Category: Vugraph

Bridge references are one of my favorite things, especially where in unlikely places. I’ve always found the background noise of a running television or radio to be comforting – and every time I hear a bridge term, I’ll stop and look why. (It deserves a thanks to everyone who has been working these references into…

Tickets to the Devil is a 1968 novel by Richard P. Powell that tells the story of a national bridge tournament played at the fictional Xanadu Hotel somewhere admist the hippies and the moon landing. It’s a good read, containing everything that a great bridge-themed book of the time might.  This particular column entry, however, is…

The rules and handbooks for the game of bridge are perhaps some of the most important documents we have as enthusiasts and players. Without the official rules set down on paper, it would be hard next to impossible to reconstruct the rules of the game in another thousand years – and of course, rules would…