DOREEN MacMILLAN

• Bridge Scene: So many different ways to earn masterpoints Published 05/01/2012 at 11:57 a.m.

  Duplicate bridge is a competitive game that requires players to be skillful in planning, communicating and playing. Partners need to trust one another, for without trust communications fail and the players are not successful.

• Bridge Scene: This dummy is no dummy! Published 04/17/2012 at 12:59 p.m.

  Playing bridge takes concentration, adaptability, reasoning, plus years of study, for each hand presents an opportunity to solve a problem or outwit the opponents. The declarer’s partner’s hand is open on the table and this hand and partner is referred ...

• Bridge Scene: There are laws for everything Published 04/04/2012 at 10:09 a.m.

  The first laws of contract and duplicate bridge were published in 1928 and over the years these laws have been revised to give more uniformity throughout the world. Bridge is played in every country and every country has its own ...

• Bridge Scene: Women, get ready for the online World Bridge Festival Published 03/21/2012 at 1:45 p.m.

  The fifth Women’s Online World Bridge Festival takes place on Bridge Base Online (BBO) the 16th of April until the 22nd. There will be four tournaments per day at 5 a.m, 10:10 a.m., 3 p.m. and 6:40 p.m. The morning ...

• Bridge Scene: Bols Bridge Tips still as useful today as back when they were written Published 03/13/2012 at 1:05 p.m.

  Between 1974 and 1994, Bols Royal Distillers, a Dutch company, sponsored a competition in which the world’s best bridge players submitted bridge tips to a panel of International Bridge Press Association members.

• Bridge Scene: Bridge clubs raising money for ACBL junior program and scholarships Published 02/28/2012 at 4:36 p.m.

  February was Junior Fund Month and bridge clubs charged an extra dollar per person to help the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) junior program finance tournaments, scholarships, pay teachers and buy supplies needed to teach bridge to children under 26 ...

• Bridge Scene: Partnerships must always remain instructive and peaceful Published 02/14/2012 at 5 p.m.

  It would be interesting to know if the average player playing with different partners of various degrees of skill can earn enough gold points to proceed to the life master status, or does the player need a mentor? If the ...

• Bridge Scene: There’s gold in them thar bridge games Published 02/01/2012 at 10 a.m.

  Duplicate bridge and contract bridge are both a competitive form of the card game bridge. But in duplicate bridge, when you belong to the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), this group keeps track of the players earned points and keeps ...

• Bridge Scene: So many probabilities and possibilities in bridge Published 12/21/2011 at 10:12 a.m.

  When playing bridge a declarer must evaluate the cards in his hand and in the dummy. He must consider the bidding; who bid what on his left or right and how many points did their bids show?

• Bridge Scene: Master bridge teachers coming to town Published 12/06/2011 at 5:26 p.m.

  Dennis Dawson, an excellent speaker and bridge teacher, is coming again this year to the Naples Bridge Center on Thursday, Dec. 29. Dawson is an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) grand life master and world bronze medalist, and as a ...

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