To Ruff or Not to Ruff? By Victor Mollo
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• 13 September, 2016
You may have heard about those poor fellows who sleep at night on the Embankment, exposed to the cold winter winds. Their plight is…
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• 13 September, 2016You may have heard about those poor fellows who sleep at night on the Embankment, exposed to the cold winter winds. Their plight is…
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• 5 July, 2016One of England’s foremost bridge players and most prolific writers on the subject, the author first introduced the characters in this article in a delightful book, Bridge in the Menagerie. Their counterparts can be seen at most card tables…
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• 15 June, 2016Papa and the Hideous Hog exchanged hostile glances. They had known in their bones that they would cut together, for it wasn’t their lucky day.
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• 22 March, 2016We play quickly, for we feel that it is more dignified to make mistakes through lack of forethought than after mature deliberation.
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• 19 January, 2016Victor Mollo was born in St Petersburg, into a wealthy Russian family. He was 8 years old when…
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• 1 December, 2015Ruffing Winners, no losers… this sort of situation occurs every now and then…
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• 17 November, 2015The hand of the day is from a new book by the English author, Victor Mollo, a bridge writer of wide repute who belongs to a fictitious bridge club called the Griffins.
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• 9 November, 2015The central characters in today’s hand are Karapet. Djoulikyan, the Free Armenian, who sadly admits that he is the unluckiest bridge player in the world, and
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• 26 September, 2015Through a misunderstanding, R.R. was left to play the next hand in 1 spade.
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• 30 July, 2015Papa and the Hideous Hog exchanged hostile glances. They had known in their bones that they would cut together, for…