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Good Bridge players draw useful inferencs from all the calls in the auction including passes. See if you can come to some useful inferences in the following situation.

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A simple squeeze has some basic requirements. One of those is that there shouldn't be any trick to lose. If everyone holds 6 cards, you should need to make all those six tricks. If you need to make five tricks with six cards remaining, you need to lose a trick early, win whatever defenders return, and then go for the simple squeeze. If, for some reason, you cannot afford to lose a trick that way, you need to look for some other technical play instead of a simple squeeze.

I often play the Zenith Daylong Reward event on the BBO. It is a robot event with robots sitting in three axes while the human participant plays as South. There are 16 deals.  There is 1BB$ entry free that effectively keeps away many casual players.  Eighty percent (80%) of the collected entry fee is given away in prizes of BB$ so there is something to play for however small that reward may be. You also get some BBO points for finishing in the leaders' list.  It takes me about 30 minutes to finish the set in one go.

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With ♠️Q ♥️KT8 ♦️AJ82 ♣️KJ863, will you overcall if Right Hand Opponent opens a Standard American 1♣️?  Your only option, under current system policy, if you were to avoid a brown sticker convention, is to overcall 1♦️. 

We examine the WBF Systems policy in this video.

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This article links to a video that discusses two defences against a standard 1♣️ opening, based on the analysis presented in the third video of this series. I also discuss the bidding on Board 21 of HCL 2021 QF with each of these methods. It turns out that the bidding is a cinch.

The 1♣️ opening in Standard American is an opening of convenience. Hands that don't fit in other more well-defined openings are opened with 1♣️. The 1Nt opening takes care of Balanced or semi-balanced hands with 15-17 HCP; with 5+ cards in a Major suit, one opens 1♠️ 1♥️; and with length in Diamonds, one opens 1♦️. The 1♣️ opening covers all other 12-21 HCP hands. What does that mean for opponents?   

The batsman in the picture is Sachin Tendulkar. He is perhaps the all-time best batsman. The picture shows him being symbolically handcuffed while playing. What will be the result?

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