Bridge Winners Profile for Ken Deighton
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Jan. 1, 2017
- Last Seen
- 2 hours 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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- Post 19. Charles Wilbraham and the 4 3 2 1 point count - Saturday 3rd Novmeber 2018
- My partner Judy noticed the obituary for Lord Skelmersdale in the Independent last week. He was a very keen Bridge player, of course, presumably under his name "Roger Bootle-Wilbraham" - maybe just a coincidence. The Library of Congress's copy of Bryant McCampbell's "1915, Auction Tactics" has been loaded up ...
- Post 19. Charles Wilbraham and the 4 3 2 1 point count - Saturday 3rd Novmeber 2018
- Sunday 17:30 pm How strange Mike, I'm watching "Songs of Praise" at thIs very moment on B.B.C. iplayer. It's from Birkenhead and rejoicing in the poetry of the great Wilfred Owen. According to Wikipedia, his family lodged in the back streets of Birkenhead in 1897 ...
- Post 18. Mr. Harold Thorne and his “Bridge In 20 Minutes” little book. Monday 3rd September.
- You look, you search, you have a cup of tea - then you go back and do it all over again. I began a stroll through Backgammon sites and found one - "Chicagopoint" - that mentioned Harold L. Thorne. I emailed the editor, he wasn't sure how he'd got the "L ...
- Post 18. Mr. Harold Thorne and his “Bridge In 20 Minutes” little book. Monday 3rd September.
- Thank you Paul & Tim for that. There's just a single Harold Henry Thorne matching those dates that I've been able to locate in Ancestry. In 1911 he's a Post Office sorter, and on the 1939 Register he's living in Wembley London and working as a Post ...
- Ever heard or seen this?
- Well, i've just noticed that there is already an ap called "Bid Bridge", so apologies for using that term. I'll have to think of a new name - any ideas please ? And for that matter does anyone claim the above rules for a game they know - have I been ...
- Ever heard or seen this?
- O,K, No comments, maybe you all are just being kind. But I'm serious. What I do think is that every expert, everywhere, should make a point of playing st their local club with a beginner or an "inter" at least once a month - call it "Blending Monday" or ...
- Ever heard or seen this?
- In another post I suggested that a good name for a revised version of our wonderful game could be called "Bid-Bridge". Let's get on witn it and make something that lots more people want to play. In Bid-Bridge, hesitation would be just a distant memory as would be any ...
- Post 18. Mr. Harold Thorne and his “Bridge In 20 Minutes” little book. Monday 3rd September.
- Thanks for that Tim. I wonder if Mr. Ryan is listening and could say what he knows about Harold Thorne. But here's a little snippet for everyone to enjoy now. It was printed in the ”West Somerset Free Press, Saturday, 30th July 1904, page 2” : "With regard to the ...
- Post 18. Mr. Harold Thorne and his “Bridge In 20 Minutes” little book. Monday 3rd September.
- Yes indeed Paul, Mr. Ely Culbertson mentioned in his book on the “First Match For The Schwarb Trophy, 1933” that Hubert Phillips was “Ninespot” of the News Chronicle.
- Post 18. Mr. Harold Thorne and his “Bridge In 20 Minutes” little book. Monday 3rd September.
- Everywhere on the internet it states that Petronius was Mr. Hubert Phillips. There's no evidence and I'm not so sure. I still would like to know what happened to Harold Thorne, did he just travel off into the sunset ? Thanks everyone for their input, especially Paul. I think ...
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