DEAR READER:: Double shows values and a desire to penalize the opponents. Subsequent doubles by either side are for penalty. Pass followed by double signifies cards, but this is optional in nature. If ...

Cue-bids can have several meanings, depending on the context. They are especially useful in slam bidding on hands where Blackwood isn’t helpful, as when one partner has a void suit. Today’s hand ...

Q 1 — Both vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ Q 10 8 ♥ K 7 6 ♦ 9 5 4 ♣ K 10 9 3 Advertisement Article continues below this ad Partner opens the bidding with ...

DEAR READER:: Double shows values and a desire to penalize the opponents. Subsequent doubles by either side are for penalty. Pass followed by double signifies cards, but this is optional in nature. If ...

Cy the Cynic says that in a marriage, two people become one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. “My wife and I disagree about slam bidding,” a reader says. “We both know that ...

This Friday was the second session of the two session Bermuda National Pairs event and I will bring you the results next week .Leading at the halfway stage after the Monday session with a score of ...

(C)2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Cy the Cynic says — and I agree — that in defensive play, it’s not what players don’t know, it’s what they think they know that isn’t always true. North-South got ...

DEAR READER: Partner's three hearts showed a solid minor suit, in principle with stoppers in the suits other than hearts, or else his bid would have been unsound. Looking at your hand, partner is ...