Frank Stewart
Frank Stewart has been involved with bridge as a journalist, author, editor, competitor, teacher and creator of the popular "Daily Bridge Club" column.
Stewart is a longtime enthusiast of the game. In 1968, while serving in the U.S. Army, he represented South Korea in the Far East Bridge Championship. He went on to win several regional events in the '70s before discontinuing tournament play to devote full time to writing about bridge.
He is the author of 19 books – including "The Bridge Player's Comprehensive Guide to Defense, Better Bridge for the Advancing Player" and The Devyn Press Bridge Teacher's Manuals and Student Texts – and has also published hundreds of technical articles, tournament reports and fiction and humor pieces in most of the world's leading bridge magazines and online publications.
He was co-editor from 1984 to 1989 of the most widely circulated of these – The Contract Bridge Bulletin – and continues to contribute a monthly instructional column he began in 1981. He edited the American Contract Bridge League's World Championship books from 1983 to 1987 and was a principal contributor to the "Official Encyclopedia of Bridge" from 1986 to 1989.
Stewart is a graduate of the University of Alabama. He and his wife Charlotte, a speech-language pathologist, make their home in Fayette, Ala.
Frank Stewart Samples
Good Reading
One way to improve is to read all you can. In today's deal, the Old Master plays at 6NT. DIAMOND TRICKS. But the Old Master won the first heart in dummy and led the queen of clubs. Baron-Barclay has everything in print or on CD-ROM. DAILY QUESTION.
Basket Case
Cy the Cynic advises against putting all your eggs in one basket: He says they'll last longer in the refrigerator. As declarer at 3NT, Cy was pleased when dummy's queen won the first heart.
Corrected Daily Bridge Club Column for 11-25-09
A corrected version of the Daily Bridge Club column for Wednesday, Nov. 25, has been posted.
Corrected Daily Bridge Club Column for 11-25-09
A corrected version of the Daily Bridge Club column for Wednesday, Nov. 25, has been posted.
Risky Contract
You're South in a matchpoint duplicate event, and North properly raises your 2NT to 3NT. You win with the first spade with the king. West had four spades -- he led the deuce -- and two diamonds. HARD TO PLEASE.
Sterling Performance
Russ Ekeblad's team turned in a sterling performance to take the prestigious Spingold Teams at the Summer NABC. In today's deal Jan Jansma, North for EKEBLAD, made a negative double over West's overcall. HEART LEAD.
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