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Your hand sitting South Bidding Dealer East. Game all. Card play Lead: ♦6. North’s conclusion is probably hasty. With more sophisticated bidding, 4♠, which constitutes a preferable contract, would have been reached. However, your 3NT contract has good chances of success as long as you take some precautions. Solution So, South overcalled with 1NT after East’s 1♦ opening. Instead of signing off in 3NT, North would have been better off using Stayman with 2♣, which is available after a no-trump overcall just as it is over an opening. The 4♠ contract would have been bid and made without difficulty on…

Esports games are blowing up! After the success of the Olympic Virtual Series in 2021, the International Olympic Committee launched the Olympic Esports Series in 2023. The final will take place in Singapore from 22-25 June. Although bridge won’t be represented in the event called “Olympic Esports Week”, it will be put under the spotlight through live demos. All bridge players are invited to celebrate this world event by participating in the “Bridge Olympic Esports Week Tournament” on Funbridge from 19-25 June. Amazing prizes including an invitation to the World Championships in Marrakech are to be won! Registration will be opening…

Slams create the biggest swings and sometimes decide the outcome of a match all by themselves. Everything is decided by the bidding and then … the opening lead. When they are not reached by way of brute force, they are the culmination of long sequences, which, rich in clues, often put the defender on the right track. But only if he decrypts them correctly! What do you lead as West? Online bridge offers numerous possibilities for you to get some training. Among others, you can program hands or look them up in archives (for instance collected by The Bridge World)…

ID Card Nationality: German Married to: Anja Alberti Hobbies: Geocaching, golf, photography Next Nikolas Bausback’s tournament : Sunday 28 May Participate! 🏆Playing Record 🧠In Nikolas Bausback’s mind: How did you get into bridge?   I started playing bridge in the mid-80s while studying mechanical engineering in Darmstadt. At that time a school friend and fellow student was talking about bridge and, somewhat naively, I claimed that I could play too because when I was a teenager, I had already been allowed twice to act as the dummy in my mother’s bridge game. At the next club evening I was taught better.…