The order in which we develop our winners, called Timing, is just an important as which choices you make in developing winners.  Let's see how timing a hand wrong can cause the play to go astray.  

Developing winners is an important part of declaring a notrump contract.  But if we cannot get to those winners after we have developed them, then they are not useful.  Here we look at Transportation and making it part of our plan in notrump contracts.

When and how to give up control to the opponents is a difficult decision.  In notrump contracts this can be particularly dangerous as the opponents may take many winners.   Here we look at how to give up control of the hand and how to use hold up plays to try to make it safe to do so.

This month we look at some Declarer play tools that are effective in Notrump contracts.  We begin by examining the concept of the danger hand (and the safe hand) and look at how to make us of this to make our best declarer play choices.  

In order to efficiently take our winners when declaring we need to play a suit properly.  One of the important skills in doing so is to Unblock the honors in the suit.  Here we take a look at how this works and why it is important.