These pages contain all the 'featured hands' arising from Bridge @ Box Play & Learn sessions, dating from the very first meeting in Autumn 2009 to our last session in March 2020. There are around 375 articles in all.
Articles are grouped into the categories below — these categories are only a rough indication of the main interest point of each hand. The topics necessarily overlap, and in many case both the bidding and the play are discussed.
More recent HOTWs: Since July 2020, I've been publishing HOTWs on the Bath Bridge Club website – there's a link to these below.
Chris
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| Basic bidding |
The application of standard modern Acol, including transfers. Most of the hands are uninterrupted auctions not going beyond game.
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| Beyond basic bidding |
Again, mostly uninterrupted auctions, but often featuring a tricky bidding decision by one or both players.
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| Competing and sacrificing |
Hands which raise issues involved in competitive auctions – and which may end with one side making a sacrifice.
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| Using conventions |
These hands illustrate some useful conventions such as Ogust, Landy, 4th suit forcing and cue bids.
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| Looking for a slam |
A unrepresentatively large number of hands – but then slams aren't easy to bid and players like them!
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| Defence |
Opening leads, inferences from the auction, making (and noticing!) signals, etc.
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| Declarer play (in a suit) |
Lots of practice here in basic declarer play – see also many of the hands in other categories
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| Declarer play (in NT) |
Lots more practice in basic declarer play, this time in no trumps
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Click here for HOTWs ( July 2020 – ) on the Bath Bridge Club website
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