Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

While I don’t endorse the idea of insults flying about at the bridge table, I will readily admit that I have had the occasional laugh at many bridge-related pokes and stabs. Disappointed bridge partners and angry opponents are known to lash out. When they lose, usually, or when the game didn’t go the way they…

Let’s start this out with a thought from the mind-hat that I would say is true for most of the bridge players who will read this: We would all like more of our tricks to be ones that we’ve won. Am I right? We don’t play bridge because we’d like to be terrible at it! But…

Marc Smith visits the Semi-finals of the TampAlt The field for the last major Alt event of 2020, the TampAlt, began with 38 teams, but now just four remain. Although two of the surviving teams are all-European, all continents except Australasia and Antarctica are still represented. The winners of the Swiss, CLEMENT (Greece, Lebanon, Canada,…