Let's say you are looking for the deal where Hamman-Wolff went down in 6

Searching for just a player name is not very useful: searching for Hamman would give you more than 5000 results.
Also specifying the contract 6H helps hamman 6h → less than 200 results
Adding wolff to the search won't do much good they played together for 25 years
But adding Bianchi does: hamman 6h bianchi → 2 results
If you don't know the other players you can add the year hamman 6h 1973 → 4 results
Adding a tournament name is not as useful hamman 6h bermuda → 39 results
Searching on tournament names is tricky because annotators may shorten the tournament name Bermuda Bowl = Bermuda = BB = World Team Championships = WTC
Or add part of the bidding 1h 1s 3c 6h hamman → 1 result
Or if you know the hand

suits are separated by a dot spades.hearts.diamonds.clubs
9.AJ8762..AQ7532 → 2 results
If you only know a suit hamman AJ8762 → 1 result
Other possibilities adding the site Guaruja Brazil
Or the date 1973.05.24
Below you can see how this deal is recorded in the database
[Event "1973 Bermuda Bowl Final"] [Site "Guaruja Brazil"] [Date "1973.05.24"] [Room "Open"] [Board "78"] [West "Bobby Wolff"] [North "Pietro Forquet"] [East "Bob Hamman"] [South "Benito Bianchi"] [Dealer "E"] [Vulnerable "None"] [Deal "E:9.AJ8762..AQ7532 K854.9.98543.K86 AQ76.T53.AKJT6.9 JT32.KQ4.Q72.JT4"] [Scoring "IMP"] [Declarer "E"] [Contract "6H"] [Result "10"] [Score "NS 100"] [Auction "E"] 1H Pass 1S Pass 3C Pass 3D Pass 4C Pass 4NT Pass 5H Pass 6H Pass Pass Pass [Play "S"] D9 DJ DQ H2 H9 H3 H4 HA S5 H5 HQ H6 C6 HT HK H7 C8 C9 C4 CA S4 SQ S3 S9 *
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