Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Mini-Roman 2♦ ♠♥♦♣
In a two-table team game at Claus Buchthal's house on 5/29, my partner, Robert Fokos, picked up the following hand:
♠ KJ43 ♥ KQ42 ♦ A ♣9862
We were using a special convention to show this kind of hand, "mini Roman 2♦": 11 to 14 HCP and ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Bad Trump Split? Don't Give Up. ♠♥♦♣
Here's a hand from Thursday 5/27 in Vineyard Haven (hands rotated):
♠ QT7
♥ T4
♦ T95432
♣ AQ
N
♠ -- ♠ AJ932
♥ J97653 ♥ Q82
♦ J8 W E ♦ Q6
♣ KT943 ♣ J92
S
♠ K8654
♥ AK
♦ AK7
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Results from the Vineyard Haven game on 5/20: 1. Bill Blakesley and Hugh Knipmeyer. 2. Claus Buchthal and Miles Jaffe. 3. Eric Stricoff and Rhonda Cohen. 4. Carol Whitmarsh and Anita Persson. 5.5 tables in play.
Results from the West Tisbury game on 5/22: 1. Cecily Greenaway and Bill Blakesley. 2. ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Five of a Minor ♠♥♦♣
One of the least likely contracts to earn a top board in duplicate is 5♦ or 5♣. Very often the same cards will make 3NT, perhaps with an overtrick or two. An eleven-trick contract yields +400 (or +600 vulnerable), while nine tricks at 3NT earns ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Third Hand Opening ♠♥♦♣
Most players will open a bit light in third position, particularly with five or more spades. That's fine, but the question is, what do you do next? Here's Board 27 from the Tuesday game in Vineyard Haven on 5/13.
♠ A9765
♥ K75
♦ 54
♣ A52
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Results from the Tuesday 5/6 game in Vineyard Haven: 1. Michele Riel and David Donald. 2. Ency and Robert Fokos. 3. Claus Buchthal and Nancy Cabot. 4. Dale and Sue Collinson. 5 1/2 tables in play.
Results fromthe Thursday 5/8 game in West Tisbury: 1. Gail Farrish and Patsy McCormack. 2. ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
North Falmouth Sectional and Senior Regional
The Vineyard bridge team distinguished itself at the ACBL tournaments at Falmouth last weekend, winning events in both the Sectional (silver points) and the Senior Regional (gold and red points). It is always amazing to me that our tiny little duplicate club does so ...
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Dan Cabot is a contributing editor at The Times.
