Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Shortcuts everywhere (for better online bridge & browsing)
Keyboard shortcuts are time-savers. Taking the time to look around for an icon or setting, and then taking more time to move your mouse to it takes far more moments out of your bridge than you might think. As a writer and journalist used to writing against the clock, I’ve had the right shortcuts save…
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Great BBO Vugraph Deals #82
This week, we join another new event, the Alt Swiss IMP Teams-Pairs. This 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. The main difference is that each ‘pair’ consists of a team…
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Can you channel the emotion for better bridge?
Professional and amateur sports players all come to know the impact and value that emotions have on the game they play. The “pre-game motivational speech” exists for good reason, and it’s to get players into the best possible mindset. When players feel better, they play better. There are even theories on what hormonal release might…
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