Susanna Gross

Bridge

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Sometimes Janet teases me that this should be called the David Gold Column, as I mention his name so frequently.…

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5 May 2016 1:00 pm

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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21 April 2016 1:00 pm

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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7 April 2016 1:00 pm

Well done to Janet and her team for their victory at the London Easter Congress. My own team — David…

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23 March 2016 3:00 pm

Bridge players are a superstitious bunch. And I don’t just mean the steps they take to prepare for matches —…

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10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Unless you’re an expert, it often pays to keep quiet at the bridge table — something I really ought to…

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25 February 2016 3:00 pm

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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11 February 2016 3:00 pm

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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28 January 2016 3:00 pm

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same… Well, Kipling obviously never…

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14 January 2016 3:00 pm

Forgive me for the outdated, clichéd expression but …GIRL POWER!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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31 December 2015 3:00 pm

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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3 December 2015 3:00 pm

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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19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Bravissimo! The Italians have won gold yet again at the European Champions Cup. The event was launched in 2002, and…

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5 November 2015 3:00 pm

Congratulations to my old pal Lou Hobhouse, who has just been appointed the new editor of the English Bridge Union…

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22 October 2015 2:00 pm

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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8 October 2015 2:00 pm

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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24 September 2015 1:00 pm

This has been the most shocking saga in the entire history of bridge. In the face of overwhelming evidence that…

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10 September 2015 1:00 pm

The bridge world continues to be electrified by the scandal that Janet wrote about last week. Lotan Fisher and Ron…

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27 August 2015 1:00 pm

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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13 August 2015 1:00 pm

I hadn’t realised quite what a thriving bridge scene Manchester has until spending a weekend there recently. I went with…