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Bridge

August 2023

  • A card table with a game of bridge underway

    Brief letters
    Bridge has youth appeal in spades

    Letters: Trump card | Giant chess | Rishi Sunak’s trousers | Commonwealth Games

March 2022

  • 3d rendering of a robot

    As artificial intelligence gets smarter, is it game over for humans?

  • An evenly spread biddable hand of 13 cards in a game of contract bridge.

    The Guardian view on bridging human and machine learning: it’s all in the game

May 2021

  • Lotan Fisher is the focus of the documentary Dirty Tricks

    How a cheating scandal brought down the Michael Jordan of bridge

    Lotan Fisher was a star at tables across the world. A new documentary explores how one of his rivals started an online detective case into his methods

March 2019

  • Bridge is not known for doping violations and Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, insists the drugs Geir Helgemo took were ‘not performance enhancing’

    World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test

    Geir Helgemo, the world’s No 1 bridge player, has been suspended until 20 November after failing a drugs test

January 2019

  • Mathematician Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer at a workshop on “Explicit methods in number theory” in Oberwolfach, 2007

    Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer obituary

    Distinguished mathematician acknowledged as an expert on number theory who served on the University Grants Committee

September 2018

  • Andy Bull

    Sportblog
    Olympics unlikely to be bridge too far for eSports if the money is right

    Andy Bull
    Distinctions between sports and games seem less important than the money that can be made from them, as one billionaire bridge ace proved by getting cards into the Asian Games

October 2017

  • People playing bridge

    Not the real deal: EU court rejects claim that bridge is a sport

    English Bridge Union loses long-running legal fight as judges rule a sport must involve ‘a not negligible physical element’

June 2017

  • Bridge

    Bridge players believe change to tax status is on the cards

    European court of justice indicates it could look favourably on UK governing body’s longrunning claim that card game is a sport

May 2017

  • Sue Jones (Liraz) and Peter Paltos (Ichabod) in Minnie & Liraz

    Minnie and Liraz review – Lally Katz finds fun, feminism and heart in a retirement home

    Australia’s aged care bridge scene may seem an odd place to set a play – but like all good sports dramas, it’s not just about the game

March 2017

  • Card players play Bridge

    Winning hand? Bridge hopes court will declare it a sport

    English Bridge Union hopes to qualify for tax relief given to sports on grounds that it provides mental health benefits to participants

July 2016

  • The Open Championship 2016 - Day One - Royal Troon Golf Club<br>A view of USA's John Daly's trousers during day one of The Open Championship 2016 at Royal Troon Golf Club, South Ayrshire. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday July 14, 2016. See PA story GOLF Open. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Editorial use only. No commercial use. Still image use only. The Open Championship logo and clear link to The Open website (TheOpen.com) to be included on website publishing. Call +44 (0)1158 447447 for further information.

    Andy Zaltzman's Summer of Sport
    Le Tour, The Open and bridge at the Olympics – Andy Zaltzman's Summer of Sport

    Andy Zaltzman is joined by comedian Andy Parsons and the Guardian’s Emma John to ruminate on golf’s oldest championship; the intricacies of the Tour de France; and the merits of bridge as an Olympic event

February 2016

  • A game of bridge.

    Thai military storm expats' bridge club after gambling tipoff

    Thirty-two people arrested for possession of playing cards, but none expected to be charged after bridge league president intervenes

January 2016

  • Stephen Lee was banned from snooker for 12 years for match-fixing.

    Shortcuts
    Not tennis too! Are there any 'clean' sports left?

    As top-level tennis is investigated over match-fixing allegations, is any sport free from the taint of corruption? Not if these tales of scandal – from curling cheats to bowls scams – are anything to go by …

October 2015

  • A competitor playing bridge

    Bridge players lose legal fight to classify card game as 'mind sport'

    English Bridge Union says it may appeal against high court ruling that Sport England was acting within the law in depriving it of central funding

September 2015

  • Deborah Orr

    Let’s play a game: is bridge a sport?

    Deborah Orr
    All these arguments over mental versus physical prowess just show how we tend to separate our brains from our bodies – but it’s a false distinction. To my mind, the great bridge debate is a sport in itself
  • England v France

    Brief letters
    England rugby players on shaky ground

    Letters: Half of them will be sin-binned for putting it in when they should be shaking it all about

    • Sportblog
      You know sport when you see it … and bridge is absolutely not a sport

      Marina Hyde

    • Shortcuts
      A bridge too far: can a card game be considered a sport?

    • The panel
      The sports that should never be called sports

      Bidisha, Joel Golby, Maurice Mcleod, Barney Ronay, and Nell Frizzell
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