Quite a few of our members have been playing in the Manx  Bridge Union Congress with good results.  Stuart Davies, Paul Belsten and new member Stephen Berson together with a player from another club came second in the teams.  Stuart and his partner won the Mixed and Open pairs and Stuart and Paul came third in the Swiss Pairs.  The results for each of the sessions including the positions and percentages of the other Bradford players can be seen on https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwom/bw.cgi?club=manx&pid=display_past&sessid=531076444739685

This relaxed Charity Drive will be held on Saturday 5th October 2019 at 1.00pm. All proceeds will go to Manorlands Hospice. Complimentary tea/coffee and cake will be available at the interval.  Everyone is very welcome.  There will be a host for anyone without a partner.

For catering purposes, please sign the list in the tearoom if you would like to attend.

Some of our members have been competing against people from all over the country in the EBU Summer Congress.   The full results can be seen on the EBU website but special successes for players from our Club were as follows:-

Aug 6  GCH Fox Pairs   2nd Stuart Davies and George Bak  (118 pairs competed)

Aug 8   Mixed Pair Championship  3rd  Carole Kelly and Stuart Davies

Aug 9    Point A Board Teams  1st  Alan Jarvis (with three others)

Aug 9    Friday pairs   3rd  Stuart Davies (with Nick Doe)

The August 100 Club winners are

5 August. Susan Hoyle

12 August  Pat Benson

19 August  Carole Binnie

26 August  Eleanor Senior

If you use your EBU diary please note that with the latest edition of English Bridge members are being told that from 2020 if they wish to receive a diary then they will need to OPT IN. This is to reduce the number of unwanted diaries which are sent out which obviously has both an environmental and financial impact. To opt in to receive the diary members will need to login to My EBU and check the appropriate tick box, even if they were previously marked to receive it. If members ask for assistance with doing this then the Club should be able to do this for them provided that the member has given the club permissions to update their details.

Everyone will be interested to know that several members from the Club played in the recent Scarborough Congress.  All did well  - with the most notable success being in the Senior Pairs Qualifier when Gill Copeland and Steve Blackburn were the top pair.  All the results can be seen on the EBU website.

Next Season's Pro-Am Evening League competition begins on Tuesday 8th October

Teams of 4 compete on a Tuesday evening once a month for approximately 7 sessions.  Each team is captained by a more experienced player who will provide encouragement and talk about the hands at the end of each session.

If you are interested, please sign the sheet in the tearoom by Thursday 29th August

If you have any queries, please contact Georgie Ramseyer

Congratulations to Stephen, Sharon, Elaine and Peter.  They won the Mixed Pivot Teams Championship held on Monday 15th July

Louise and Mark Armitage came fourth in the County Yorkshire Flitch held at Doncaster on July 14th.  Very well done.

We hope that this will not be the case but members should be aware that due to illness there may, possibly, not be a host at the Club on the evening of Wednesday 17th July. 

Congratulations to George and Stuart - our winners of the Hill Pairs competition.  Morris Brown and Cath Riley came second.  Well done.

The winners of the 100 club in July are:- 1 July Kath Jagger 8 July. Madeleine Newby 15 July Margaret Brayshaw 22 July. Wendy Murphy 29th. Richard King

The dates for next season's Yorkshire League matches have been published - so please put them in your diaries!

Congratulations to Sue (Sheldrick) and Madeleine. They won the Vera Walton trophy competition on 12th June. 

Congratulations to George Bak, Gill Copeland and Steve Blackburn who, playing with non Club member Nichola Cockerill-Smith, won the final of the Yorkshire Congress team event held in Harrogate on the weekend of 9/10 of June.  Well done to you all.

Our extremely successful mentoring scheme formally came to an end at the end of June.  Many, many thanks to the mentors who took part.  They all spent a lot of time with their respective mentees, meeting up with them to discuss various hands, advising on system cards and frequently playing with a mentee in a Club session.   Everyone agrees that the help that was given has made all the difference to our intermediate players.

The scheme may run again in 2020-21 depending on interest and demand in twelve months time.

Monday 3 June was a very special day at our bridge Club as it was Kath Fort’s birthday.  She had provided what was said to be  ‘nibbles’  but that certainly didn’t cover the absolutely wonderful array of food that we had in the extended interval.  Chris gave an account of Kath’s long-time association with the Club and Susan presented her with a bouquet.

Thank you so much Kath for doing all this.  You and your family must have worked extremely hard to get everything so well organised.  It was a really lovely evening.     HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Please note that the venue for the Yorkshire  Mixed Pairs event to be held on Sunday June 16th is Wetherby Bridge Club.  The competition is NOT at Bradford.

Full details of the event can be found at   http://www.ycba.co.uk/events/mxpr-f.htm

On Monday May 20th the winners of the Joyce Allard Trophy were Robert's team - Robert Eaton, Lynn Nutton, Georgie Ramseyer and Richard King.  Well done to you all.

Congratulations to Stuart Davies and Alan Jarvis who won this event at Huddersfield bridge club on May 19th. Also to George Bak, Steve Blackburn and Carole Kelly. George and Steve came third in the same event tieing with Carole and her partner - Geoff Kenyon from Doncaster. Twenty four pairs from over the region competed.

The Bradford Swiss Pairs competition for the Rita Oldroyd Cup was held on Sunday 14th April and, in addition to Club members, a lot of participants came from other bridge clubs to compete.  The winners were Mike Ash and Rob Ferrari, with two pairs -  Dave Robinson partnering Sandy Davies and TonyMcNiff partnering Bill Townsend - tieing in second place.  Gill Copeland and Steve Blackburn were the highest ranking Bradford pair.

Many thanks to our wonderful house committee for providing such a lovely buffet meal.

Monday 15th April was a handicapped  event and seven teams competed.  The raw results can be seen by clicking the Results Tab in the usual way.  However Pianola does not deal with the handicaps.  The final result for the top four teams, with the handicap applied, is as follows:-  

Many congratulations to the winners of the Haslock Trophy - Hazel Greenwood and Margaret Brayshaw.  Very well played - a great result!

This competition concluded this week and in an exciting photo finish Team Andrews L pipped Team Davies on a split tie after both finished on 89VP. So hard luck for Stuart’s team and congratulations to Laurie’s. Team Eaton took third spot on 83 VP, not so far behind. Unfortunately the results from the final round of matches cannot yet be displayed on the results page but this will be remedied in due course. Thanks to all who played throughout the winter to make this competition a success.