High-level online bridge tournaments started almost as soon as lockdown began. It was going to take more than a worldwide pandemic to stop bridge players playing the game they love.
All the tournaments were good and attracted strong teams from all over the world, but the one that stood out for me was the World Bridge Tour, a very good mix of online and live, and organised magnificently by Norway’s Thomas Charlsen.
Keeping the dangerous hand out of play is not always possible, but we can sometimes make it too expensive for him to get in. The following very instructive hand cropped up in our live semi-final in Copenhagen, and was handled very nicely by my teammate David Bakhshi. West led the ♠4, David beating East’s Queen with his Ace.
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