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 (half man and half horse). One of the conditions of...

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 teams took part, though every WBF zone was entitled to...

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 familiar with the acerbic Chthonic, the self-confessed world’s greatest bridge...

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 plan the play. This is a very important part, because...

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 about concentration, hard work, and most of all. avoiding the...

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 have somehow given the impression that bridge experts never make...

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 to perform with distinction in the 'oldies' version of the game. He...

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 some of the hot bridge names I read about and...

Though the name does not include the word Coup, a Smother Play clearly belongs to that category of play technique. It is another piece of bridge magic in which a defender’s ‘sure’ trump trick...

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 one hand. In addition, the ability to ruff gives you...