Bridge

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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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5 September 2015 9:00 am

No doubt you have heard about the huge cheating storm that has blown up over the last 10 days. Here…

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3 September 2015 1:00 pm

No doubt you have heard about the huge cheating storm that has blown up over the last 10 days. Here…

Bridge

29 August 2015 9:00 am

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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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…

Bridge

22 August 2015 9:00 am

I have great respect for top French bridge players but I think it’s fair to say they don’t go in…

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20 August 2015 1:00 pm

I have great respect for top French bridge players but I think it’s fair to say they don’t go in…

Bridge

15 August 2015 9:00 am

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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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…

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8 August 2015 9:00 am

Sweden’s flagship event is the brilliantly well organised Chairman’s Cup held in Orebro, attracting great players from all over Europe. …

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1 August 2015 9:00 am

Imagine going to a golf tournament and finding yourself competing against Rory McIlroy; or a tennis match and facing Roger…

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25 July 2015 9:00 am

Moving house is traumatic but moving bridge club is worse. Young Chelsea left Barkston Gardens, its home for over 30…

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18 July 2015 9:00 am

Omar Sharif did so much for bridge. He inspired countless others through his own devotion to the game (‘Acting is…

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11 July 2015 9:00 am

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. The European Championships in Tromso kicked off with a week of Mixed and…

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4 July 2015 9:00 am

I had no idea until last week that Burt Lancaster was a passionate bridge player. I found out after meeting…

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27 June 2015 9:00 am

A feast of bridge is looming! Tromso in Norway is host to the Open European Championships starting on Saturday, and…

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20 June 2015 9:00 am

Captaining a bridge team in a knock-out competition can be a thankless task. Sometimes, the hardest thing of all is…

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13 June 2015 9:00 am

Andrew (Bertie) Black started his bridge life many moons ago but stopped to found Betfair, which became the world’s largest…

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6 June 2015 9:00 am

The Hacketts are probably the best known bridge-playing family in the world. They live in Manchester but travel constantly —…

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30 May 2015 9:00 am

If you live in or around London you can play a pairs duplicate every night (or day) of the week…

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23 May 2015 9:00 am

I was lucky enough to sit next to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd at a friend’s dinner the other night.…

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16 May 2015 9:00 am

The best EBU tournament of the year is, IMHO, the Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held at the beginning of May in…

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9 May 2015 9:00 am

I couldn’t help snorting when I came across an article in the Guardian last week (about the ongoing legal battle…

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2 May 2015 9:00 am

When I first started playing bridge, about 15 years ago, I ‘trained’ at TGR’s rubber bridge club, which was located…

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25 April 2015 9:00 am

Congratulations to the Welsh women’s team, who staged one of the most spectacular comebacks I’ve ever seen at last weekend’s…