Author Archives: Julian Foster

City and Canada Bay – Thursday Morning 10th July 2025. Board 23 last week had potential for some quite ugly results. Exactly what happens may well depend on how aggressive some of the North South players are in the bidding. … Continue reading →

City and Canada Bay – Thursday Morning 3rd July 2025. Board 7 last week normally ended up with East West playing in 3NT. But it was one of those difficult boards where it’s not clear which suit to play on … Continue reading →

City and Canada Bay – Thursday Morning 26th June 2025. Last week, we looked at board 20 and, by coincidence, I’ve picked the same board number this week. The contract was invariably played by East West so the focus is … Continue reading →

City and Canada Bay – Thursday Morning 19th June 2025. Last week, the City session was playing a GNOT qualifier (scored by imps) and the CBC session was playing regular pairs (scored by matchpoints). Because the two forms of scoring … Continue reading →

City and Canada Bay – Thursday Morning 12th June 2025. You frequently hear the term “it’s a bidders game” in bridge. Very often that’s true. You tend to gain more by bidding more – not only do you reach makeable … Continue reading →