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
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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. 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 On 28th May 2011, I wrote an blog entitled ‘A Baptism of Fire at the Bridge Club‘. Following the post, a rather lively exchange of comments ensued regarding the proper use of bidding cards and whether it was correct to return them to their box after or before the lead card was chosen and/or faced on 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 |
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