A friend told me (no, honestly — it was a friend) that she had had a dream from which she awoke screaming abuse and practising kick-boxing on her (no longer) boyfriend’s sleeping head. ‘What was the dream?’ I, her awestruck audience, gasped. Well — it turned out that said boyfriend’s ex-wife had told him that she (friend) had gone off in a totally cold contract in the worst played hand of the year. I nodded in sympathy and understanding. That would do it.
One man who does not floor a frigid game is David Burn. Sixteen pairs played the prestigious Welsh Invitational Pairs last weekend and David, partnered by Nick Sandqvist, won easily.
David has that special knack, which all great players have, of making the game look easy, but it stems of course from his enormous experience and attention to detail.
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