Janet de Botton

Bridge | 18 August 2016

issue 20 August 2016

Bridge players love going on about system. Some want every bid to have a conventional meaning and some want to play ‘naturally’. Personally I like a few conventions but not so many that judgement becomes redundant.

Norway held its weeklong Bridge Festival in Fredrikstad this year which kicked off with Mixed Pairs.

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