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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, “A dollar for your first thought, a penny for the second” ! Quite often a bridge player is at cross-roads, not knowing which way to turn to. If you are on top of a bridge (a fly over?), you have a bird’s eye view, so to speak. All the […]

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Bridge is a social sport crowded by partners, team mates and kibitzers. Yet it can be ” Claustrophobic “, at times 😭 You have to concede that this game is not individualistic. Unless of course you are playing in an ‘individual’ event. Even then, you cannot play alone 😔.

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Reading the cards and their probable distribution is an asset to a bridge player. Some players have it in their blood; many others develop the skill over a period by their experience – good and bad! 😢 Whenever one holds a doubleton QJ, you will notice that the general

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Imagine if there were a bridge equivalent to IPL of cricket. After the advent of the IPL format of T20, the traditional, text-book styles of batting, bowling, fielding, – why, even umpiring have gone through a sea- change 🙃 You don’t score runs any more – you just steal.

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, The Table of statistical “Tricknometry” can be tricky! Bridge is a simple game with minimal need for maths, so you think. The common belief is that to “Pass” the test in bridge, one just needs to know to count from 1 to 13. Yes, basically one must be able

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen It takes every kind of person to make the quixotic bridge world. No lack of variety – casual, serious, tournament, social, rubber and friendly – take your pick. But the nuance of winning at bridge table is when you are able to be casually serious or vice versa. Confusing?

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen I know I’m inviting the wrath of many a bridge stalwart who smoke. Let me confide that I am the least eligible to advise anyone on the ills of smoking or otherwise 🙃 There was a time – a window of 20 years or so – when I used

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen “The greedy pursuit on the baize”! Simplistically put, the effort of any player is just to earn tricks. By hook or by crook – does not matter! The declarer is supposed to be on the offensive, but this is not always necessarily true. In abnormal circumstances, one has to

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen “Never Lie To Yourself in Bridge!” There is no denying the fact that every player desires to improve his skills. A beginner wants to graduate to intermediate / advanced and so on. Even the experts and stars aspire to become Internationals or world class 😌 There are methods and

V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen Being fanatic is part of human psyche. Each one to his own chosen poison, may be. We all have heard of the “Seven year itch” – but that is for the infidels. Bridge players have similar, and far more frequent affliction! There are many addicts – like crossword buffs,