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52 - AUGUST 2024

52 - AUGUST 2024

Pre-empts

Bidding on weak hands is dangerous, isn’t it, particularly when your side is vulnerable? Yes, preempters do sometimes get caught for a big penalty, but rarely, and the upside of taking so much bidding space out of the auction can…

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Finesses, finesses

“I should have taken the Club finesse”, said declarer ruefully after going down in this 6 Spades.

WNES
1♠
Pass4NT(1)Pass5(2)
Pass6♠
(1) Roman Keycard Blackwood agreeing Spades.
(2) One or four of the five “Aces” (including the King of Spades).

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Andrew Robson

Andrew Robson OBE is England’s best known bridge player. Andrew has represented England for some 30 years. His many competitive successes include winning the World Youth Team Championships, the European Championships, and the Gold Cup on no fewer than eight occasions. Andrew has put his training as a schoolteacher to good use by heading hundreds of instructional seminars around the UK, many in aid of charity. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to bridge and charity. Later the same year he was the joint winner of Personality of the Year at the International Bridge Press Association's annual awards. In 2018 he was a winner of the English Bridge Union's Diamond Award, introduced to recognise players “in recognition of excellence and success over a sustained period for England's international teams”. In 1995, he founded the highly successful Andrew Robson Bridge Club. He writes for the Times, Country Life, Money Week, and The Oldie. He is the author of many books, instructional DVDs, and online videos.

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