Aspects of Play I

Once your bidding improves a little, you get to the right contracts a lot of the time. Now learn to improve your play so that you bring home those contracts.

Tutor: Kathy Talbot

Level: Next Step+ to Intermediate

Outline
This course helps you understand leads, make a plan as declarer, make your honours work harder for you, make safety plays, know when to duck, when to take a finesse and, more importantly, when not to finesse.

1. Leads and plans
2. Declarer Play. This lesson will take a look at some more advanced techniques: losing to safe hands; endplays; hold-up
3. Length signals, other signals and more Ducking
4. Leading against NT contracts
5. Leading against suit contracts
6. Some card combinations & the concept of the “safe hand”
7. Counting
8. End Plays
9. Consolidation: Practice hands