Here’s a challenging situation for bridge affectionados - whether to play safe or be sorry. Alan Caplan outlines the difference in calculating match points when engaged in two different forms of bridge: playing in teams or in competition. He illustrates this with interesting hands.
More...Take a few minutes to enjoy A Bit of Humor, which will not only bring a smile or chuckle but strike a responsive chord in evoking similar such events in your own life. Jennia Ganit Chodorov shares some of these thoughts taken from Aaron Karo’s Ruminations.com
More...Shashi Ishai gives us a new angle to the Purim story. With the insight of an agony aunt, thoughts on intermarriage, a bit of history and written with lots of humor. This is an amusing, if far-fetched, tale.
More...What is a grandparent from the mouths of kids? Tips on looking younger, and some of the things learnt over the past fifty years are the subjects of the humoros quotes listed here.
More...An interesting article by our in–house, “non-expert” passionate bridge teacher Alan Caplan - How to play out a trump contract.
More...Alan Caplan discusses the accepted responses to an opening bid of 1 NT in Standard American and Israeli systems of the game. He refers to old and tested favorites like the Stayman, Jacoby and Smolen conventions.
More...Maurice Collins, consummate collector, winner of 2011 award as `Britain’s Best Collector’ describes the weird and wonderful gadgets that he has collected from inventors of bygone days.
More...Jennia Chodorov gives you several reasons to smile and even laugh. Here are pithy sayings, puns, amusing quotes to brighten your day.
More...Ilan Hirschowitz gives you communication lowdown/download in “Facebook for Grannies.” Everyone, grannies or grandads, know that the present and future generations of communication are based not on the written word but on Facebook, Twitter, iPad and a host of other goodies. ‘Wither the books?’
More...Jennia Chodorov quotes the sayings of famous people on youth, basically what a waste youth is on the young and how much wiser one becomes as one grows older. As Mark Twain said: “Life would be infinitely happier if we could be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18”. She also quotes the graduation speech of Conan O’Brien, at Harvard, 2000.
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