Colchester Duplicate Bridge Club, Essex

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Butler Scoring

Butler scoring is an alternative to the regular Match Point scoring system. An IMP score is calculated based on the margin by which a particular score is better or worse than the average score for that board. The playing strategy is similar to that of Teams bridge.

As an example, the May 1, 2012 results have been recalculated and are shown in the Results section on this page.

Please note that the formal club results will continue to be submitted in the Match Point format until further notice.

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10th May 2012 10:29 BST

Welcome to Colchester Duplicate Bridge Club

No Bridge on June 5

The Highwoods Community Centre will be CLOSED for the Jubilee Bank Holiday on June 5. Consequently there will be NO BRIDGE that day.

This is the home page for the Colchester Duplicate Bridge Club and provides information on all aspects of the club, including results for previous weeks and details of forthcoming events.

The club is affiliated to the English Bridge Union and plays with 16 other clubs in the Suffolk Contract Bridge Association.

Suffolk Pairs Final

Six of the 24 pairs who qualified for the Suffolk Championship Pairs Final on April 15 play regularly at Colchester.

Mike Sherer & Eric Newman scored an excellent 60.05% to achieve second place while Rick Hanley/Alan Green, Graham Beeton/Jeff Orton, David Morran/Julian Lang, Christine Cooke/Keith Belsey and Barbara Dodgson/John Musgrove finished in excellent 5th, 6th, 8th, 14th & 15th places respectively.

Suffolk Win ECL

For the very first time, the Suffolk first team has won the Eastern Counties League and regular Colchester players made a significant contribution to that win, seven of the twelve players who represented Suffolk in that team during the past year coming from our club.

Congratulations to Graham Beeton, Rick Hanley, Julian Lang, David Morran, Eric Newman, Jeff Orton and Mike Sherer.

See the SCBA website for more details - click on "Useful Links" on the left, then "Suffolk".

2011 Champions

The 2011 Champions were presented with their trophies at the AGM.

Club Champion     Julian Lang
Club Pairs Champions     Charles Ward & Malcolm Gosling
Leishman Tankards        Wendy Hanford & Malcolm Gosling
Ludlow Cup                     Babs Bacon
Handicap Trophy            Malcolm Gosling

                                   Congratulations to them all!

Abbeygate Shield

For the third year in succession, a team from Colchester DBC has won the Abbeygate Shield - a Teams of Eight competition open to Suffolk clubs - this time with 127 VPs, ahead of Ipswich & Kesgrave (103 VPs), Ipswich Hospitals (100 VPs) and six other clubs. This entitles Colchester to represent Suffolk clubs in the Regional Finals of the Garden Cities Trophy in May 2012.

Leishman

To see the latest Leishman results, click on "Competitions" and "Leishman 2012".

All the first round matches have now been played. Please arrange to play the second round soon.

Results to EBU

Results are submitted to the EBU on the Friday after each Tuesday's game. Any queries relating to the results should be made to the scorer prior to that time.