Want to Play Bridge in Essex?

 

Essex Contract Bridge Association welcomes new and existing bridge players across the county. If you would like to learn bridge, play at club or county level please get in touch - john@johnmccoy.co.uk.

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CAMBS & HUNTS CBA - BLUE POINTED COUNTY SWISS PAIRS

Sunday 28 th April 2024 Fulbourn Centre Home End, Fulbourn, Cambs CB21 5BS 11.00 am - 6.00p.m. 2 sessions of 3 X 8 boards with a short break for refreshments.

Cost £15.00 per player

To avoid disappointment please enter early. Entries online by April 26th please to https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwoq/bw.cgi?club=cambshunts&pid=display_page79 or send cheque(s) with names, EBU numbers, and contact email for acknowledgement to Peter Last, 35 Eversden Road, Harlton, CB23 1ET Refreshments:

Bring your own food (1/2 hr. lunch break about 2.00pm.)

Free squash, tea and coffee

Licenced bar available

 www.bridgewebs.com/cambshunts/

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Welcome to Essex Contract Bridge Association
Upcoming Essex events

  

Teams of Four 17th March 2024 - RealBridge. Essex members only as the winning team will qualify to represent Essex in the Pachabo.

RealBridge Links

Session 1 qualifier session

https://play.realbridge.online/dt.html?p=240317125639&q=PlayerSOzuGm5uA0vf

Session 2 Plate  event

https://play.realbridge.online/dt.html?p=240317125640&q=PlayerWbucO5P5bUao

Session 2 Final 

https://play.realbridge.online/dt.html?p=240317125641&q=Player6NVzsAsTJZXL

Championship Pairs 21 April 2024 - Barleylands. This is the premier event for Essex members only.  

See Competitions and Entry Forms for more details and entry forms.

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Worldwide Essex events

Back to winning ways for the Essex players who took 5 out of the top 6 places on 6 March, with Maureen and George Vede taking the top spot.  From the range of surnames of the 26 pairs it is attracting players from a very wide area.
 
The next event will be on 20 March starting at 7pm on RealBridge and is absolutely free to enter. 

If you are interested in participating in this event or any future Wednesday International Event, please contact Marc Chawner at Marc.Chawner@aol.com so that a RealBridge Event Link can be sent out to you.

If you require a partner for this event, please let Marc know as there is every chance that a partner can be found for you (Especially, if you can speak fluent Swedish). 
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Ray Cornell Trophy results

An impressive win by Mid-Essex B ( Ray Clarke, Petra Bromfield, Peter Oake, Simon Moorman) with +75 IMPs. Mid-Essex A (Graham Beeton, Tanya Genthe, Pat Johnson, Peter Scotting) were in second place with +43 IMPs. The combined result of the two teams means Mid-Essex qualify to represent Essex in the Garden Cities event. Chelmsford B (Audrey Hartley, David Embleton, Peter & Wendy Williamson) were third.   

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Boot camps - Marc Chawner
Boot camps - Marc Chawner

 

Following the Boot Camps Marc Chawner has now produced three guides; Defence, Play in a No Trump contract and Play in a Suit contract 

 

Most of the best players in Essex were set the task of playing the hands in each category -  not always successfully.

 

See if you can do better, if not with Marc's hands maybe the next time you play at the club.

 

 Download the PDFs Defence, No trumpSuit contracts

They will give you everything you could ever want to know!

 

Once again the ECBA would like to express their sincere gratitude to Marc for this formidable work.

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Essex County matches

The last round of County matches was played over the weekend with a magnificent 14-6 win by the 'A' team over Hertfordshire, the league champions.

This enabled the Essex team to finish a very creditable third position in the Eastern Counties league.

Not such good results for the 'B' and 'C' teams who lost 18-2 and 14-6 respectively, however, they finished in very creditable positions of 3rd and 4th in their respective divisions.  

 

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Bridge Lessons at Falcon

New bridge courses start 8  April

For more information please contat Valdie Poter 07722516561 or Valpoter@hotmail.com

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Congratulations

Well done to Essex pair Jayne and Graham Randall who came a very creditable 12th out of 139 in the EBU Masters Pairs on 25th February.

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Club Tournament Director training, Suffolk and Watford

 

EBED is delighted to announce a new Club TD training course at Cavendish Hall Church Road Thurston IP31 3RU and St Andrews Church Hall Church Lane Watford WD17 4PY

Price £72 per session for EBU members, £80 for non EBU members.  

Day 0 (How to run a club duplicate)

Suffolk April  2024 

Watford  1 June 2024

Day 1 (Book rulings) 

Suffolk 21 April 2024

Watford 15 June 2024

Day 2 (Book and judgement rulings

Suffolk 5 May 2024

Watford 29 June 2024

Day 3 (Assessment) 

Suffilk 19 May 2024

Watford 13 July 2024

How to Book

Either, book and pay through an EBU club, a club official should email clive@ebedcio.org.uk giving details of the club, the sessions required and the EBU numbers of those attending. 

EBU members can book via myEBU, see here for a demo video of how to book via MyEBU or by calling Lisa Miller (Monday – Wednesday 01296 317217)

 

 

 

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Essex Leagues

 

The Essex leagues have re-started. Entries are now closed. 

There are two leagues, for latest results and positions see HERE 

Good luck and play well!

 

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Essex Contract Bridge Association
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The ECBA was formed in 1946. We have around 1,700 members and 16 affiliated clubs. ..........

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Based on the EBU statistics for 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020 (no data for 2020/21 due to Covid) we have 3 clubs amongst the 50 most active in the country. ..........

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Play It Again (Sam)
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Some Website users may be unaware of a wonderful new and updated Bridgewebs feature for reviewing your results. Go to "Results", and click on "Scorecards". ..........

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Results
Teams of 4 Qualifier
Teams of 4 Plate
Teams of 4 Final
Essex International Pairs 6th March
Calendar
Sun 17th Mar 2024
Teams of 4
RealBridge 12.00
Wed 20th Mar 2024
Essex International Pairs
RealBridge 7pm
Wed 3rd Apr 2024
Essex International Swiss Pairs
RealBridge 7pm
Sun 21st Apr 2024
Championship Pairs
Barleylands 12.00