Bridge
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For most bridge players, defence is the hardest part of the game. Not only do you need to visualise declarer’s…
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Vytas and Erikas Vainikonis, father and son bridge enthusiasts, are the generous hosts of one of the best five days…
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I’ve just come back from ten days in Orlando, but don’t ask me what it’s like — I haven’t a…
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Good news for bridge if the Open World Championships in Orlando are anything to go by. Far from dying, it…
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I’ve just arrived in Orlando, where the 15th World Bridge Series is taking place. I’m here for the second event…
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Around this time each September, I get to say, ‘I’m off to Tangier for a few days to play high-stakes…
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I think my regular reader(s) would agree that I have been rather low-key about my bridge abilities of late. Defence…
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Anyone who doubts that bridge keeps your brain sharp in old age should have a game with Bernard Teltcher. Bernard…
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All the best players today are technically excellent in card play. They know all the odds and end plays to…
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Long-married couples are notoriously intolerant of one another at the bridge table. It’s as if all their pent-up irritation comes…
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When I was first married, there were no satnavs to hold our hands; we relied on maps (if there was…
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Over the many years I’ve been playing competitive bridge, I’ve managed to cobble together a system-file which now runs to…
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It’s that time of year again — summer and its attendant holidays. No bridge for me for a month, unless…
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It’s hard to explain to non-bridge players just how all-consuming this game is. For those of us who move in…
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Last Friday, merrily on my way to Young Chelsea (still the best IMPs duplicate in town), I couldn’t know that…
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I have a horrible feeling my column this week is going to read like a mutual-back-scratch. In the last issue,…
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The Hubert Phillips is a knockout tournament unlike any other. First it is mixed — there has to be at…
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When my talented friend Paula Leslie and I decided to put a team together for the Hubert Philips Bowl (England’s…
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Ostend has been host to hundreds of bridge players representing their various countries in the European Teams Championships. The ten-day…
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I’ve just come back from Ostend, where I spent four perfect days. No, not sun, sea and sand — eight…
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Talk about Custer’s Last Stand. My poor old team has been knocked out of all this year’s main tournaments —…
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Not many players can pull a fast one on Gunnar Hallberg. The seasoned Swede, who came to live over here…
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Martin Hoffman, who died last week, had an extraordinary life. Born in Prague in 1929, he was the only member…
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I’ve always suspected that pessimists make better card players than optimists — and I recently came across the proof. A…
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This year’s Schapiro Spring Foursomes, England’s best tournament by a mile, wasn’t held in the usual Stratford-upon-Avon venue but in…
