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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...

Bridge is coming to BHS! Hot on the heels of the successful launch of Youth Bridge at Saltus, the head of school at BHS has agreed to launch a bridge initiative at BHS in conjunction with the Bermuda Bridge Club. The programme will kick off with an ...

The Bermuda Sectional concluded at the Bridge Club on Monday night, with the second session of the Pairs and the closing prizegiving function. Despite the table count being slightly lower the event was another success under the chairmanship of John ...

The Bermuda Sectional started at the Bridge Club yesterday afternoon and will end on Friday night with the second session of the Pairs and the closing prizegiving function. More news on all of that and full results in next week’s column! The IBPA (In...

The Bridge season gets under way with a bang next week with the four-day Bermuda Sectional taking place between the 16th and the 19th at the Bridge Club. There are two single session events on the afternoons of the 16th and 19th and the three Champio...

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...