One of my great pleasures in life is playing bridge and, increasingly, teaching it. I've now established regular intermediate classes for club members wishing to improve their skills and the most recent occurred yesterday.
For the cognoscenti among you, I spent three hours yesterday (Sunday) talking about two topics concerned with card play: end plays and safety plays. For the first time in such classes, I got my willing subjects to play some hands around those themes before diagnosing what ought to have happened if they were thinking rationally. I also covered general principles on those themes. I selected some exciting deals, including several slam contracts, which made the session especially enjoyable!
My students, ranging up to about 85 years of age, were very enthusiastic and, at the end, the club president (and many of the players) thanked me for giving the session in such profuse language that, for a moment, I thought I was dead.
AS
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