American Contract Bridge League's monthly magazine, the Bulletin. Other bridge players, including several prominent ones, have confessed to cheating, according to posts on the aptly named blog Bridge Winners, since the game went online after the pandemic shut down in-person competitions.
Playing online makes cheating relatively easy, either by players swapping information on the phone or in person or using a software program that enables someone to see all four hands, or using a second computer while playing.
But it was impossible to estimate how many people have been sanctioned for cheating nationally; a query to the ACBL was not answered at press time.A member of the ACBL's ethics committee, Ron Smith, a gay man who is a professional.