July 1st

What is the

Wednesday Game?

On the first Wednesday of every month we send out a set of computer-dealt hands to Clubs around the country.  After their Wednesday Game, players visit this site for the week’s Hand Analyses, Bidding Quizzes and Play Problems for the hands they have just played.  There's nothing "tricky" about the hands, they are not doctored in any way, there's no attempt to make them more "interesting", they're all just as the computer dealt them.

Also provided in this site is a wealth of information in BridgeOpedia, and Wednesday Game Archives going back to early 2006.

How To Use

This Site

Archives

From previous Wednesdays back to March, 2006

-  Hand Analyses

-  Bidding Quizzes

-  The Ben Franklin Hand

The Play of the Hand Archives have been reorganized by topic, follow this link.

The Bidding Archives have also been reorganized by topic, follow this link.

Contact Us

Hand Analysis

Analysis of the July 1st hands, with suggested auctions, and play-of-the-hand recommendations.  Click here.

Bidding Quiz

A dozen or more bidding situations from this week, presented in quiz format.  Click here.

Play Problems

Board 24:        South plays 3♣ doubled

Player Hand-Outs

Each month we provide hand-outs.  If you forgot to pick them up at the Club, you can get them here:

    Bidding Six-Pack   Six questions to test your

    bidding judgment and partnership agreements.

    Click below for you preferred format:

          Word Format             PDF Format

    Convention of the Month  This month the

    subject is DONT.

          Word Format             PDF Format

    Declare & Defend   Brush up your card-playing

    playing skills with one of these links:

          Word Format            PDF Format

New Library Additions!

Recently we have added six new articles to the Convention Library.  Here are the direct links:

   Constructive Raises in Competition

   Two-Way Checkback

   Breaking the Law

   Smith Echo

   Opening Leads - Suits

   Opening Leads - No Trump

And this week we have added DONT

Archives of Player Handouts

For those who missed some of the earlier editions you can follow this link to get the back-numbers of the player handouts, either in Word format or in PDF format.

Monthly Schedule

The Wednesday Game is a once-a-month affair, on the first Wednesday of the month.  We'll be back on August 5th.

Convention Library
Dozens of helpful articles explaining the basics of commonly used conventions.  Including Weak Twos, Jacoby Transfers, Stayman, Michaels, Unusual No Trump, Roman Key Card, Exclusion, Fourth Suit Forcing, New Minor Forcing, Bergen Raises, Two Over One, Drury, Support Doubles, Responsive Doubles, Maximal Doubles, Equal Level Conversion, and more.

Bidding Archives
We’ve gone through the entire history of The Wednesday Game looking for the most interesting hands, and organizing them into over 70 subjects, for convenient reference and study.  For example, follow the link below to visit a collection of the Wednesday Game hands which best illustrate the Negative Double in action.  And if you would like to see the entire index of subjects, please click here.

Play-of-the-Hand Archives
These cover different aspects of Declarer and Defensive play.  Topics include Squeeze Play, Carding Agreement, Timing, Trump Control, Deception, Card Reading, and many others.  Try this link as an example:
      Blocking & Unblocking
To see the entire index of Play-of-the-Hand Archives please follow the link

Youth Pairs 2008

The first-ever Youth Championships were held in Atlanta over the July 4^th weekend of 2008.  Congratulations to Patty Tucker and all of her hard-working colleagues who made this event possible!  The Wednesday Game prepared a Hand Analysis booklet for each of the two sessions in the Saturday Pairs Championship:

- A write-up for all 36 hands from each session, with dozens of links to informative articles and related problems.          Session 1           Session 2

- 20 bidding problems from each session.

                         Session 1            Session 2

Youth Pairs 2009!!!
This year the Youth Pairs are being held in Washington, DC, July 30^th to August 1^st.  Visit www.acbl.org for more details.