When bridge moved from actual tables to virtual tables last March, it quickly became clear that cheating was ruining the online game. Boye Brogeland, who was instrumental in exposing the 2015 cheating scandal, became involved in combatting this potentially fatal flaw of Covid bridge in June last year. He became part of the Credentials Advisory Team (CAT), which conducted exhaustive checks of players’ past hands and stats and recommended who should be invited to play in the Alt and OCBL online events. As in 2015, he was greatly assisted by Thomas Charlsen, who had the idea of making an umbrella organisation that would license players who wanted to play in major online tournaments, launching the World Bridge Tour this month.
The first major event was a top-16 invitational tournament, held over the Christmas break — featuring an impressive array of past and present talent — which was won by one of the all-time greats, Bob Hamman, in partnership with Peter Weichsel.
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