On Thursday 1st October 2015 Kingston Bridge Club marked three successful years of existence with a party duplicate.  Players enjoyed wine and food buffet with their bridge.  The Club continues in good health...

Kingston BC celebrated Xmas with a party duplicate on Thursday December 17th 2015.  We had ten and a half tables - a record. There are some photos at https://goo.gl/photos/usRmmz8r891pxUnVA 

The recent Barnes Café Bridge, organised by Emma Forbes and Victor Lesk plus team, raised over £3000 for Hoopers Africa Trust, a charity that works for girls' education in East Africa.  Scoring was by Victor's "BriAn" system.  240 players took part, spread across 12 venues, and the results were available within 20 minutes of the end of play.  BriAn is ideally suited to the Café Bridge format and Victor maintains a webpage with details of past and future Café events. Next event: Teddington February 2016.   Click here to access this page.

A burst water main at Shiraz Mirza Hall, Norbiton, in the second wek of January left Kingston Bridge Club's Thursday night venue under half an inch of water. The Thursday 14th January game was moved to Coombe Wood Lawn Tennis Club, thanks to the Tennis Club and to our neighbours Ruff Diamonds BC who play there. Thanks to Victor Lesk and to Ian Stewart of Coombe Wood LTC for making the arrangements.

Fortunately Thames Water has done their stuff and sealed up the leak so the hall is once again playable!  Hope to see you there this week!

The Wednesday and Thursday duplicates on 11th and 12th November 2015 respectively were both fundraisers for  the BBC Children in Need. The deals played were also played in many other bridge clubs around the country and a commentary booklet on the deals will be available at the end of play.  Together our events raised £173 and you can see the grand total nationwide - still updating and expected to surpass £70,000 - as well as the detailed results of all the events at www.ecatsbridge.com/sims.

Val & Pat O'Sullivan were our big winners in the Children in Need Sim Pairs that we ran on Thursday November 13th.  With a 66% score they finished 21st nationally out of 2144 pairs! Fantastic!   The club raised £125 for the C-i-N charity appeal and by running heats at all his clubs Ned was able to send a total cheque for £410.  Many thanks all.  The grand total nationally of money raised is so far £57,000+ and money is still coming in.  A magnificent effort by event organiser Anna Gudge of Ecatsbridge!

The duplicate on March 20th 2014 was a heat of the national Charity Challenge 'Simultaneous Pairs', organised by Anna Gudge of Ecatsbridge (www.ecatsbridge.com/sims).  The same hands were played on the same evening in many other clubs.  As a club we raised £96 for Macmillan Cancer care, contributing to a grand total raised by Ecatsbridge of around £5,000. Well done everyone and thank you!