Al Peters developed The Khatib Kibitzer, edits the Bridge Center’s website and often provides the club with advice and technical support. He has been an ACBL life master for over 55 years, and frequently directed bridge in Washington State and in Arizona, and at the Khatib Bridge Center for two years before retiring during the COVID pandemic. He's has written for the Bridge World and ACBL Bulletin and his columns have appeared in Tucson's Oro Valley Voice & Arizona Star.  

A native New Yorker, he paused his college career to honor family tradition by enlisting in the Air Force and serving security services overseas abroad during the Vietnam War. After service he returned to earn advanced degrees from Florida Atlantic University, Adelphi University and State University of New York.  After 13 years in Florida public service he retired from Palm Beach County Schools to continue a first marriage of 42 years and enter the high-tech industries and a life in the Pacific Northwest. He became an Internet technologist and webmaster, also assisting Washington On-Line as an on-line educator and professional writer for early Internet-based instructors and their courses.

Al’s duties and recreations have taken him to 42 American states, most of North America and several years in over a dozen European countries. After twenty seven years in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona he returned to South Florida and reunited with his high school sweetheart, Joy Marie, in 2018. They make their home in Palm City.