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One person who lets out a whoop of delight when I am on holiday is my saintly partner, Artur Malinowski.…
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It’s August — that time of year again — and I am in France, as usual, on my annual holiday.…
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Two very exciting tournaments drew to a close last week. The first was the Spingold, the main teams event in…
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Richard Selway was one of the first friends I made in the bridge world. Long-standing ‘host’ at TGR’s, he was…
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The European Team Championships drew to a close last week and the most successful country overall was …England! The doughty…
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I’m not trying to pretend it will make up for the drubbing England took in the World Cup, but if…
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The final match in the second division of Young Chelsea’s London Super League was as exciting as it gets. Two…
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It is always exciting when a strong new team’s tournament enters the calendar, and the inaugural Balaton Invitational, held outside…
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The Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held in early May in Stratford-upon-Avon, is one of the great tournaments and this time it…
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Somewhere highly intellectual I read that they were bringing back the Generation Game, recalling, in all their excruciating mundanity, Brucie’s…
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I have always been drawn to a bit of a rogue and I must admit I found the coughing German…
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Dallas to me was an Eighties TV series with huge shoulder pads until I arrived there to play the American…
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A number of young Israelis are taking the International bridge world by storm. All in their twenties, their achievements so…
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Now and then an event enters the annual bridge calendar and becomes an instant ‘must play’. TGRs Auction Pairs is…
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Bridge players are a generous bunch — both with their expertise and their time. There are many charity events to…
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January ended for me with the annual Icelandic Bridge Festival in Reykjavik. There may be a better tournament but I…
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2014 has started with a bang! The second weekend of January saw TGR’s fifth Auction Pairs in which 71 pairs…
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First up, HNY to one and all and especially my regular reader (no, not you mummy) John Hinde, who wrote…
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Autumn 2013 has been the single worst season of my bridge career. Actually, do I have a bridge career? Doesn’t…
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‘Yikes! I’ve been Grosvenored!’ This is a wail you will hear from time to time when a Declarer has been…
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My plan this week was to write wittily, but modestly, about our rise from the bowels of relegation after the…
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I love Bernard Teltscher. In fact, I proposed to him recently, but he politely declined, saying I was too old…
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The season got off to a very bad start for my team — and continues in much the same vein.…
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I defy anyone, even Tolstoy were he still alive and were he to abandon War and Peace for a bridge…
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If you are allergic to wasp stings, may I give you a word of advice? Keep away from them! Don’t…
