Bridge Winners Profile for Ken Deighton
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- Member Since
- Jan. 1, 2017
- Last Seen
- 2 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Writer
- about me
Mathematician, systems analyst, book dealer, writer. I live with 13,000 old books. One day, when and if I can no longer find a partner to play with, I want to return to mathematics to develop my "Utilique Theorem".
History of British Bridge Volume I was published in June 2017
History Of British Bridge Volume II is written and should be available next year (once I find the time to complete the massive task of compiling the index).
Volume III is just an idea in my head.
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- c1959 at school : "Ken, we are playing Bridge upstairs, would you like to join us ?"
- Bridge Accomplishments
- I play hands immediate, without planning any play !
- Regular Bridge Partners
- none
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- none
- Favorite Tournaments
- none
- Favorite Conventions
- "1NT 2clubs 2hearts 2NT", when first I met it, instilled a degree of wonder that's lasted ever since - the logic of conventions.
- BBO Username
- Fluxions
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- So many mouse clicks.
- Flash-free browser BBO will improve for sure and after all it's free so why moan. I want to say I play on BBO nearly every night and have done so for years. The Acol Club is the best of them, where we play social Bridge and make lasting friendships ...
- Ace Remembered
- Thanks for the very nice article Shireen.
- Merrimac Coup
- That's a pretty shocking thing to admit David. As a mathematician I quite like all that about Euclid. So I don’t particularly want to upset your day by drawing your attention to a little treasure of a book I hold in my hand : 1932, E. H. Lownds, The ...
- Merrimac Coup
- Thank you Leonard. The use of the term "pons asinorum" crops up all over the place in Bridge literature and in pre-war radio programmes. It's a fascinating little bypath. An easy start is a book for sale on eBay at this moment, Eleanor A. Tennant's "A.B.C ...
- Merrimac Coup
- Thank you David.
- Merrimac Coup
- I'd better give the hand but I cannot put it nicely as Roland has above. I have transposed the positions to the modern style : Pons Asinorum, 1899, Hand XX Declarer S, contract is No Trumps, ♥4 led NORTH : ♠QJT854 ♥96 ♦A6 ♣Q52 WEST: ♠76 ♥QT84 ♦JT9 ♣9764 EAST : ♠AK3 ...
- Merrimac Coup
- I believe the coup was first demonstrated by Mr. A, G, Hulme-Beaman in his utmost scarce book Pons Asinorum, 1899, page 101, hand XX. I give the hand in my book, page 129, which Richard has, and can therefore check. It was never called the Merrimac Coup until much later ...
- The Mysterious "Sunday Times" Article
- i. It's pretty tough these days to get the British Library to allow you hands on to a physical newspaper, they are all crumbling away. ii. You can access many provincial newspapers by subscribing to the "British Newspaper Archive", as I do. iii. As I recall, if you subscribe ...
- Anti-Doping Violation by Geir Helgemo results in Team Zimmerman disqualification from Orlando Rosenblum Cup
- I feel very sad today about this.
- Great Players; Great Books
- I show the book in my volume 1, with its scarce dust jacket. I was unable to confirm, after quite a bit of research, that Mr. Robert George Rendel, who was born on 2nd December 1884 and in the 1911 Census puts his job as "railway clark", and on his ...
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