Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I’ve been recommending bridge to people all over the world for a while now, and one of the first things I tell new players to do often is oppose their bridge partner during a few games. When a player is still learning the beginnings of the game or has been playing for decades, switching the…

We return to the first Alt Swiss IMP Teams-Pairs with four matches played in the 13-round Swiss event. A reminder of the format, which is effectively IMP Pairs, where results in head-to-head matches are compared to a datum result, calculated by dropping the top and bottom scores and averaging the remaining results on the board.…

It almost doesn’t matter what type of sport I’m talking about, there are always two ways to play it: On the attack, or on the defence. The same is true for football, 8-ball, cricket, and for bridge. One could substitute any other sport or mindsport, and I think that the sentence would still have some…