Defence is important too

Hello

Is anyone else concerned that we only teach winning hands in our lessons?  I know we want to engender confidence in the ability to make the contract that we bid, but defence is more than half the game.  With a 10 lesson course we can teach very little play, but surely there should be hands where you bid 'properly' and still go down, not hands where you make a mistake and still make your contract.

I include in my lessons a book, Breakthrough Bridge, which has a defence issue as well as a declarer issue.  I am told I can copy it as it is out of print.  In my opinion, one of the best learner's series (maybe because it helped me so much.) If I have a group that can get through the lessons quickly, I include the defence hands, so they learn they can lose even if they follow the rules!  One of my mantras is: you ill be in the right contract MOST of the time!

Can NZ Bridge put a hand in once a lesson that you bid right and still go down?

Is it a useful exercise?

Started by LANCE BOWDEN on 21 Jun 2018 at 11:49PM