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Play It Again (Sam)

Some Club members may be unaware of a wonderful Bridgewebs feature for reviewing your results. Go to "Results", and click on "Scorecards". Under each hand, there's a "Play It Again" button that's been around for a while. A new feature - the "Results Analysis" button - gives all sorts juicy statistics, including X-IMPs for teams events. See the Help File for a full explanation. 
Ian Moss - Partner Friendly Bridge Mentoring

Those wanting to kick-start radical improvement in their game might like to consider one-to-one play and mentoring with top Essex player Ian Moss. Click on this box for full details. 
 
Bernie Hunt's Eastbourne Weekend 2017

Bernie's now taking orders for 2017 - Click this box for further information!
New Seminars - 4th Suit Forcing

New Wednesday seminars:-

  • 9th November: 4th Suit Forcing for the Less Experienced
  • 16th November: 4th Suit Forcing for the More Experienced

Further details to be supplied shortly!
ECBA Fletcher Trophy & Cup for Clubs

These Essex County inter-club events are to take place (at Ingatestone, NOT Barleylands) on Sunday 30th October 2016. Those wishing to represent Mid Essex Bridge Club in the Cup for Clubs should contact our recruiting sergeant, Janice Ashby.  

The team for the Fletcher Trophy is Steve Cade-Bowyer, Gary Howchen, Simon Moorman, Peter Oake, Chris Taylor, Sandy Riach, Paul Mollison & Bernie Hunt. 
Mid Essex a Top Club!

If you thought your club was a hive of activity you'd be right! The Club is the highest "new entry" - at No. 41 - in the EBU's list of Top Clubs, based on player sessions for the year  1st April 2015 to 31st March 2016. Well done to all for making the club such a success - and thanks to Bernie for his energy in developing bridge in Essex. 
EBU Really Easy Afternoon - Friday 25th March 2016

19 Pairs contested the Session of the Really Easy Afternoon held at Barleylands, with 56 pairs in total competing nationally. Well done to the top three pairs, in particular to Amarjeet & Gurdeep Singh of St. Anne's BC in Chingford who won the national event. The second and third-placed pairs are Mid-Essex Club regulars. 

  1. Amarjeet & Gurdeep Singh (St. Anne's, 1st nationally)
  2. Andrew & Anne Smith (Mid Essex, 4th nationally)
  3. David & Jean Cannan (Mid Essex, 6th nationally)

The local results are here; click on the header for the national results. 
Ray Cornell Trophy - Sun 22 Feb

Congratulations and commiserations to the Mid Essex teams in the ECBA Cornell Trophy. The Team of Eight lost out to Chelmsford on a tie-break, while Mid Essex B came second in the Teams of Four. Teams:-

  • A: Bernie Hunt & Sheena Millins, Val & Paul Mollison
  • B: Peter Oake & Simon Moorman, Gary Howchen & Steve Cade-Bowyer
Charity Bridge Event - February 2016

Belated congratulations to the winners of the Charity Event held at Barleylands on Sunday 7th February this year! Results are here, with leading positions:-

  1. Grace Smith & George Womersley
  2. Joyce Vidler & Beryl Murphy
  3. Tony & Lyn Gray

Bernie tells me that there's a write-up in the Yellow Advertiser! Unfortuately, I've not been able to track it down on-line. Anyone with better luck, or who has seen the article, might let me know. 
ECBA League Cup Final

It looks like civil war broke out in the final of the Essex League Cup. The Barleylands team (Peter Oake, Robert Elliott, Alan Green & David Clarke) beat Academics (Paul Mollison, Bernie Hunt, Ray Clarke & Gary Howchen) by 99-56 IMPs. But Academics look even more "Barleylands" than Barleylands. Anyway, it just shows the strength of the club, and well done to both teams for getting to the final and to Barleylands for winning. 
Basic Course - 2016

Where else would you advise people to learn other than at the patient and knowledgeable hands of Bernie Hunt! Tell all your non-playing family and friends!

This year's course started on Friday 16th September 2016, and the course runs at the same time on Friday mornings at 10.30-12.30.

The first two classes are free. After that, fees are "pay as you go" at £6.50 per class.
ECBA Notice Board

Bernie has set aside the Notice Board by the biscuits to advertise upcoming Essex County events. The latest ECBA Events Calendar can be found there. Those interested might like to inspect it, or click on this box for the ECBA website. 
EBU Members Area

Bernie would like Club members to be aware of the EBU (English Bridge Union) Members Area (click on the heading above) which enables you to see your Master Points and NGS (National Grading System) rating. Set up initially requires Bernie to send your email address to the EBU (you can subsequently remove it) so your password can be emailed to you. If you'd like to be set up, please let Bernie know your email address (eg. via firstclassbridge@btconnect.com).   
Wednesday Afternoon Club

Please note that the Wednesday 13:30 session is SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Watch this space if interested. 
Beginners Club

An ideal starting place for someone who wants to play Club bridge. A host system is in operation so you are sure of a partner. Thursday mornings 10:00 to 12:45.
Congratulations!

This website draws attention to successes by the Mid Essex team, and by Club regulars in County or National competitions. As part of a set of new initiatives, we intend to draw members' attention to lesser but equally important successes within the Club by those either relatively new to the game, or who don't often feature amongst the usual suspects who win things. 

One of these initiatives is to congratulate players who win a duplicate session for the first time. These will be noted on the page that provides links to the ladders. So, ...

To find out more, follow the links on the Results Archive & Ladders Page (click here). 
Bernie Hunt's Animated YouTube Tutorials!

The unbelievable truth is that these pearls of wisdom have had more views than both the free Andrew Robson and Tony Forrester tutorials put together. For the animated presentations Click Here.

Don't miss out on these highly invaluable/educational tutorials on YouTube. There are some luddites who would rather suck a lemon than utter a sentence with partnership aid understanding all included! For the remainder of us that are caring and sharing and like our partners get along you'll be surprised just how useful this aide memoire is!! Brought to you by the hard and time consuming work of Brian Moreton.
1st Friday - Butler Scored Session

Every 1st Friday session of the month will be scored using the Butler system. This scores the session closer to Teams. For a fuller description Click Here. If you don't do so well you might well empathise with Blakey!
Results
25th Oct 2016
Tuesday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Director: Bernie
Scorer: Bridgemates
24th Oct 2016
Monday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Director: Bernie
Scorer: Bridgemates
22nd Oct 2016
Saturday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Director: Bernie
Scorer: Bridgemates
Calendar
27th Oct 2016
Thursday Duplicate Pairs - No Fear
Barleylands 10:00
27th Oct 2016
Thursday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Barleylands 19:30
28th Oct 2016
Friday Duplicate Pairs - Advanced
Barleylands 19:30
Basic Course - 2016

Where else would you advise people to learn other than at the patient and knowledgeable hands of Bernie Hunt! Tell all your non-playing family and friends!

This year's course started on Friday 16th September 2016, and the course runs at the same time on Friday mornings at 10.30-12.30.

The first two classes are free. After that, fees are "pay as you go" at £6.50 per class.
ECBA Notice Board

Bernie has set aside the Notice Board by the biscuits to advertise upcoming Essex County events. The latest ECBA Events Calendar can be found there. Those interested might like to inspect it, or click on this box for the ECBA website. 
EBU Members Area

Bernie would like Club members to be aware of the EBU (English Bridge Union) Members Area (click on the heading above) which enables you to see your Master Points and NGS (National Grading System) rating. Set up initially requires Bernie to send your email address to the EBU (you can subsequently remove it) so your password can be emailed to you. If you'd like to be set up, please let Bernie know your email address (eg. via firstclassbridge@btconnect.com).   
Wednesday Afternoon Club

Please note that the Wednesday 13:30 session is SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Watch this space if interested. 
Beginners Club

An ideal starting place for someone who wants to play Club bridge. A host system is in operation so you are sure of a partner. Thursday mornings 10:00 to 12:45.
Congratulations!

This website draws attention to successes by the Mid Essex team, and by Club regulars in County or National competitions. As part of a set of new initiatives, we intend to draw members' attention to lesser but equally important successes within the Club by those either relatively new to the game, or who don't often feature amongst the usual suspects who win things. 

One of these initiatives is to congratulate players who win a duplicate session for the first time. These will be noted on the page that provides links to the ladders. So, ...

To find out more, follow the links on the Results Archive & Ladders Page (click here). 
Bernie Hunt's Animated YouTube Tutorials!

The unbelievable truth is that these pearls of wisdom have had more views than both the free Andrew Robson and Tony Forrester tutorials put together. For the animated presentations Click Here.

Don't miss out on these highly invaluable/educational tutorials on YouTube. There are some luddites who would rather suck a lemon than utter a sentence with partnership aid understanding all included! For the remainder of us that are caring and sharing and like our partners get along you'll be surprised just how useful this aide memoire is!! Brought to you by the hard and time consuming work of Brian Moreton.
1st Friday - Butler Scored Session

Every 1st Friday session of the month will be scored using the Butler system. This scores the session closer to Teams. For a fuller description Click Here. If you don't do so well you might well empathise with Blakey!
Results
25th Oct 2016
Tuesday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Director: Bernie
Scorer: Bridgemates
24th Oct 2016
Monday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Director: Bernie
Scorer: Bridgemates
22nd Oct 2016
Saturday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Director: Bernie
Scorer: Bridgemates
Calendar
27th Oct 2016
Thursday Duplicate Pairs - No Fear
Barleylands 10:00
27th Oct 2016
Thursday Duplicate Pairs - Improvers
Barleylands 19:30
28th Oct 2016
Friday Duplicate Pairs - Advanced
Barleylands 19:30
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