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I think my regular reader(s) would agree that I have been rather low-key about my bridge abilities of late. Defence…
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Anyone who doubts that bridge keeps your brain sharp in old age should have a game with Bernard Teltcher. Bernard…
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All the best players today are technically excellent in card play. They know all the odds and end plays to…
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Long-married couples are notoriously intolerant of one another at the bridge table. It’s as if all their pent-up irritation comes…
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When I was first married, there were no satnavs to hold our hands; we relied on maps (if there was…
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Over the many years I’ve been playing competitive bridge, I’ve managed to cobble together a system-file which now runs to…
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It’s that time of year again — summer and its attendant holidays. No bridge for me for a month, unless…
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It’s hard to explain to non-bridge players just how all-consuming this game is. For those of us who move in…
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Last Friday, merrily on my way to Young Chelsea (still the best IMPs duplicate in town), I couldn’t know that…
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I have a horrible feeling my column this week is going to read like a mutual-back-scratch. In the last issue,…
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The Hubert Phillips is a knockout tournament unlike any other. First it is mixed — there has to be at…
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When my talented friend Paula Leslie and I decided to put a team together for the Hubert Philips Bowl (England’s…
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Ostend has been host to hundreds of bridge players representing their various countries in the European Teams Championships. The ten-day…
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I’ve just come back from Ostend, where I spent four perfect days. No, not sun, sea and sand — eight…
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Talk about Custer’s Last Stand. My poor old team has been knocked out of all this year’s main tournaments —…
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Not many players can pull a fast one on Gunnar Hallberg. The seasoned Swede, who came to live over here…
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Martin Hoffman, who died last week, had an extraordinary life. Born in Prague in 1929, he was the only member…
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I’ve always suspected that pessimists make better card players than optimists — and I recently came across the proof. A…
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This year’s Schapiro Spring Foursomes, England’s best tournament by a mile, wasn’t held in the usual Stratford-upon-Avon venue but in…
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Playing rubber bridge the other afternoon for higher stakes than usual (£20 per hundred), I had a memorably miserable time.…
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England had a narrow lead going into the second weekend of the Camrose, with the Irish National team and the…
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If I had to name my favourite bridge player… actually, I can’t, there are too many. But the young Danish…
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I’m not saying that I want ‘She played bridge for England’ on my tombstone — but then again… Last weekend,…
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It was about 20 years ago that I first became friends with Janet de Botton, and urged her to take…
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Have you ever picked up your hand, opened a weak 2 on a proper six-card suit (all right, if you’re…
