H.E. Martz said, “He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination — and taxes.” At the ...

As I’ve often said before in this column, of the three pillars that make up the game of contract bridge – bidding, declarer play and defence – by far the hardest one to learn is declarer play. Bidding ...