At the end of post pizza we played Bridge, for me the first time in many many years. It was pretty fun, the play style is about as casual as I like it, and the play level close enough to mine that I can reasonably follow about what's going on.
I think the problem when I first learnt bridge was I was taught very large amounts of things at about the same time, and couldn't tell the defference between a rule and a convention, or maxims applicable 90% of the time and maxims applicable 10% of the time. And too swamped by information to concentrate on common sense ways to play
( Tangent on other things learnt this way )
But playing with very simple, natural conventions, and some common sense during play, I find it feels like I do have some intuition for what's right afterall. Now practice and learning might actually help :)
To put it another way
I've been on both sides, in Bridge, and other varied incidents in games, maths, life. Someone quite naturally offers good advice like "At the end, when you played the SX, you should have played the Sy because [explanation]."
But often, the advice you *should* give is "At the start of the game, you should see if you're likely to make any tricks in S and if so how it might be possible."
In fact, the beginner had lost track in S before that point, so the advice is useless, because they didn't understand it so won't remember it.
In fact
At home I drew out a random hand and studied how each I'd play it. It somehow made much more sense than it did eight years ago :) And having an idea of how the hand is going to play out as a whole makes bidding entirely more intuitive :)
I think the problem when I first learnt bridge was I was taught very large amounts of things at about the same time, and couldn't tell the defference between a rule and a convention, or maxims applicable 90% of the time and maxims applicable 10% of the time. And too swamped by information to concentrate on common sense ways to play
( Tangent on other things learnt this way )
But playing with very simple, natural conventions, and some common sense during play, I find it feels like I do have some intuition for what's right afterall. Now practice and learning might actually help :)
To put it another way
I've been on both sides, in Bridge, and other varied incidents in games, maths, life. Someone quite naturally offers good advice like "At the end, when you played the SX, you should have played the Sy because [explanation]."
But often, the advice you *should* give is "At the start of the game, you should see if you're likely to make any tricks in S and if so how it might be possible."
In fact, the beginner had lost track in S before that point, so the advice is useless, because they didn't understand it so won't remember it.
In fact
At home I drew out a random hand and studied how each I'd play it. It somehow made much more sense than it did eight years ago :) And having an idea of how the hand is going to play out as a whole makes bidding entirely more intuitive :)