Bridge in Oz

This is a marginal slam as you need either the ♦ A or ♣Q onside, plus another good thing to happen. Clearly diamonds should be tested before clubs. The devil is in the details. Ruff your ♥ 5 at trick 2 and take AQJ of spades. Assume for the moment that spades split 3-2. Play a diamond to the King (d...

Yesterday I declared this interesting hand against the computer.

North
♠ AQJ7
♥ 3
♦ 10765
♣ AKJ2

South
♠ K1042
♥ AK5
♦ KQ2
♣ 985

You're South in 6♠ with no opposing bidding. West leads the ♥J. Plan the play.

By the way if all you want is a suit symbol (as in "West led the ♦K against 4♠"), you can copy-and-paste from one of these lines.

Thanks Derrick! Perhaps Ron should sign up here to defend himself.

Every once in a while I run across a published bridge deal analysis that seems to have an error. I'll start this topic with one from Ron Klinger's 25 April ABF Daily Bridge Column . Starting on page 2 it presents this deal: North K72,954,93,K9876 South AQ106,AKQ87,A8,A5 where you, South, are declari...

Looks like the ABF is well along the path to offering masterpoints and club games on BBO. Articles are here and here.

Interested players who do not already have a BBO account should sign up for one, and club managers can proceed to send in a form to "express interest".

The New South Wales Bridge Association has some info mostly focused on BBO.

The Victorian Bridge Association is using BBO and WhatsApp.

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Bridge in Oz has now been split off from its parent site which also hosted a sub-forum for expats. As you have doubtless noticed the new primary URL is "https://in-oz.com/bridge". Also there is now a "digests" feature that will email you a weekly summary of new postings in the forum since your last ...

That sounds reasonable, though if partner has no feature then I'll settle for 3D. It's hard to see where 11 tricks would come from.

Another evening with little to do, my phone's bridge game deals up this hand: A6,Q97,AQ1095,K32 Partner opens 2 ♦ , weak and natural. I bet you're thinking diamonds may be a good trump suit. Applying the Law of Total Tricks you might bid 5 of them. But what about 3NT instead? Would you just bid it? ...