Duplicate Competitors

Opponents and Competitors. In competitive bridge, your competitors are not at your table !

Winning in competition means scoring more points or giving up fewer points than your competitors -- those pairs that who play the same cards you do.

Your competitors are the other pairs sitting in the same direction as you - N/S or E/W. The people at your table are opponents -- not competitors. In this way, luck is removed from Duplicate, and skill is the name of the game.

(See the Introduction to this book for information about Duplicate basics.)

Competitive Bidding. Competitive bridge is noticeably different from social or party bridge in the area of bidding after the opponents have opened.

The ability to compete effectively and to wrestle the contract from the enemy or push them too high is the most exciting part of advanced bridge bidding.

How to do that is the topic of the rest of this book -- read on.