Brian R. Senior (born 1953) is a professional

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player and writer from

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. He has represented Great Britain, England, Northern Ireland and Ireland in international competition and has won all the major

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competitions. Senior is also the editor and publisher of the annual official world championship book, under

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auspices. Senior played once in the

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, on the Ireland open team in 1988, which finished 15–16th in a field of 56. Asked to name the bridge success "closest to your heart" in April 2014, Senior recalled one of the few

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match wins for Northern Ireland against England—but he has since played one of the few match losses for England against Northern Ireland. Since 23 August 2019, Senior has been Saturday bridge columnist for The Daily Telegraph.

Selected works

* ''Clever Bridge Tricks'' (Faber, 1988) * ''Master Counting'' ( Gollancz, 1989), Master Bridge series – published in association with Peter Crawley * ''Directing a Club Duplicate'' (Nottingham: Probray, 1990) * ''Weak Two Bids'' (Probray, 1991), Bridge Players Handbook * ''Bread and Butter Bidding'' ( Wheatley, OX: 1991), Maxwell Macmillan Bridge series * ''Over Your Shoulder: Learn from the experts'', Tony Forrester and Senior (London: Batsford, 1994) * ''Raising Partner'' (Faber, 1994; Batsford, 1995) * ''Step-by-step Card Play in Suits'' (Batsford, 1994) * ''The Amazing Book of Bridge: How to master the arts of the greatest of card games'' (London, Tiger Books International, 1995) * ''Play These Hands with Brian Senior'' (Batsford, 1996) * ''Hand Evaluation in Bridge'' (Batsford, 1998) * ''It's Your Lead'' (1998), How to Play Bridge series * ''Practise Your Cue-bidding'' (Reading: Bridge Plus, 1999) Bridge Plus Practice series * ''It's Your Call: Bidding problems answered by international panel'' (High Wycombe: Five Aces, 2000) * ''Competitive Bidding'' (Batsford, 2000), How to Play Bridge series * ''Conventions Today'' (London: Chess & Bridge, 2001), Better Bridge Now * ''Practise Your Trump Coups'' ( ''Bridge Plus'', 2001) * ''Suit Contracts: Essential Bridge Plays'' (

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: D & B Pub, 2003) * ''Simply the Best - 20 of the Greatest Bridge Players of All Time'' (Self-published, 2015)

Nevena Senior

Brian's wife Nevena Mihaylova Senior"Bridge Registration List"
SportAccord World Mind Games. October 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015. (born 21 September 1959) is a world champion ladies bridge player and a regular participant in European (

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) and world (

) championship tournaments since the late 1980s."BRIDGE; A Bulgarian Shows Her Mettle While Representing England"

Alan Truscott Alan Fraser Truscott (16 April 1925 – 4 September 2005) was a British-American bridge player, writer, and editor. He wrote the daily bridge column for ''The New York Times'' for 41 years, from 1964 to 2005, and served as Executive Editor for th ...

. ''The New York Times''. 27 December 2003. Retrieved 9 September 2013. As Nevena Deleva she played for the Bulgaria women at least to 1993 when she was playing captain in the European championships. They won bronze medals in the 1988

and placed 13th in 1992. By 2000 she played for the England women, who won the same event in both 2008 and 2012 (now as part of the first and second

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). For the

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, or odd-years world teams championship, England has qualified with Senior a member of the six-person team in 2003, 2011, and 2013, finishing fourth and second on the latter occasions. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and world meets (summer and October), Nevena Senior ranked 18th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP). At least for the

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in December 2011, where the England women were second in a four-team showcase, Senior played with

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,"SENIOR Nevena"
''Athlete Information''.

. December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2014. recently the 3rd-ranking Grand Master by masterpoints."Women World Grand Masters"
. WBF. Retrieved 10 November 2014.

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(2011) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Senior, Brian Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Contract bridge writers British and Irish contract bridge players Place of birth missing (living people) 1953 births Sportspeople from Nottingham English contract bridge players