Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Marc Smith visits the climax of the Swiss stage at the TampAlt Last week, we left the TampAlt at the midway point of the Swiss. The format was a 38-team, 10-match Swiss of 14-board matches, with the top eight teams advancing to the knockout stage at the end of the week. This week, we will…

Although I don’t remember what it was, I can recall the first time that I ever laughed at a bridge cartoon. It was sometime after I had spent months engrossed in every book, article, or video about bridge I could find. I had played a few hundred games of Just Declare, dipped into Bridge Master,…