Al Peters created The Khatib Kibitzer, edits the Bridge Center website and provides advice and technical support. He has been playing bridge since 1967, been an ACBL life master since 1974, and has managed and directed games in Western Europe, New York, Washington State, Arizona, and here.

He first joined the Khatib Bridge Center in 2018, meeting Dr. Reza Khatib and becoming his frequent partner, unofficial biographer and close friend. Al retired from directing at the start of the COVID pandemic. He has been a Bridge World and an ACBL Bulletin contributor, and has authored bridge columns for the newspapers Oro Valley Voice and Arizona Star.

As a young New Yorker, despite deferment and a full scholarship he paused his college career to honor family tradition, enlisting in the Air Force and drawing overseas assignment to USAF Security Services during the Vietnam War. He later earned advanced degrees from Florida Atlantic University, Adelphi University and the State University of New York and spent 13 years as teacher and administrator for Palm Beach County Schools. He left public education for the high tech industry and the Pacific Northwest, working as an engineer, CIO, Internet technologist and early webmaster. In early retirement he assisted The Washington On-Line project to advise and develop courses for on-line community college instructors.

After a long first marriage and 9 years of in Tucson Arizona, Al returned to South Florida to reunite with his high school sweetheart, Joy Marie Parkinson. Joy does not play bridge. They make their home in Palm City.

"Bridge, science, duty and recreational pursuits have taken me to 42 American states, across Mexico and Canada, and have enabled years of work and travel in a dozen foreign countries. As my first wife might say, if only I'd had a nose for profit..."