If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same… Well, Kipling obviously never played competitive bridge. Triumph is the only thing that counts: just ask Helen Erichsen and Fiona Brown, who did brilliantly last weekend to win the England women’s trials. You needed to finish in the top three to qualify for the Home Internationals in April. My partner Sally Brock and I had a great Friday and Saturday — but met with disaster on Sunday. Too many wrong decisions, too many costly mistakes; we plummeted to fifth place and I can still feel the bruises.
Here’s a slam I failed to make, but all credit to my opponent Allison Green:
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