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The Stayman convention is one of the most widely used manners of bidding in bridge.  For thousands of bridge players, Stayman is the first convention they’ll learn to use – and sometimes, they’ll continue making use of it until the very end of their last bridge game.  Stayman happens to be one of the most appropriate…

Cheating isn’t a phenomenon that’s exclusive to bridge. Cheaters often seem to imagine that they might get away with cheating at other areas of life where they think they can find appropriate shortcuts; sometimes it’s extra-marital or inter-office, other times it happens at Scrabble. Here are 5 notable cheating stories from the news, Scrabble, Fortnite,…

When I’m not playing bridge online, I branch some of my interests out into spending some time on other games. Board, card and tabletop games, mind you; usually I don’t practice anything that involves running, physical exertion or being hit in the face by anything from a hockey puck through to a baseball. Among others, there’s chess,…