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Happy New Year! I won’t put my mouth on it by saying that 2022 has to be better than this one, but we can all hope it will be. We are back to online bridge and once again we have no Bermuda Regional to look forward to, so it is all a bit challenging ...

Congratulations to Richard Gray who won the Ernie Owen Memorial Individual tournament at the Club last week. Ernie was my long time bridge partner for a number of years and the event always brings memories of some great times as we travelled the worl...

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and healthy Christmas and, for those of different faiths, a happy and healthy holiday season and new year. It has been another tough year and then, just as it looked like things were easing, ...

Something a bit different this week, as I think you might enjoy this bridge story as much as I did when I read that the 2021 Norwegian Pairs Championships produced a sensational result when 13-year-old Nicolai Heiberg-Evenstad, partnered by his fathe...

A footbridge that will carry the Railway Trail over Flatts Inlet is on track to be finished before the end of the winter, a spokesman for the group that funded the work said yesterday. Colin Campbell, an architect and member of Friends of the Railway...

As we know live games have resumed at the Bermuda Bridge Club and certainly the signs are that we in Bermuda are in a good place right now relative to others in terms of Covid-19. Hopefully we will all continue to be careful and prudent in the way we...

A Railway Trail footbridge across an inlet yesterday got a $10,000 boost as construction of the link neared completion. The Garden Club of Bermuda pledged to donate plants to add greenery to both ends of the Flatts bridge, as well a benches as it han...

Most of the hands in this column are about declarer play, and I’ve often stressed that the key to success is to give yourself as many chances as possible to make the hand before falling back on the ‘best’ chance – especially if exploring the alternat...

It’s good to see the gradual return to some form of normalcy at the Bridge Club as we all take careful steps to try and get this horror behind us. It will, in all probability, not be a smooth upward climb but we can only hope that it is. It seems l...

There are many different ways to make certain contracts and in the hand shown in Figure 1, an experienced declarer picked his way through a contract that looked headed for defeat. South opened 1 heart , East overcalled 2 diamonds and North raised to...

For this week’s hand, see Figure 1. South opened 2NT showing a balanced 20-22 HCP and North had an easy raise to 3NT. West led the Jack of hearts to declarer’s queen. Declarer counted seven tricks on top: three hearts, two diamonds and two clubs. The...

Today’s hand pitted a top-class defender in the East seat against an expert declarer in the South seat, and that is always fun to watch. See the hand in Figure 1 and the bidding in Figure 2. West led the Queen of hearts against four spades. East over...