Janet de Botton

Bridge

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

The day before the London Marathon, Young Chelsea BC held its spring half-marathon. Eighty-seven boards were played over 12 hours…

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14 April 2016 1:00 pm

Can there be a game more humiliating than Bridge? Last weekend the boys and I went to Warsaw to play…

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31 March 2016 2:00 pm

Tom Townsend, my esteemed teammate and the Telegraph’s bridge correspondent, did the double last weekend at the London Easter Festival…

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17 March 2016 3:00 pm

The past couple of weeks have been the first since the New Year that we haven’t played a tournament of…

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3 March 2016 3:00 pm

So many tournaments — so little space. Last week saw two of the very best London has to offer: Terry…

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18 February 2016 3:00 pm

Pierre Zimmermann, Monaco’s uber-sponsor, has put another unmissable, thrilling tournament in the calendar. The first European Winter Games gave those…

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4 February 2016 3:00 pm

The Brits have done brilliantly in Icelandair’s annual bridge festival in Reykjavik and this year was no different. The winners…

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21 January 2016 3:00 pm

The New Year got off to a great start with TGR’s annual auction pairs, the best run tournament I have…

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7 January 2016 3:00 pm

Call me nuts but on 29 December I left lovely, sunny, delicious France for the fairly unlovely Royal National Hotel…

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10 December 2015 3:00 pm

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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26 November 2015 3:00 pm

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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12 November 2015 3:00 pm

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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29 October 2015 3:00 pm

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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15 October 2015 2:00 pm

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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1 October 2015 1:00 pm

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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17 September 2015 1:00 pm

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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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…

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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…