Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bridge Stats You Should Be Recording
Statistics are more than numbers, graphs, and something that usually indicates prosperity and disaster (or life and death) when you see it in the news. Stats can also be a useful addition to your bridge game – and it can help you to see essential things about how you play it. Using simple spreadsheet software,…
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Ways To Practice Bridge For Speed
Speed bridge is an underrated skill, which I believe more time can be devoted to (with at least a bit of irony). We all know about the game of speed chess. There are world records for how fast people can eat a certain amount of marshmallows. Scrabble can easily be played for speed. How often…
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BBO Prime bidders challenge: April Panel Comments
Conducted by Marc Smith Set 21-4 – March-April 2021 Welcome to the fourth BBO Prime Bidding Challenge. This month’s guest panelist is Kresten Sandager Kristensen (BBO; kesse) from Copenhagen, Denmark, the winner of Set 21-2. Kresten is 66 years old and has been playing for nearly 40 years. He says that he once played just…
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