Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

If there’s one thing that I have learned about board games and life that should be passed on to others, it would be that assumptions are a dangerous thing. When we assume things, we take a leap of faith into the depths of thinking that we’re smarter than the next person. An assumption is rarely…

Marc Smith visits the mini Alt Swiss Teams Last week, we saw the action from the early matches of the mini Alt Swiss Teams. After four of the twelve matches, the leaderboard looked like this: ZHAO  64.00 VPs MOSS  52.42 GUPTA   46.69 THE BOYS    49.49 AMATEURS   48.09 QUARANTEAM  47.37 RIPPEY  45.96 We return now for…

Breakfast and contract bridge are two topics that you might not see typed into search engines very often, but they are far more related than people would think. If you or your bridge partner have been lacking in ability at the table, consider the wild idea that what you had for breakfast could have something…