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When I started playing bridge in earnest, the first tournament I entered was the EBU’s Autumn Congress, which back then…
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Bridge is a partnership game — but haven’t you sometimes wished you could file for a quick divorce mid-rubber? The…
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Somewhere between 1 and 3 a.m., I turn off the lights but I can’t turn off my whirring brain. Cards…
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Twenty-five years ago, Zia Mahmood offered a £1 million bet that no team of his choosing could ever be beaten…
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The youngest player on the great Allfrey team, Mike Bell, is forming a very strong partnership with David Gold. They…
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I’m writing this from Stuart Wheeler’s beautiful villa in Tangier, in the hills just above the bay, where for a…
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This summer was the longest I have gone without playing bridge since I began about 20 years ago. Not one…
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Aren’t the Irish supposed to be lucky? The Irish open team are having no luck at all at the moment.…
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The 43rd World Bridge Championships held in Lyon has just ended after two intense weeks and hundreds of boards. The…
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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 first weekend of August saw two big pairs tournaments, one in Oslo and one in Eastbourne, with remarkable similarities:…
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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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Thank heaven I am on holiday! For the past week I have been up until 4 a.m., glued to the…
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This is a great time to be a bridge professional — not just for the world’s top players, who have…
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The first week of July is heaven for those of us who don’t normally hear the words ‘bridge’ and ‘holiday’…
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Here’s one of my favourite hands from the European Open Championships — although it caused David Gold to spend the…
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The European Open Pairs, the final event in Montecatini, was a long and arduous five-day slog, three of those days…
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I’ve just returned from two weeks playing in the European Open Championships in Montecatini in Italy, and I’m so whacked…
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The past two weeks have seen hundreds of passionate bridge players head for Montecatini in Italy for the 8th European…
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How is it possible to be assigned four ‘away’ matches on the trot? Strange, but that’s how it was for…
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Every time I read Andrew Robson’s bridge column and he mentions that ‘a reader from wherever’ sent him an interesting…
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It’s the funniest bridge story I’ve heard in ages. At the recent Lady Milne championship (the women’s Home Internationals), one…
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The last days of May see all the ongoing tournaments coming to an end: both TGR’s and Young Chelsea’s Super…
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Long after my own team had been knocked out of this year’s Spring Fours in Stratford-on-Avon (the most prestigious and…
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I realised long ago that I almost never play bridge with a partner worse than me. Occasionally, I cut a…
