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The first weekend of August saw two big pairs tournaments, one in Oslo and one in Eastbourne, with remarkable similarities:…
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Thank heaven I am on holiday! For the past week I have been up until 4 a.m., glued to the…
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The first week of July is heaven for those of us who don’t normally hear the words ‘bridge’ and ‘holiday’…
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The European Open Pairs, the final event in Montecatini, was a long and arduous five-day slog, three of those days…
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The past two weeks have seen hundreds of passionate bridge players head for Montecatini in Italy for the 8th European…
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Every time I read Andrew Robson’s bridge column and he mentions that ‘a reader from wherever’ sent him an interesting…
The art of bollocking
The last days of May see all the ongoing tournaments coming to an end: both TGR’s and Young Chelsea’s Super…
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I realised long ago that I almost never play bridge with a partner worse than me. Occasionally, I cut a…
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Last week we played round four of the Gold Cup. I had eagerly looked at the email to see who…
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Bridge 24 was set up seven years ago by four Polish internationals who wanted to bring the glory days of…
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‘Ducking is for experts. Don’t try it.’ So says my partner Artur Malinowski every time I duck a trick in…
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Tournament bridge players do not expect, or get, much in the way of luxury. I have played in some of…
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February is probably the most exciting and glamorous month in the bridge calendar. A couple of weeks ago, über-sponsor Pierre…
Bridge
What can be more regrettable than picking up a huge hand and landing in the wrong contract? It happened…
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Not surprisingly, Reykjavik has become a tourist destination again. Delicious restaurants, all those geysers and, if you’re lucky, the Northern…
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The Friday night IMPs game at the Young Chelsea is still the best game around. Some of yesterday’s internationals may…
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Simon Gillis’s team has had a very successful year. They won the Gold Cup (for the second time), they joined…
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Simon Cochemé, whose witty column appears monthly in English Bridge magazine, celebrated his 70th birthday with a knees-up and duplicate…
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When I first started playing bridge, in the late Nineties, the Young Chelsea marathon was a continuous 24-hour tournament and…
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The last three weekends have not been relaxing for those of us playing the Premier League, with all its attendant…
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The Gold Cup Finals were played in London this year and proved to be very exciting but ultimately unsuccessful for…
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The Hubert Phillips is one of the EBU’s quirkier knockout tournaments. Firstly every team must contain (and play) at least…
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TGR’s rubber bridge club is a bit like the set of your favourite soap. You have the regulars, of varying…
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The 15th World Bridge Games (formerly known as the Olympiad) began on 3 September in Wroclaw, and is providing more…
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By the time you read this, I will have (hopefully) played my first hand of bridge in five weeks. No…
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