Comment by pessimizer
2 years ago
Oh, I know. Attackers will continue to attack. In my opinion, professional bridge is a doomed game. Decades of added steps to prevent cheating complicate too much an already very difficult game, and determined, smart people are still very successful at bypassing them anyway.
I still want to learn to play at a reasonable level though, I'd rather waste my time on bridge than chess. But it needs to be home games, and there's no way I'm going to find the partners when spades and bid whist are out there and easy to learn.
As someone who has played in the Grand National Teams - Flight C. :)
It has problems. Cheating is a huge issue, as is sportsmanship. If you know bridge. I used to play precision with an 11-13 1NT. When people saw our convention card, they'd often ask to swap tables with other teammates. (Clearly not legal.)
When I was playing on a team where all 4 of us played the same convention card those people made me laugh so hard.
Cheaters will cheat. I played clean, I had fun. I haven't had time to play for a while. But man, bridge is a funny little world.