Bridge Articles

Here are bridge articles of deals that I've mostly witnessed on OKbridge, Bridge Base Online or in face-to-face tournament/club play. Unfortunately I didn't put dates on the earliest articles, but they stretch back to 1997 or so. Geez, I am getting old.

Interviews with top experts that I've been fortunate enough to bump into.

• Interview with Fred Gitelman
• Interview with Marty Bergen
• Interview with Mike Lawrence

Personal results so spectacularly bad that they merited publication.

• Hand 1: A Car Crash
• Hand 2: A Comedy of Errors
• Hand 3: Dumb and Dumber
• Hand 4: Words Fail Me
• Hand 5: Worst Auction Ever
• Hand 6: Don't Think

Miscellaneous ideas about bidding.

• 1NT: The Ultimate Preempt by Tony Melucci
• A Bergen Disaster
• Big Slick and the Principle of Reliance
• Envisioning Your Partner's Hand when Bidding
• The Food-Asking Bid
• Improving 2/1 Auctions: Part 1 by Fred Gitelman
• Improving 2/1 Auctions: Part 2 by Fred Gitelman
• Improving 2/1 Auctions: Part 3 by Fred Gitelman
• Slam Bidding Workshop by Bill Treble

Interesting deals involving declarer play.

• The 1997 Le Bridgeur Best Play of the Year
• Diary of a Nobody
• Jimmy Cayne Breaks a Rule
• A John Lowenthal Bridge Hand
• Odd Odds
• Rectifying the Losers
• Refinements to Restricted Choice
• Too Many Trumps
• Two Cute BBO Hands
• The Most Brilliant Play Ever Made by Milton Work (1913)

Stories and thoughts about playing defense.

• Counting Points on Opening Lead (For beginners)
• Husbands and Wives
• Perfect Defense
• Poor Mark Lair

Unconvicted murderers, condemned cheaters, and everyone in between.

• The Bennett Murder
• The Bermuda Incident
• The Buenos Aires Incident
• The Elwell Murder
• The Fisher Schwartz Scandal
• The Houston Affair

Odds and ends.

• Big-League Bridge by Alfred Sheinwold, Playboy Magazine, May 1964
• Card Handling
• Funny Bridge Stories
• The Grosvenor Gambit (From The Bridge World)
• If Chess Was Played Like Bridge
• Two Hands Against Meckwell (Declarer Play and Defense)