<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278</id><updated>2012-01-27T05:54:43.071Z</updated><title type='text'>Clairebridge</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-5923840140261712205</id><published>2009-10-26T18:17:00.028Z</published><updated>2009-10-26T19:23:42.554Z</updated><title type='text'>Bob Crosby</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SuWY5yd7ZLI/AAAAAAAAFHg/S1cEsjKaKsM/s1600-h/CWTCGold_300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SuWY5yd7ZLI/AAAAAAAAFHg/S1cEsjKaKsM/s200/CWTCGold_300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Je suis une fan de &lt;a href="http://www.pitbulls.shawbiz.ca/Wall/bob.htm"&gt;Bob &lt;span id="goog_1256580646998"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1256580646999"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Crosby&lt;/a&gt;, photographié ici après la victoire de son équipe féminine du Canada en 2002. &amp;nbsp;Sur son &lt;a href="http://www.pitbulls.shawbiz.ca/"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;, il a mis à disposition &amp;nbsp;plus de 2000 articles, sous forme de notes brèves,&amp;nbsp;à l'intention de son équipe.Quand je cherche à dégager l'impression générale &amp;nbsp;ressentie après notre dernier week end de compétition en IMP, je pense à sa phrase sur l'importance d'être &lt;b&gt;discipliné&lt;/b&gt; en Match par Quatre.&lt;br /&gt;Si je fais le bilan des 70 donnes jouées, nous n'avons rencontré aucune convention. Ni &amp;nbsp;Roudi, ni Drury, ni DONT, ni Truscott. Rien, absolument rien, Stayman et Blackwood mis à part. Ce qui a été omniprésent, &amp;nbsp;ce sont les conventions d'entames, les compétitives, les évaluations de main et la discipline, notion intimement liée avec le respect du Partenaire. Quelques donnes parmi d'autres . Tous vulnérables, en première position, vous relevez la main suivante :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;x &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ax &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"&gt;ARDxxxxx &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;§&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Vx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;9 levées de jeu. On peut p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;ser ouvrir de 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;*&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;et redemander à 3SA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;ce qui montre une mineure affranchie avec des arrêts extérieurs. Mais le carreau est 8ème.... Après quelques hésitations, j'opte pour 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;*&amp;nbsp;et le plateau revient avec 3SA*&amp;nbsp;(= 2As) ! 11 levées de tête.... les enchères se poursuivent , 4&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;et 5&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;chez le Partenaire.5&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;semble traduire le message qu'il n'y a pas de levées annexes. Il me suffit pourtant de la D&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;dans un résidu Trèfle 3ème pour trouver la 12ème ou de la D&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;( où le chelem se joue au pire sur une impasse). Je lutte pour ne pas placer une de ces cartes chez le Partenaire et la mort dans l'âme , je passe. Le Mort était bien conforme à l'enchère. Il n'y avait pas plus de 11 levées, le Roi de Pique étant mal placé.Ouf ! Dans l'autre salle, une séquence qui ne passera pas à la postérité :1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;3&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;3SA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La main du Partenaire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt; :ª&lt;/span&gt;ADx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xxxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Vxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Ax&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Personne Vulnérable, le Partenaire ouvre d'1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;vous répondez 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;, il dit 2&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;/span&gt;... .Votre main:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;AVxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xx &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xxx &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RDx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Les Honneurs Trèfle revalorisent la main mais que dire ? 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;,*&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; risque de nous propulser à 3SA un peu trop poussé, 2SA sans arrêt Carreau n'est pas engageant et 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;ment sur les longueurs espérés. Je me résigne à dire 2&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;. Bien m'en a pris. les Coeurs étaient 5/0 et tout contrat plus élévé chutait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tous vulnérables, vous passez à l'ouverture avec &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;Axxxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Rxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Dx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;xx, la qualité médiocre des piques, et les petits Honneurs extérieurs vous dissuadant d'ouvrir d'un 2&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;faible.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Passe Passe Passe &amp;nbsp;1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 1 SA &amp;nbsp;Passe &amp;nbsp;Passe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il ne faut pas craquer. Oubliez le TPP. Ne pas ouvrir était une décision cohérente avec l' évaluation de la main. A présent, ne pas répéter les Piques dans cette situation , surtout après le SA adverse est une décision disciplinée obligée. Pour la petite histoire, le déclarant avait RDVX à Pique ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tous vulnérables, vous ouvrez cette main (Zar !?) d'1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;Vxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RDxxxx&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RVxxx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;2&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;2&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;4&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;4&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;5&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;x &amp;nbsp; -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;RD et RV sont des levées de défense et le Partenaire a des atouts bien plaçés. Cohérence avec la décision d'ouvrir, il faut passer et ne pas courir au palier de 5, sous prétexe que l'on a ouvert un peu faible. 5C*-3 et 5P chuté d'une dans l'autre salle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Zar nous a encore valu cette fois ci quelques manches amusantes:&amp;nbsp;3SA juste fait sur entame coeur avec&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;x &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;A10XX &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;V10xxx&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xx &amp;nbsp; face à &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Vxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Dx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RDxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Rx. Le Roi de Coeur et le Roi de Trèfle étaient bien plaçés.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SuWxIZ8nBAI/AAAAAAAAFHo/N1e3Ex51dYs/s1600-h/espoir.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SuWxIZ8nBAI/AAAAAAAAFHo/N1e3Ex51dYs/s320/espoir.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans une brocante, j'ai trouvé un lot ancien de Revues française de Bridge ce qui m'a permis de scanner &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/textes/jais.pdf"&gt;une interview de Pierre Jais&lt;/a&gt; et de tomber sur cet encart concernant notre&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/dovidiocollage.htm"&gt; future Championne du Monde,&lt;/a&gt;dans les nouvelles des Comités.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I am a great fan of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.pitbulls.shawbiz.ca/Wall/bob.htm"&gt;Bob Crosby&lt;/a&gt;, NPC of Canadian Women Champions 2002 (see the picture above). On his&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.pitbulls.shawbiz.ca/"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;, he has posted more than 2000 articles on various bidding subjects .His recommandation on being &amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;disciplined&lt;/b&gt; &amp;nbsp; as far as IMP is concerned &amp;nbsp;comes to my mind when I think of our latest competition, this past week end. .We played &amp;nbsp;more than 70 hands and did not come across any of the usual conventions. No ROUDI, NO DRURY, No Truscott, no DONT. Exception made for Stayman and Blackwood.&amp;nbsp;What prevailed was lead conventions , competitive auctions, hand evaluation and disciplined decisions. &amp;nbsp;Being disciplined &amp;nbsp;is just a way of &amp;nbsp;respecting &amp;nbsp;one's Partner.. .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Game all, in first position, vous pick up this hand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;x &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ax &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"&gt;ARDxxxxx &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;§&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Vx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;9 tricks. One could think of opening a strong&amp;nbsp;2&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;*&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;et bid a conventional 3SA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;but it does not show 8 tricks in diamond ...... Finally, I decided to open 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;* (Forcing to Game). Partner bid a conventional &amp;nbsp;3SA*&amp;nbsp;(= 2As) ! 11 tricks .... Bidding goes 4&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;then 5&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;from Partner. 5&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;seems to express the fact that there are no other trick &amp;nbsp;available, at any rate, no Kings. All the same, a D&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;with at least 3 clubs would bring me this extra trick needed for the slam or perhaps the D&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª; &lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;then the slam fate would depends on a finess&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;I &amp;nbsp;had to struggle very &amp;nbsp;hard not to place those miraculous &amp;nbsp;queens in partner'hand and reluctantly,I passed .The dummy was exactly what &amp;nbsp;the bidding had said :.and the King of Spade was on the wrong side. What a relief! In the other room, the bidding was 1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;3&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;3SA.(!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Partner's hand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;:ª&lt;/span&gt;ADx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xxxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Vxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Ax&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;All green, Partner opens d'1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;, I bid 1&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;, he rebid 2&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;/span&gt;... .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;My &amp;nbsp;hand: &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;AVxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xx &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xxx &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RDx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Clubs honours are of some values but what can I bid ? 2&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;,* forth suit forcing can lead quickly to 3SA (not quite the values for this) , 2SA is risky &amp;nbsp;without diamond stopper and 3&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;lies about the promised length . I finally bid &amp;nbsp;2&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;. It &amp;nbsp;was correct on this hand, hearts divided &amp;nbsp;5/0 and there was no other winning contract.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Game All, you judge that your hand with these&amp;nbsp;mediocre spades and honours outside your spade length&amp;nbsp;does not qualify for a weak two opening.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;Axxxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Rxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Dx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;xx,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Passe Passe Passe &amp;nbsp;1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 1 NT &amp;nbsp;Passe &amp;nbsp;Passe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now you must not change your mind .Forget about matchpoints! You judged not to open this hand .Now, &amp;nbsp;pass is a disciplined and must decision, For the record, LHO had &amp;nbsp;RDVX in spade ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Game all, you open this hand (Zar !?) d'1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;Vxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RDxxxx&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RVxxx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;2&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;2&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;4&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;4&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;5&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;x &amp;nbsp; -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;RD et RV are certain defence tricks et Partner's trumps are well placed.. Sticking to &amp;nbsp;your decision to open this hand, you must pass &amp;nbsp;and refrain from running to 5&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;just because your opening value are seemingly &amp;nbsp;below average &amp;nbsp;. 5&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;*-3 et 5&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;-1 in the other room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Zar evaluation led to 3NT just made on a lead of a small heart with these hands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;/span&gt;x &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;A10XX &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;V10xxx&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;xx &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;facing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;ª&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Vxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;©&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Dx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"&gt;¨&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;RDxxx&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Symbol;"&gt;§&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Rx. Both kings were well placed .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Recently, I bought a bunch of old copies of Revue française de bridge&amp;nbsp;. I was able to scan an interview of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/textes/jais.pdf"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Pierre Jai&lt;/a&gt;s&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and read about the young promising Catherine Saul,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/dovidiocollage.htm"&gt;&amp;nbsp;future Championne du Monde&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-5923840140261712205?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/5923840140261712205/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=5923840140261712205' title='50 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5923840140261712205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5923840140261712205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2009/10/bob-crosby.html' title='Bob Crosby'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SuWY5yd7ZLI/AAAAAAAAFHg/S1cEsjKaKsM/s72-c/CWTCGold_300.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>50</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-1184356953951734836</id><published>2009-09-18T10:38:00.011Z</published><updated>2010-08-27T14:31:26.326Z</updated><title type='text'>Gabriel Chagas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SrNjl2SMCKI/AAAAAAAAETo/CsWt5OYyHgE/s1600-h/zia003_chagas.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382755481515985058" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SrNjl2SMCKI/AAAAAAAAETo/CsWt5OYyHgE/s200/zia003_chagas.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 119px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 100px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grâce à la dernière Bermuda Bowl , aux albums de photos de &lt;a href="http://www.confsudbridge.org/fotos.aspx"&gt;Fernando Lema&lt;/a&gt; et peut être aussi au temps libre avant la reprise des cours, j'ai pu créer un &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/chagascollage.htm"&gt;Kaliedoscope de Gabriel Chagas&lt;/a&gt; et des albums de photos des &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/wbfgrandmasters2008"&gt;Grands Maîtres WBF 2008  open&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/wbfgrandmasters2008women"&gt;catégorie femmes&lt;/a&gt;. Je n'ai pu trouver aucune photo de la Grand Maître américaine Marylin Johnson ; merci à tout internaute qui pourrait combler le vide. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;J'ai une certaine fascination pour les photos et particulièrement les photos de bridge, toutes catégories. Dans la catégorie Concentration à la table, &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/concentration"&gt;cet album&lt;/a&gt; a eu près de 45 000 visiteurs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dans la catégorie insolite, j'aime bien cette photo des jumelles avec les cartes , un petit clin d'oeil à la jeune génération de bridgeurs français qui pointe, la fameuse relève tant attendue !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have added a page about &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/chagascollage.htm"&gt;Gabriel Chagas&lt;/a&gt; on Clairebridge, as well as two photos albums of &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/wbfgrandmasters2008"&gt;WBF grand Masters 2008, open category&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/wbfgrandmasters2008women"&gt;women category&lt;/a&gt;.I could not find a single photograph of  Grand Master WBF Marylin Johnson, USA.So , if anyone can help to fill the blank, thanks you.I appreciate &lt;a href="http://bobmackinnon.bridgeblogging.com/?p=243"&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; by Bob MacKinnon, this morning, about the chinese women in Sao paulo, most interesting views about light preempts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-1184356953951734836?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/1184356953951734836/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=1184356953951734836' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1184356953951734836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1184356953951734836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2009/09/gabriel-chagas.html' title='Gabriel Chagas'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SrNjl2SMCKI/AAAAAAAAETo/CsWt5OYyHgE/s72-c/zia003_chagas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-1616015990988255030</id><published>2009-09-10T11:37:00.026Z</published><updated>2009-09-14T16:55:39.577Z</updated><title type='text'>Bravo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="justify"&gt;Elles n'iront pas en Finale. Bravo à toutes pour la qualité et l'intensité des matchs. Bravo à l'équipe de France féminine pour la médaille de bronze. C'est une chance extraordinaire de pouvoir regarder les matchs sur BBO. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="justify"&gt;Dans ce &lt;a href="http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?linurl=http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/vugraph_linfetch.php?id=11127"&gt;terrible 5ème set de la demie finale contre les chinoises&lt;/a&gt;, cette donne m'a frappée.&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Sq51NGiSdjI/AAAAAAAAERs/Ww28xpdIGlo/s1600-h/donne92.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381367472707499570" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 123px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Sq51NGiSdjI/AAAAAAAAERs/Ww28xpdIGlo/s200/donne92.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqpY7_oCkvI/AAAAAAAAEQQ/vUTqORMHvck/s1600-h/donnewillard.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Elle illustre la prise de risque nécessaire dans le bridge compétitif aujourd'hui. Après une ouverture en 3ème d'1 P en Sud, &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/willardcollage.htm"&gt;Sylvie Willard &lt;/a&gt;en Ouest, rouge contre vert, n'hésite pas une seconde à dire 3T= bicolore rouge.Cette enchère peu académique a le mérite d'annoncer la distribution , au détriment de la qualité de la couleur, mais aucune intervention n'est totalement satisfaisante avec cette main. Les françaises jouent 4C contre 2T X en Nord dans l'autre salle, un coup de +8 IMP pour la France.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Cela me rappelle cette main commentée par &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/levycollage.htm"&gt;Alain Lévy &lt;/a&gt;dans le Bridgeur de mars 2008.Tous vulnérables, que dites vous en EST en IMP avec la main ci dessous ? Entre plusieurs maux, il faut préférer celui qui annonce la distribution , soit un cue bid à 2K pour montrer un bicolore noir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380218473844493410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 197px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqpgMkN-zGI/AAAAAAAAEQo/jdbJzC4mlz0/s200/donnelevy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am thrilled to be able to watch &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/karenmacallum.htm"&gt;Karen Mac Callum &lt;/a&gt;in the Venice Cup Finals. I love her style and her bridge philosophy. Hope the best will win !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-1616015990988255030?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/1616015990988255030/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=1616015990988255030' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1616015990988255030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1616015990988255030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2009/09/elles-niront-pas-en-finale.html' title='Bravo'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Sq51NGiSdjI/AAAAAAAAERs/Ww28xpdIGlo/s72-c/donne92.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-7861669176337754443</id><published>2009-09-07T08:05:00.010Z</published><updated>2009-09-07T08:55:16.614Z</updated><title type='text'>Allez les Bleus !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqTFxyKst0I/AAAAAAAAEOY/Z8jBnyU2_Eg/s1600-h/donne7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378641314058123074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 263px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqTFxyKst0I/AAAAAAAAEOY/Z8jBnyU2_Eg/s320/donne7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me voici de retour après une longue pause.&lt;br /&gt;La&lt;a href="http://www.bridgebase.com/"&gt; nouvelle interface &lt;/a&gt;de BBO est magique. Elle permet de se connecter directement sur internet sans passer par un téléchargement . Fred Gitelman en explique les nouvelles possibilités&lt;a href="http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=30789"&gt; ici &lt;/a&gt;. Je suis scotchée devant l'écran . Les Françaises sont en quart de finale contre les &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/saopaulo.htm"&gt;Italiennes.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/croniercollage.htm"&gt;Bénédicte Cronier &lt;/a&gt;et &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/willardcollage.htm"&gt;Sylvie Willard &lt;/a&gt;sont en tête du Butler, Chapeau les filles ! Le &lt;a href="http://www.worldbridge.org/bulletin/09_2%20SaoPaulo/pdf/Bul_09.pdf"&gt;Bulletin&lt;/a&gt; de ce matin commente La donne 7 du &lt;a href="http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?linurl=http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/vugraph_linfetch.php?id=11066"&gt;premier quart de finale &lt;/a&gt;. Un beau chelem, malheureusement chuté sur entame Carreau. Une sorte de Mort inversé, 5 levées de tête, 3 coupes Carreau, une coupe trèfle et 3 Atouts de la main courte. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Les &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;Bloggers&lt;/a&gt; sont des sources inépuisables de donnes commentées. Vive Internet qui permet de suivre ce championnat !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello, here I am, after a long break.  I spend long hours watching &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/saopaulo.htm"&gt;Sao paulo &lt;/a&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.bridgebase.com/"&gt;BBO&lt;/a&gt; (time consuming but how wonderful) and reading championships comments on &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;Bridge blogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-7861669176337754443?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/7861669176337754443/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=7861669176337754443' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/7861669176337754443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/7861669176337754443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2009/09/allez-les-bleus.html' title='Allez les Bleus !'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqTFxyKst0I/AAAAAAAAEOY/Z8jBnyU2_Eg/s72-c/donne7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-6981940902967480893</id><published>2008-02-25T14:39:00.008Z</published><updated>2008-02-25T19:17:01.680Z</updated><title type='text'>Top 50 WBF</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R8LW9mzqqkI/AAAAAAAAAlw/7xFKtGHKFHU/s1600-h/sabine_auken.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170931676052367938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R8LW9mzqqkI/AAAAAAAAAlw/7xFKtGHKFHU/s320/sabine_auken.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R8LWoGzqqjI/AAAAAAAAAlo/mIHN1pl1m2M/s1600-h/fantoni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170931306685180466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R8LWoGzqqjI/AAAAAAAAAlo/mIHN1pl1m2M/s320/fantoni.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I have been very busy lately teaching bridge and working on the course management system created with &lt;a href="http://moodle.org/"&gt;Moodle &lt;/a&gt;; I had hardly time to write on this blog. But this week is holiday's time . WBF &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/top50men"&gt;open Top 50 &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/toptenwomen"&gt;Women's Top 50 &lt;/a&gt;for 2007 has just been published . &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/fantonicollage.htm"&gt;Fulvio Fantoni &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/aukencollage.htm"&gt;Sabine Auken&lt;/a&gt; are both number one . French players are not doing so well . Franck Multon, first french player is 39th. &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/chemlacollage.htm"&gt;Paul Chemla &lt;/a&gt;46 th, Hervé Mouiel (60th) &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/levycollage.htm"&gt;Alain Lévy &lt;/a&gt;(61st) &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/bessiscollage.htm"&gt;Michel Be&lt;/a&gt;ssis ( 74th), &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/bessiscollage.htm"&gt;Thomas Bessis &lt;/a&gt;( 80th) et Pierre Zimmerman ( 86th). &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/dovidiocollage.htm"&gt;Catherine d'Ovidio &lt;/a&gt;est 5th. There are 24 players all together from USA and Italy in the Top 50; no wonder, Bridge sponsoring works well in those countries .There isn' a single day when I do not take time to read some bridge &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;blogs&lt;/a&gt;. A nice way of sharing things and thoughts with bridge lovers. I like best &lt;a href="http://www.stacyjacobs.com/"&gt;Stacy Jacobs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://moot.typepad.com/minnesota_bridge/"&gt;Peggy Kaplan &lt;/a&gt;and&lt;a href="http://www.bridgeblogging.com/"&gt;Linda Lee&lt;/a&gt;. 's . Sometimes I read some theory by &lt;a href="http://viewsfromthebridgetable.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulf Nilsson&lt;/a&gt; or some matches stories by the young canadian couple &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Korbel&lt;/a&gt;' or by &lt;a href="http://jennbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jennifer Jones &lt;/a&gt;'s. I came across nice posts like the new one on &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/concentration"&gt;Barry Crane &lt;/a&gt;for my page, or bridge picts for my &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/concentration"&gt;album&lt;/a&gt; or interesting articles of all sorts like bridge for kids or junior. I have added two new kaliedoscopes, one on Claudio Nunes and one on Hamman. I am working on a bridge project to start specific clairebridge's matches and practices on BBO but not just for the time being....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'enseignement m'a quelque peu éloigné de ce Blog; la maintenance du site de cours en ligne pour les étudiants grâce au logiciel &lt;a href="http://docs.moodle.org/fr/Accueil"&gt;Moodle&lt;/a&gt; est consommatrice de temps.&lt;br /&gt;Aujourd'hui, ce sont les vacances. &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/toptenbridge.htm"&gt;Le To 50&lt;/a&gt; des meilleurs joueurs au classement mondial 2007 est sorti et j'ai mis à jour les photos pour les &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/top50men"&gt;hommes&lt;/a&gt; et pour les &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/toptenwomen"&gt;femmes &lt;/a&gt;. C'est &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/fantonicollage.htm"&gt;Fulvio Fantoni &lt;/a&gt;qui est classé premier joueur mondial et &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/aukencollage.htm"&gt;Sabine Auken&lt;/a&gt;, premieuse joueuse.&lt;br /&gt;Les Français ont reculé dans ce classement.Franck Multon, premier français , est 39ème. &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/chemlacollage.htm"&gt;Paul Chemla &lt;/a&gt;46 ème, Hervé Mouiel (60ème) &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/levycollage.htm"&gt;Alain Lévy &lt;/a&gt;(61ème) &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/bessiscollage.htm"&gt;Michel Be&lt;/a&gt;ssis ( 74ème), &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/bessiscollage.htm"&gt;Thomas Bessis &lt;/a&gt;( 80ème) et Pierre Zimmerman ( 86ème). &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/dovidiocollage.htm"&gt;Catherine d'Ovidio &lt;/a&gt;est 5ème&lt;br /&gt;Les nations les plus représentées sont celles ou le sponsoring fonctionne le mieux ( USA 18, Italie, 6).&lt;br /&gt;Il ne se passe pas un jour sans que je fasse un tour sur les &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;blogs&lt;/a&gt; de bridge. Un moment de partage avec ce que nous aimons. Celui de &lt;a href="http://www.stacyjacobs.com/"&gt;Stacy Jacobs&lt;/a&gt;, de &lt;a href="http://moot.typepad.com/minnesota_bridge/"&gt;Peggy Kaplan &lt;/a&gt;et de &lt;a href="http://www.bridgeblogging.com/"&gt;Linda Lee&lt;/a&gt;. Parfois un peu de théorie avec &lt;a href="http://viewsfromthebridgetable.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulf Nilsson&lt;/a&gt; ou bien quelques lectures de donnes avec le jeune couple canadien &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Korbel&lt;/a&gt; ou &lt;a href="http://jennbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jennifer Jones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Au hasard de ces lectures, je fait des trouvailles.Un article sur &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/concentration"&gt;Barry Crane &lt;/a&gt;pour compléter ma page, des photos pour mon &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/concentration"&gt;album&lt;/a&gt; ou des articles intéressants sur le bridge scolaire et junior.&lt;br /&gt;J'ai ajouté deux nouveaux collages, l'un sur Claudio Nunes et l'autre sur Bob Hamman. Je réfléchis à un projet de Match spécifiquement réservé aux lecteurs de clairebridge sur BBO mais il faudra attendre un peu&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-6981940902967480893?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/6981940902967480893/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=6981940902967480893' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/6981940902967480893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/6981940902967480893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-50-wbf.html' title='Top 50 WBF'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R8LW9mzqqkI/AAAAAAAAAlw/7xFKtGHKFHU/s72-c/sabine_auken.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-6715477382760904573</id><published>2007-12-11T07:00:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-12-12T17:07:02.087Z</updated><title type='text'>San Francisco NABC</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R2ARmCduG0I/AAAAAAAAAlI/Vh9qzvn3OX8/s1600-h/1973_soloway_paul.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143130119651334978" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R2ARmCduG0I/AAAAAAAAAlI/Vh9qzvn3OX8/s320/1973_soloway_paul.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I always look forward to read about NABC tournaments. San Francisco NABC Fall 2007 is just over .&lt;a href="http://www.acbl.org/play/recent-results.php"&gt;The Daily Bulletins &lt;/a&gt;are full of interestings articles, hands and stories about bridge players. Thanks to the Bulletin, I got enough material to publish a page about &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/soloway.htm"&gt;Paul Soloway &lt;/a&gt;. A few days after the Tournament, Jonathan Steinberg let us share &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/jon911/sanfrancisconabcbridgeplayers"&gt;his photographs of this bridge scene &lt;/a&gt;and I like his  albums. If you are interested, you can find some fine bridge hands from this event on &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Daniel and Susie Korbel' Blog &lt;/a&gt;, or&lt;a href="http://www.noozit.com/author/chip"&gt; here &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acbl.org/play/recent-results.php"&gt;Les Bulletins quotidiens &lt;/a&gt;des Tournois NABC, tel que celui qui vient de se terminer à San Francisco sont des sources intéressantes d'articles , de donnes et de récits sur le monde du bridge. Grâce à ces Bulletins , j'ai pu réunir assez d'informations pour publier une page sur &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/soloway.htm"&gt;Paul Soloway &lt;/a&gt;, photographié ici en 1973. Quelques jours après , c'est avec une certaine  impatience que j'attend la &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/jon911/sanfrancisconabcbridgeplayers"&gt;publication des photos de ces tournois &lt;/a&gt;par Jonathan Steinberg et les récits de donnes intéressantes.les Blogs come celui de &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Susie et Daniel Korbel &lt;/a&gt;en publient beaucoup ou encore celui ci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-6715477382760904573?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/6715477382760904573/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=6715477382760904573' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/6715477382760904573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/6715477382760904573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/12/san-francisco-nabc.html' title='San Francisco NABC'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/R2ARmCduG0I/AAAAAAAAAlI/Vh9qzvn3OX8/s72-c/1973_soloway_paul.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-5579779883249036151</id><published>2007-11-08T19:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-11-08T20:13:28.461Z</updated><title type='text'>Edgar Kaplan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RzNtiS4S09I/AAAAAAAAAko/vTQ1JKOno-w/s1600-h/edgar_kaplan78.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130564836456059858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RzNtiS4S09I/AAAAAAAAAko/vTQ1JKOno-w/s320/edgar_kaplan78.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;8 th November&lt;br /&gt;With my subcription , the Bridge World send me a book about Edgar Kaplan"Bridge Master : The Best of Edgar Kaplan .I very much liked the chapter National Champioships and the way Kaplan analysed pairs performances during international tournaments. I read lots of things about him recently and this is why I created a page on &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/kaplancollage.htm"&gt;Edgar Kaplan on the site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Updating the site takes more and more time. I spend hours, fascinating ones, collecting informations. Today, I opened a new section on the conventions page on the&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/conventions.htm#DEUXT"&gt; 2 Club Opening&lt;/a&gt;, Strong or ambiguous opening and there are already some interesting articles in this section.&lt;br /&gt;Avec un nouvel abonnement, le journal Bridge World m'a envoyé un livre sur &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/kaplancollage.htm"&gt;Edgar Kaplan &lt;/a&gt;« Bridge Master : The Best of Edgar Kaplan»Le chapitre sur sa façon de commenter les tournois internationaux et en particulier la performance de chacun est particulièrement intéressant.J'ai fait quelques recherches sur lui d'où une page qui lui est consacrée sur le site.La mise à jour du site prend de plus en plus de temps.d'un lien à un autre, je ne vois pas le temps passer et parfois, je trouve des choses passionnantes, bien loin de mon lien initial. C'est ainsi que j'ai ouvert et alimenté une nouvelle rubrique sur la page conventions concernant l'ouverture de&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/conventions.htm#DEUXT"&gt; 2T f&lt;/a&gt;ort ou ambivalent et j'ai même trouvé une photo de son fondateur.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-5579779883249036151?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/5579779883249036151/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=5579779883249036151' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5579779883249036151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5579779883249036151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/11/edgar-kaplan.html' title='Edgar Kaplan'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RzNtiS4S09I/AAAAAAAAAko/vTQ1JKOno-w/s72-c/edgar_kaplan78.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-4716438269236368019</id><published>2007-10-17T16:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-10-18T05:40:24.097Z</updated><title type='text'>Shangai, it's over ...Shangai ... c'est fini</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RxbxqS-W8ZI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/kIYKDynxlkQ/s1600-h/bessis_brogeland.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122547335130706322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RxbxqS-W8ZI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/kIYKDynxlkQ/s320/bessis_brogeland.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;S&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/schangai.htm"&gt;hanghai &lt;/a&gt;.... it’s all over but still alive for a while due to the intensity of some of the matches watched on BBO, the happy smiles on winners faces, &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.de/nikolas.bausback/Shanghai2007"&gt;the daily photos&lt;/a&gt;, the blogs and all those hours spent connected, sometimes struggling against sleep , always fascinated and always wanting more . How not to feel grateful for being able to use this fantastic free bridge media! This is why the &lt;a href="http://stacyjacobs.com/2007/10/15/bbo-commentary-reprise/"&gt;commentaries related by Stacy Jacobs&lt;/a&gt;, while watching a match between USA1 ans South Africa, are completlly to be banned …. Bridge, just Bridge , no gossip or private jokes imitating the worst of some TV Shows. Irina Lévintina s‘ victory, as &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/toutsurlebridge.htm#CHESS"&gt;Bridge and Chess &lt;/a&gt;champion reminded me once more of the links between the two games. &lt;a href="http://www.worldbridge.org/bulletin/07_2%20Shanghai/pdf/bul_02.pdf"&gt;Writing about Tim Seres&lt;/a&gt;, in the Daily Shaghai bulletin, Cathy Chua says « "It was watching &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/textes/tim_seres.pdf"&gt;Tim Seres &lt;/a&gt;that I realized bridge is exactly like chess. The great player gets to do the right thing in the endgame because he has routinely done the right thing at the start, but often the two are not directly connected: It is a matter of principle to place your pieces on the best square .... Shanghai , it’s also the news about the publications of the &lt;a href="http://www.ecatsbridge.com/documents/files/2007%20Laws/2007%20Laws%20Complete.pdf"&gt;new bridge Laws 2007&lt;/a&gt; and the texts are on Ecats...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/schangai.htm"&gt;Shanghai &lt;/a&gt;.... c’est fini mais c’est encore vivant quelques temps, grâce à l’intensité des rencontres suivies sur BBO, au souvenir des sourires heureux des vainqueurs, &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.de/nikolas.bausback/Shanghai2007"&gt;aux photos &lt;/a&gt;, aux blogs , et aux heures passées à regarder les matchs, parfois un peu ensommeillée , émerveillée et jamais lassée . Comment ne pas être reconnaissant de disposer ainsi gratuitement d’un media aussi fantastique et de surplus gratuit ! C’est la raison pour laquelle &lt;a href="http://stacyjacobs.com/2007/10/15/bbo-commentary-reprise/"&gt;les commentaires complètement à côté de la plaque &lt;/a&gt;tels que les relate Stacy Jacobs, lors d’une retransmission d’un match USA1 South Africa sont à bannir définitivement…..&lt;br /&gt;La victoire d’Irini Lévintina , double championne &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/toutsurlebridge.htm#CHESS"&gt;Bridge et Echecs &lt;/a&gt;m’a permis de creuser un peu plus encore les similitudes entre ces deux jeux . Dans &lt;a href="http://www.worldbridge.org/bulletin/07_2%20Shanghai/pdf/bul_02.pdf"&gt;son article sur Tim Seres&lt;/a&gt;, joueur Australien Cathy Chua décrit ainsi le comportement de l’expert au Bridge. « "It was watching &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/textes/tim_seres.pdf"&gt;Tim Seres &lt;/a&gt;that I realized bridge is exactly like chess. The great player gets to do the right thing in the endgame because he has routinely done the right thing at the start, but often the two are not directly connected: It is a matter of principle to place your pieces on the best square ....&lt;br /&gt;Shanghai c’est aussi l’aboutissement des changements dans &lt;a href="http://www.ecatsbridge.com/documents/files/2007%20Laws/2007%20Laws%20Complete.pdf"&gt;le code de bridge&lt;/a&gt;, et les textes sont Ecats... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-4716438269236368019?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/4716438269236368019/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=4716438269236368019' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4716438269236368019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4716438269236368019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/10/shangai-its-over-shangai-cest-fini.html' title='Shangai, it&apos;s over ...Shangai ... c&apos;est fini'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RxbxqS-W8ZI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/kIYKDynxlkQ/s72-c/bessis_brogeland.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-3543570772964088239</id><published>2007-09-27T17:28:00.001Z</published><updated>2007-09-27T20:28:42.250Z</updated><title type='text'>Shanghai</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RvvoYy-W8SI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/BiXsatUsdhI/s1600-h/shnaghai.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114937314507157794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RvvoYy-W8SI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/BiXsatUsdhI/s320/shnaghai.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See my &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/schangai.htm"&gt;page &lt;/a&gt;about The World Team Championships in Shanghai starting on Saturday. I look forward to watching matches on BBO and read &lt;a href="http://www.bridgeblogging.com/"&gt;Linda Lee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://stacyjacobs.com/"&gt;Stacy Jacobs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Daniel Korkel &lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ecatsbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anna Gudge &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://worldbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;David Stern &lt;/a&gt;Blog, all ready to share their Shanghai experiences with us..Don't miss reading "Bridge, Culture, Science and Sport", &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/toutsurlebridge.htm#THESE"&gt;Miguel Mestanza thesis &lt;/a&gt;based on his conviction that it was important to bring to the knowledge of the University, a source of didactic possibilities, the unknown world of culture and science attached to the game of Bridge. My  two Bridge course starts next week; more about it on &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/pedagogiplm.htm"&gt;this p&lt;/a&gt;age.&lt;br /&gt;J'ai créé une &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/schangai.htm"&gt;page &lt;/a&gt;consacrée aux Championnats du Monde qui débutent samedi prochain à Shanghai.Je me réjouis de pouvoir suivre les matchs sur BBO et de m'imprégner de l'atmosphère de ces Championnats en lisant les Blogs de &lt;a href="http://www.bridgeblogging.com/"&gt;Linda Lee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://stacyjacobs.com/"&gt;Stacy Jacobs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Daniel Korkel &lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ecatsbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anna Gudge &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://worldbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;David Stern &lt;/a&gt;, prêts à nous faire partager leurs expérience.Le résumé de la Thèse"Bridge, Culture, Science and Sport",par  &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/toutsurlebridge.htm#THESE"&gt;Miguel Mestanza thesis &lt;/a&gt;m'a beaucoup intéressé. La thèse revèle les bases culturelles et scientifique sur lesquelles s'appuient le Bridge et les ressources didactiques importantes qui en découlent. Mes deux cours de Bridge commencent la semaine prochaine; plus de détails sur &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/pedagogiplm.htm"&gt;cette p&lt;/a&gt;age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/toutsurlebridge.htm#THESE"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-3543570772964088239?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/3543570772964088239/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=3543570772964088239' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/3543570772964088239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/3543570772964088239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/09/shanghai.html' title='Shanghai'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RvvoYy-W8SI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/BiXsatUsdhI/s72-c/shnaghai.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-9050402311681831709</id><published>2007-08-31T17:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-08-31T18:00:21.272Z</updated><title type='text'>Practice on line - S'entrainer en ligne</title><content type='html'>Practising with your partner on line with GIB as opponents can be great fun and very efficient thanks to BBO. For those who would like to give it a try, I opened a new section «  training on line   &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/biddingpractise.htm#ENLIGNE"&gt;on Clairebridge 's bidding with your partner 's page&lt;/a&gt;. Hope you find it helpful.&lt;br /&gt;S'entrainer en ligne avec son partenaire en louant des Robots ( GIB) est devenu possible grâce à BBO. C'est aussi amusant qu'efficace et j'ai ai consacré une &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/biddingpractise.htm#ENLIGNE"&gt;nouvelle section sur Clairebridge &lt;/a&gt;en espérant qu'elle pourra ête utile à tous ceux qui veulent se lancer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-9050402311681831709?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/9050402311681831709/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=9050402311681831709' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/9050402311681831709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/9050402311681831709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/08/practice-on-line-sentrainer-en-ligne.html' title='Practice on line - S&apos;entrainer en ligne'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-4949683998108696774</id><published>2007-08-15T17:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-08-15T18:23:38.183Z</updated><title type='text'>Beat The champions</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RsM6-4BaXDI/AAAAAAAAACs/7EjrYvgiVFg/s1600-h/logoplaybridge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098984054978141234" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="89" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RsM6-4BaXDI/AAAAAAAAACs/7EjrYvgiVFg/s320/logoplaybridge.jpg" width="246" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.playbridgeuk.com/btc/btc_shop.asp"&gt;Beat the Champions&lt;/a&gt;, le premier des Jeux fléchés à thème lançé par &lt;a href="http://www.playbridgeuk.com/"&gt;PlaybridgeUK&lt;/a&gt;.Un jeu de 24 donnes commentées extrait des olympiades de 1968 . Il s'agit de pratiquer le Bridge en Duplicate d'une nouvelle façon, chez soi avec ses amis tout en bénéficiant d'une comparaison des scores en ligne; un concept intéressant à suivre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Petite modification de la page d'accueil de Clairebridge avec accès direct au &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/kaliedoscopes.htm"&gt;Bridge en photos &lt;/a&gt;et à la rétrospective en image des vainqueurs de la &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/springgold"&gt;Spingold &lt;/a&gt;depuis 1934.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.playbridgeuk.com/btc/btc_shop.asp"&gt;Beat the Champions&lt;/a&gt; is a 24 pre-set games from the 1968 World Bridge Olympiad using the iDeal Cards system invented and manufactured by PlayBridge UK . It introduces a very interesting concept of "Kitchen Duplicate" which bring any bridge player the opportunity to play 24 pre-set games, anywhere, anytime against any players of your choosing. As &lt;a href="http://www.playbridgeuk.com/"&gt;PlaybridgeUK&lt;/a&gt; advertise "Whilst you will be playing and scoring as a single table, the whole world becomes open to you once you have submitted your scores to the ingenuity of our website scoring system. Once your scores are accepted, then we will send you a full analysis of the hands that you have played and a professional commentary from Mark Horton (Editor of Bridge Magazine)."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A single click on Clairebridge's first page gives direct acess to &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/kaliedoscopes.htm"&gt;Bridge en photos &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/springgold"&gt;Spingold &lt;/a&gt;winners Photo gallery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-4949683998108696774?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/4949683998108696774/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=4949683998108696774' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4949683998108696774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4949683998108696774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/08/beat-champions.html' title='Beat The champions'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RsM6-4BaXDI/AAAAAAAAACs/7EjrYvgiVFg/s72-c/logoplaybridge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-1767677027042216420</id><published>2007-07-08T15:47:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-07-08T16:06:21.378Z</updated><title type='text'>Vacances ..... Time Out</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RpELMsRF_kI/AAAAAAAAACk/zZhs-8uVqCk/s1600-h/deauville.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084857766947192386" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RpELMsRF_kI/AAAAAAAAACk/zZhs-8uVqCk/s320/deauville.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Found out yesterday a nice &lt;a href="http://jibe-bridge.perso.cegetel.net/Fichiers_HTM/CalculParFr.htm"&gt;hand analyser &lt;/a&gt;freeware by Joel Bradmetz . See  &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/utilitaires.htm"&gt;Utilities&lt;/a&gt; page on Clairebridge, it has been brushed up and completed. I am leaving Paris for holidays... will be in Deauville in July for the &lt;a href="http://www.deauville-bridge.com/"&gt;International bridge festival&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Découvert un &lt;a href="http://jibe-bridge.perso.cegetel.net/Fichiers_HTM/CalculParFr.htm"&gt;petit utilitaire pour calculer le Par d'une donne&lt;/a&gt; par Joel Bradmetz . J'ai mis à jour et complété la page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/utilitaires.htm"&gt;Utilitaires&lt;/a&gt; sur Clairebridge. Je pars en vacances quelques temps et serai au Festival International de &lt;a href="http://www.deauville-bridge.com/"&gt;Deauville en juillet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-1767677027042216420?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/1767677027042216420/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=1767677027042216420' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1767677027042216420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1767677027042216420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/07/vacances-time-out.html' title='Vacances ..... Time Out'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RpELMsRF_kI/AAAAAAAAACk/zZhs-8uVqCk/s72-c/deauville.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-4255820455445816970</id><published>2007-06-28T11:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-28T12:08:56.904Z</updated><title type='text'>Bravo ! Congratulations ! Thomas et Michel Bessis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RoOi1w_20gI/AAAAAAAAACc/jsg7qCgTTrE/s1600-h/bessis_open.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081083849173553666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RoOi1w_20gI/AAAAAAAAACc/jsg7qCgTTrE/s320/bessis_open.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nice picture,  happy faces, long live bridge  !  Congratulations to &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/bessiscollage.htm"&gt;Bessis&lt;/a&gt;, Father and Son and their teammates for this splendid victory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Discoved recently an interesting &lt;a href="http://www.bobbybridge.com/systems/systems.htm"&gt;system page &lt;/a&gt;on Bobby Knows Bridge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;La photo du bonheur et on les comprend !  Vive le Bridge et bravo à Michel &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/bessiscollage.htm"&gt;Bessis&lt;/a&gt; , Thomas &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/bessiscollage.htm"&gt;Bessis&lt;/a&gt; et leur coéquipier pour cette superbe victoire!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;J'ai découvert une page intéressante sur les &lt;a href="http://www.bobbybridge.com/systems/systems.htm"&gt;systèm&lt;/a&gt;es sur le site Bobby Knows Bridge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-4255820455445816970?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/4255820455445816970/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=4255820455445816970' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4255820455445816970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4255820455445816970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/06/bravo-congratulations-thomas-et-michel.html' title='Bravo ! Congratulations ! Thomas et Michel Bessis'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RoOi1w_20gI/AAAAAAAAACc/jsg7qCgTTrE/s72-c/bessis_open.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-622792197415704427</id><published>2007-06-20T08:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-20T08:21:54.438Z</updated><title type='text'>Photos d'Antalya</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RnjhDfPGFdI/AAAAAAAAACU/bxvww8GVyP8/s1600-h/bessis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078056029900903890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RnjhDfPGFdI/AAAAAAAAACU/bxvww8GVyP8/s320/bessis.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nice &lt;a href="http://www.swangames.com/main/Photos/Antalya_2007/"&gt;to see daily photos &lt;/a&gt;from the 3rd European Open Bridge Championships on Swangames . Congratulations to the Ventin Mixed team for its bronze medal ( Michel Bessis, from the Ventin Mixed Team, pictured on the left by The &lt;a href="http://www.tbricfed.org.tr/"&gt;Turkish Bridge Federation&lt;/a&gt;)See the team photos on my &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/antalya.htm"&gt;Antalya page&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.swangames.com/main/Photos/Antalya_2007/"&gt;De très belles photos &lt;/a&gt;du Championnat d'Europe à voir sur Swangames. Bravo à l'équipe Ventin pour sa médaille de Bronze ( on voit ici, sur la gauche, Michel Bessis, un membre de l'équipe mixe Ventin photographié par la &lt;a href="http://www.tbricfed.org.tr/"&gt;Fédération Turque de bridge&lt;/a&gt;).Voir les photos de toute l'équipe sur ma page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/antalya.htm"&gt;Antalya&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-622792197415704427?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/622792197415704427/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=622792197415704427' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/622792197415704427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/622792197415704427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/06/photos-dantalya.html' title='Photos d&apos;Antalya'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RnjhDfPGFdI/AAAAAAAAACU/bxvww8GVyP8/s72-c/bessis.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-3969691981309212124</id><published>2007-06-13T09:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-13T10:01:12.856Z</updated><title type='text'>3rd European Open Bridge Championships in Antalya</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Rm-_E_PGFcI/AAAAAAAAACM/zUKgZJ4ZsI8/s1600-h/enteteblog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075485397484967362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Rm-_E_PGFcI/AAAAAAAAACM/zUKgZJ4ZsI8/s320/enteteblog.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See my &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/antalya.htm"&gt;special page &lt;/a&gt;on Clairebridge. Voir&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/antalya.htm"&gt; la page &lt;/a&gt;consacrée aux Championnats d'Europe Open qui débutent demain à Antalya en Turquie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-3969691981309212124?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/3969691981309212124/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=3969691981309212124' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/3969691981309212124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/3969691981309212124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/06/3rd-european-open-bridge-championships.html' title='3rd European Open Bridge Championships in Antalya'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Rm-_E_PGFcI/AAAAAAAAACM/zUKgZJ4ZsI8/s72-c/enteteblog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-2094632526437885010</id><published>2007-06-07T08:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-07T17:32:31.960Z</updated><title type='text'>Careful play... Jeux soigneux</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RmfPAPPGFZI/AAAAAAAAABc/JfUe9C2q958/s1600-h/usa107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073251108252947858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RmfPAPPGFZI/AAAAAAAAABc/JfUe9C2q958/s320/usa107.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Congratulations to Narasimhan Team (Jill Meyers, Irina Levitina, Hansa Narasimhan, Jill Levin, and JoAnna Stansby, Debbie Rosenberg from left to right on the picture) United States Women's Bridge Champions and USA I at the next Venice Cup in Shanghai. The Quinn team (Shawn Quinn, Disa Eythorsdottir, Rozanne Pollack, Sue Picus) will be USA 2. In the United States Bridge Championships Trials, it will be &lt;strong&gt;Deutsch&lt;/strong&gt;: Seymon Deutsch, Gary Cohler, Bart Bramley, Sidney Lazard, Grant Baze, John Kranyak versus &lt;strong&gt;Nickell&lt;/strong&gt;: Frank Nickell, Dick Freeman, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, JeffMeckstroth, Eric Rodwell and &lt;strong&gt;Ekeblad&lt;/strong&gt;: Russell Ekeblad, Ron Rubin, Fred Gitelman, Brad Moss, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby versus &lt;strong&gt;Schwartz&lt;/strong&gt;: Richard Schwartz, Michael Becker, Drew Casen, Jim Krekorian, David Berkowitz, Larry Cohen. More on&lt;a href="http://usbf.org/"&gt; this site &lt;/a&gt;.....&lt;br /&gt;I was fascinated by this careful play by Debbie Rosenberg (left on this photo with &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RmfQ9vPGFaI/AAAAAAAAABk/Ukuu7rQoMMQ/s1600-h/debbie_johanna.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073253264326530466" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RmfQ9vPGFaI/AAAAAAAAABk/Ukuu7rQoMMQ/s320/debbie_johanna.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;her partner, Joanna Stansby ...pictured by Peggy Kaplan) They bid a skinny slam, 6 diamond on a small heart lead(East had doubled a 4H call). " Rosenberg won the ace and ruffed a heart to hand. She played a spade to the king and ruffed a second heart. Now she ruffed a spade in dummy and played a diamond, ducked to her king. She played another diamond to the queen, East ducking again. Rosenberg played her final diamond off dummy. East won, but holding no more hearts, she was helpless. She could play a spade or a club and Rosenberg could take the rest of the tricks."... This was worth 10 IMPs. &lt;em&gt;Extract from the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://usbf.org/docs/2007usbc/dbs/usbfnewsletter7.pdf"&gt;Bulletin n°7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RmfVvPPGFbI/AAAAAAAAABs/IlicgUDqK5c/s1600-h/donne672.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073258512776566194" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RmfVvPPGFbI/AAAAAAAAABs/IlicgUDqK5c/s320/donne672.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Félicitations à l'équipe Narasimhan (Jill Meyers, Irina Levitina, Hansa Narasimhan, Jill Levin, and JoAnna Stansby, Debbie Rosenberg de gauche à droite sur la photo) qui remporte le Championnat Féminin des Etats Unis et gagne ainsi sa place pour la prochaine Venice Cup. L'équipe de Shawn Quinn ( Disa Eythorsdottir, Rozanne Pollack, Sue Picus) devient USA2. Dans les Championnats Open, les demi-finales opposent les équipes &lt;strong&gt;Deutsch&lt;/strong&gt;: Seymon Deutsch, Gary Cohler, Bart Bramley, Sidney Lazard, Grant Baze, John Kranyak à &lt;strong&gt;Nickell&lt;/strong&gt;: Frank Nickell, Dick Freeman, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell et &lt;strong&gt;Ekeblad&lt;/strong&gt;: Russell Ekeblad, Ron Rubin, Fred Gitelman, Brad Moss, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby contre &lt;strong&gt;Schwartz&lt;/strong&gt;: Richard Schwartz, Michael Becker, Drew Casen, Jim Krekorian, David Berkowitz, Larry Cohen. Plus de détails sur &lt;a href="http://usbf.org/"&gt;ce site &lt;/a&gt;..... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;J'ai été fascinée par le jeu soigneux de Debbie Rosenberg (photographiée par Peggy Kaplan avec sa partenaire JoAnna Stansby) Elle joue 6K , contrat très tendu, sur entame d'un petit Coeur après qu'Est ait contré une enchère de contrôle de 4C. Entame pris de l'As, Coeur coupé et Pique pour le Roi. 2ème Coeur coupé et Pique coupé. Carreau pour le Roi, duqué et Carreau pour la Dame, de nouveau duqué. Un troisième Carreau pour l'As et EST en main n'ayant plus de coeur, doit rejouer Pique ou Trèfle pour12 levées pour un gain de 10 IMPs mérité....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-2094632526437885010?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/2094632526437885010/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=2094632526437885010' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/2094632526437885010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/2094632526437885010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/06/careful-play-jeux-soigneux.html' title='Careful play... Jeux soigneux'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RmfPAPPGFZI/AAAAAAAAABc/JfUe9C2q958/s72-c/usa107.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-5442863418155871892</id><published>2007-06-05T05:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-05T06:15:00.777Z</updated><title type='text'>Panne de serveur ....</title><content type='html'>Panne géante de serveur chez mon hébergeur.... en attendant que Clairebridge revienne, suivez la sélection aux USA, USA Bridge federation Teams Trials en lisant le &lt;a href="http://usbf.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=249&amp;Itemid=118"&gt;bulletin quotidien &lt;/a&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clairebridge has been out for a few days, my net provider hopes to restore data today ! Meanwhile dont miss the US Teams Trials . See this link for the &lt;a href="http://usbf.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=249&amp;amp;Itemid=118"&gt;Daily Bulletin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-5442863418155871892?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/5442863418155871892/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=5442863418155871892' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5442863418155871892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5442863418155871892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/06/panne-de-serveur.html' title='Panne de serveur ....'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-2447953284642350663</id><published>2007-05-22T05:44:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-05-22T06:26:31.998Z</updated><title type='text'>The Cardsharps by M.M.da Caravaggio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RlKDkW3_QPI/AAAAAAAAAA8/SUTwXjbi-BM/s1600-h/caravaggio_med.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067257191384170738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RlKDkW3_QPI/AAAAAAAAAA8/SUTwXjbi-BM/s320/caravaggio_med.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;The Cardsharps (a.k.a. The Card Sharpers) de Michelangelo MERISI da CARAVAGGIO (1573 - 1610) on &lt;a href="http://cardshark.us/art_frs.shtml"&gt;Cardshark online &lt;/a&gt;, discovered thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.cardtabletalk.com/pictures.html"&gt;Card- Table Talk&lt;/a&gt;, a very interesting site, quite out of the ordinary. This wonderful painting Cardsharps became the model piece for many other works on the cheating theme. See also &lt;a href="http://www.egamingpro.com/press/fichepress.php3?II=The_Art_of_Gaming_Gallery&amp;Lang=GB"&gt;a great collection online with American and European artists from E-Gaming's Art of Gaming Gallery &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Added two new blogs on the &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;blogs page&lt;/a&gt;, Peggy Kaplan 's Blog, &lt;a href="http://moot.typepad.com/minnesota_bridge/"&gt;Minnesota Bridge &lt;/a&gt;where I found this post &lt;a href="http://moot.typepad.com/minnesota_bridge/2006/12/highs_and_lows.html"&gt;Highs and Lows &lt;/a&gt;and a scottish one, the &lt;a href="http://ruefulr.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rueful rabbit&lt;/a&gt;. See also the new section Precision on my &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/encheresetsystemes.htm"&gt;bridge systems page&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cardsharps ( The Card Sharpers) de Michelangelo MERISI da CARAVAGGIO (1573 - 1610) sur &lt;a href="http://cardshark.us/art_frs.shtml"&gt;Cardshark online &lt;/a&gt;, découvert sur le site très original &lt;a href="http://www.cardtabletalk.com/pictures.html"&gt;Card- Table Talk&lt;/a&gt; . Ce tableau est devenu un symbole des oeuvres sur la tricherie aux cartes . Voir aussi &lt;a href="http://www.egamingpro.com/press/fichepress.php3?II=The_Art_of_Gaming_Gallery&amp;amp;Lang=GB"&gt;a great collection online with American and European artists from E-Gaming's Art of Gaming Gallery &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ajouté deux nouveaux Blogs sur la page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;blogs &lt;/a&gt;, celui de Peggy Kaplan , &lt;a href="http://moot.typepad.com/minnesota_bridge/"&gt;Minnesota Bridge &lt;/a&gt;où j'ai trouvé ce texte sur les hauts et les bas de notre forme au bridge &lt;a href="http://moot.typepad.com/minnesota_bridge/2006/12/highs_and_lows.html"&gt;Highs and Lows &lt;/a&gt;and un blog écossais, the &lt;a href="http://ruefulr.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rueful rabbit&lt;/a&gt;. Voir aussi une nouvelle section sur le système &lt;a href="file:///C:/claire/clairebridge/encheresetsystemes.htm#PRECISION"&gt;Precision&lt;/a&gt; ajouté à ma page "&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/encheresetsystemes.htm"&gt;Enchères et systèmes &lt;/a&gt;" sur &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/clairebridgeaccueil.html"&gt;Clairebridge.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-2447953284642350663?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/2447953284642350663/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=2447953284642350663' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/2447953284642350663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/2447953284642350663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/05/cardsharps-by-mmda-caravaggio.html' title='The Cardsharps by M.M.da Caravaggio'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RlKDkW3_QPI/AAAAAAAAAA8/SUTwXjbi-BM/s72-c/caravaggio_med.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-5259384126666433573</id><published>2007-05-08T16:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-05-08T17:04:54.004Z</updated><title type='text'>Blogs de Bridge, Bridge Blogs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nouvelle page sur Clairebridge sur les &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;Blogs de Bridge&lt;/a&gt;... On y trouve beaucoup de mains intéressantes jouées sur BBO, voir en particulier le &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Blog de Dan et Susie Korbel&lt;/a&gt; et récemment un échange d'idées intéressant sur le &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/toutsurlebridge.htm#PRO"&gt;professionalisme au bridge&lt;/a&gt;. Justin Lall a fait une &lt;a href="http://squeezingthedummy.blogspot.com/2007/04/blogroll-update.html"&gt;brève analyse &lt;/a&gt;de l'ensemble de ces Blogs. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;New page on Clairebridge about &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/blogs.htm"&gt;Bridge Blogs &lt;/a&gt;.... One can read about interesting hands played on BBO, see the most recent posts on &lt;a href="http://korbelbridge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dan and Susie Korbel's Bridge Blog&lt;/a&gt;, and recently, an interesting exchange of views about &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/toutsurlebridge.htm#PRO"&gt;professionalism in Bridge&lt;/a&gt;. More about Bridge Blogs in Justin Lall 's post &lt;a href="http://squeezingthedummy.blogspot.com/2007/04/blogroll-update.html"&gt;BlogsRoll Update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-5259384126666433573?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/5259384126666433573/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=5259384126666433573' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5259384126666433573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/5259384126666433573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/05/blogs-de-bridge-bridge-blogs.html' title='Blogs de Bridge, Bridge Blogs'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-8987484776466388574</id><published>2007-04-27T10:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-04-28T09:03:44.862Z</updated><title type='text'>Playing your cards well is only half of the game..Bien jouer ses cartes n'est que la moitié de la réussite au bridge..</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RjI-DopMVLI/AAAAAAAAAA0/wWb171NHEa8/s1600-h/gatlinburg2007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058173563661210802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RjI-DopMVLI/AAAAAAAAAA0/wWb171NHEa8/s320/gatlinburg2007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Cette image de jeunes professionnels de Bridge (de gauche à droite : Kevin Bathurst, Shannon Cappelletti, Stacy Jacobs, Justin Lall, Ron Smith, John Kranyak. Photo courtest of Cata Robles ) au Tournoi de Gatlinburg, le plus grand rassemblement de Bridge des Etats Unis avec 5.100 tables en 7 jours, dément l'image d'un bridge poussérieux et morose. Elle figure sur le &lt;a href="http://www.stacyjacobs.com/"&gt;Blog de Bridge de Stacy Jacobs &lt;/a&gt;, (troisième sur la photo en partant de la gauche). On y reconnait &lt;a href="http://cocktailbridge.blog.hr/arhiva-2005-02.html"&gt;Justin Lall&lt;/a&gt; (souriant, un verre à la main) auteur de &lt;a href="http://squeezingthedummy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Squeezing the Dummy&lt;/a&gt; , un des meilleurs Blogs de Bridge, à ce jour. Justin y commente le film " &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/psychology.htm#CARDS"&gt;In the cards&lt;/a&gt;", documentaire sur la vie de deux jeunes professionnels de Bridge,&lt;a href="http://bridgepro.blogspot.com/2007/04/documentary-is-up-on-you-tube.html"&gt;Gavin Wolpert &lt;/a&gt;et Vincent Demuy.Le cinéaste s'est surtout intéressé à la relation entre les &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/biddingpractise.htm#PARTENARIAT"&gt;Partenaires&lt;/a&gt;, car "bien jouer ses cartes n'est que la moitié de la réussite au bridge. L'autre moitié, peut-être la plus stimulante, est de composer avec son partenaire. La relation qui existe entre deux partenaires de bridge est souvent aussi intime, aussi complexe, aussi volatile que dans un couple. C'est cette dynamique qui distingue le bridge de presque tous les autres jeux. Et le rend si excitant"&lt;em&gt;extrait d'un article de&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://francais.cbf.ca/VincentDemuyGavinWolpert07.html"&gt;CBF&lt;/a&gt;. Quand ce Partenaire est un conjoint , la relation est plus exigeante encore et requiert plus de maturité. &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/croniercollage.htm"&gt;Bénédicte Cronie&lt;/a&gt;r , interviewée sur le site des &lt;a href="http://www.lesgogosbridgeurs.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1244&amp;forum=25"&gt;Gogobridgeurs&lt;/a&gt; développe ce point en annonçant son Partenariat pour une place en équipe Open avec Philippe Cronier; ce dernier ne jouant plus en paire avec &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/chemlacollage.htm"&gt;Paul Chemla.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This picture from &lt;a href="http://www.stacyjacobs.com/"&gt;Stacy Jacobs's Bridge Blog&lt;/a&gt; showing a bunch of young Bridge Professionnels (from left to right : Kevin Bathurst, Shannon Cappelletti, Stacy Jacobs, Justin Lall, Ron Smith, John Kranyak. Photo courtest of Cata Robles ) at Gatlinburg Tournament, the biggest regional tournament ever, with 5,100 tables in seven days, shows quite a different face of bridge, far from the impression that "Bridge was played only by old people who spent the majority of their time complaining that all music these days just sounds like noise, or perhaps sitting around talking about how much fun it is driving on the freeway with their left blinker on for no apparent reason, just to mess with everybody else's minds. " &lt;em&gt;quote from&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://badmonsters.blogspot.com/"&gt;Badmonster, begginners Bridge Log.&lt;/a&gt; The Picture shows &lt;a href="http://cocktailbridge.blog.hr/arhiva-2005-02.html"&gt;Justin Lall&lt;/a&gt; author of "&lt;a href="http://squeezingthedummy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Squeezing the dummy&lt;/a&gt;", one of the most interesting bridge Blog on the web. Justin wrote a post about " &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/psychology.htm#CARDS"&gt;in the cards"&lt;/a&gt;, a one-hour television documentary about one of the most exciting partnerships in the world of bridge, &lt;a href="http://bridgepro.blogspot.com/2007/04/documentary-is-up-on-you-tube.html"&gt;Gavin Wolpert &lt;/a&gt;and Vincent Demuy.The film follows them "as they struggle first to prove themselves as a professional partnership, and then to maintain their &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/biddingpractise.htm#PARTENARIAT"&gt;partnership&lt;/a&gt;, and even their friendship, as the competitive pressure mounts"for "playing your cards well is only half of the game. The other half, which is perhaps even more challenging, is dealing well with your partner. The relationship that exists between two bridge partners is often as intimate, as complicated, and as volatile as a marriage. It's that dynamic that separates bridge from almost every other game. And it's that dynamic that makes the game so exciting"&lt;em&gt;quote from&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cbf.ca/Archives/070401.html"&gt;CBF&lt;/a&gt;. When your Partner is your husband, the relationship is even more demanding and requires maturity. See, &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/croniercollage.htm"&gt;Bénédicte Cronier's interview&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.lesgogosbridgeurs.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1244&amp;amp;forum=25"&gt;Gogobridgeurs&lt;/a&gt;'s website about her Partership with Philippe Cronier, no longer &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/chemlacollage.htm"&gt;Paul Chemla's partner&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-8987484776466388574?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/8987484776466388574/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=8987484776466388574' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/8987484776466388574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/8987484776466388574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/04/playing-your-cards-well-is-only-half-of.html' title='Playing your cards well is only half of the game..Bien jouer ses cartes n&apos;est que la moitié de la réussite au bridge..'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/RjI-DopMVLI/AAAAAAAAAA0/wWb171NHEa8/s72-c/gatlinburg2007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-4755332717887400253</id><published>2007-04-05T09:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-04-05T10:20:52.686Z</updated><title type='text'>Apprendre le Bridge ? How to start Bridge ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/apprendre.htm"&gt;Apprendre le Bridge &lt;/a&gt;, Comment s'y mettre ou s'y remettre? How to start Bridge ? : voir la nouvelle page sur Clairebridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A l'intérieur de BBO, le &lt;a href="http://www.bridgebase.com/clubs/bil/text/index.html"&gt;BIL &lt;/a&gt;rassemble une communauté d'apprentis bridgeurs en ligne où de nombreux joueurs confirmés donnent gracieusement de leur temps pour donner des cours. A découvrir les &lt;a href="http://www.lodemarcos.org/luis/"&gt;cours en ligne &lt;/a&gt;de Luis Argerich, international Junior argentin.&lt;br /&gt;Découvert le site d'un jeune international junior américain, &lt;a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nas7d/"&gt;Nobel Shore&lt;/a&gt;, enseignant de bridge, à voir pour ses présentations Power Point pour les débutants et ses &lt;a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nas7d/systems.html"&gt;systèmes de Bridge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New page on Claire bridge : &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/apprendre.htm"&gt;How to start Bridge&lt;/a&gt;?.&lt;br /&gt;Inside BBO, &lt;a href="http://www.bridgebase.com/clubs/bil/text/index.html"&gt;BIL &lt;/a&gt;is "a Private Club to provide the online bridge beginner and intermediate fraternity with a supportive, learning environment for developing and improving their bridge skills. BIL offers Novice, Beginner, and Intermediate players free group teaching sessions (all lessons are in English)" and lots of good players give their time to offer free sessions . I appreciate very much Luis Argerich 's &lt;a href="http://www.lodemarcos.org/luis/"&gt;notes from these teaching sessions&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;See also, &lt;a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nas7d/"&gt;Nobel Shore&lt;/a&gt;'s web site. This , young international american junior teaches bridge . See his Power Point teaching slides and his favorites &lt;a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nas7d/systems.html"&gt;bridge Systems.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-4755332717887400253?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/4755332717887400253/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=4755332717887400253' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4755332717887400253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4755332717887400253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/04/apprendre-le-bridge-how-to-start-bridge.html' title='Apprendre le Bridge ? How to start Bridge ?'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-7121111765462015956</id><published>2007-03-26T14:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-26T14:57:49.645Z</updated><title type='text'>Defenses against 1NT - Défenses contre l'ouverture d'1SA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.acbl.org/nabc/StLouis2007/bulletins.php"&gt;ST Louis NABC bulletins&lt;/a&gt;, in march 2007, published a the result of a poll in which a group of experts discussed their favorite methods of combating 1NT. I created a new page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/defensevsnt.htm"&gt;Defenses against 1NT &lt;/a&gt;within the page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/conventions.htm"&gt;Conventions&lt;/a&gt; in Clairebridge to summarize these methods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group3/gberns/world/bridge/"&gt;Gary Bernstein Bridge page &lt;/a&gt;, International canadian bridge player, gives access to all sorts of scanned articles, by various bridge experts (Kantar, Kesley, Walker, Lawrence,Kleinman ...) Most of these articles come from the BridgeWorld magazine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les &lt;a href="http://www.acbl.org/nabc/StLouis2007/bulletins"&gt;Bulletins&lt;/a&gt; des récents Championnats de BridgeNord américain à ST Louis, in mars 2007, ont publié une série d'articles sur les méthodes favorites de quelques experts pour se défendre contre l'ouverture d'1SA. J'ai créé une nouvelle page "&lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/defensevsnt.htm"&gt;Défenses contre 1SA&lt;/a&gt;" à l'intérieur de la page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/conventions.htm"&gt;Conventions&lt;/a&gt; de Clairebridge pour reprendre les grandes lignes de ces méthodes. Le site de&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group3/gberns/world/bridge/"&gt;Gary Bernstein &lt;/a&gt;, international canadien, fourmille d'articles scannés concernant les divers aspects du Bridge par un panel d'experts(Kantar, Kesley, Walker, Lawrence,Kleinman ...) La plus part de ces articles sont extraits du BridgeWorld magazine.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-7121111765462015956?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/7121111765462015956/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=7121111765462015956' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/7121111765462015956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/7121111765462015956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/03/defenses-against-1nt-dfenses-contre.html' title='Defenses against 1NT - Défenses contre l&apos;ouverture d&apos;1SA'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-8326669698665352452</id><published>2007-03-23T15:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-23T15:45:14.512Z</updated><title type='text'>Farmen, Bridge dans le grand Nord......</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nordpol.no/"&gt;Farmen&lt;/a&gt;, le site de John Eldar Pedersen vaut le détour. Outre les paysages du grand Nord, il y relate le tournoi annuel qu'il organise, &lt;a href="http://www.nordpol.no/what_is_farmen_invitational.htm"&gt;Farmen invitational&lt;/a&gt;, ou se marrie bridge, nature et cuisine Il écrit :"I - as you -  have seen and understood the pleasure of the game. Some of us used more power than others to learn as much as possible, others have not the same ambitions, but they still enjoyed takeing part in the competitions. I have meet players who hardly  understood Blackwood .....and I had the pleasure to play at the same table as Benito (my hero), Meckstrom-Rodwell, the best Frenchmen, Austrian,  and many other world known players.  And they all have the same ting in common: THEY LOVE THE GAME. As bridgeplayers we belong to a dying kind of people, but many of us try to keep alive the sport as long as possible. "&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Je reçois souvent des demandes pour parler de produits de bridge, livres, logiciels, projets, etc... et c'est bien un des objectifs du site de faire partager les ressources disponibles par le plus grand nombre. Philippe Lanceau m'a envoyé son dernier livre " &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/doc_pedagogiques/forcing_nf.pdf"&gt;Forcing ou non Forcing&lt;/a&gt;" et je l'ai inclus avec plaisir dans les pages du site. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Découvert un nouveau Blog , &lt;a href="http://viewsfromthebridgetable.blogspot.com/"&gt;Views from the Bridge Table&lt;/a&gt;, par Ulf Nilsson , international Suédois . &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-8326669698665352452?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/8326669698665352452/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=8326669698665352452' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/8326669698665352452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/8326669698665352452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/03/farmen-bridge-dans-le-grand-nord.html' title='Farmen, Bridge dans le grand Nord......'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-1298817577914540911</id><published>2007-03-16T10:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-16T14:33:10.150Z</updated><title type='text'>How can you achieve the expertise of " a King at the table" ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Rfp3eaUVaLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/8CLTowwFs8o/s1600-h/martens.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042474097139083442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Rfp3eaUVaLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/8CLTowwFs8o/s320/martens.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.martensuniversity.com/pl/104/5/virtual_european_championship.html/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virtual European Championship &lt;/a&gt;, a book on declarer play or "How can you achieve the expertise of a “king of a bridge table”? by Krzysztof Martens can now be purchased on &lt;a href="http://www.martensuniversity.com/"&gt;Marten's Web site&lt;/a&gt;. I use this book for daily training and warmly recommand it . Vang on Bridge's Blog has &lt;a href="http://vangonbridge.blogspot.com/2006/10/martens-books.html"&gt;a post about it&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;The Daily Bulletins from &lt;a href="http://www.acbl.org/nabc/StLouis2007/index.html"&gt;Spring 2007 NABC—March 8-18 in St. Louis MO&lt;/a&gt; , The North American Bridge Championships had an add about &lt;a href="http://melbridge.com/Book.html"&gt;Mel Colchamiro's new book&lt;/a&gt;. " How to play like an expert without having to be one". The samples on the site looked interesting.Mel Colchamiro is an american bridge Professionnal and a contributor to the expert series of articles on "How to defend against 1NT" published daily in the Saint Louis NABC Bulletin.The free PDF &lt;a href="http://web2.acbl.org/documentLibrary/nabc/nabcwelcome.pdf"&gt;Intermediate and Newcomers Guide to NABC Tournaments&lt;/a&gt; could be very useful for players wanting to start competition.&lt;br /&gt;I Hope we will we be able soon to see the Canadian Documentary "&lt;a href="http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/data/production/prod_4078.asp?cat=TV&amp;g=DOC&amp;amp;y=2006"&gt;The Secret World of Professionnal bridge&lt;/a&gt;" ? About Galvin Wolpert and Vincent Demuy, on French TV.&lt;br /&gt;Two Hand evaluation systems added to Clairebridge's &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/encheresetsystemes.htm"&gt;System page&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://bullbridge.com/homepage.html"&gt;Force Point &lt;/a&gt;by Pavell and&lt;a href="http://www.algonet.se/~lindelof/hand_evaluation.pdf"&gt; Cobra &lt;/a&gt;by Torbjörn Lindelöf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment acquérir l'expertise d'un Roi à la table ? Ce livre sur le Jeu du déclarant peut être directement acheté sur &lt;a href="http://www.martensuniversity.com/pl/104/5/virtual_european_championship.html/"&gt;le site de Krzysztof Martens&lt;/a&gt;. C'est un des meilleurs livre d'exercices d'entraînement au Match par quatre que je connaisse . Le Blog "Vang on Bridge" y consacre &lt;a href="http://vangonbridge.blogspot.com/2006/10/martens-books.html"&gt;une rubrique&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Les &lt;a href="http://www.acbl.org/nabc/StLouis2007/bulletins.php"&gt;bulletins des Championnats d'Amérique du Nord &lt;/a&gt;qui ont lieu trois fois par an et qui se déroulent actuellement à ST Louis du 8 au 18 mars sont une mine d'or. Dans le bulletin d'aujourd'hui, une pub pour le &lt;a href="http://melbridge.com/"&gt;livre de Mel Colchamiro&lt;/a&gt;, un professionnel de bridge américain qui s'intitule " Comment jouer comme un expert sans avoir besoin d'en être un ?" . Les extraits du livre, gratuits, semblent intéressants. Mel Colchamiro fait partie des contributeurs à la série d'articles sur les défenses contre l'ouverture d'1SA, publiée chaque jour dans ces bulletins. Le &lt;a href="http://web2.acbl.org/documentLibrary/nabc/nabcwelcome.pdf"&gt;Guide&lt;/a&gt; à l'intention de ceux qui débutent la compétition et qui veulent participer à ces championnats peut être utile comme livre d'initiation à la pratique des tournois.&lt;br /&gt;La TV canadienne a produit un film de 40 minutes sur la vie des professionnels du bridge en suivant deux jeunes professionnels canadiens, Gavin Wolpert et Vincent Demuy. Espérons que ce documentaire &lt;a href="http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/data/production/prod_4078.asp?cat=TV&amp;g=DOC&amp;amp;y=2006"&gt;"The Secret World of professionnal bridge"&lt;/a&gt; sera bientôt diffusé en France.&lt;br /&gt;Deux additions aux systèmes d'évaluation des mains sur la page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/encheresetsystemes.htm"&gt;Systèmes&lt;/a&gt; du site clairebridge, &lt;a href="http://bullbridge.com/homepage.html"&gt;Force Point&lt;/a&gt; par Pavell et&lt;a href="http://www.algonet.se/~lindelof/hand_evaluation.pdf"&gt; Cobra &lt;/a&gt;par Torbjörn Lindelöf.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-1298817577914540911?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/1298817577914540911/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=1298817577914540911' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1298817577914540911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/1298817577914540911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-can-you-achieve-expertise-of-king.html' title='How can you achieve the expertise of &quot; a King at the table&quot; ?'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/Rfp3eaUVaLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/8CLTowwFs8o/s72-c/martens.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623773701144705278.post-4011130657828969658</id><published>2007-03-10T20:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-16T14:34:09.676Z</updated><title type='text'>Nouveautés sur le site Clairebridge</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Un internaute que je remercie m'a fait connaitre la page de &lt;a href="http://bridgesqueezescomplete.com/lorne.htm"&gt;Lorne Russell&lt;/a&gt;. J'ai ajouté aujourd'hui sur Clairebridge sa liste de conventions, de coups à la carte et de coups en défense à lire ou télécharger.&lt;br /&gt;J'ai fait une entrée directe à partir de la page d'accueil vers la page &lt;a href="http://www.clairebridge.com/asdallas.htm"&gt;Les As de Dallas&lt;/a&gt;.Leur entraînement me fascine. Bob Hamman, le raconte très bien dans son livre At the table.&lt;br /&gt;J'ai terminé sur imageevent les albums de photos des &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/top50men"&gt;50 joueurs &lt;/a&gt;et &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/toptenwomen"&gt;joueuses&lt;/a&gt; les mieux classés selon le classement WBF. Ce site américain que j'ai connu grâce à Jonathan Steinberg qui y héberge de &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/jon911;jsessionid=c45xfqyrs1.zebra_s"&gt;superbes ou pittoresques albums de photos de bridge &lt;/a&gt;permet pour une somme modique d'héberger 1500 photos et des les organiser en albums publics ou privés. J'y héberge aussi un album sur &lt;a href="http://imageevent.com/clairebridge/concentration"&gt;la concentration au bridge &lt;/a&gt;et d'autres albums privés de famille .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5623773701144705278-4011130657828969658?l=clairebridge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/feeds/4011130657828969658/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5623773701144705278&amp;postID=4011130657828969658' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4011130657828969658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5623773701144705278/posts/default/4011130657828969658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://clairebridge.blogspot.com/2007/03/nouveauts-sur-le-site-clairebridge.html' title='Nouveautés sur le site Clairebridge'/><author><name>Claire Martel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13446313011879791978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rFipeKVjPHI/SqN0zxScQ8I/AAAAAAAAEN4/77_C16J2Ymo/S220/claire09.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
