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    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Bridge: discovery play reveals strange, but now winning, position

      Play out all your trumps before making decision on key suit

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Bridge: the best counter to an attack on a fragile suit is to create a blockage

      Visualise layout of opponents’ suit to find crucial play

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Key bid can lead to excellent small slam

      Jumping in new suit, above forcing level, must agree partner’s suit

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Bridge: delay play of crucial suit until distributional information is revealed

      Discovery play and logical deduction reveals position of hidden card

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      In bridge, information from trick 1 sets up excellent defensive deduction

      Take care to win with ambiguous card opposed to a revealing one

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Relative size of card reveals partner’s true intention

      When signal is imminent, study low cards conscientiously

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Bridge: Visualisation of the four hands provides simple answers

      Remember auction, count to 13 and create winning opportunities

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Bridge: A problem foreseen can be transformed into an advantage

      Simple plan requires extra thought to anticipate potential obstruction

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      When showing shortage in partner’s suit is essential for reaching slam

      Two bids that both partners ought to know

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Knowledge of lead-directional double defeats excellent slam

      Logical suit-preference inference might yet save the day

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Contract bridge: Angle of attack crucial to success in grand slam

      Out of impenetrable mist, safest route begins to appear

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Awareness of card position demands attempt at simple endplay

      Refuse hopeless position and plot superior chance

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Eschewing affordable over-ruff simplifies complex timing issues

      If a way home can be found, take it

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Identify and use all means to isolate threatening opponent

      Crucial ducks leave opponent stranded and impotent

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Assume everything is wrong and seek a method still to prevail

      When tricks are required from two suits, test in which order they should be played

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      Avoid finesse into hand with power to defeat you

      Try unlikely safer methods if, should they fail, you retain the more promising, more dangerous one

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Bad trump split requires swerve to new plan

      Make opponent with long trumps ruff in before you

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      Angst-avoiding bidding tip will lead, in the long run, to better scores

      Solid, or semi-solid, suits good for no-trumps; poor quality suits better as trumps

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Disappearing loser leads to top result for optimistic declarer

      Play out all trumps — something good may happen

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Bidding problems lead to poor contract — can declarer prevail?

      Assumption of required position of cards sets up opportunity

    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      Tenacious ambition to make more tricks than everyone else is rewarded

      One lowly high card promoted into crucial tenth trick

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Further hand description aids partner to select correct level and denomination

      Major suits provide cheaper competition and high-scoring contracts

    • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
      Call in help for seemingly unsolvable problem

      Set up hand to ensure that, however unwilling, opponents provide assistance

    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      Imaginative lead sets up correct defence

      When partner plays an unexpected card, assume a message must be inferred

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      Initial plan updated by information inferred from bidding and early play

      Passive defence allows declarer to find winning line

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