Bridge
When I started playing bridge in earnest, the first tournament I entered was the EBU’s Autumn Congress, which back then…
Bridge
Somewhere between 1 and 3 a.m., I turn off the lights but I can’t turn off my whirring brain. Cards…
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The youngest player on the great Allfrey team, Mike Bell, is forming a very strong partnership with David Gold. They…
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This summer was the longest I have gone without playing bridge since I began about 20 years ago. Not one…
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The 43rd World Bridge Championships held in Lyon has just ended after two intense weeks and hundreds of boards. The…
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The first weekend of August saw two big pairs tournaments, one in Oslo and one in Eastbourne, with remarkable similarities:…
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Thank heaven I am on holiday! For the past week I have been up until 4 a.m., glued to the…
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If you live in (or anywhere near) London, and you enjoy a good teams tournament, you could do no better…
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It’s the beginning of May and I have a feeling I am about to write the same opening sentence as…
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The day before the London Marathon, Young Chelsea BC held its spring half-marathon. Eighty-seven boards were played over 12 hours…
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Can there be a game more humiliating than Bridge? Last weekend the boys and I went to Warsaw to play…
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Tom Townsend, my esteemed teammate and the Telegraph’s bridge correspondent, did the double last weekend at the London Easter Festival…
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The past couple of weeks have been the first since the New Year that we haven’t played a tournament of…
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So many tournaments — so little space. Last week saw two of the very best London has to offer: Terry…
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Pierre Zimmermann, Monaco’s uber-sponsor, has put another unmissable, thrilling tournament in the calendar. The first European Winter Games gave those…
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The Brits have done brilliantly in Icelandair’s annual bridge festival in Reykjavik and this year was no different. The winners…
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The New Year got off to a great start with TGR’s annual auction pairs, the best run tournament I have…
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Call me nuts but on 29 December I left lovely, sunny, delicious France for the fairly unlovely Royal National Hotel…
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2015 leaves many bridge players with mixed emotions. I have played in more wonderful, high-level tournaments than ever before (Iceland,…
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Last weekend saw the qualifying matches for the Tollemache Cup, the inter-county championships for teams of eight. I didn’t play…
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The EBU’s Premier League takes place over three weekends and decides who will represent England in next year’s Camrose (home…
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If you like extremely high-level Pairs tournaments you would love Pierre Zimmermann’s Cavendish Monaco. Sixty pairs are auctioned off and…
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Two weeks playing the Bermuda Bowl (world championships) in Chennai ended heartbreakingly for England’s awesome Open Team and their loyal…
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The 42nd Bermuda Bowl has kicked off in Chennai, and after several weeks of cheat-busting Boye Brogeland (‘The Sheriff’) has…
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The cheating scandal rages on. The latest to be accused is the world’s number one-ranked pair, Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio…
