The WGM Gabriel Chagas, once explained the way to play this kind of weak suits, he called the technique the Intra-Finesse. Dealer West All Vul. West North East South Pass 1 Double Pass 1 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass Pass  Pass When...

Source: Wikipedia The Deschapelles Coup, named after a 19th century french chess and whist player Alexandre Deschapelles, is the lead of an unsupported honor to create an...

Source: Wikipedia The Merrimac coup (also known as Hobson's coup or Hobson's choice) is a contract bridge coup where a player (usually a defender) sacrifices a high card in order to eliminate a...

Trump Promotion:  Occurs when declarer is forced to ruff high in front of a defenders card to prevent an over ruff, and, in the...

Visit the Official Site Special Entry Fees for Bridge Youth The Festival will be played at the Casinò Palace located in Venice Lido. All the tournaments are...

Source: www.qldbridge.com Paul Marston has been one of Australia’s leading bridge identities for close to thirty years. Apart from his ownership of the exceptionally successful Grand...

Source: 16th European Junior Teams Bridge Championship The last time I visited Vienna I inevitably found myself in one of the many cafes that are located in...

Source: 1st European Open Bridge Championships. Bulletin 4 – Wednesday, 18 June 2003 Adversity lurks at every turn. Even an optimist like you knows that...

Successful defense requires fast thinking. In particular a defender must use the bidding to picture the strength of declarer's hand. This information, plus that...

Counting the opponents hands to determine their respective distributions gives you a big edge over the declarer who does not bother to count at...

Source:  Mumbai, September 2017 Congratulations to the Winners of Inter State National Bridge Championships from MAHARASHTRA (Sunil Machhar, Anil Padhye, Vinay Desai, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare,...

Source: Wikipedia Loser on loser play is a type of declarer's play in contract bridge, usually in trump contracts, where the declarer discards a loser card (the one that...

5th European Universities Bridge Championship Fuengirola, Spain  20-24 September Visit the Official Site The organization of the EUC Bridge shall be mainly based on the most recent Technical...

The Bridge World Champions and former bridge partnership (for a long time), have opened a group on Facebook called: Bocchi & Madala - Big Bang...

Dealer South All Vul. J 9 8 A K J 8 6 4 A 7 6 2 6 3 2 6 5 A 10 9 2 K Q J 10 7 5 Q 10...

Source: 24th European Youth Team Championships Bulletins North had no good choice, but queen-second as trump support will often work when partner overcalls over 1NT (15-17) being vulnerable,...

Source: www.wbfmasterpoints.com 2017 World Youth Junior Pairs - Lyon, France Rank WBF Code Player MP/SP Awarded PP Awarded 1 11642  Linus Dahlstroem of Sweden 120 0 1 11489  Simon EKENBERG of Sweden 120 0 2 10028  Edouard du Corail of France 100 0 2 11643  Loic Neveu of France 100 0 3 10342  Baptiste COMBESCURE of France 90 0 3 10344  Julien BERNARD of France 90 0 4 11644  Lior Urman of Israel 40 0 4 11645  Oren Toledano of...

A nod to the winners of the 2017 Youth ANC By J. Newman   

Source: www.wbfmasterpoints.com Rank WBF Code Player MP/SP Awarded PP Awarded 1 11678  Christian Jolly of Japan 200 0.5 1 11679  Anam Tebha of U.S.A. 200 0.5 1 10340  Adam KAPLAN of U.S.A. 200 0.5 1 10341  Zachary GROSSACK of U.S.A. 200 0.5 1 9802  Adam GROSSACK of U.S.A. 200 0.5 1 11564  Kevin Rosenberg of U.S.A. 200 0.5 2 11676  Sanekata Sonoike of Japan 150 0.25 2 11677  Ryoichi Yamada of Japan 150 0.25 2 11672  Takayuki Hino of Japan 150 0.25 2 11673  Eishi Imakiire of Japan 150 0.25 2 11674  Koki Kobayashi...

Source:  Junior/Sub Junior Bridge National Championships, Mumbai – 31st Aug-3rd Sept Further to our announcements regarding the Junior National Bridge Championships along with the Inter State...