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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. There is a saying in Bridge for those who partner with their actual partner: “Say goodnight before you sit down to play”, or words to that effect.
Shouldn't it say, "Fantastic, nice, friendly, attractive, polite, never make mistakes bridge partner"? It would seem that there is an expectation of friction and possible falling-out whilst playing at the In last weeks blog entitled “Is Bridge too intellectual or difficult for some?” a comment was left by Carolyn: Most of the ladies that learned with me last year are still playing, but the ones that dropped out were anxious about their bidding performance. Generally they could count cards, but were just not happy at their self-imposed Bridge has a rather unsavoury disease. Much like a fungus, the disease has penetrating fungal tentacles that are unseen, below the surface, invisible. Only in particular places and at certain times does the fungal fruit rise to the surface and bloom. Is the fruit delicious to some, poisonous to others? Let me describe the nature of this fungal Many year ago when I was in my twenties, I was sitting with three other men in a dirt floor hut that consisted of stick walls, which kept out wild animals and the occasional Kasawari chick, and a roof made from banana leaves, whose purpose was primarily to keep out the daily tropical downpour. The PNG I was challenged to a duel this week!
Can meerkats count to 10? Remember this when you are playing online I had downloaded a brand new app onto my ipad (you won’t find this app anywhere on you keyword search – it is buried deep in the vaults at Attitude signals are used by a defender to show interest in a suit. When partner leads a suit, the third hand play of a high card is encouraging, whereas a low card is discouraging. For example, if partner leads an ace and you hold KQ932, then the 9 is the proper encouraging signal. Conversely, if your A couple of weeks ago, I was saying that Benji Acol (a system devised by Albert Benjamin), was a tad passe. Alternatively, I was suggesting, you give Weak Twos a go. It is simpler, easier to remember, and more effect in the modern game. Just like opening with a suit at the three level, opening 2 diamond, A minor little bidding ditty This is the first post in a series where I talk about ‘easy-to-implement’ conventions that you can add to your bidding with no effort or memory meltdowns. This week, I am going to talk about a really simple but little used bidding ditty that I think is rather cool: Intro One In my twenties I used to laugh, because I’d go visit my mum in sunny Liverpool on occasion and she would always have a tin of pears for me to eat in the cupboard… What’s this got to do with Benji Acol, I hear you ask? More than you would think… You see, back when I was a kid, I am going to stick my neck out here and say something that you might not agree with. But, it’s not as if I am one to stop you having your say… After all you too can leave your views in the comment box beneath this post. So what am I going to be talking about? Well… the |
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