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It’s no surprise that so many bridge players are computer programmers or systems analysts; it’s an ideal game for those…
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For most bridge players, defence is the hardest part of the game. Not only do you need to visualise declarer’s…
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I’ve just come back from ten days in Orlando, but don’t ask me what it’s like — I haven’t a…
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I’ve just arrived in Orlando, where the 15th World Bridge Series is taking place. I’m here for the second event…
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Around this time each September, I get to say, ‘I’m off to Tangier for a few days to play high-stakes…
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Anyone who doubts that bridge keeps your brain sharp in old age should have a game with Bernard Teltcher. Bernard…
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Long-married couples are notoriously intolerant of one another at the bridge table. It’s as if all their pent-up irritation comes…
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Over the many years I’ve been playing competitive bridge, I’ve managed to cobble together a system-file which now runs to…
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It’s hard to explain to non-bridge players just how all-consuming this game is. For those of us who move in…
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I have a horrible feeling my column this week is going to read like a mutual-back-scratch. In the last issue,…
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When my talented friend Paula Leslie and I decided to put a team together for the Hubert Philips Bowl (England’s…
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I’ve just come back from Ostend, where I spent four perfect days. No, not sun, sea and sand — eight…
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Not many players can pull a fast one on Gunnar Hallberg. The seasoned Swede, who came to live over here…
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I’ve always suspected that pessimists make better card players than optimists — and I recently came across the proof. A…
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Playing rubber bridge the other afternoon for higher stakes than usual (£20 per hundred), I had a memorably miserable time.…
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If I had to name my favourite bridge player… actually, I can’t, there are too many. But the young Danish…
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It was about 20 years ago that I first became friends with Janet de Botton, and urged her to take…
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Colin Simpson, who has died after a long illness at the age of 69, was a star both at the…
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I’ve never forgotten a conversation I had some years ago with the talented, blunt-talking Norwegian player Espen Erichsen. We were…
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It’s nice being part of a community. That’s how bridge is: over the years, you get to know, or recognise,…
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The England ladies trials, two weekends ago, were as exciting as ever, but also rather heartbreaking for me and my…
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As Janet said last week, the recent European Open trials made for compulsive viewing. Ten pairs took part; first and…
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My friend Neil Mendoza and I had a great finish to 2017 when we won the Portland Club’s annual Auction…
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Know thy opponents — experts make a point of it. When you’re at the bridge table, it’s just as important…
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Being on lead against a grand slam is bad for your blood pressure. So much is at stake (not least,…
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