Bridge
Bridge | 3 October 2020
The Alt Invitational is a prestigious online teams tournament held every fortnight or so, packed with world-class players. It’s not…
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 | 19 September 2020
My friend Ollie Burgess has just made the bold move of quitting his job in Manchester, and moving to London…
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 | 5 September 2020
A major pandemic has been sweeping through the bridge world since the game went online — and it’s called cheating.…
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 | 22 August 2020
There are some experts — like my friend Sally Brock — who think Blackwood is an overrated convention, and that…
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 | 8 August 2020
Stuart Wheeler was a true original. I was lucky enough to be a friend (we met playing bridge), and will…
Bridge | 1 August 2020
Last week I got an email from one of my readers — the other one is possibly away for the…
Bridge | 25 July 2020
Gunnar Hallberg moved to England from Sweden 25 years ago to play professional bridge, and made such a success of…
Bridge | 18 July 2020
The French Online Open, in which 32 teams competed over a marathon two weeks — seven days round robin and…
Bridge | 11 July 2020
What goes through a world-class player’s mind when he or she stops to think for an age during a hand?…
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 | 27 June 2020
I’m not a great fan of online bridge but I must admit, lockdown has provided a real opportunity for players…
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 | 13 June 2020
Have you ever been at a bridge event and heard someone exclaim: ‘He Grosvenor’d me!’ They are referring to a…
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 | 30 May 2020
One of the drawbacks of online bridge is the lack of après-bridge fun — those spontaneous drinking sessions where we…
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 | 16 May 2020
My entertainment last week was watching the NN-Cup, a ‘Goulash’ tournament normally held in Moscow, now played online for the…
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 | 2 May 2020
I’m aware that this column is in danger of turning into the Alex Hydes fanzine, but after writing about his…
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 | 18 April 2020
While chatting on the phone to my friend Alex Hydes a couple of weeks ago, I asked whether he was…
