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Receive my weekly posts DIRECT to your chosen email box. Click 'Join Here' It's really easy to sign up & your email is safe so you won't be spammed - I respect your privacy. In the comments section of last week’s blog Bridge & Business Part 1 – Ignore Social Media at your Peril Peter posted the following question: How do I use our bridge club to get new people interested? The thing is there are several hurdles standing in the way of new members joining a Bridge club. Now, before we The blog post I had intended writing for this week is in the trash can. Why? Well, a couple of days ago I received an email from Nira who is one of the team at BridgeBig.com. This mail that I’d received had left me stunned… my mouth wide open agape: You may recall that a couple of weeks I know that some of you will be irritated with this post, but I have no alternative but to talk to you about ‘Pianola‘. ‘What is Pianola and what has it to do with Contract Bridge?’, I hear you say – I’ll come to that in a minute. The thing is, two weeks ago I wrote this post In my recent blog post entitled “How can a great Bridge Blog benefit you?” Dave left a comment: My leads and signals are ok, but sometimes after winning a trick, I never know what to lead next. I might lead a new suit, and afterwards my teacher will say something like “you shouldn’t have opened the new If you imagine the tectonic plates as floating, like ice on water on the liquid magma beneath, it is not difficult to imagine why soil erosion over millions of years can reduce the land mass on a tectonic plate such that it rises and makes the land’s highest peaks rise – this theory explains the discrepancy Could you stand in front of a hall of 100 primary school children who have never held a deck of cards before, and in the space of 1 to 2 hours have them sitting in absolute silence as they finger through their cards whilst playing Mini bridge. It can be done using a revolutionary new system. In this post, I comment on Matt Betts’ article in English Bridge Magazine where he tells of the EBU’s impressive schools Bridge teaching programme. Do you invest money like someone who plays Snap – reacting to things that have happened and to what everyone ELSE is doing with little to no thought? I hope not because as a Bridge player you can know so much better. If you want your ‘Contract Bridge’ club to stand out and to guarantee that it will go from strength to strength, you need to implement at least 3 of the suggestions below: If you apply yourself in the right way, strategic thinking and tactical awareness can become second nature. In other words, one can automate these skills such that your brain just clicks into that way of thinking without you even having to apply yourself to the task. What is the single most efficient way of automating strategic thinking? |
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