Filling them with fear
Dealer South – non vul. Here is your hand as East: After a long auction, your opponents stopped in game: What have you learned? North made a slam attempt but it was…
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Will you find the right path?
You’ll have to take care of your defensive skills by carefully reconstructing the hidden hands. You are South in a teams match and pick up the following hand: The other side gets…
Delicate decision
When it comes to making a tricky decision either in the bidding or the play of the cards, a good player must always try to get an idea of how the deal…
Take a few steps back and prepare to jump
Teams match, dealer East, all vul. You have just picked up the following hand as East: And it’s your turn to speak. What do you do?A weak 2♠ opening in first seat…
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
In matchpoint pairs, declarer sometimes has the opportunity to take some risks to get an extra trick.
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Reasons purely inadmissible
North-South have reached a very poor contract. As so often, each of the two players considers that his partner is reponsible for the accident. And you, what do you think? Problem 1…
Obstacle courses
This month, you’ll solve a defensive problem which is often treated the wrong way at the table but which becomes completely approchable if you take the trouble to ask yourself the right…
A suicide endplay
You have probably heard of a Suicide Squeeze. Playing in a notrump contract, the idea is to break the defensive communications by giving a defender the lead with a choice of only…
The right signal
Summary: 1- Leading from four small after you supported partner2- The lead of an Ace or King after a pre-emptive opening by opponent3 – Which card to play when you know that…
The problem with Hearts
This Sunday, one of the Girls from the France Girl’s Team contacted me at the end of the Channel Trophy(*). I already thought that Garance was going to tell me about the…
Avoid Those Nasty Guesses
We’ve all played contracts that you know can be made provided you guess right. The fate of the contract may depend on a two-way finesse for a queen, a finesse-or-drop guess, deciding…