While applauding the boom in chess (Editorial, 14 March), may I put in a word for bridge? It has everything chess has (including a booming online community) and much more. It is a partnership game, and cooperating with a partner teaches skills that chess players can’t comprehend.
Played in a club (either online or face to face), each round brings different opponents. A hand of bridge is played relatively quickly, and it’s easy to enjoy a couple of hands in a coffee break.
Lastly, bridge has an element of deduction. In chess and many other board games, all the information is in front of you. In bridge, deducing who holds which cards (from the auction, from the play, from your opponents’ demeanour) is a crucial part of the game.
Martin S Taylor
Byfleet, Surrey