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At last some local news and some good news at that! This from Wendy Gray, Bridge Club president, to the members: “I am pleased to tell you that we hope to re-open the Club next Wednesday, June 9, with our 9.30am game. Our full schedule of games at th...

Not a lot of news to report on the local scene as all the bridge remains online. We are, hopefully, inching towards normality and may soon see a return to the live games for those that are fully immunised – so apply for your vaccination certificate a...

With the boom in online bridge worldwide since the lockdown, a number of players are playing in larger non-bridge-club games and many are having considerable success in games that contain 400-600 pairs, and I’m trying to find a way of getting these r...

In my wrap-up of the first Bermuda Online Tournament last week, I missed bringing you some pretty important results – I’m blaming the hired help for that! The format of the event provided for overall winners in three categories based on results right...

I usually put hands in this column that are instructional, either in the bidding, play or defence, but today’s hand does not slot into that category. Absorbing the bidding on this hand is a bit like listening to Bach or Springsteen, or watching the W...

In most years at this time players would be fully back in the swing and looking forward and preparing for the major event of the year, The Bermuda Regional, which is usually held at the Fairmont Southampton at the end of January. This year, of cour...

In one of the tightest finishes I have seen in bridge, Claude Guay and Sharon Shanahan finished on top by a razor thin margin to win the 2020 Non Life Master Bridge Championship at the Club last week. In second were Inger Mesna – George Correia and ...

Covid-19 has thrown a lot of us off our stride and what I missed earlier was the departure from the island of Mike Viotti, who was so instrumental in the development of youth bridge in Bermuda in combination with John Burville, who himself has worked...

Doubling at bridge is always a troublesome area, particularly for beginners and intermediates, who often will either take another bid or pass without doubling even when it is clear that the opponents are way too high in the bidding. This week’s colum...

The big news today is that the Bermuda Bridge Club is taking the first brave step to the “new normal” by scheduling its first game since March 13! The game will take place at 9.30am on September 2 and will be played under strict protocols, the detai...