BLUE CHIP BRIDGE LIMITED

ABOUT BLUE CHIP BRIDGE LIMITED

I became Software Consultant to BBC Television's Computer Literacy Project, writing most of the software for "The Computer Programme", "Making the Most of the Micro" and "Computers in Control".  I even appeared as a presenter in several of the programmes in the series.  In those early days before in-studio graphics systems, I produced computer graphics for a number of other BBC television programmes, including "Tomorrow's World", "Horizon", "Science Topics" and "Body Matters".  I also produced animated graphics to illustrate medical lectures.

Blue Chip Bridge has now grown to such an extent that it has taken over almost all of my working time.

I began playing bridge at school in Edinburgh, over 30 years ago, and enjoyed some success as a junior player, winning the Scottish Junior Pairs and the British University Teams.  After leaving university, I worked as an industrial chemist in South Africa and in England, and took a year off to drive around Africa in a Land Rover.  My career as a chemist finished in the early 90s.  Soon after that, Ian and I began to work on developing his early version of Blue Chip Bridge and this has kept us busy ever since.  I have also written many articles for bridge magazines. My bidding quizzes for "Bridge Plus" magazine were published as two books : "Test Your Acol Bidding" (1995) and "Practice Your Acol Bidding" (1998).