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Happy New Year! I hope 2017 brings you all good things at and away from the Bridge Table. You will, of course, be making your new year’s resolutions as we speak and once we get past the usual ones that we never keep — take off a few pounds, stop smok...

Merry Christmas to all of you! I hope the holiday season treats you well and that you cope with the relative lack of opportunities to play until the New Year arrives. On that point though, a reminder that on Wednesday morning Dec 28, the Bridge Club ...

Tonight is the Bridge Club Christmas party and prizegiving. I will bring you the list of winners next week. John Burville, president of the Bridge Club, has been a tireless supporter of youth bridge in Bermuda and his efforts have given us some hope ...

There is all sorts of festive stuff left to do at the Bridge Club, with the major of tournaments all decided. The prizegiving will, as usual, take place at the Christmas Party on the 10th ... just before the bridge game. As mentioned before, all the ...

The Fall tournament season is now over at the Bridge Club and the only prizes still to be decided ahead of the prize giving at the Christmas Party on December 10 are the POTY (Player of the Year) prizes in the various divisions. Some are already dec...

The one session Novice Pairs Championship took place at the club last week and the result was a thriller when pair Heather and Michael Farrugia edged out Judith Law and Paul Shrubb by the wafer-thin margin of one match point. Well done to the winners...

The Ernie Owen Individual was held at the club last week and attracted an excellent field of 36 players. When the smoke had cleared, Joyce Pearson took the winner’s spot, closely followed by Jamie Fraser in second, John Luebkemann in third and Nea Wi...

The “schools bridge movement” is gathering steam at a great pace and bridge is now official at Saltus, BHS and Berkeley, with more than 50 students enrolled. The Royal Gazette carried a full page spread on this in Thursday’s edition starting with the...

Berkeley Institute is to become the first public school in Bermuda to introduce a programme of bridge — a tactical card game that has been proven to enhance academic performance. The Bermuda Bridge Club is recruiting interested students to take part...

The second session of the Open Teams took place last Friday and the event was convincingly won by the first session leaders, Marge Way, Jean Johnson, Roman Smolski and Misha Novakovic. The winners had a 17 Victory Point lead at the halfway stage whi...

Lots happening at the Bridge Club with Christmas around the corner — tournament season in full swing, lessons from Diana Diel and the Ernie Owen Individual coming up on November 4. Details on all of this on the excellent, revamped (or soon to be!) Be...

The Open pairs concluded last Friday and ended in a nail-biting finish with David Sykes and Charles Hall taking the title by a wafer-thin margin of half a match point from first-round leaders John Burville and David Cordon. Burville-Cordon put up a g...