Bridge
We’re all guilty of making silly mistakes at the bridge table and then hurriedly trying to explain them away —…
Bridge | 11 December 2021
All the best people play bridge. Stephen Sondheim, who died two weeks ago, was mad about the game. In his…
Bridge | 27 November 2021
Succumbing to your emotions at the bridge table can be fatal. Whatever you’re feeling, get a grip! Easier said than…
Bridge | 13 November 2021
It can’t have been a surprise to anyone who knows him that when Andrew Black — Bertie to his friends…
Bridge | 30 October 2021
It was great to be back playing live bridge at the Portland Club last week. I was lucky enough to…
Bridge | 16 October 2021
The Gold Cup is the most prestigious Open Teams event in Britain, and has been ever since Colonel ‘Pops’ Beasley…
Bridge | 02 October 2021
Online bridge has been a lifeline for many players these past 18 months. But not everyone wanted to try it.…
Bridge | 18 September 2021
‘Table presence’ is a funny old expression in bridge. You might think it means what it would in any other…
Bridge | 4 September 2021
It’s not often that bridge makes headlines, but last week something extraordinary happened. At the online European Qualifier for the…
Bridge | 21 August 2021
Live bridge is back. It kicked off two weekends ago with Eastbourne’s Swiss Pairs. I went with my friend Ollie…
Bridge | 7 August 2021
To be a killer bridge player, you need to be aggressive. Many of us are hampered by timidity, especially when…
Bridge | 24 July 2021
Bridge is a game you can never fully master, which is why it’s so endlessly stimulating. No sooner have you…
Bridge | 10 July 2021
Top bridge players have a spooky ability to recall thousands of hands, often from many years back. With so many…
Bridge | 26 June 2021
On the whole, I’ve enjoyed playing bridge from the comfort of home during lockdown. One regrettable outcome, however, is that…
Bridge | 12 June 2021
I would never say that bridge is just a game — for many of us, it’s a lifetime’s vocation. However,…
Bridge | 29 May 2021
One of the pleasures of kibitzing online tournaments is that when an intriguing hand comes up, you can flick back…
Bridge | 15 May 2021
I’m not surprised so many scientific studies have shown that bridge staves off dementia: the game provides a constant workout…
Bridge | 1 May 2021
It was great to see an England team win the hotly contested World Bridge Tour ‘Survivor Cup’ recently. Many congratulations…
Bridge | 17 April 2021
I sometimes get far too intense when I’m playing bridge online. Holed up in my study at home, wearing noise-cancelling…
Bridge | 3 April 2021
These days, most tournaments take place either on Bridge Base Online or Realbridge. I far prefer BBO for one reason:…
Bridge | 20 March 2021
If anyone is going to cause me agonies at the bridge table in front of 800 kibitzers by subjecting me…
Bridge | 06 March 2021
This is a great time to be a young bridge player. When I took up the game in my twenties,…
Bridge | 20 February 2021
In general, I don’t like to play bridge just for fun: I prefer the cut-throat atmosphere of a tournament, or…
Bridge | 6 February 2021
The American professor Martin Seligman is one of the most influential psychologists in the world. Known as the father of…
Bridge | 23 January 2021
When lockdown began, all those months ago, I remember chatting to a few of England’s top players about the shift…
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