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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 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 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 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, 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, 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 Lisa Sauermann is the best maths solver in the history of the IMO Recently, I was talking with someone about the International Mathematical Olympiad competition. I was told that as the competition progressed from one round to the next, it became increasingly male dominated. That being said, Lisa Sauermann pictured left is the current title holder. 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 |
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