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The best EBU tournament of the year is, IMHO, the Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held at the beginning of May in…
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When I first started playing bridge, about 15 years ago, I ‘trained’ at TGR’s rubber bridge club, which was located…
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When I was growing up, the loudest, most explosive arguments erupted when my parents played bridge together. Not surprisingly, when…
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Wednesday night is league night. Sacrosanct. I’ve missed only one in seven years and that was when my daughter was…
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You either love rubber bridge or you hate it. Personally I love it: I love the freedom it gives you…
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What a week it’s been. On Thursday night the incomparable Terry Hewett held her annual charity bonanza Night of the…
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Couples that play together stay together is not a mantra you hear too often in the bridge world. Indeed most…
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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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2015 got off to a rollicking start with TGR’s sixth Auction Pairs — chief rollickers being the Norwegians, whose unparalleled…
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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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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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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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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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Every obituary written about Tony Priday, who died recently aged 92, said what a class act he was. I would…
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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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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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Many top bridge players are also keen poker fans, and when a poker star infiltrates their backyard there is a…
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One person who lets out a whoop of delight when I am on holiday is my saintly partner, Artur Malinowski.…
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It’s August — that time of year again — and I am in France, as usual, on my annual holiday.…
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Two very exciting tournaments drew to a close last week. The first was the Spingold, the main teams event in…
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Richard Selway was one of the first friends I made in the bridge world. Long-standing ‘host’ at TGR’s, he was…
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The European Team Championships drew to a close last week and the most successful country overall was …England! The doughty…
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I’m not trying to pretend it will make up for the drubbing England took in the World Cup, but if…
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The final match in the second division of Young Chelsea’s London Super League was as exciting as it gets. Two…
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It is always exciting when a strong new team’s tournament enters the calendar, and the inaugural Balaton Invitational, held outside…
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