Author: Alex J Coyne

I once asked bridge legend Zia Mahmood about distractions from the game for an interview. His response mentioned a game in Russia, toothache and the lack of a nearby dentist as a distraction that stood out to him most over years of professional, serious bridge playing. I’ve found toothache similarly distracting during bridge and board…

Bridge play is new to thousands of people, but familiar to thousands of others who used to play bridge and then stopped participating in the game. Places change, people move, life gets in the way and people find the gaps between their bridge games getting larger. But then, the same people often have something that…

The internet is filled with facts. While it can be used as a large compendium of knowledge that almost never comes to an end, the internet can also be filled with things that you didn’t want to know in the first place. (But hey, since this is the internet, now you know them.) Here are…