Bridge Stories

Some people use caffeine it as a wake-up call both at the bridge table and away from it – but what does coffee do, is it bad for you, are there side-effects, or is it a miracle cure helping you perform better and live longer. Alex takes a trip to the coffee shop for us and Jude steps in with an introduction to 'coffee housing'

New Tricks Bridge features in-depth tutorials, and the New Tricks Tournament Series, featuring eight of the world's best bridge players, battling it out for individual glory. We interviewed one of the founders, Sue Johnson, to learn what this is all about.

In the recent IBPA Newsletter, we noticed that Synrey Bridge  was mentioned as one of the places to play in a new World Online Championship (WOC) beginning in 2020 and hosted by the World Bridge Federation. Players will be able to purchase tournament entries in batches to play on BBO, FunBridge or Synrey (China Bridge Online) against robots. While familiar with BBO and FunBridge, we didn't know much about Synrey so we asked our journalist Alex Coyne find out more.

Some of us are already thinking about our holiday gift-giving and what better gift than a bridge book? Alex explores some of the titles, and awards, from 2019. It's been a good year for bridge books!