::MadeSix::
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Hello! How was exams? Not too bad I hope! Bridge players are supposed to be intellectual. To substantiate this claim, I was reading this article(by chance when I logged into BBO) about an Indian Bridge player debating with an Indian Chess player. Both are experts of course.
"Vishy came out with the revelation that being proficient in these mindsports generally improved the performance of the students in all subjects. This he said has been established in several researches."
"At this point Dhadi pointed out that Bridge was a part of the curriculum in Norway/st1:place> and Sweden where academic credits were awarded for learning Bridge."
After reading the second quote I got a sudden urge to go to Norway and Sweden universities :)
hongaik madesix at 8:52 PM
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
In times of exams, bridge has also it's application. Fred Gitelman, BBO author and one of Canada's top players once said at a tournament:
"Well, that was not the kind of first board that I had been hoping for... Being able to get over bad results quickly is important if you want to win at this game... We had alot of boards ahead of us and getting annoyed on the first board was not going to help us score well in the rest of the event... Hopefully things would improve."
They pushed their opponents to game and doubling them when their opponents could have played in a partscore. Anyway, true enough things got better and they won USA which was an all-time strong team.
Just change "board" to "paper", "we" to "I" and "event" to "exams"
=) Happy studying!
hongaik madesix at 8:34 PM
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
I was bored writing T3A. So...
Contract Bridge
X is a witty member of the VJC Contract Bridge Club. He has honed his bridge-psychological and falsecarding skills to an expert level. He made plenty of slams and grandslams which his foolish partner has placed him in through outwitting his opposing defenders and causing them to misdefend. Not only that, he is a sneaky defender and bidder too. His psyching bids has many a times resulted in opponents miscommunicating and missing what they should have bidded. On top of all, he has never gotten into trouble with the director. This shows how good his psyching skills are. Once, he even managed to fool a good declarer by falscarding his holding of Qxx. His quick-thinking skills will go a long way in aiding him in his future endeavours.
Okay. How's my T3A. I wonder if Mr Lee will approve...
hongaik madesix at 3:00 PM
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