When should you raise partner’s opening bid of 1♥️ or 1♠️ immediately to game? And when should you take a longer route?

What good is a once-in-a-lifetime trip without bridge?

Here’s a quiz about what I call specialty bids, drawn from Internet play.

Driving home last week’s issue of bidding carefully to a minor-suit contract, I give you this OK Bridge hand.

Let’s face it: the least desirable game contract is five of a minor.

Here’s a suggested summer read: Barbara’s Bridge Tips by Barbara Seagram (Master Point Press).

Consider the following hand, with South dealing and both sides vulnerable:

“Do we hafta learn yet another obscure bidding convention?” people ask. No, but knowledge is power, and some of these bidding tools can help you.