The 2012 AGM was held on Thursday May 10th.

To see the draft minutes click on 'Membership' to the left, and then on the relevant minutes on the drop-down menu that appears.

Please notify David Flower (DavJFlower@BTINTERNET.COM) of any errors or omissions.

Banbury finshed the season by defeating Wantage A 16-4

This means that Banbury had a played seven - won seven record; you can't do better than that! Congratulations to the fifteen players who played in the course of the season.

For the final league table go to 'News page'

Go to the Results page for additional analysis.

Sometimes you need a little bit of luck; today's hand illustrates this.

Keep those hands coming Folks!

David Flower (DavJFlower@BTINTERNET.COM)

Banbury has won the Ban Bic Cup, their top three pairs scoring 241 MP (55.8%) compared to Bicester's 215 MP (49.8%).

Interestingly, had the average of all pairs playing been taken., Banbury would still have won, but only by the narrowest possible margin (50.1% to 49.8%) 

In the Oxfordshire Newsletter, there was a reference to a prize of a lunch at a pub in banbury, yet noone entered. See http://www.oxfordshirebridge.co.uk/newsletters/2011-12update.pdf

The minutes of the recent AGM have been added to the website. To see them, just click on 'Membership' in the list on the left hand side, and then on 'AGM Minutes 2011', scrolling down if necessary.

Any corrections to David Flower (DavJFlower@ BTINTERNET.COM)

Welcome to the Banbury Bridge Club website. This has just been created, and there are without doubt errors and omissions. If you see a problem, please tell David Flower on DavJFlower@BTINTERNET.COM

This was Board 1 on March 1^st 2012:

Dealer: N

Vul: none

               Q 10 9 8 7 2

               7 3

               K 10 9 5

               8

3                             7 5

8                             K J 6 5 4 2

A Q J 7 6 4             3

A K Q 7 6               J 5 3 2

               A K 6 4

               A Q 10 9

               8 2

               10 9 4

N        E          S        W

Pass   pass     1NT     2NT

3S      pass       4S      5D

dble   pass      pass    pass

North led C8, the CJ winning in dummy.

Declarer finessed DQ, losing to North’s King

North returned a spade to South’s K

Club ruff

Spade (a heart results in a 3-trick defeat)

Should North have switched to a heart, or should South have played the SA on the first round to virtually force North into a heart switch ?