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Janet de Botton

Janet de Botton is The Spectator's bridge columnist.

Bridge

Janet de Botton 7 February 2015 9:00 am

There is something decidedly Groundhog Day about the international bridge calendar. The second weekend of January is TGR’s Auction Pairs…

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Janet de Botton 24 January 2015 9:00 am

2015 got off to a rollicking start with TGR’s sixth Auction Pairs — chief rollickers being the Norwegians, whose unparalleled…

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Janet de Botton 10 January 2015 9:00 am

The last tournament of the year is the hugely popular one-day Swiss Teams in the EBU’s Year End Congress in…

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Janet de Botton 13 December 2014 9:00 am

Pierre Zimmermann, captain of the hugely successful Monaco team, plays with Franck Multon and they are probably the best sponsor/professional…

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Janet de Botton 29 November 2014 9:00 am

Last weekend saw the start of the Tollemache qualifier, the inter-county teams of eight championship. Thirty-five teams competed in four…

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Janet de Botton 15 November 2014 9:00 am

It’s always good to know where you draw the line and my line, drawn in thick black ink, was going…

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Janet de Botton 1 November 2014 9:00 am

Every obituary written about Tony Priday, who died recently aged 92, said what a class act he was. I would…

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Janet de Botton 18 October 2014 9:00 am

The EBU’s Premier League is upon us again, the pain of relegation ever-present as my team battles it out in…

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Janet de Botton 4 October 2014 9:00 am

I don’t know about the only gay in the village but I am starting to feel like the last woman…

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Janet de Botton 20 September 2014 9:00 am

Many top bridge players are also keen poker fans, and when a poker star infiltrates their backyard there is a…

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Janet de Botton 6 September 2014 9:00 am

One person who lets out a whoop of delight when I am on holiday is my saintly partner, Artur Malinowski.…

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Janet de Botton 23 August 2014 9:00 am

It’s August — that time of year again — and I am in France, as usual, on my annual holiday.…

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Janet de Botton 9 August 2014 9:00 am

Two very exciting tournaments drew to a close last week. The first was the Spingold, the main teams event in…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 26 July 2014 9:00 am

Richard Selway was one of the first friends I made in the bridge world. Long-standing ‘host’ at TGR’s, he was…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 12 July 2014 9:00 am

The European Team Championships drew to a close last week and the most successful country overall was …England! The doughty…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 28 June 2014 9:00 am

I’m not trying to pretend it will make up for the drubbing England took in the World Cup, but if…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 14 June 2014 8:00 am

The final match in the second division of Young Chelsea’s London Super League was as exciting as it gets. Two…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 31 May 2014 9:00 am

It is always exciting when a strong new team’s tournament enters the calendar, and the inaugural Balaton Invitational, held outside…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 17 May 2014 9:00 am

The Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held in early May in Stratford-upon-Avon, is one of the great tournaments and this time it…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 3 May 2014 9:00 am

Somewhere highly intellectual I read that they were bringing back the Generation Game, recalling, in all their excruciating mundanity,  Brucie’s…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 19 April 2014 9:00 am

I have always been drawn to a bit of a rogue and I must admit I found the coughing German…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 5 April 2014 9:00 am

Dallas to me was an Eighties TV series with huge shoulder pads until I arrived there to play the American…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 22 March 2014 9:00 am

A number of young Israelis are taking the International bridge world by storm. All in their twenties, their achievements so…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 8 March 2014 9:00 am

Now and then an event enters the annual bridge calendar and becomes an instant ‘must play’. TGRs Auction Pairs is…

Bridge

Janet de Botton 22 February 2014 9:00 am

Bridge players are a generous bunch — both with their expertise and their time. There are many charity events to…

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