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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. 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 If you are a regular reader of my blogs, you will know I like to write about new and innovative products for Bridge fans. Recently, I wrote about Pianola.net and BridgeBig.com which are both very exciting Bridge products. But I believe I have stumbled upon a product that beats these two hands down. I have been Recently, I began reading ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People‘ by Dale Carnegie. I suppose I thought it a good idea because I am bad at making friends, and I’m not great at influencing people either. In fact, I could probably write the antithesis to the book. Anyway, Dale concludes chapter 1 with the following principle: Don’t I was on Facebook recently. A lot of people won’t have anything to do with it – I certainly wasn’t remotely interested in Facebook until one of my children forced me to get online and register. Nowadays I will acknowledge that there are some good things about it for the Bridge player… For example, if you search on Before I tell you about the World Bridge Federation tragedy, I need to provide some background to the story: Following last week’s blog, I bumped into a tweet on Twitter (if you, like me a couple of years ago, don’t know what tweeting on twitter is, you might want to check out the blog post; ‘How can Golf has the Ryder Cup, Cricket has the Ashes, Tennis has the Grand Slam circuit, NFL has the Super Bowl, Athletics has the Olympics… All sports that have become great have a unique event that acts as a vehicle through which it focuses its public image: These events are stoked by great rivalries – whether they be between Go into any room of people and say: “Tell me what you know about Karpov or Kasparov“, and the chances are you will get a fairly informed response from most. The fact of the matter is, charismatic individuals are what we seek and try to identify ourselves with. They fascinate us, draw us to them, inspire us, In my last post, ‘How not to panic as declarer when dummy goes down’, I was saying that following the opening lead, you should decide which hand to be your ‘anchor hand’. This process can give you a clear indication as to exactly what your losing cards are and what you need to do in order As soon as the lead is made and dummy goes on the table, we are always told as declarer to: “Plan your Play!!” That’s all very well shouting this mantra, but HOW do you plan play? In my experience of many players, it is more like, ‘Panic and Play!’ You stare at the 26 cards before you, your mind goes What do you really need to do in order to improve your Bridge as fast as possible? Do you study by reading too many Bridge books? I remember when I started playing Bridge. I was self-study-obsessed and read books like there was no tomorrow. Why? Because I didn’t want to let my Bridge partner down, or to |
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