Bridge | 19 March 2015

You either love rubber bridge or you hate it. Personally I love it: I love the freedom it gives you to play when it suits you. I love the fact that you play with and against different players, which certainly keeps you alert and hones your ‘table presence’. I love the fact that it gives you the opportunity to play with world stars who are passing through (Bob Hamman, for example) and I love the frisson that playing for money brings to the game. Believe me, after you’ve gone for a telephone number a couple of times and written out the cheque, you learn pretty quickly. It’s the best training in the world for Teams playing — and probably the worst for Pairs as overtricks don’t count. Sadly, it’s a diminishing game although TGR’s still provides a variety of exciting games and long may it continue.

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I was sitting North playing with Phil King, who happens to be my team’s coach and a technical wiz.