The Leveling Up Podcast with Adam Parrish this week features a great interview with English International David Gold.
David started as a top junior chess player before he learned to play bridge at school. David has been a fixture on England’s open team since 2004, winning a silver medal in the World Bridge Games in 2008. He won bronze medals in World Championships in 2017 and 2022.
David has won many events, including victory in the Gold Cup five times, Premier League nine times, and Spring Foursomes three times. He was the winner of the inaugural Player of the Year Championship for the 2014/15 season.
In the US, he won the Vanderbilt in 2023 and the Mitchell BAM in 2017.
The podcast from Adam Parrish explores how one gets better at bridge and advances to the next level—be that from intermediate to advanced or expert to world class. The podcast follows Adam's conversations with world-class bridge players about how they got to where they are and what they do to maintain and hone their game.
You can watch it on YouTube. You can also listen wherever you get your podcasts.
February 18, 2026