My bridge page

Contract bridge, the card game, is one of my passions. Unfortunately, I cannot play but very little, because of family and work constraints, so I compensate by reading books and magazines. Inevitably, I have started to try my hand in writing about bridge. I had the great honour and the luck to know the great, late Terence Reese, with whom I have co-authored a series of articles that were published in various magazines around the world. After his death in early 1996, I have collaborated with David Bird, and I also have published various solo articles. For a couple of years I had a regular column in Bridge, the magazine of the Dutch Federation; then, for some six years, another regular column in ΜΠΡΙΤΖ,the Greek Bridge magazine. Nowadays I write a weekly column in Luxemburger Wort, the leading daily paper of Luxembourg (the column is in French, although the paper is mostly in German; this can happen in a multilingual country!). I also contribute very frequently to Bridge Plus, the excellent UK magazine. Occasional articles of mine have been published in: The Bridge World, Bridge Today, Le Bridgeur (French), IPBM, and Cartes sur table, the French-speaking magazine of Quebec.

My first bridge book, Famous bridge records, came out on April 2002. It is a joint venture with the great David Bird, with whom I also have had the honour of collaborating in previous endeavours. A second book, again with D.B., is in the works: Bridge Hands to Make you Laugh... and Cry. It is scheduled to come out in June 2004.

I found it too difficult to convert my material from word processing files to HTML, but several generous members of the international bridge community volunteered and did this work for me. Their wonderful contribution is acknowledged with gratitude in the individual pages.

Hands from my Luxemburger Wort column

Here you can find some shameless plug about my book.