It is nice to bid a pushy slam, with one proviso. You do need to make it or else concede a bundle of imps! So, here’s your opportunity....

Back when I learnt the game, if you had 16 or more high card points and a 5-card or longer suit, you doubled the opponent’s 1 of a suit...

In one 9 board Swiss Pairs match at a tournament last Saturday, there were four slam deals in five successive boards. That sounds...

For Junior, Intermediate and Novice players…and others. It’s Fri Yay! Day. Today’s deal provides an example of a technique in playing a...

Today’s is a strange article. In it comes a most unusual admission. Those who know me well, and that includes my non-playing wife, would...

We would all like to find it, especially on troublesome deals like today’s one. This deal produced many casualties in the qualifying...

Does it only happen to you?  Everyone else gets a friendly lead but against you, they find the killer lead! Really? What then do you make...

Jeff Miller and Graeme Stout It was rather appropriate that victory in last weekend’s South Island On-Line Pairs should go to a...

Link to results Real Bridge Kibitzing Link with a 30 min delay.  https://kibitz.realbridge.online/     Play starts on both days at 9.30am .

When we make a penalty double, we always aim to record a plus score. Sometimes, the plus may not be huge but any plus is so much better...

Real Bridge Kibitzing Link with a 30 min delay.  https://kibitz.realbridge.online/     Play starts on both days at 9.30am .

That cry may have been made by some South players who held the hand below. They pick up as good a hand as they have held all night, all...

At two of the four tables in the recent Mixed Trial, East- West made their contract of 5D, once doubled and once with an overtrick....

Michael Ware, Jan Cormack, Pamela Livingston and Leon Meier. The New Zealand Mixed Trial ended two sessions early yesterday in...

APBF –Hefei China May 2025 Ian Berrington & Fuxia Wen Graeme Tuffnell & Jan Alabaster Blair & Liz Fisher World Teams Championships -...

Fuxia Wen and Ian Berrington, Mixed Teams finalists.  Monday sees the final day of the National Mixed Trial to determine which of 8 teams...

Mixed Team Trials 14 - 17 February Trials to select Mixed Teams for  this year's International Events commenced today in Auckland. There...