You are booking for the Intermediate/Advanced Declarer Play course. The course will start at 14:00 on Monday, 17th April and will run at the same time for 8 weeks, excluding 1st May and 29th May. This is an online course and it will be led by Tim Chanter. The cost is £145 and an outline of the syllabus is below.

This course, of eight sessions, is suitable for Intermediate players who wish to develop and consolidate their declarer play.  

Topics covered through the course

• The First Trick
• Suit Combinations and Odds
• Retaining a Finesse Position
• Retaining an Intra-finesse position
• Double Finesse positions (honours in same hands, split across the hands)
• Making use of Honour-x
• Counting Losers in a Trump Contract
• Pitches / Discards, Timing and Risk
• Establishing Pitches
• Reading the Opposition Cards from the auction
• Counting the Opposition points
• Watching the Opposition signalling
• The Show-up squeeze
• Opportunity v control in NT
• Communication between the hands
• Delaying drawing trumps
• Full Cross ruff
• Trump control
• When is it best to let the opposition lead a suit?
• The principle of an endplay
• The threat of ruff-and-discard in an endplay
• Discarding pressure on the opponents
• Squeeze terminology
• Successful conditions for a squeeze
• Executing a squeeze
• Planning and replanning a hand