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- July 29, 2010
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- Kit Woolsey is a world-class bridge and backgammon player, analyst, and writer. His most recent major victory was winning the Cavendish Invitational Pairs in 2011. He was elected to the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2005 and lives in Kensington, CA.
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- Reflex Cover
- If East has the 9 of hearts, why would he ever go for a ruff of his natural heart trick with what might be partner's natural trump trick? Even a weak defender would not make that mistake. It is true that when West does have J9 doubleton of hearts ...
- Ruling, please!
- It was North who looked at the convention card and noticed that Drury was checked, not East. However, that is irrelevant. The cards speak. North clearly intended his 2♣ call as natural. South did not alert the call and made a normal bid opposite a natural 2♣ call ...
- Bidding Practice vs Playing Practice
- I coach several top-flight pairs. Here are some of the techniques I use for training. For bidding practice, I set up a partnership bidding table on BBO where I am the host and I can see all 4 hands and can control the E-W bidding. This allows the pair to ...
- Reprise-4
- Henry, Obviously the hand should have had a fourth spade, considering the 1♠ response. I have corrected this typo.
- Reprise-4
- Rainer, It is true that on your example hands 3NT isn't so good IF the opponents lead a spade AND if they can run the suit. But how likely is that, considering the 1♠ response? Not too likely. The parlay of the 1♠ bidder not having a ...
- Reprise-4
- Henry's suggested self-splinter works fine on this layout. But change the West hand slightly to ♠AQxx ♥10xx ♦KQx ♣Kxx. The auction would go the same way, but now 5♦ is the winner. Can the problem be solved legitimately? Using the popular 2-way checkback (which Henry doesn't like ...
- Unclear T2 Problem
- I faced this problem in a BBO match, and my reasoning followed Bill's. Going up ace of clubs is right pretty much only when partner has king of clubs and declarer has exactly A10x of spades, and if that is the case partner might have acted over the 1NT ...
- Game Play Decision
- It should be noted that Mark's line can even survive Qxxx of hearts in East's hand if West has Qxx of diamonds, as on the run of the diamonds either declarer gets rid of all of his clubs or loses only 1 trump trick. And if West has ...
- Moysian play problem
- If you take the spade finesse and it wins, you don't need a 3-3 heart split. If clubs are no worse than 4-2, you have 5 trump tricks, 3 spade tricks, 3 heart tricks, and 1 diamond trick. In fact you can even survive a 5-1 club split if ...
- Use the Tools
- To each his own. The direct jump to slam may be more effective for concealment purposes, and when there is a very high probability that you are bidding to the right contract or when you don't have to tools to determine if there is a superior contract then the ...
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