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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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Congratulations to the Welsh women’s team, who staged one of the most spectacular comebacks I’ve ever seen at last weekend’s…
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Bridge has always been a game of highs and lows, but what happened to Janet de Botton and her partner…
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Janet de Botton and I decided to spice things up a bit at the Young Chelsea heat of the nationwide…
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Why do men always yell at the television or keep up a running commentary while watching sport? My husband does…
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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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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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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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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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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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I witnessed utter carnage at the bridge table the other week. I was watching the European Champions Cup online when…
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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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To get good results at bridge, it’s not enough to play well — your opponents need to play badly; and…
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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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Has Zia Mahmood cried wolf one too many times? He’s still the undisputed master of the ‘psyche’ — he has…
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There aren’t many instantly recognisable stars in the bridge world, but Andrew Robson is definitely one — as he was…
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Unlike poker, there’s not much money to be made from bridge tournaments (consider yourself lucky if you win £40 in…
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I was talking to the brilliant 27-year old Israeli player Alon Birman at the recent Brighton Congress, when suddenly there…
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Some bridge hands are so sad that they make you want to cry. At least, that’s how my friend Lou…
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The brilliant American bridge writer and former world champion Eddie Kantar once overheard two wives in his bridge class arguing…
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The recent Open European Championship was won by Israel — but right up to the end, Monaco and England were…
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Our Golden Oldies have brought home the Gold! Many congratulations to the England players who have won the Seniors Teams…
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It takes a lot for me to give up on a ‘double-dummy’ bridge problem — i.e. one in which you…
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Have you ever been told by an expert that a bid you’ve made is foolish, badly judged or plain wrong?…
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There’s no point in soft-soaping it: however long you’ve been playing bridge, however well you think you play, if you’ve…
