When we finished the ACBL BBO tourney 12840-1607875200 with Tom Szabo, I was happy because of the good game and result, but I was a bit upset, that we couldn't win the tournament with 72 % score, we seemed to …
ACBL Diaries 1: Trust In Partner!
We play time by time with my students and partners ACBL speedball tournaments. These are quick, still playable tournaments with a lot's of players, most of the time more, than 200 pairs are taking part. I played a very special …
No Escape
We played a very interesting hand with Tom Szabo in a BBO IMP tournament. It is one of the bords, when both sides could do something for winning this hand, with another words, there was freat fight in the game. …
VS How Should We Select Trump For RKC In High Level Bidding Situations
Lets assume, that we arrive to a 3NT bid from opener after the following bidding: 1♣-1♥-1♠-2♦-3NT. If 2♦ was a game invitational or better convention, and to that 3NT showed extra value from the opener, …
A Nice Defence Against A Low Level Contract
Sometimes the most interesting problems are very common in defence. What should we lead? How can we imagine the opener's hand without information from bidding? How should we control the defence?
We played a nice defence with Tom Szabo, where …
VS How To Use Jump Rebid Of Opener As Gameforcing Hands Collector
If we don't play Mini-Splinter convention, we can use jump rebid of opener as gameforcing hands collector.
When we play Mini-Spilter convention, and we have enough places below the 3rd level raise of the responder's suit, we can combine the …
Take Care Of The Pence..
We took part some days ago in an ACBL BBO Tournament with Tom Szabo, a student of mine. We got this very interesting problem in a pairs tournament, where every point counts.
Leet's see, what had happened?…
A Special Squeeze In The Crown Cup Hungary
A very rare form of squeeze was coming in the last team match in the Crown Cup Hungray. The live bridge was broken in the middle of the Hungarian Team Cup of Hungary, so most of the teams were playing …
An Interesting Elimination In The Hungarian Team Cup 2020
It happens very rarely, that you can do an elimination in order to win a contract, but I was lucky to have one in our Hungarian Team Cup match. The bidding was also interesting. Let's see, what had happened!…
An Elimination With A Dejavu Feeling
When someone is playing time by time with the BM2000 program, there comes surely a hand, which is very similar to the hands , that we can find there. We played a hand in the pairs championship of Hungary, which …
A Little Bit Of Magic In Defence
We played this defence with Bela Benedek in a BBO team match. Bela is a good friend of mine, who is already more, than 75 years old, still he runs on the tennis court like a teenager. And he is …
A Squeeze in Istambul Against Multon And Zimmermann
One of my targets in Istambul was to meet Mr. Ziimermann, and my wish came soon, because we played the 1st two hands against them in the Pairs Championship.
I played against Frank Multon several times and with him also …
A massacre from Istambul
We played a great hand In Istambul, the pairs competition of the European Bridge Championship
with Peter Feher. The opponents were unknown, and the hand is a really good advertise for the mini 1NT.
Let's see, what had happened?…
VS How Should We Raise Partner’s Major Suit After Two Clubs Opening
It happens often, that we should open 2♣, which brings us to a very high bidding level, and this is a bid disadvantage of the system. If we want to raise our partner later, we simply don't have enough bidding …
A Thing To Remember
One of my favorite bridge partners was Elli Nagy. She was around her 80's, when she returned to Hungary from Canada as a multiple national Champion. She asked me to play with her in club tournaments. It was a great …
The Magic of MatchPoints – a Trump Control Defence
While playing MP a lot is riding on overtricks - taking one more trick than the average has a nice effect on your scorecard. While people tend to concentrate on their declarer play, there is just as much to gain …
A Special Elimination Play Situation
There are standard elimination situations, where the declarer has an exit, and defenders have to play the suit, where the declarer needs help.
This hand is a little bit different. Let's see, what had happened?…
VS How To Combine Kokish Relay With A Heart Suit Leaded Hand After A Strong 2 Club Opening
VS: Vikor Solution. I have 16 developments now, all of them are published on this homepage. My original developments are all signed with this sign, Sometimes I develop new solution of a hardly negotiable situation of another player's world class …
A Little Bit Of Help
It happens often, that you have to guess, which opponent has a Queen to finesse it. More rarely it happens, that you can play a ruffing finesse or a finesse agains a King. But playing finesse against a King without …
Elimination Play From The Marathon Tournament
It happens, sometimes, that we all make the mistake of bidding very aggressive game contracts in pairs tournaments, alhough it has a large negative expected value (EV). Also in the following hand, making the 4♥ contract was 90% score, …
VS How Should We Refuse Jacoby Transfer So, That Always Opener Will Play
Almost all expert players are playing so, that if they have supermaximum and fit in a 1NT or 2NT opening, they bid NT with 3 card fit, and they bid their doubleton, if they have a four card fit. The …
Don’t Double The Magician 2.
The first hand history with the same title was a great succes some years ago, it was published in several magazins and homepages.
We played this hand last Tuesday, and my birhday came on the 11th of October, which was …
A Squeeze On The Defensive Line
It is always great feeling to make a succesful squeeze. To make it in the defensive line, it comes very rarely, and funny way most of the times against a 1 NT contract. Just like it happened some days ago. …
A Double Dummy Problem: How should we make the 6H Contract:
This hand was played at a cross IMP championship, and failed. Still we can find a beautiful solution to make. Do you have a plan?…
The Solution Of The Double Dummy Problem: How should we make the 6H Contract:
The solution is a grand coup, a rarely and nice endplay. Let's see, how should we do that.…
A Classic 4 Heart Contract With 4-3 Fit
Spending a lot of time with different (not too serious) health problems, I had to keep pause writing bridge articles. Now I am back, and I played some interesting hands, that are worth to analize. One of the most interestings …
A Double Dummy Slam Contract Problem
We played a beautiful slam hand, where every one failed, who got spade lead. Anyway, the contract was makeable. Can you find the way?…
The Solution Of The Double Dummy Slam Contract Problem
I hope, you have found the way to do it. Please don't forget, that the players who failed the contract, had a simpler way to do it just they failed because of the bad distribution. Let's see the things about …
VS How Should We Show Extra + Fit To A Jacoby Transfer
The old fashion players are normally showing 3 trumps with supermaximum, using 2NT rebid as opener to a Jacoby transfer, and they bid their useful doubleton if they have 4 trumps with supermaximum.
Their jump exception showes 4 card fit …
Great Fight for A Four Spade Contract
We played this hand at the teams championship with Eva Csiby. Although we were on defense, this hand gave us excellent joy. Let's see, what had happened?…
The Solution Of The Four Spades Declarer Play Problem
As almost all the great solutions, this one is also very simple, if it comes into our mind.
Let's see, how could South win the contract:…
A Hand History In Memorial Of My Father
I like playing with my nephew Attila Vikor, because he became a great and fair player and we are doing pretty well most of the times. We played the G-20 Tournament in Budapest together. G-20 means, that one player must …
A Special Defensive Double Dummy Problem From Mautern
I played with Eva Csiby, a client of mine in Mautern. Thanks for the big help of fortune, the lot of trainings, and the constant, sharp play, we won the tournament, the largest tournament in Middle-Europe. It would be normal …
The Solution Of The Defensive DoubleDummy Problem From Mautern
I had a real problem, when I had to decide, that it should be a 26 cards problem, where only West's and North's hands are visible, or a double dummy problem, when I started writing tis article. I made my …
VS Peferred Honors Asking Relay In Practice
This article will be published together with the "VS Peferred Honors Asking Relay" article in the expert area. We played this hand with a student of mine. Eva Csiby did a nice job in this hand, playing live high level …
VS for Asking Preferred Honors Via Grand Slam
This solution I invented for grand slam bidding sequences, hanging on the method, that after discovering our strength and keycards, we can discover special, preferred honors in partner's hand, which have main importance not only via grand slam, but also …
1 Diamond-2Clubs The Game Forcing Two Over Variation
The advanced or better players can select hanging on their style between playing 1♦-2♣ as a game invitational or better bid, or they can use 1♦-2♣ as a game-forcing variation. The game invitational or better (Acol …
1 Diamond-2 Clubs, The Special Two over One Situation
There are two common variations used by the expert players. Many of them are playing also 2C response as a game-forcing bid, but I personally am a great fun of playing 1D-2C as an at least invitational response, which is …
Opener’s Options When 1NT Is Doubled in the 4th Position
Being a 1NT opener what do you do when they double you in 4th position? Just blindly pass, and leave it to your partner? Maybe you bid a good 5-card suit? Or you just redouble when you have doubts? How …
A Wonderful 3NT Declarer Play Problem
We played this hand With Feri Zöld, my regular partner, against Jimmy Cayne and Dano Defalco. Feri played this hand wonderfully, I still decided to show this hand as a problem, because it worth wasting time to solve it. Let's …
A Nice Defence From Mautern, Austria
We played this hand against Nanev-Danailov, national players of Bulgaria, my partner was G. Marjai from Hungary. We had a great run, and we won also in this match, thanks for the solid performance of the team. At the end …
A Little Bit Of Everything
My nephew, Attila Vikor was the declarer player in a BBO team match. Although the bidding was a little bit extravagant, the declarer play contented two beautiful steps, an end-play and a Guilmard Coup.…
VS for the 1NT and 2NT-4NT Quantitative
The 4NT quantitative slam invitation bid is something every bridge player uses, but it's important to clear up a few things about this convention. Usually when the 3NT would have been a natural sign-off, the 4NT is a natural, non-forcing …
VS for “When Our Relay or Cuebid Is Doubled In Competition”
It happens very often, that we are strong in a competing situation, and we get doubled after our forcing cuebid or 4th suit forcing bid.
In order to function efficiently, a good partnership should be on common grounds in this …
Lavinthal Convention
If we think that partner has led a singleton and we gain the lead, then we return the suit to give him a ruff (providing he has trumps, i.e. not after trumps were drawn), partner's next problem is going to …
Lebensohl and Its Variations
The Lebensohl Fast or Slow convention can be extremely useful in competitive situations, especially where the game contract is still available.…