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The Trick Machine
The successful matchpoint player needs to display a myriad of skills, but one of the most important is to rack up the tricks in routine contracts. On this deal from the final of the Silodor Open Pairs...
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Top stars in Bridge and Golf
Bridge and golf go naturally together and a lot of world class bridge players are keen golfers. Jeff Meckstroth might well have pursued a professional career in the game and the same is true of...
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Trouble with Trumps
With a combined trump holding of Q108 opposite A32 you would not expect the defenders to score five trump tricks every day of the week, but see what happened on this deal from the Rockwell Mixed Pairs:...
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Thursday the Rabbi Doubled
In 1965 Harry Kemelman won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, featuring the Rabbi David Small, which became a huge bestseller. If the Rabbi Small had been a bridge player...
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What Dreams May Come
It is not unusual for a bridge player, suffering from the combined effects of jet lag and the myriad possibilities of countless deals flashing through the brain to find it difficult to embrace the arms...
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With Open Cards
As one of my current writing projects involves a book about Double Dummy problems, I am always on the look out for real life deals. This one comes from Wednesday’s Senior Pairs game: Dealer: West Vul:...
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(Re)Double Dutch
Having recently penned a book about the Multi 2♦ and the many associated two level opening bids that go with it one tends to notice deals where one of the methods discussed in the book are in evidence....
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Table Presence
This sometimes mysterious art is an ‘indefinable something’ that denotes just about every attribute of an expert player: ‘instinct’; ‘the drawing of correct inferences from any departure of rhythm by...
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Meet My Maker: The Mad Multi
If Jan van Cleeff and I were planning a second edition of The Mysterious Multi then many of the deals from this tournament would find their way into the book. They would confirm that not only can the...
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The Magnificent Multi
Yesterday, techno tourist Mark Newton asked if we could help him to compile a list of the ten software programmes that have changed the world. That set me thinking about innovations that have changed...
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