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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. 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 In order to play Bridge well, one must be able to concentrate. As a concert violinist, I recognise the importance of concentration to attain my highest standards of performance. (You can hear more of my playing by clicking on this link to the launch of my latest solo violin album) As with violin playing, Contract Bridge is multi-disciplined So many “Contract Bridge” books have reviews like this: Alternatively, one reads book reviews that are basically a cut and past ‘blow of the trumpet’ from the inside cover of the 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 A few years ago, during a game of bridge, I led a Jack from J10xx. I stammered for an answer, “Well…” I had this rather curious dream: I was playing Bridge and was a sea – I couldn’t remember any of the cards being played. More of a nightmare really… and my head was swimming and I felt dazed and panicked. I was then given a tip by one of my opponents of all things: Last week I was saying how I found learning languages incredibly difficult as a youngster and yet really easy as an adult. My improvements in learning language are due to a better understanding of certain principles about how memory works. One of the principles of quickly learning language involves converting short term recollections into medium term Over the next few blog posts I am going to uncover some of the myths about memory, identify some of the card play memory mistakes you may be making, and suggest some useful tips that may enable you to have that wonderful ability to recall card play sequences with the kind of agility that you thought The most incredible defence I’ve ever heard about in Bridge is the performance given by James Reed: After calling her husband “a bum Bridge player” Myrtle Bennet was apparently slapped about the face several times, following an evening of Bridge in their home in Kansas City! Admittedly, most Bridge players have become frustrated by their Bridge partner at Most players are familiar with signalling to partner to indicate whether they like a suit or not. Typically this occurs after a lead: Say partner leads a Queen. But I have a great tip for you that I rarely see used in clubs |
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