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You Never Stop Learning at Bridge
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!
This is a well-known proverb and so potently applicable to bridge that, in his classic Why You Lose at Bridge, the author, Skid Simon, took it a stage further, indicating that he thought that a little knowledge is at least twice as dangerous. For me, that is much nearer the mark. During the fifty-odd years that I have played the game, I have continually run up against people who would proudly tell me that that they were playing ‘before I was born’ and yet still bid and play in a manner which clearly indicated that – with all this experience – they hardly know the first thing. I have made the point many times that the principal cause of the trouble is poor teaching but little notice has been taken of that!”
This is a well-known proverb and so potently applicable to bridge that, in his classic Why You Lose at Bridge, the author, Skid Simon, took it a stage further, indicating that he thought that a little knowledge is at least twice as dangerous. For me, that is much nearer the mark. During the fifty-odd years that I have played the game, I have continually run up against people who would proudly tell me that that they were playing ‘before I was born’ and yet still bid and play in a manner which clearly indicated that – with all this experience – they hardly know the first thing. I have made the point many times that the principal cause of the trouble is poor teaching but little notice has been taken of that!”
223 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 8, 2016
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