For many years now, real-life hands have been my main, or even unique, bridge passion; it began in the early 90s. Collecting hand and play records from bridge tournaments was not easy back then but after 1996 the spread of the Internet was a boon for us Vugraph buffs who are no longer obliged to visit expensive and far away venues in order to watch the great champions live, nor we have to wait long months for the hands to appear in the magazines or in the official book of the tournament. Now we can watch Vugraph live and the thousands of fans who had the luck to watch the 2003 Bermuda Bowl nail-biting final know the feeling.
Fred Gitelman and his Bridge Base Online site have been instrumental for this move; the bridge community is grateful to him. Many matches are transmitted nowadays via BBO, also via other web sites. Attempts that were made back in 2001 by some websites to monopolize the Vugraph transmission and to keep the data exclusively for paying subscribers seem to have I intend to collect in these pages Vugraph data from bridge tournaments, especially data not easily or readily available elsewhere.
Here you can find data from events played in...