Susanna Gross

Bridge | 02 October 2021

2 October 2021 9:00 am

Online bridge has been a lifeline for many players these past 18 months. But not everyone wanted to try it.…

Bridge | 18 September 2021

18 September 2021 9:00 am

‘Table presence’ is a funny old expression in bridge. You might think it means what it would in any other…

Bridge | 4 September 2021

4 September 2021 9:00 am

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

21 August 2021 9:00 am

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

7 August 2021 9:00 am

To be a killer bridge player, you need to be aggressive. Many of us are hampered by timidity, especially when…

Bridge | 24 July 2021

24 July 2021 9:00 am

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

10 July 2021 9:00 am

Top bridge players have a spooky ability to recall thousands of hands, often from many years back. With so many…

Bridge | 26 June 2021

26 June 2021 9:00 am

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

12 June 2021 9:00 am

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

29 May 2021 9:00 am

One of the pleasures of kibitzing online tournaments is that when an intriguing hand comes up, you can flick back…

Bridge | 15 May 2021

15 May 2021 9:00 am

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

1 May 2021 9:00 am

It was great to see an England team win the hotly contested World Bridge Tour ‘Survivor Cup’ recently. Many congratulations…

Bridge | 17 April 2021

17 April 2021 9:00 am

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

3 April 2021 9:00 am

These days, most tournaments take place either on Bridge Base Online or Realbridge. I far prefer BBO for one reason:…

Bridge | 20 March 2021

20 March 2021 9:00 am

If anyone is going to cause me agonies at the bridge table in front of 800 kibitzers by subjecting me…

Bridge | 06 March 2021

6 March 2021 9:00 am

This is a great time to be a young bridge player. When I took up the game in my twenties,…

Bridge | 20 February 2021

20 February 2021 9:00 am

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

6 February 2021 9:00 am

The American professor Martin Seligman is one of the most influential psychologists in the world. Known as the father of…

Bridge | 23 January 2021

23 January 2021 9:00 am

When lockdown began, all those months ago, I remember chatting to a few of England’s top players about the shift…

Bridge | 9 January 2021

9 January 2021 9:00 am

It’s so much easier to play bridge well when luck is on your side. You’ve just doubled your opponents and…

Bridge | 12 December 2020

12 December 2020 9:00 am

It’s surprising how quickly we adapt to things: nine months ago, most of us had never played bridge online before,…

Bridge | 28 November 2020

28 November 2020 9:00 am

Each November, Paula Leslie organises the Young Chelsea Women’s Teams — a fantastic event, attracting many of Europe’s best players…

Bridge | 14 November 2020

14 November 2020 9:00 am

It’s been a busy week of bridge. First came the Lady Milne, the women’s home internationals. As the host nation,…

Bridge | 31 October 2020

31 October 2020 9:00 am

I know its only October, but I’ve already found the perfect Christmas present for bridge-lovers: Simon Cochemé’s new book, Bridge…

Bridge | 17 October 2020

17 October 2020 9:00 am

‘I have a wonderful hand to show you,’ Gunnar Hallberg exclaimed when I saw him last week. Gunnar is a…