by CBAI | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
With all clubs closed, and all CBAI and IBU competitions cancelled or postponed until at least mid-July, if we want to get our bridge fix for the foreseeable future, we will have to do it online. This website already had a brief outline of the various platforms for...
by CBAI | May 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Courtesy of Fearghal O’Boyle and Diarmuid Reddan, we had a very high-quality invitational Swiss Teams challenge featuring the top Irish players and an overseas guest or two on BBO on Sunday 3 May. The quality of the field is demonstrated by the fact that it...
by CBAI | May 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Many congratulations to Thomas MacCormac, who has become the most recent addition to the ranks of Irish grandmasters. Usually, this achievement is celebrated by a personal presentation of the CBAI Grandmaster’s salver, and Thomas had planned a gala charity...
by CBAI | Apr 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
We are saddened to report the death of the well-known journalist, author, and former Irish Times bridge correspondent, George Ryan. George will be best remembered in bridge circles for his incredibly popular pocket-sized primer on the game, “The Bones of...
by CBAI | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Given the current lack of real-life bridge, bridge bodies are finding all kinds of ways to enable us to get our bridge fix. If you’d like to watch some top-level bridge involving two well-known Irish participants, the US Spring Nationals in Columbus, Ohio, which...
