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It’s that time of year again when phrases such as “where has the summer gone” and “it can’t be September already” float around, children go back to school, parents breathe a sigh of relief ... and bridge players look forward to getting back in the sw...

A lot of travel this week so I will just bring you a really interesting declarer play hand, the sort that turns up often at the table — so study it well! Dealer South, N/S Vul NORTH(/b> S J852 H 64 D A1062 C K43 EAST S 3 H Q10932 D 743 C AQ102 SO...

The Bermuda team to the World Youth Bridge Championships have now completed their participation and have returned to the island and this will be my wrap-up column on the event. The team of Ruskin Cave, Liam Peniston, Tyler Irby and Gianluca Cacace to...

Saltus Grammar School has become Bermuda’s first youth team to attend a bridge world championship. Michael Viotti, a physics teacher at Saltus, led a team of four students to the World Bridge Federation’s Youth Team Championships in Salsomaggiore Ter...

The Bermuda team to the World Youth Bridge Championships have now completed their Round Robin schedule and did not make it to the knockout stage, but that was never on the cards given the relative inexperience of the team. Their participation marks ...

With the summer now truly well upon us things slow down a lot at the Club — in fact, based on a couple of e-mails sent by the Club to the members, the Monday evening game is struggling to find enough participants for the Monday night game. A number o...

For those of you that are interested in what happens on the world bridge scene I can bring you the results of the recently concluded European Bridge Championships which took place in Budapest, Hungary. France won the Open Teams, England won the Women...

This week’s column continues the focus on the Bermuda Youth Team that will represent us in the Under-21 division of the World Youth Bridge Championships in Salsomaggiore next month. Last week, we saw a profile on Mike Viotti who has been the inspirat...

As per my column of last week, this year, for the first time, the local Bridge Unit will be sending a team to the World Youth Teams Championship in Salsomaggiore, Italy, between August 3-13. Spearheading this move is John Burville, president of The B...

The Bridge Club is already in its summer slumber and what players have to look forward to competition-wise are the Summer Nationals in Chicago in July and for the Youth Team the World Youth Teams Championship in Salsomaggiore in August. I’ll bring y...

Not a lot is happening at the club other than another STAC week, but with a difference as it is Charity Week. All the table monies last week went to The Salvation Army, who do such a wonderful job in sheltering the poor, hungry and homeless — and the...

The local heat of the WBF 2016 worldwide bridge event was held at the club in two separate games last Friday and Saturday. The winners of the Friday game with a 65.3 per cent score were Roman Smolski and Margie Way, while Alan Douglas and Jane Smith...