Bridge Teacher
Jack Stocken has established himself as one of the country’s foremost bridge teachers; renowned for his patience, clarification of teaching and most important of all, making bridge a fun game to learn. Jack started teaching bridge in 1999 at The Andrew Robson Bridge Club where he worked as the club’s manager for seven years. He returned to his native Yorkshire in 2006 where he started “Yorkshire Bridge” and had regular classes in Harrogate and Helmsley. His bridge teaching is in the same style as at the London Club, with an emphasis on creating a friendly atmosphere and enjoyment of the game. In 2013 he was featured in a two page spread in The Yorkshire Post magazine – view a PDF here
In May 2020 when lockdown started, Jack joined the website learnbridgeonline.com where he now teaches three online classes a week for beginners, improvers and intermediates. He has become one of the world’s leading online bridge teachers with hundreds of weekly subscribers. Click on the weblink to register for a free lesson.
Bridge Holidays
Jack runs Andrew Robson Bridge Holidays which include ski trips, summer holidays and bridge weekends on the South coast at the Millstream Hotel. The hotels are always 4* or 5* and past locations include Lake Garda, Madeira, Sicily, Malta, Dubrovnik and for skiers, Oberlech, Klosters, Zermatt and Saalbach. Visit the website www.andrewrobsonbridgeholidays.co.uk
Bridge Columnist
In September 2014 Jack was appointed the bridge columnist for the Yorkshire Post newspaper. Read his column inside the back page of the Saturday magazine which is aimed at Intermediate and Improver level.
Bridge Player
Jack was taught bridge by his father, Peter, as a child along with his two brothers, Simon and Zeb and sister Claudia. It was not until their teenage years that they started playing Duplicate at the local club and were soon playing in tournaments as a family all over England. He was a member of the English Junior Squad and has also represented Yorkshire.
He has won several national tournaments including the prestigious Year End Swiss Pairs with his father Peter, and in 2016 the English Bridge Union’s Harrogate Spring Congress Swiss Pairs with Bill Townsend.
He has also won many county tournaments including the Yorkshire Masters Pairs a record four times with Phil Godfrey and the Leeds Swiss Pairs a record three times. Jack’s NGS ranking is currently Ace of Hearts and he has achieved the rank of Life Master.
In his spare time, Jack likes playing golf and enjoying time with his children.
Jeremy Clarkson
Click here to read Jeremy’s amusing article in The Sunday Times about his (failed) efforts to learn bridge and how he couldn’t get his head around “Lose to Win”.
- click here to listen to my 5 minute chat on York Radio about online bridge
- click here to read an article in the Sunday Times about online bridge