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Marc Smith visits the knockout stage of Alt Mixed V Just four teams advanced to the knockout stage of Alt Mixed V. The round robin winners, ALPERTS (USA, Italy, Colombia) would start with a 10.1-IMP advantage over the other surviving American-flagged team, WILSON (USA, Sweden). In the other semi-final, SILLA (Norway) began 6.1 IMPs ahead…

Knowing how to ask the right questions and answer them is key to improving your chances on any bridge hand, be it as declarer or as defender. I’ll give you a hand along with a series of questions. First, try to answer them yourself, and then take a look at the answers.  At the end…

New bridge partnerships are born every day. People are from different walks of life, different backgrounds, and from different learning schools about bridge. This means that partnerships are seldom perfectly balanced. Are you playing with a less experienced partner, or are you the less experienced player? There’s no reason why this should have any effect…