The Ultimate Body Language Book

Bridge is an interesting game played on a square table. In the game there are four players in two fixed
partnerships. The partners sit facing each other. It is the tradition to name the players according to their
position at the table. They are called North, East, South and West. North and South are partners playing
against East and West. In this card game, partners are not allowed to convey information to each other
by talking, gestures or facial expression. The intent of the game is to exchange information by the
choice of bids or cards played, but how well does this bode with the information we know about
seating arrangements? The game has done well to prevent partners sitting next to each other preventing
close quarter exchanges that might go unnoticed. However, it does allow partners to face each other
head-on exposing their full fronts to each other and also prevents opponents from gaining the same
view. While partners aren’t permitted to use any language whatsoever to exchange cues, being students
of body language and aware of it’s proficient and pervasiveness might expect something different from
the game whether or not it’s ever detected. Naturally, you’ll draw your own conclusions!