43rd World Bridge Teams Championships

43rd World Bridge Teams Championships: the Winners

The 43rd World Bridge Team Championships and the 11th FunBridge World Transnational Open Teams ended tonight. [...]

IOC and GAISF Officials visit Lyon 2017

On Friday 25th, at La Cité Internationale de Lyon, venue to the 43rd World Bridge Championships, we had the pleasure to receive the visit of[...]

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Playing in the semi-finals of a world championship takes its toll.[...]

Quack, Quack, Quack

Yesterday afternoon I was served a board by Tommy Gullberg the NPC of the Swedish Senior Team coming from Sweden’s semifinal match against USA II[...]

Time Limit

When you only have limited time each day to watch a few deals you tend to rely on outside information. Here are a couple of[...]

For the lead, Partner

Have you noticed how often a player makes an overcall hoping that it will help partner if they happen to be on lead but then[...]

An Aside

An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech[...]

Lose One and Win Two

In one of the senior quarter-finals of the d’Orsi Trophy in Lyon, Australia played Sweden and this astonishing board was played in the middle of[...]

Odd Man In

In the Seniors, two went down quickly on the hearts3 lead, –100 and –200 and one slowly, –100, on the clubsJ lead. In the Women’s[...]

Master Points

So what are WBF Master points, Placing Points, Senior Points, Year Points, On-Line Bridge Points? These are questions that I am often asked. The WBF[...]

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