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100% North's fault. (According to mycroft's hand diagram)

100% North's fault. South bid perfectly.

Watson's The Play of the Hand at Contract Bridge has a completely different style to Mollo's Card Play Technique. Watson's book is is verbose. It is good if you would like every single trick explained to you.

Ron Klinger's Guide to Better Card Play. The first half is excellent for a beginner. The second half is geared for intermediates.

Agree with that quote.

LOL

Some Vu-graph commentators describe themselves as novices.

The only people who describe themselves as novices are true novices or true experts.

Such as a transfer to hearts.

It prompted me to download files when I set this topic up. It is fine now. Yes, it must have been site maintenance.

Is anyone having trouble going to The Bridge World website?

I am wondering why I can't start a new topic or reply to any posts in the Bridge Material Review forum. When I go into any post It says This topic is locked and You cannot start a new topic.

A forcing pass auction from a national event many years ago: East: Pass South: Pass West: Pass North: Pass The catch: The points were split 13-24-0-3 around the table. East opened a forcing pass. South made a trap pass holding 24 HCP hoping to double whatever EW bid. Unfortunately he was unable to do this in tempo and West worked out what was going on so ignored his partner's forcing pass and passed. North passed in 4th seat with 3 HCP.

I once had the auction: 1♦ (P) 1♥ (4♠) 4NT (2♠) 5♣ (P) 6♥ The responder to blackwood decided to accept the insufficient bid and just answer the number of keycards.

Pass is a call too :)

How many decades ago was that? Doubles of preempts have been takeout for a while now.