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A Passing Thought? No way, Jose! (or so say Jack and Richard!) You are sitting there minding your own business…well, listening to the opponents conducting theirs.. and a thought crosses your mind. Tell me. Do any cross yours?... read more here

Bob Fearn. A Visitor from Seattle. There was a special guest at the inter-club Pairs competition last Tuesday evening held at Thames Bridge Club between the Thames and the Te Aroha Bridge Clubs. That was Bob Fearn, the developer of the Compass... read more here

WBF Online Women’s Spring Festival is near: April 7th to 13th Information here promoting the WBF Online Women’s Spring Festival.  Dear Friends in Bridge, The WBF Online Women’s Spring Festival is taking place very soon... read more here

  For Junior, Intermediate and Novice players..and others! It’s Fri day. “Make it Easy on Your Self” The title of a Burt Bacharach/Hal David song from the 1960s (am I showing my age?!) can be applied to today’s... read more here

Hugh McGann and Candice Smith.  “Fall” in Tasmania. Some Kiwis spent last weekend at the Tasmanian Festival of Bridge and we can record some successes there. Ashley Bach, playing with his regular Australian partner, Arlene... read more here

Dai Redshaw before his "hairy" moments.  A “Hair-raising” Charity event in Dunedin. Today, we salute Dunedin bridge players who raised $4,000 for a local good cause, one particular player there who "lost plenty" in the cause... read more here

"if you do not succeed at first, try, try again!" Double Shot : Part 2. Yesterday’s article could have been called “second time lucky”. Could that phrase be used for today’s deal? North DealsE-W Vul... read more here

Top team: Hugh McGann, Michael Ware, GeO Tislevoll and Matthew McManus.  National Open Teams….a Double Shot! The Wellington Bridge Club hosted a wonderful event this past weekend, the National Open Teams, in conjuncture with the... read more here

No guess at all! For Junior and Intermediate players and others…even US pros! It’s Fri day. We all hate it. We have the king and the jack and our opponent leads a small card in the suit. Who has the queen and who has the ace? It... read more here

INTRODUCING DWAYNE CROMBIE I thought it would be good to introduce myself as the new Chair of the NZ Bridge Foundation. Jonathan Westoby and Denis McKinlay are the other trustees although we are in the process of adding some more. The NZ Bridge... read more here

  A message below from Samantha Punch, Prof. Samantha Punch | Bridge: A MindSport for All (BAMSA) Faculty of Social Sciences | University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland We’re delighted to announce PhD... read more here

That Extra Trick! You open light. You are propelled to slam. Partner kindly allows you one loser. Yet, you still seem to be a trick short. What’s to be done?   East DealsNone Vul A 10 4 A... read more here

Mind Reading. The same could be said of playing boards but when defending a deal, it pays at times to be able to be a mind-reader. Take these two defensive situations which have a certain similarity: North DealsBoth Vul... read more here

Blair and Liz Fisher. Big Teams Victory at New Plymouth. Six teams competed in the finals of the Teams competition at the Taranaki Bridge Congress but there was only ever going to be one winning team. Zachary Yan and Malcolm Mayer and Liz and... read more here

“Crime” should not pay. “Crime” refers to getting away with making a contract you really should not bid. This is particularly true in the slam zone. What would you lead to 6H after this sequence: West... read more here

The Power of Aces. For Junior, Intermediate and Novice players…and others. It’s Fri Day. You may have heard it before. Aces are often worth more than 4hcp. They control suits. They usually will win a trick in that suit,... read more here

Being a nuisance!... read more here

The Best Chance. 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. South DealsBoth Vul Q 10 9 7 6 A 7 4... read more here

Changing Times? 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 opening bid because you were strong enough to bid again however the bidding developed,... read more here

Hard to make and hard to beat! In one 9 board Swiss Pairs match at a tournament last Saturday, there were four slam deals in five successive boards. That sounds exciting. It also does not mean that they were all making slams! What about this one?... read more here

      Throw a loser...and be a winner! for Junior and Intermediate players... maybe others too! It's Fri day. Today’s deal provides an example of a technique in playing a board that many players overlook. Whether... read more here

More or Less! 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 consider that I play more bridge, far more bridge than most other players, certainly... read more here

The successful finesse. The Successful Line. We would all like to find it, especially on troublesome deals like today’s one. This deal produced many casualties in the qualifying rounds of last weekend’s South Island Pairs.... read more here

A Deal about….. 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 of their lead, your luck, here? North DealsN-S Vul... read more here

Jeff Miller and Graeme Stout.  South Island success in South Island Teams. It was rather appropriate that victory in last weekend’s South Island On-Line Pairs should go to a “mainland” pair, one of their strongest in Jeff... read more here

Double and plus! 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 than a minus score. With that in mind, what action would you take as North here?... read more here

Not today’s dummy! “You will have something, partner. Won’t you!” 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 week, maybe much... read more here

          The tale of two singleton black 7’s! 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. Should this be so? Let’s see... read more here

Michael Ware, Jan Cormack, Pamela Livingston and Leon Meier. Sad ending to Mixed Trial. The New Zealand Mixed Trial ended two sessions early yesterday in unfortunate circumstances when ill health prevented Jan Cormack from continuing. At that... read more here

Fuxia Wen and Ian Berrington, Mixed Teams finalists.  The Mixed Pairs Trial. Monday sees the final day of the National Mixed Trial to determine which of 8 teams will represent New Zealand at the World Mixed Teams in Denmark in August and... read more here

Safety Day! For Junior, Intermediate and Junior players..and all those who failed to make at least 10 tricks in today’s deal! It’s Fri day. Do not feel too bad if you get today’s deal wrong since when it was played, around... read more here