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Bridge

Bridge | 11 July 2020

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

What goes through a world-class player’s mind when he or she stops to think for an age during a hand? I always find it slightly humbling: are they calculating probabilities, spotting chances, and creating contingency plans that mere mortals would find hard to grasp? Almost certainly that’s true, but they’re also doing something else: sizing up their opponents.

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