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Good news this week as the Bridge Club takes another step towards normality with the announcement of the dates for the Spring Club Championships – fingers crossed that the pandemic continues to ease and that the club will see a good turnout for all ...

Bridge hands to me are often akin to a great painting or a great song – there are some that you just don’t mind looking at, or listening to, time and time again. Today’s hand is one of those – a simple-looking hand but one which is so easy to get wr...

As we know live games have resumed at the Bermuda Bridge Club and certainly the signs are that we in Bermuda are in a good place right now relative to others in terms of Covid-19. Hopefully we will all continue to be careful and prudent in the way we...

There are many different ways to make certain contracts and in the hand shown in Figure 1, an experienced declarer picked his way through a contract that looked headed for defeat. South opened 1 heart , East overcalled 2 diamonds and North raised to...

The game of bridge consists of three main parts – bidding, declarer play and defence. As I’ve written before, at the top strata of the game the most important of these by a mile is the bidding – expert players rarely make defensive errors and even mo...

As most of you will know, with the sharp increase in local Covid-19 cases, all Bermuda Bridge Club games are back as online only until further notice, and the Club is looking for members to support the games and provide some revenue to keep things ti...

I just saw the disappointing news that the 2022 Bermuda Bridge Regional has been cancelled due to the uncertainties surrounding Covid-19. With people having to plan well in advance for a trip like this the decisions makes sense, but it will again lea...

Hold-up plays in bridge, particularly in no-trump contracts, are commonplace, and in the hand below declarer showed not only how to make a hold-up play but also how to get the timing right (see Figure 1). The bidding was over quickly – South opened 2...

Bridge play can be broken into three main areas – bidding, declarer play and defence. The most important contributor to results is certainly the bidding, and it is also the easiest part of the game to teach and to learn, easiest being a relative term...

Good defence at bridge takes a bit of work – you have to try and construct declarer’s and partner’s hand from the bidding, and then refine your view as the play of the hand proceeds. Sometimes that is difficult, other times really easy, sometimes it ...