This summer was the longest I have gone without playing bridge since I began about 20 years ago. Not one single game, unless you count Bridge Baron, the computer programme that generates billions of deals to hone one’s skills and fend off withdrawal symptoms. Since my return I’ve hardly had time to unpack: both TGR’s and Young Chelsea’s autumn leagues have started, the EBU’s Premier League kicked off last weekend and we will be playing the Vilnius Cup when you (I hope) read this.
The Premier League is the contest that decides who will play for England in the Camrose Trophy (the home nations championships). There are now three divisions (eight teams in each) and it is played over three weekends. Relegation and promotion make it highly competitive and highly exciting.
Inevitably, there are heated post mortems and today’s hand was one of them. My partner, the brilliant Artur Malinowski, was the only declarer to make 3NT and with that delightful blend of arrogance and smugness he told us how ‘easy-peasy’ it was:
Everyone was in the same contract and everyone I spoke to had the same lead of the ♥Q.
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