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I have great respect for top French bridge players but I think it’s fair to say they don’t go in…
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Sweden’s flagship event is the brilliantly well organised Chairman’s Cup held in Orebro, attracting great players from all over Europe. …
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Moving house is traumatic but moving bridge club is worse. Young Chelsea left Barkston Gardens, its home for over 30…
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Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. The European Championships in Tromso kicked off with a week of Mixed and…
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A feast of bridge is looming! Tromso in Norway is host to the Open European Championships starting on Saturday, and…
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Andrew (Bertie) Black started his bridge life many moons ago but stopped to found Betfair, which became the world’s largest…
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If you live in or around London you can play a pairs duplicate every night (or day) of the week…
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The best EBU tournament of the year is, IMHO, the Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held at the beginning of May in…
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When I first started playing bridge, about 15 years ago, I ‘trained’ at TGR’s rubber bridge club, which was located…
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When I was growing up, the loudest, most explosive arguments erupted when my parents played bridge together. Not surprisingly, when…
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Wednesday night is league night. Sacrosanct. I’ve missed only one in seven years and that was when my daughter was…
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You either love rubber bridge or you hate it. Personally I love it: I love the freedom it gives you…
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What a week it’s been. On Thursday night the incomparable Terry Hewett held her annual charity bonanza Night of the…
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Couples that play together stay together is not a mantra you hear too often in the bridge world. Indeed most…
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There is something decidedly Groundhog Day about the international bridge calendar. The second weekend of January is TGR’s Auction Pairs…
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2015 got off to a rollicking start with TGR’s sixth Auction Pairs — chief rollickers being the Norwegians, whose unparalleled…
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The last tournament of the year is the hugely popular one-day Swiss Teams in the EBU’s Year End Congress in…
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Pierre Zimmermann, captain of the hugely successful Monaco team, plays with Franck Multon and they are probably the best sponsor/professional…
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Last weekend saw the start of the Tollemache qualifier, the inter-county teams of eight championship. Thirty-five teams competed in four…
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It’s always good to know where you draw the line and my line, drawn in thick black ink, was going…
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Every obituary written about Tony Priday, who died recently aged 92, said what a class act he was. I would…
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The EBU’s Premier League is upon us again, the pain of relegation ever-present as my team battles it out in…
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I don’t know about the only gay in the village but I am starting to feel like the last woman…
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Many top bridge players are also keen poker fans, and when a poker star infiltrates their backyard there is a…
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One person who lets out a whoop of delight when I am on holiday is my saintly partner, Artur Malinowski.…
