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Perhaps my favourite bridge player in the world, and also one of my favourite people in the world, is the great Bob Hamman from Dallas, Texas. Bob has become a great friend over the years and he comes to mind as I saw in the press that he had withdra...

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...

This week’s hand was faced by an experienced declarer who did what experienced declarers do – he reached back in his play box and recognised the best way to play the hand (see Figure 1). After North opened a club North-South found their heart fit and...

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...

This week’s hand is one of those teams/pairs declarer play conundrums so I will treat those two situations separately (see Figure 1). You are in a team game with the South hand – you open 1 heart, partner raises to 2 hearts and with your 21 points yo...

Traffic over a St George’s bridge will be reduced to a single lane at the weekend for maintenance work. The work at Longbird Bridge will be carried out by Government workers on Sunday between 7.30am and 6pm. A notice in the Official Gazette said: “Th...

If there is one thing I will do by way of this column is to make you think and plan before you play to trick one as declarer. Seeing the solution in the post mortem, or worse still having your partner point it out to you, is not what you want, so try...

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...

With some return to competitive bridge, the following notice was sent out to the local Bridge Club and ACBL members in relation to the upcoming trials for the Central American and Caribbean Bridge Federation Zone 5 Championship. The trials are organi...

One of the most useful bids in bridge is the “unassuming cue bid” which is often used as a waiting bid to find out more about partners hand in terms of shape and strength – many use it after partner has overcalled to show 3 card support for partner’s...

A footbridge that will extend the Railway Trail over Flatts Inlet is expected to be completed by October, a spokesman for Friends of the Railway Trail said yesterday. Tucker Murphy confirmed that volunteer construction workers started building pylons...