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The ‘Lightner double’ is perfectly named: a bolt out of the blue which strikes fear into your heart. There you…
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The Andrew Robson Bridge Club in Parsons Green deserves its huge success. The standard may not be as high as…
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I felt like an absolute hypocrite the other week. Sally Brock’s team had just beaten Alexander Allfrey’s in the semi-finals…
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The Hubert Phillips Bowl is one of my favourite tournaments of the year: a friendly, knockout event with a rather…
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Sometimes Janet teases me that this should be called the David Gold Column, as I mention his name so frequently.…
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I’ve been practising bidding online with my friend Guy Hart in preparation for the Spring Fours in Stratford (we’ll know…
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Bridge is such an unforgiving game; you can’t afford to take your eye off the ball for a single moment.…
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Well done to Janet and her team for their victory at the London Easter Congress. My own team — David…
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Bridge players are a superstitious bunch. And I don’t just mean the steps they take to prepare for matches —…
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Unless you’re an expert, it often pays to keep quiet at the bridge table — something I really ought to…
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Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, and canvassing opinion, about what to lead from AKxxx (or…
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It’s got to be the most bizarre news story of the year: last week, no fewer than 50 Thai police…
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same… Well, Kipling obviously never…
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Forgive me for the outdated, clichéd expression but …GIRL POWER! The surprise winners of last weekend’s TGRs auction pairs were…
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This might be the most beautiful hand I’ve ever seen. I came across it while reading one of the old…
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If you don’t play bridge, you really should avoid gatherings of bridge players — you’ll find us excruciatingly dull. I’ve…
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Bravissimo! The Italians have won gold yet again at the European Champions Cup. The event was launched in 2002, and…
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Congratulations to my old pal Lou Hobhouse, who has just been appointed the new editor of the English Bridge Union…
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It’s not surprising that so many bridge players feel such a sentimental attachment to The Young Chelsea. The club was…
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There’s no doubt about it: I’m an addict. A BBO addict. Since the Bermuda Bowl began, nearly a fortnight ago,…
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This has been the most shocking saga in the entire history of bridge. In the face of overwhelming evidence that…
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The bridge world continues to be electrified by the scandal that Janet wrote about last week. Lotan Fisher and Ron…
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I hope Zia Mahmood will forgive me. It’s not often I come across a contract that he has failed to…
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I hadn’t realised quite what a thriving bridge scene Manchester has until spending a weekend there recently. I went with…
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Imagine going to a golf tournament and finding yourself competing against Rory McIlroy; or a tennis match and facing Roger…
