a ducking play which enables declarer to keep control of a key suit. The...

Third & Fourth Seat Openings By Paul Lavings

Source: http://www.abf.com.au Most partnerships haven’t defined their strategy for third and fourth seat openings. Sort yourselves out with this quiz on third seat openings, nil vulnerable:  ...

An Early Lesson in Humility by Eric Kokish

Source: http://info.ecatsbridge.com I started to play seriously in 1967, at the Summer North American Championships in Montreal, my home town. As I had less than 100...

The Hand of a Lifetime

Source:  Newsletter of Trumps Bridge Center , March 2006 South was Henri Svarc who for many years was one of the best French players. See if...