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Very often, the urge to preempt at favorable colors is one that most players give in to. Typically, a minor suit preempt should show two of the top three honors, the idea being that partner is likely to bid 3NT with the missing honour and prime cards on the side. Some may want three of […]

Today’s deal is from an IMP match. N-S pair in the Open Room reached 4H in quick time and declarer went down in the contract. He got distracted by an irrelevant issue which did not allow him to concentrate on the job at hand. Test your skill in the hand below on the lead of

If you are able to find the winning defence in today’s a deal from an IMP pairs contest, you can rate yourself as world class. Are you ready?         West, your partner leads the D2. Take the East seat and plan your defence. How the defence went: East won with the Ace

Today’s deal is from a match-point event that had fifteen tables. The popular contract of 5D was reached on all the tables and except for one, all declarers failed to fulfill the m inor suit game. It required special play and most players did not possess the technique. See whether you can match the play

When you find yourself in a bad contract, there is no need to despair or feel depressed but hope for the best. You will be lucky sometimes, as the distribution of the opposing cards will be such that you score an absolute ‘top’ instead of the ‘bottom’ that you feared. To illustrate this, let us

Test your defensive skill in today’s deal from a match-point event that had 50 tables on play.   Initial Play You lead the D2 to 3, Queen and declarer’s Ace.   South leads a Spade to dummy’s Queen, winning the trick. He plays the King next with East discarding the C2. You refuse to win

One of my friends, an instrumentation engineer, is fond of opening ‘light’, often putting his partners in a dilemma of whether to bid game or stay out of it. If they bid and go down, he would say ‘You know very well I open sub-minimum hands’ and if they stay out of game and it

Every bridge player knows that it is only logical to go after over tricks in match-points in order to outstrip the field or at least tie with them. Declarer, in today’s deal from a Match Point contest, went after the over trick and suffered defeat because of the adverse distribution as well as the excellent

Today’s deal is from a match-point event. West had two opportunities to shine but missed both of them. Let us see whether you can do better. You are vulnerable and the opponents are not. Playing Precision, you pick up, as West the following hand and you are the first to speack     You decide

Today’s hand is from an IMP match where declarer executed a fabulous squeeze of a rare variety, in a part-score deal. Enjoy the play         Contract: 2NT by south. West leads the H2. Plan the play. Analysis: There are seven tricks on top and the eighth can come from the spade suit.