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Last week was STAC week in Bermuda where players earn extra master points of higher levels and compete not only in the local field but also against the other pairs in District 2. The week saw some excellent results for the locals in the bigger Distri...

The Bridge community in Bermuda is one large family, and it is with shock and great sadness that we learned last week of the sudden and untimely death of long-time member Marilynn Simmons, and at the same time the ill health of her husband Delmont. T...

Last Tuesday saw a special day and special game at the Bridge Club. Thirty-six players, a record number since the start of Covid-19, turned out to play in a game honouring Greta Marshall, who turned 90 on the day! As is tradition, the game paused in ...

Playing bridge at the top level of the game is a bit like walking a tightrope – you might think you have it all covered but one slip of concentration or brief lack of focus and the next thing you know you have your head in your hands. This fate befel...

The world of competitive bridge has, as one would expect, experienced a quantum change since I first started playing the game in the early 1970s, and most of the changes have been for the better – perhaps even more than “most“. In those days a bridge...

With the summer pretty much behind us things are springing to life at the Bridge Club, and last week there were even enough pairs to stage the first Thursday game in quite a while. Looking ahead, the remaining Club Championships schedule has just bee...

Now that summer is winding down things will start getting livelier at the Bridge Club. The board is working hard to encourage members back to the live games, post Covid, and will hopefully succeed in recreating that unique social atmosphere that come...

This week and next I will present two slam hands which are instructional in the bidding and the play. North-South were good bidders in getting to the slams but South let the team down with some pedestrian declarer play to lose a bushel of points (see...

As I have written many times before, getting to play good bridge is a combination of a desire to learn combined with a lot of practice. As time goes on, plays that used to be difficult as declarer or in defence become easier, and after more time bec...

Today’s hand is a quiz for you and you can be sure that at the table 95 per cent of advanced players will get it wrong and probably 75 per cent of the “better” players will join them! Well, you are not at the table now, so take your time and come up ...

The Swing Bridge to St George’s is clear for traffic after drivers were warned off the crossing earlier today, or to expect delays, because of downed wires. A police spokesman said it was unclear whether any of the fallen wires were live, and that th...

I wrote earlier this year of the passing of the great Eddie Kantar, who was not only a great player and teacher, but one of the nicest and funniest people I have ever met. His partnership with the volatile and outgoing “Broadway” Billy Eisenberg was ...