Bridge

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4 April 2015 9:00 am

Wednesday night is league night. Sacrosanct. I’ve missed only one in seven years and that was when my daughter was…

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28 March 2015 9:00 am

Janet de Botton and I decided to spice things up a bit at the Young Chelsea heat of the nationwide…

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21 March 2015 9:00 am

You either love rubber bridge or you hate it. Personally I love it: I love the freedom it gives you…

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14 March 2015 9:00 am

Why do men always yell at the television or keep up a running commentary while watching sport? My husband does…

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7 March 2015 9:00 am

What a week it’s been. On Thursday night the incomparable Terry Hewett held her annual charity bonanza Night of the…

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28 February 2015 9:00 am

Bridge players never get bored of each other’s company for one simple reason: interesting hands are like juicy bits of…

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21 February 2015 9:00 am

Couples that play together stay together is not a mantra you hear too often in the bridge world. Indeed most…

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14 February 2015 9:00 am

Before returning to Australia about a decade ago, Michael Courtney spent several years playing high-stake rubber bridge in London. Those…

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7 February 2015 9:00 am

There is something decidedly Groundhog Day about the international bridge calendar. The second weekend of January is TGR’s Auction Pairs…

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31 January 2015 9:00 am

If you and your partner ever want to improve your bidding system, I can’t recommend Phil King highly enough as…

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24 January 2015 9:00 am

2015 got off to a rollicking start with TGR’s sixth Auction Pairs — chief rollickers being the Norwegians, whose unparalleled…

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17 January 2015 9:00 am

This may sound odd, given its male-only membership, but the Portland is one of my favourite bridge clubs. I’m one…

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10 January 2015 9:00 am

The last tournament of the year is the hugely popular one-day Swiss Teams in the EBU’s Year End Congress in…

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3 January 2015 9:00 am

It’s surprising how many perfectly good bridge players lack confidence when it comes to squeeze plays. They seem to think…

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13 December 2014 9:00 am

Pierre Zimmermann, captain of the hugely successful Monaco team, plays with Franck Multon and they are probably the best sponsor/professional…

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6 December 2014 9:00 am

I witnessed utter carnage at the bridge table the other week. I was watching the European Champions Cup online when…

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29 November 2014 9:00 am

Last weekend saw the start of the Tollemache qualifier, the inter-county teams of eight championship. Thirty-five teams competed in four…

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22 November 2014 9:00 am

It’s one of the burning political issues of the day: why don’t more MPs play bridge? Two weeks ago, the…

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15 November 2014 9:00 am

It’s always good to know where you draw the line and my line, drawn in thick black ink, was going…

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8 November 2014 9:00 am

To get good results at bridge, it’s not enough to play well — your opponents need to play badly; and…

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1 November 2014 9:00 am

Every obituary written about Tony Priday, who died recently aged 92, said what a class act he was. I would…

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25 October 2014 9:00 am

Forget the 5-2 diet. To lose weight the easy way, why not take up competitive bridge? I’ve just come back…

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18 October 2014 9:00 am

The EBU’s Premier League is upon us again, the pain of relegation ever-present as my team battles it out in…

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11 October 2014 9:00 am

Has Zia Mahmood cried wolf one too many times? He’s still the undisputed master of the ‘psyche’ — he has…

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4 October 2014 9:00 am

I don’t know about the only gay in the village but I am starting to feel like the last woman…