The MSO's Bridge builder

Anna Gudge
(b 1946)

Secretary to the British Bridge League 1984 - 1999 when the BBL devolved into its constituent Unions. Works free-lance as a bridge administrator with a wide breadth of knowledge of the game and its hierarchy.

Has special expertise in organising Simultaneous Pairs events and with her business partner, Mark Newton, has developed an online scoring system used for all British events and to be used for the World Wide Simultaneous Pairs.


URL: http://www.ecatsbridge.com
email: anna@msoworld.com


Winner English National Womens Teams 1986, but rarely plays bridge now.

IBPA International Bridge Personality of the Year 2000 the first woman ever to win the award.

Main hobbies: reading, writing, cooking (and eating), theatre, travel, red wine, BIG fireworks, parties and anything else that seems interesting and fun to do at the time.

Has 2 daughters, 1 granddaughter and 4 cats.

Lives in a railway station - platform 1 is the house, platform 2 is the office. Has been known to put the answer phone on when weather is hot and take swim in pool between platforms.

Drives a Chrysler Grand Voyager, which looks like an FBI surveillance vehicle.

Cheerful and optimistic disposition with a tendency to eccentricity. Excellent computer skills. Hair normally dark-reddish but subject to change without notice. Tall, not thin, brown eyes, short sighted.

Ambitions: to own a large reptile - iguana preferred. To know what the Nazca Lines and the Pyramids were really for. To have a Pullman railway carriage as a summer house.