DavidC's Bridge Blog

This post is about the regulations concerning disclosure of agreements - both alerting and answering questions. Given the limitless variety ...

In the previous post I argued that a TD should follow the regulations of his club (or tournament, or NBO), even if they contradict the Laws ...

When a ruling is needed, there are at least four different places the relevant rules might come from: The WBF produces the Laws of bridge; N...

This is the start of a series of posts about bridge laws and regulations. This series is about what makes a good regulation: what should be ...

This post is about the laws on Unauthorised Information, and in particular the definition of a logical alternative (Law 16B1(b)). Here in En...

Apologies for the excessive amount of EBU stuff on my blog, but we live in interesting times ... 6.2.1. New permitted agrements at Level 4. ...

So, this post is the second instalment of my not-so-regular feature discussing what's going on with our L&E. The latest meeting is p...

Congratulations to the 94 EBU members who managed to vote for "2-level suit openings should all be alerted " in the EBU's onli...

For the bidding theorists amongst us, this minute from the latest meeting of the Tournament Committee is of interest: The committee consider...

I've created a new page to explain why I believe the EBU rules need to be changed. Alerting of Doubles Hopefully this means I'll be ...

Most bridge players understand roughly what to expect from a "natural" bid, but it's quite a difficult term to define precisel...

If my blog posts so far have been pretty esoteric, I suppose this is the one where I completely lose touch with reality. Yep, this is about ...

Eight months on from the big changes to our alerting regulations, announcements are still a very controversial topic. It's difficult to ...

The minutes for the meetings of the EBU's various committees are published on their website . I always take a particular interest in wha...

As you can see from this blog, I am fascinated by bidding theory. However, when it comes to actually sitting down at the table and playing t...

Bridge regulations vary from country to country. Here in England our Laws and Ethics Committee is particularly keen on coming up with regula...