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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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England had a narrow lead going into the second weekend of the Camrose, with the Irish National team and the…
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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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Have you ever picked up your hand, opened a weak 2 on a proper six-card suit (all right, if you’re…
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Little did I know, when I was railing at how Britain comes to a standstill at the first flurry of…
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No February blues for me. The past couple of weeks have been the most exciting and interesting (bridge-wise) I could…
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August 2015 will be remembered as a landmark for World Bridge. There had long been talk among bridge players about…
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I have just returned from the annual pilgrimage to Reykjavik, home of one of the best tournaments of the year.…
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The first home tournament of 2018 was last week’s four-day European Open Trials. Ten selected pairs played 216 boards at…
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Well, I had a very merry Christmas thank you — and I hope you did too — but as usual…
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The year is drawing to a close and this is my last column before Christmas. May I wish you all…
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When I first started playing tournament bridge there were relatively few European sponsors. The US was buzzing with sponsored teams…
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The third and final weekend of England’s Premier League took place in Solihull and was a very jolly affair. All…
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When I started playing bridge in earnest, the first tournament I entered was the EBU’s Autumn Congress, which back then…
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Somewhere between 1 and 3 a.m., I turn off the lights but I can’t turn off my whirring brain. Cards…
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The youngest player on the great Allfrey team, Mike Bell, is forming a very strong partnership with David Gold. They…
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This summer was the longest I have gone without playing bridge since I began about 20 years ago. Not one…
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The 43rd World Bridge Championships held in Lyon has just ended after two intense weeks and hundreds of boards. The…
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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’…
Bridge
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…
Bridge
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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