Bridge | 27 March 2021
The Young Chelsea Knock Out is a terrific tournament, and the best thing about it is that the winners get…
Bridge | 13 March 2021
One benefit of lockdown is that there is much more time for reading. My personal favourite bridge book is Play…
Bridge | 27 February 2021
The late, great Martin Hoffman always claimed he was the unluckiest player in the world. If he was playing rubber,…
Bridge | 13 February 2021
The Young Chelsea Bridge Club is moving — literally and figuratively. They are relocating to the Salvation Army building in…
Bridge | 30 December 2021
When bridge moved from actual tables to virtual tables last March, it quickly became clear that cheating was ruining the…
Bridge | 16 January 2021
’Tis better to give than to receive, the Bible teaches us. Well, not if you were me this Christmas, it…
Bridge | 19 December 2020
Goodbye 2020 and don’t come back. Worst part for bridge players? All the matches and tournaments have been moved online,…
Bridge | 05 December 2020
Many years ago I remember Tor Helness, the great Norwegian champion, going into the semi-final of a world championship saying:…
Bridge | 21 November 2020
The rubber bridge world has lost one of its best and most flamboyant players; David Herman was an emaciated, elegant…
Bridge | 7 November 2020
How many times have we had it hammered into us: ‘When dummy goes down, plan the play’? Well, if we…
Bridge | 24 October 2020
When (if) the world returns to normal and live bridge tournaments resume, there are two things I will miss after…
Bridge | 10 October 2020
One of the things that makes bridge so endlessly fascinating is that it is forever changing and growing. At high…
Bridge | 26 September 2020
When I first learnt bridge, my teacher (not known as bossy boots for nothing) would thump the table when dummy…
Bridge | 12 September 2020
The bridge world has lost some glittering stars this (ghastly) year, the latest being France’s Catherine d’Ovidio — multiple world…
Bridge | 29 August 2020
I have not played a single hand of bridge for about a month, neither have I kibitzed online. Ergo I…
Bridge | 15 August 2020
I am frankly repulsed by the latest cheats, exposed after the online invitational Alt and OCBL tournaments. When F2F bridge…
Bridge | 1 August 2020
Last week I got an email from one of my readers — the other one is possibly away for the…
Bridge | 18 July 2020
The French Online Open, in which 32 teams competed over a marathon two weeks — seven days round robin and…
Bridge | 04 July 2020
What do we want? We want to play bridge. But who anticipated Covid-19 was going to close every bridge club…
Bridge | 20 June 2020
I am so useless in defence it’s embarrassing. My partners all say the same thing: slow down and think. I…
Bridge | 6 June 2020
When did we change from being a nation of curtain-twitching old biddies into one of full-on super-snitches? First a retired…
Bridge | 23 May 2020
Well, what can I say? I have been nowhere. Seen no one. Done nothing. Unless you count watching damaging amounts…
Bridge | 9 May 2020
This weekend should have been the Schapiro Spring Foursomes, sponsored by Helen S., widow of the legendary Boris. Held in…
Bridge | 25 April 2020
The Alt Invitational is the online tournament that is attracting some of the best players on earth. When the whole…
Bridge | 11 April 2020
I think it was Warren Buffett who said: ‘Bridge is such a sensational game that I wouldn’t mind being in…
