Peter Leventritt

I know bridge players who pride themselves on rarely making a mistake, but even if their pride were justified I would not choose one of these paragons as my partner. The reason is that such a player never risks doing...

In many diagrams of bridge hands the low cards are designated merely by x's. The difference between, say, a 7 and a 4 is supposedly unimportant—and, admittedly, no bidding system has been devised that takes into...

No European bridge player thought the U.S. would beat Italy and win the world championship. The Europeans were right, but the issue was in doubt right down to the final night of play

The old familiar faces were much in evidence at the American Contract Bridge League's Summer National Championships but at the tournament's end, refreshingly enough, most of the victors were new.

When the Italian team won the world bridge championship for the fourth time last month in Buenos Aires, there was double bad news for the other teams in international competition. The key figure in the Italian...