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...