RealBridge Bidding Contest - June 2024 Rankings

Chris transitioned from chess to bridge when he moved to Darwin in 2011. He says, 'Playing with the redoubtable Michael Courtney, I won the Butler Pairs at the Australian National Championship in July 2023. I might be the only person in the world with national championship victories in both chess and bridge'.

Nao Tabata was a member of the French teams that won silver medals at the 2019 Under-21 European Teams and gold at the 2022 Under-26 Teams European Teams. He will be in the French team at the European Youth Championships in Poland this month and at the World Championships later this year.

Stephen is a regular player at the F2F club in Arlington, Texas, where he also directs three games a week. He typically plays with his partner of 40 years, his wife Nancy Kornegay. Both of them have over 10k MPs.

Wubbo de Boer from Netherlands says, “In the 1980s I played for the Dutch Juniors (against you Marc!) (Yes, I remember. MS). Then I played for the Dutch Open team with Bauke Muller until I stopped playing international bridge in 2001 and went for a social career. From 2009 on, my wife Agnes Snellers and I, have been captain and coach of the Dutch Junior Under-26 team with some ups and downs.” What Wubbo modestly does not mention is that he was a member of the Dutch team that became the youngest-ever winners of the Bermuda Bowl in 1993.