I am retired both from full-time work and from tournament bridge. My main bridge interest is researching the history of the tournament game in England: the first (and possibly only) instalment, covering the period up to the end of WW2, was published on the EBU website in December 2016.
My first serious bridge partner was Richard Granville and he suggested that I sign up to this site.
Read more »Those of us who have been playing for more than 30 years will remember the old scale of doubled non-vulnerable undertricks: 100, 300, 500, 700, 900 etc.
I feel that the 1987 change (1993 for rubber bridge) whereby the fourth and each subsequent doubled undertrick cost an extra 100 points was bad for the game. It has certainly had a noticeable impact on the attraction of "taking out insurance" as well as ruling out such coups as voluntarily playing in 1NT doubled down seven (are you reading this, Richard Granville?) or taking a seven-level save at favourable vulnerability with virtually nothing.
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