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David  GOLD

 David è nato nel 1979 a Reading, una cittadina circa 70 Km. ad Ovest di Londra e ha cominciato a giocare a bridge verso i 16 anni sotto la guida del padre che era un accanito bridgista e assieme al fratello Michael, che oggi è anche lui un buon giocatore.

 Si è laureato alla  Reading School nel 1997 e alla Goldsmiths nel 1988.

 Dopo essere stato un giovane campioncino di scacchi ed essersi laureato nel 1998 alla Goldsmith University di Londra, David iniziò a giocare a Bridge seriamente nel 1999 quando legò una forte partnership con Tom Townsend.

 David, che è stato il Direttore della Scuola del St. Johns Wood Bridge Club, fa parte della nazionale britannica dal 2001 e vanta  la medaglia di bronzo agli Europei Open di  Tenerife nel 2005, la Finale Olimpica del 2008 a Pechino e la NEC Cup del 2011.

 Oggi vive a Londra con Rowena Clow e scrive regolarmente per Bridge Plus.

  David was born in Reading on September 10th 1979 and live in London with Rowena Clow.

David is a graduate of Reading School (1987) and Goldsmhits (1988).

He started his career in the sports world as a top junior chess player going on to learn bridge at school aged about 16.

He also played a little rubber bridge in London with his father who was an avid bridge player.

After deciding that further education and a maths degree wasn't what he wanted to do, David started to get seriously into bridge in 1999 when he had just turned 19.

He began working as a host at the St John's Wood Bridge Club, and in 2000 started a partnership with Tom Townsend who had been taught to play as a school boy by David's father!

Tom and David played in the trials later that year reaching the semis and gaining, for David, his first Camrose Cap.

David says that he has learnt most of what he knows about the game from his parnter Tom.

David is now a full time bridge professional, running the St Johns Wood BC he owns jointly with his father.

David and Tom won the 2003/2004 Open Trials with John Armstrong and Danny Davies, thus earning the right to compete in the European Teams Championship and the World Team Olympiad.

In 2001 he won the NEC Cup.