Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

There are distinct differences between online games and face-to-face bridge games. We’re playing the same game (and with the same rules), but the nuances of online bridge has always made it stand out to me. Dealing with disability, I’ve come to avoid travel to clubs and tournaments. Someday, this might change. But it is what…

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.…