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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[...]

Misplay this Hand with Me – The last trump

Despite my best efforts by the time the last match of the Round Robin arrives we are still in contention and need only14.16 fromour last[...]

Championship Diary (7)

the Championship Diary is one of the most loved columns of Championships' Bulletins[...]

Accidents Happen

Roland Wald, BBO Commentator extraordinaire sent us this story: 'Accidents Happen' is a 2010 Australian coming of age comedy drama film directed by Andrew Lancaster and[...]

WBF President’s Dinner Lyon 2017

On Thursday evening Gianarrigo Rona hosted a dinner at which a number of awards were made, recognising the tremendous contribution the recipients had made to[...]

Championship Diary (6)

With Ron Tacchi leaving early on Thursday following the onset of a bout of ‘man-flu’ the Editor announced ‘ I’ll put some water in this[...]

2017 IMSA Elite Games

The Elite Games will be held from 9th – 15th December in Beijing.[...]

Senior Age Regulations

The WBF Executive Council has decided to raise the age requirement for Senior players to 65 over the next 8 years in accordance with the[...]

Championship Diary (5)

the Championship Diary is one of the most loved columns of Championships' Bulletins[...]

Gianarrigo Rona re-elected as WBF President

At today’s meeting of the WBF Executive Council, the President of the World Bridge Federation, Gianarrigo Rona was re-elected for a third four-year term. His[...]

Wrong line, Right time

Wrong line, Right time As the Round Robin in Lyon moves towards the half way point we are handily placed. nearing the end of our[...]

When Magie Muddies The Waters

After three days of play The Netherlands were still top of the field in the round robin of the Venice Cup. At the start of[...]

Championship Diary (4)

the Championship Diary is one of the most loved columns of Championships' Bulletins[...]

Keep taking the Tablets!

Unless you have been playing bridge on a desert island for the last few years you will know that major bridge championships that require the[...]

Championship Diary (3)

the Championship Diary is one of the most loved columns of Championships' Bulletins[...]