About the author
Christopher Martin learned to play bridge in his early teens watching his parents in the evenings - anything rather than being sent off to bed.
Further experience came on a French exchange from school, playing “Plafond” with French cards in the Cean prefecture with the prefet's three sons.
He won his first duplicate pairs event at the Birmingham club aged 21 and, with the same partner, his team won the Business Houses League that year. Standards were easier then.
His first book "Bridge Learners Table-Side Reference" was sketched out in Bombay and finally published in 1978. The first edition came out as a photo album (Grandma's boasting book from Boots) with the 32 pages of text inserted instead of photos. It has been in print with revisions and updates ever since and has sold over 17,000 copies to date.
The author has played rubber or duplicate bridge in Auckland, Sydney, Hong Kong, Dover, Bombay, Colombo, Jaffna, Kobe, France and many clubs in this country.
He has tutored in evening classes in Harrow, Henley and Burnham and has run weekend courses at many ARCA colleges. He currently conducts residential courses at Higham Hall in Cumbria and teaches private groups (four to six tables) by arrangement.
