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This week and next I will present two slam hands which are instructional in the bidding and the play. North-South were good bidders in getting to the slams but South let the team down with some pedestrian declarer play to lose a bushel of points (see...

As I have written many times before, getting to play good bridge is a combination of a desire to learn combined with a lot of practice. As time goes on, plays that used to be difficult as declarer or in defence become easier, and after more time bec...

Today’s hand is a quiz for you and you can be sure that at the table 95 per cent of advanced players will get it wrong and probably 75 per cent of the “better” players will join them! Well, you are not at the table now, so take your time and come up ...

The Swing Bridge to St George’s is clear for traffic after drivers were warned off the crossing earlier today, or to expect delays, because of downed wires. A police spokesman said it was unclear whether any of the fallen wires were live, and that th...

I wrote earlier this year of the passing of the great Eddie Kantar, who was not only a great player and teacher, but one of the nicest and funniest people I have ever met. His partnership with the volatile and outgoing “Broadway” Billy Eisenberg was ...

The great thing about this game is that it never stands still – you have to keep thinking, and while a play of a certain suit combination may be correct on one hand, the next day you may have to play that combination differently because the rest of t...

Every once in a while a player makes a play that just takes your breath away and, as a result, stays with you for a long time. Today’s hand contains such a play by the former world number one, Geir Helgemo of Norway, who burst onto the bridge scene ...

This week’s hand saw a variety of results at the table even though the opening bid at each table with the South hand was 1NT (15-17). See the hand in Figure 1. At a couple of tables the North hand got carried away and drove to slam which was not pre...

With all the Cup Match games cancelled this hand may take up a bit of the time you have on your hands, as the correct play is hard to spot and also hard to understand – but try it! See Figure 1. You arrive in six spades with no opposition bidding and...

Top-class bridge is a joy to watch, and with Bridge Base Online providing VuGraph on all major events one can watch the top players right through the day. The American Contract Bridge League Summer Nationals are on right now and the featured event is...

The other day I was talking to one of the players from the Bermuda Bridge Club and she said: “I just have to play more to get better.” Hmm, I thought, not quite! Bridge is not like tennis or golf, where that may be a bit more true – those sports have...

There are three major components to playing bridge – bidding, declarer play and defence. At the top level of the game I would rate their relative importance to results as 70 per cent, 10 per cent and 20 per cent in that order – at the club intermedia...