mike777 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Your best one bit of bridge advice that you would like to pass on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Always take the action that allows you to blame your partner. (Or to put it another way, trust your partner to know what she/he is doing. And if things go awry, don't actually blame her or him.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted October 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Always take the action that allows you to blame your partner. (Or to put it another way, trust your partner to know what she/he is doing. And if things go awry, don't actually blame her or him.) This one seems to lead to why we don't have long term partner even those at the very top of bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSGibson Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Never stop thinking - except when you are getting late play penalties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Never stop thinking - except when you are getting late play penalties."I didn't come here to think, I came here to play bridge!" -- Overheard after a session at a local club 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Don't discuss the hands during the session. "Next board, please." Rik 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Leave bad boards behind, leave good boards behind too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Your best one bit of bridge advice that you would like to pass on?play! --- this one bit relates to the 10,000 hours: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/08/psychology-ten-thousand-hour-rule-complexity.html The point of Simon and Chase’s paper years ago was that cognitively complex activities take many years to master because they require that a very long list of situations and possibilities and scenarios be experienced and processed. There’s a reason the Beatles didn’t give us “The White Album” when they were teen-agers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 When in doubt, duck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamHenry Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 When in doubt, duck. ... except when declaring grand slams. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WellSpyder Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 ... except when declaring grand slams.If you have doubts about whether or not to duck when declaring a grand slam you may need some more basic advice (though I'm aware of the Mollo story where this is the only way to get out for 1 down rather than 2 down....) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Mine was from when I was a kid. Don't put your elbows on the dinner table or on the bridge table. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 ... except when declaring grand slams.I ducked a K lead in dummy in 7NT at trick 1 once. The squeeze worked and I managed to avoid an absolute bottom as I tied some people's 6NT-1. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 To keep your own game in order always treat your opponents bidding as if they know what they are doing except for the last red card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 On topic, to quote Dr Quest: "No heroics!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 All your opponents are stupid. Winning is just a matter of being a bit less stupid than they are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 All your opponents are stupid. Winning is just a matter of being a bit less stupid than they are.I wouldn't have seen you as someone who applies this advice particularly often judging by your "Clearly, LHO does not have the club Q as he would have played a spade back to take out the entry necessary for double squeeze early." posts :P 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Do not begin drinking until halfway through the session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMB1 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Never stop thinking - except when you are getting late play penalties.The advice to international teams is more like: Never stop thinking - even when you are getting late play penalties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endymion77 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 With 11 trumps, don't finesse the Queen 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Assume that your opponents are not geniuses, are not idiots, are not psyching. At times you may have to revise one or more of these opinions, but it's the place to start. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I wouldn't have seen you as someone who applies this advice particularly often judging by your "Clearly, LHO does not have the club Q as he would have played a spade back to take out the entry necessary for double squeeze early." posts :PYes, that's probably one of the many ways in which I'm more stupid than my opponents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 There is exactly one person in the room that wants you to do well. It is very easy to convert that person to the other side. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Never ask yourself: 'what should I do?' Instead, ask yourself: 'what's going on?' Once you have figured out what is or what probably is going on, the other question has usually been answered or, if not, is far easier to answer now than it was. This bit of advice incorporates a whole approach to the game, since you cannot figure out what is going on without remembering, and understanding, the bidding and without counting the hands during the play (and as one progresses, being able to draw primary, secondary and tertiary inferences from all of the above). I first heard of this advice when reading Hamman's book, written with, IIRC, Manley. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Never ask yourself: 'what should I do?' Instead, ask yourself: 'what's going on?' Once you have figured out what is or what probably is going on, the other question has usually been answered or, if not, is far easier to answer now than it was. This bit of advice incorporates a whole approach to the game, since you cannot figure out what is going on without remembering, and understanding, the bidding and without counting the hands during the play (and as one progresses, being able to draw primary, secondary and tertiary inferences from all of the above). I first heard of this advice when reading Hamman's book, written with, IIRC, Manley. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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