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Author: Alex J Coyne

  • 5 Online bridge habits that are terrible for your health

    Bridge is great for the brain. Regular bridge playing helps the mind to stay active. Playing bridge is recommended advice for people of any age, and requires careful thinking about bids and cards. It’s one of the world’s best card games, and one of its most engaging puzzles. But what about the things about bridge…

  • The Cautionary tale of bridge player Wendy Brown

    Have you heard of a bridge player named Wendy Brown? I first came to hear about Mrs Brown a couple of years ago, while I was researching news headlines in bridge. The story was lodged somewhere between a Goren bridge column and a post-mortem from a world tournament. The story stood out as more than…

  • Common online bridge mistakes

    If you’re still a new sight at the online bridge tables, you should know that playing online can have some subtle differences to your average face-to-face game. You wouldn’t particularly enjoy finding a mouse at your local bridge club (but for online games, a mouse is considered necessary). Tablets used to be something you took…