Scoring, MPs etc
Recently someone said at the table that they didn't understand how matchpoints work (in duplicate bridge) so i thought I would find out. Matchpoints are what you see in the results under the headings MP and Matchpts.
Acclaimed US teacher, Larry Cohen, has as part of his website some short articles explaining the bridge scoring fundamentals that are critical to bidding tactics.
If you learned the game in the current world of computerised bridge scoring you probably need this guidance to understand why it is often good to interfere in the bidding - and sometimes not!
The impact on your bridge results of reading these three short articles might be far larger that you think.
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