Frank Stewart

Unlucky Louie, who has been hitched to the same woman for 30 years, says that marriages work better when the husband and wife understand they're on the same side. Bridge...

I've heard it said that the chief danger in life is taking too many precautions. Perhaps so, but in dummy play it's possible to take too few. At 3NT South...

Some people can't count to 10: They're the ones ahead of you in the express lane at the grocery. It's less apparent that some people have trouble counting to four....

Unlucky Louie, who could get backed into a corner in a round room, had quite an argument with today's North. Louie, South, opened two clubs, showed his spades and leaped...

If you ask Cy the Cynic for a definition of "once," he'll say "enough." Like all of us, Cy encounters deals he hopes he'll never see again. Cy was declarer...

"I did it again," a club player told me ruefully. "I put my head in the punch bowl." "What's that all about?" "It's just an expression at my house. 'He...

I was in the club lounge when a kibitzer came in from the Chicago game. "Grapefruit's out there talking about killing the dummy." "He's branching out," I said. "Up to...

"I read your column yesterday," a club player said, "about setting up A-K-x-x-x in dummy opposite a singleton by ruffing low cards without cashing both the A-K. You led me...

If asked to define a "good contract," I suppose I'd say it's one that will gain more points in the long run than it will lose. A pragmatist defines a...

Cy the Cynic says that logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. "To draw inferences, you must trust opponents to bid and play logically," Cy told me. "I...