Al Peters created The Khatib Kibitzer, edits the Bridge Center’s website and often provides advice and technical support. He's been an ACBL life master since 1974. and previously directed games in New York, Washington and Arizona. He joined the Khatib Bridge Center in 2018 and directed before retiring during COVID pandemic. He has written for the former Bridge World and for the ACBL Bulletin, and wrote columns for the Oro Valley Voice and the Arizona Star.  After 9 years in Tucson he returned to South Florida to reunite with his high school sweetheart, Joy Marie Parkinson. They make their home in Palm City.

Al has enjoyed a variety of careers during his long involvements with Bridge. As a young New Yorker under a full scholarship he paused his college career, honoring family tradition with an enlistment in the Air Force and an assignment to its overseas Security Services during the Vietnam War. He returned to earn advanced degrees from Florida Atlantic University, Adelphi University and the State University of New York. He spent 13 years in instructional and administrative roles with Palm Beach County Schools , but retired from public education to enter the high-tech industry and relocate to the Pacific Northwest. He worked as a CIO, Internet technologist and webmaster, and in retirement assisted The Washington On-Line project to advise and develop curricula, writing coursework for other on-line instructors.

"Duty and recreation had taken me to 42 American states, across Mexico and Canada" commented Al, "and to several years of work and travel to over a dozen European countries. If only I'd had a nose for profit..."