I am a big fan of splinter bids. They don’t occur often, but when they do, they help us bid good slams and avoid bad ones. This week, let’s look at them.

In the evaluation of a hand most players rely almost entirely on high card points whereas distribution often plays a bigger part in the trick taking value of the hand – the problem, however, is that ...

An Wang, a Chinese-American electronic engineer who died in 1990, said, “You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.” We ...

Another one of the “Fantastic Nine” bids to know and use is the Splinter Bid. A Splinter bid is one that can allow partnerships to bid a game or slam which otherwise could be missed. If you use this ...