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Call me nuts but on 29 December I left lovely, sunny, delicious France for the fairly unlovely Royal National Hotel…
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2015 leaves many bridge players with mixed emotions. I have played in more wonderful, high-level tournaments than ever before (Iceland,…
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Last weekend saw the qualifying matches for the Tollemache Cup, the inter-county championships for teams of eight. I didn’t play…
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The EBU’s Premier League takes place over three weekends and decides who will represent England in next year’s Camrose (home…
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If you like extremely high-level Pairs tournaments you would love Pierre Zimmermann’s Cavendish Monaco. Sixty pairs are auctioned off and…
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Two weeks playing the Bermuda Bowl (world championships) in Chennai ended heartbreakingly for England’s awesome Open Team and their loyal…
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The 42nd Bermuda Bowl has kicked off in Chennai, and after several weeks of cheat-busting Boye Brogeland (‘The Sheriff’) has…
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The cheating scandal rages on. The latest to be accused is the world’s number one-ranked pair, Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio…
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No doubt you have heard about the huge cheating storm that has blown up over the last 10 days. Here…
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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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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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Moving house is traumatic but moving bridge club is worse. Young Chelsea left Barkston Gardens, its home for over 30…
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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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A feast of bridge is looming! Tromso in Norway is host to the Open European Championships starting on Saturday, and…
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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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If you live in or around London you can play a pairs duplicate every night (or day) of the week…
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The best EBU tournament of the year is, IMHO, the Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held at the beginning of May in…
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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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When I was growing up, the loudest, most explosive arguments erupted when my parents played bridge together. Not surprisingly, when…
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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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You either love rubber bridge or you hate it. Personally I love it: I love the freedom it gives you…
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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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Couples that play together stay together is not a mantra you hear too often in the bridge world. Indeed most…
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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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2015 got off to a rollicking start with TGR’s sixth Auction Pairs — chief rollickers being the Norwegians, whose unparalleled…
