DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

• Bridge expert - a player who is so knowledgeable about the game that he can criticise his partner's bidding and play without exposing his own vast ignorance.
• Chairs - weak players, who by virtue of their total lack of skill are simply nobodies occupying the opponents' chairs, not worthy of naming or acknowledging. (The term was originally coined when a bridge expert unkindly referred to his opponents as "two chairs".)
• Binsky contract - this is a contract just one level higher than game, where only "chairs" would ever elect to play. (The term owed its origins to Binsky, a Canadian bridge player, who had a reputation for winding up in contracts of either 5 hearts or 5 spades.........and as expected never made more than 10 tricks.)