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 …
hand history
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?…
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, …
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 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?…
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?…