My ten-year-old football-loving son thought I was making some silly joke when I told him last weekend that I was off to Manchester to play in the Premier League. No, I said, I’m serious: that’s what it’s called in bridge too. I’m playing in the Second Division. Three weekends of bridge, and at the end the top two teams get promoted to Division 1. It’s a tough field: many of the star names of English bridge are competing, even in Division 2, and we’re currently lying 7th out of 10.
There are six of us in our team, and we’re taking turns to play, swapping partners according to who’s available. Last weekend I played with Peter Taylor: we took the train together and spent two solid hours discussing our system. I can be quite annoying about system, because for me you can’t have too many partnership agreements.
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