A new lesson lands every week, so the library keeps growing and there is always something waiting for you. Same Lorna you'd get at the table, only you can pause her, rewind, and watch in your slippers.
Partner opens, the pesky opponents overcall, and the bid you wanted to make is gone. In this multi-part series Lorna shows how the negative double takes the space back: what it promises, when it applies, and how to use it to show your major or minor suits when the opponents get in over your partner.
A real hand from a student game, bid and played from start to finish. South opens a big hand; Lorna walks the whole table round the auction, then picks the opening lead and counts tricks suit by suit to make the contract.
Bridge from the very beginning, with nothing assumed. Lorna takes the first-time player one small step at a time — from the cards in the deck to your first hands at the table — explaining every term as it comes up. No maths, no jargon, just a friendly, unhurried start that grows with you as the series goes on.
World-class director and player John MacGregor answers questions from the club: bidding judgement and when to stay silent, playing the odds as declarer, opening leads, claims and the table rules most of us are unsure of, and what it takes to be a good partner.
All the attention goes to the aces and kings, and meanwhile the fours and fives quietly win tricks at the end of a hand. Lorna counts the suits out with you, so you know which of your small cards can grow into a winner before you play one.
