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 …
Expert Hand Histories
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?…
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 …
A Beautiful 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, …
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 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 …
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 …
Calculating And Timing
This story is not about a very high level problem, seems to be easy, when we respond the right questions before starting the declarer play. Still the hand was misplayed by a star player of BBO, which can be a …