• Other Recent Articles

  • Opening Lead Mini Course: Lead Against NT Contract – 3 of 4

    Statistically in general, you will spend 25% of your game of bridge doing the opening lead. Most of the time the contract is not really sensitive to the opening lead. But with the bidding become more precise and aggressive where wrong opening lead can determine whether a slam or game is made, then to make sure the person across the table cannot whinge and to make you a more than average bridge player, for sure there are some good guideline or maybe rule of thumb when it comes to do opening lead. This is one of them…

    Jul 24, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Opening Lead Mini Course: Lead Against Suit Contract – 2 of 4

    Statistically in general, you will spend 25% of your game of bridge doing the opening lead. Most of the time the contract is not really sensitive to the opening lead. But with the bidding become more precise and aggressive where wrong opening lead can determine whether a slam or game is made, then to make sure the person across the table cannot whinge and to make you a more than average bridge player, for sure there are some good guideline or maybe rule of thumb when it comes to do opening lead. This is one of them…

    Jul 24, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Opening Lead Mini Course: Understand What To Do – 1 of 4

    Statistically in general, you will spend 25% of your game of bridge doing the opening lead. Most of the time the contract is not really sensitive to the opening lead. But with the bidding become more precise and aggressive where wrong opening lead can determine whether a slam or game is made, then to make sure the person across the table cannot whinge and to make you a more than average bridge player, for sure there are some good guideline or maybe rule of thumb when it comes to do opening lead. This is one of them…

    Jul 24, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Opening Lead Mini Course: Which Card ? – 4 of 4

    Statistically in general, you will spend 25% of your game of bridge doing the opening lead. After you know which suit to lead (see previous part), the final thing is to select a card from that suit that you will put on the table for the opening lead. This part is actually the easiest among all the opening lead techniques and guideline. Why? Because this is merely just the agreement with your partner. As long as you and partner has agreed, that will do.

    Jul 11, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Static Bid vs Dynamic Bid: Essence of Bidding System

    Bidding is about communication. One person tell the partner (and the opponent) about what kind of of hand he/she is holding. The partner then respond back with either further inquiry or also describe his/her holding. This is the essence of any bidding system. But not too many bridge player really realize that those 2 activities (making asking bid and describing hand) are in fact the one make a bidding a static bid or a dynamic one. Understanding of this basic will lead to much better partnership, guaranteed !

    Feb 27, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Your Check List: What Should be Covered By Your Bidding System/Convention and Beyond

    For sure, knowing only the opening bid will not be qualified as “have a bidding system” with partner. There are much more aspect that just knowing the opening bid. So, below is a starting point, a checklist to confirm that the aspect is covered. I don’t mean that below checklist is complete, but it should be something that you need to cover as minimum. Again have this checklist as starting point and expand further. You partnership will soon be above the average….

    Jan 21, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Trump Coup: When Finesse is No Longer an Option

    How do we draw the rest of the trump without finesse and without give up a trick? The answer is a technique called “Trump Coup”. We need this technique usually when the remaining trump is not evenly distributed, but we cannot do another finesse on a trump suit as we don’t have another card over the bridge. Put simply, this is a finesse without lead the trump itself.

    Jan 12, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Partnership: Bridge Commodity That (not) Hard To Maintain

    Like it or not, bridge is not individual game. You need a partner, period. Either the partner is your old buddy, colleague at office, fellow member at your local club or even your spouse, bridge partnership has been proven to be quite hard to maintain and a little bit delicate issue. Or not ?

    Jan 12, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • The Bridge Country: Which Big Name is Playing?

    The most prestigious title in Bridge are Bermuda Bowl (for Open Team), Venice Cup (for Woman) and Senior Bowl (for Senior).Also very important tournament was what before called “Bridge Olympiad”. That tournament now is called “World Bridge Game” and part of the 3rd Olympic event: the World Mind Sport Games (the other 2 events are winter olympic and summer Olympic). So, here is the list of the big names in bridge based on Bermuda Bowl 2009 and WBG 2008.

    Jan 09, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Is Bridge a Sport ?

    With the lack of significant and rigorous physical activity, together with Chess, Bridge will always be under this classic scrutiny: whether or not bridge is a sport. I can see where the confusion started: people relates sport with physical health and people wrongly assume that sport and physical activity/exercise is synonym.

    Jan 06, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Assessing Your Hand: The First Bridge Ritual

    When you play bridge, you will receive 13 cards for your part of the play. These 13 pieces of cards became your holding on that round. We will refer them as “your hand”. I would encourage you to develop some kind of “ritual” (something that you will repeat and always do over and over again) when you received your card. Not only this will trigger your mind to focus and “enter” the world of bridge, but also will help you during the play as we assess the entire card during this ritual.

    Jan 06, 2010 | Make comment | View Post

  • Opening Bid: Standard 5 Cards Major, Strong 1 NT

    Standard 5 card major system with Strong 1NT is not only one of the popular one, but also one of those systems that adopt the natural and common sense approach. (Just bid based on your hand, not based on the memory: have long suit of heart, then bid heart)

    Jan 06, 2010 | Make comment | View Post