Congratulations to

The Winners  Tracy Jarvis and Barry Smith, 

and

The Runners-Up Brian Stockdale and Patricia Harris.

The club's committee would like to pass on their congratulations to the 2015 club champion - Hugh Cairns. 

The club champion is the person who gains the most master points in a year from playing bridge at the club. 

Player	MPs
	Hugh Cairns	1038
	Brian Stockdale	992
	Gary Jones	854
	Pat Simpson	854

Check your ranking here     http://www.ebu.co.uk/mpreports-data/data/2015/4/leicester.pdf 

The Winners of the Jackson Cup (our club championship competition) are

Jim Taylor and Harry Gordon 67.59%

Joint Runners-up Ian Inglis and Joan Hope, Chris Waddington and Bill Wrigley 57.14%

The Winners of the Alice Trophy

Geoff Shaw and Bob McCulloch 58.8%

Runners Up Paul Anderson and Richard Baxter 54.17%

Congratulations to  Joyce Starkie, John Clark, Freda Walker, Ken Moore

Corrected Scores for the Nominated Teams of Four Competition May 5th 2016

1 Joyce Starkie, John Clark, Freda Walker, Ken Moore 42 

2 Jim Taylor, Harry Gordon, Diana Bowden, Richard Rees 30 

3 Norma Dowding, Anne Cullen, David Mee, Sue Sanderson 20 

4 Jackie Highfield, Sandra Middleditch, Angela Yeo, Patricia Harris 18 

5 Richard Baxter, Paul Anderson, Diane Kettle, Susie Perrett -1 

6 Chris Waddington, Bill Wrigley, Val Challands, John Glover -13 

7= Bob McCulloch, Geoff Shaw, Hugh Cairns, Barrie Parker -14 

7= Ian Inglis, Joan Hope, Janet Green, Molly Pointon -14 

9 Mark Wiggins, David Mitchell, Chris Howe, Dave Buckley -19 

10 Tracy Jarvis, Pat Simpson, Gary Jones, Margaret Butterworth -49 

Thank You John Wilcox, TD

Thursday 28th January 2016

Well Done to Angela Yeo and Patricia Harris 8th out of 284 pairs

SimPairs

How should/could you have bid the hands read the booklet at http://www.simpairs.com/files/006135%20Commentary.pdf

Our Christmas Party took place on Friday 11th December 2015 at John Storer House.

The evening consisted of a Buffet Supper and Bridge.

Prizes were presented by Iris Walker and awarded to

Individual Winners:  Ruth Johnson and Chris Waddington

Runners up:              Anne Cullen and Paul Anderson 

Consolation:              Iris Walker and Brian Stockdale

First slam made:       Ruth Johnson and Stuart McDonald

Many thanks to the following people, whose work behind the scenes and on the night ensured the evening was a great success.

John Wilcox for direcing the evening with good humour thus creating  a excellent party atmosphere and providing the gammon.

Ruth Johnson, Sue Sanderson and Sheila Stockdale for organising the buffet

Ken Moore and Freda Walker for providing the Salmon

Everyone who provided a sweet or raffle prize

Stuart McDonald for Bar and Raffle

Paul Anderson for Raffle

The raffle raised £175 which will be donated to Rainbows Hospice Loughborough

Raffle prize winners (in order and apolgies if I have missed you)

Jennifer Parker, John Wilcox, Steve Wright, Ken Moore, Ron Forster, Norma Dowding, Christine Leader, Mary Beresford, Molly Pointon, Kay Pole, Pat Simpson and Geoff Shaw.

The annual bridge match between the House of Lords and the House of Commons was held recently and won by the Lords.  The victorious team is pictured above.  Seated (right) is Baroness Hazel Byford and we would like to take a moment to congratulate her!  The teams played set hands which were provided by Leicestershire's Paul Bowyer.  Many people would agree that it is more fun to read Paul's commentaries than it is actually to play the hands!   You can see for yourself - the commentaries are available here:

For details of the hand, bidding and play see 'Under 21s' on page 42  in Octobers issue of EBU magazine.

Commiserations to Poland, Ben has been amazing us with his insightful bidding here at Loughborough for several years.

Well Done Ben

The minutes of the committee meeting held in September are now available on the website.

Use the menu on the left hand side of this page, select Minutes AGM/Committee.

This section is for members onlyand you will be required to log in with your email address and password.

Congratulations to

♠  1st Place  Geoff Shaw and Hugh Cairns 59.48%

♥ 2nd Place Sue Hardie and Pat Simpson 57.35%

♦ 3rd Place Stuart McDonald and Ruth Johnson 56.04%

♣ 4th Place Barrie Parker and Margaret Butterworth 55.47%

You will find the complete set of results on the results page, including handicaps.

Handicaps were determined by Bridgewebs using EBU's NGS

I am looking for members to help with a review of the club competitions, Sue Hardie

​Find out more by clicking    ♦ Diamonds.docx♦ 

Will be played at County Bridge Club on Wednesday 7th October

Download entry form for printing

Enter this event on-line

Please enter by Thursday 1st October. Entry limit 28 pairs

View Otto & Edith rules

The competition will be played on Wednesday 7 October 2015 at the County Bridge Club.   The playing charge is  £4.00 per head.

A taster session of Bridge with Bridgemates

Steve Wright, an LCBA Committee Member, has kindly offered to bring them along and oversee the evening. 

So please come along and try them. The Committee would welcome any feedback from the evening.

​Bridgemates at Loughborough.docx

Loughborough entered two teams in this year's Summer Knockout for the Samani Salver, a handicapped knockout competition.

Loughborough A . Ben Norton, Harry Gordon, Brian Stockdale, Sheila Stockdale and Stephen Barney,  reached the semi-final where they lost by 160 aggregate points to Clarendon South.

Loughborough B. Chris Waddington, Bill Wrigley, Jill Lloyd, John Lloyd, reached the second round where they were beaten by Glenfield A who went on to reach the other semi-final.

Well Done Everyone.

Further details can be found at  http://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwoj/bw.cgi?club=leicestershire&pid=display_page21

The Stanley Trophy is a pairs competition.

It is played over 7 heats with your best 4 results counting (you donot need to play in all 7 heats)

 Monetary prizes of £80, £60, £40 and £20 respectively will be awarded to the pairs with the 4 highest rankings. 

The scheduled dates of the seven heats are 16 September, 21 October and 18 November 2015 and 13 January, 10 February, 9 March and 20 April 2016 at Glenfield Bridge Club.

The playing charge for each heat is £4.00 per head. 

The Stanley Trophy  2015/16 Heat 2  Wednesday 21st October

Download entry form for printing.  Enter this event on-line . Please enter by Thursday 10th September. Entry limit 24 pairs

View Stanley Trophy rules

The England Under 20s have finished 13th in the European Championships.

In the words of NPC Michael Byrne, "Whilst the bridge has been disappointing and we did quite badly, the team were a credit to their country, and the EBU should be very proud they have such responsible young men and women representing them."

The team was: Freddie Illingworth & Ben Norton; Laura Covill & Stephen Kennedy; Sam Behrens & Nick Dean; NPC: Michael Byrne; Coach: Bryony Youngs

Click 'read more' for their results

• Results on the EBL website
• Event website
• NPC Blogs

Congratulations to Geoff Shaw, Bob McCulloch, Hugh Cairns who were awarded Life Memberships of Loughborough Bridge Club at the 59th AGM held on 4th June 2015

The following is an extract from the minutes

And so much more........

They are the first to arrive each session, they set up the tables, they have taken on the lion’s share of the directing and scoring, they clear up at the end and they are the last to leave.  They have worked together, tirelessly and selflessly for the good of the Club

Geoff, Bob and to Hugh – it is in honour of this service that we wish to offer you life membership of the club, with sincere thanks for all you have done.

But that’s not all!

Use the 'Minutes AGM/Committee' tab to see what else incoming chairperson Sheila Stockdale had to say our new Life Members.

 700 pairs playing at 49 clubs in 4  countries

Our highest scoring pairs were

Gary Jones and Barrie Parker who finished in 51st place

John Glover and Val Challands who finished in 77 th place

For Club result only  click 'latest results' at top of page

For overall result and commentary click  http://www.ecatsbridge.com/sims/default.asp

Thank you  Stuart for preparing the boards and being  non playing director.

Brian and Sheila Stockdale achieved a massive score of 74.54% on Thursday 2nd July.  

Well Done

25th European Youth Bridge Team Championships

18th-25th July 2015, Tromsø, Norway

Committee. 

Chairman- Sheila Stockdale,  Treasurer- Paul Anderson,  Secretary-John Wilcox.

General Committee members:  Stuart McDonald,  Ruth Johnson, John Lloyd, Sue Hardie

The washing of mugs by JSH on Wednesday and Thursdays will continue.

Tea, coffee and assorted biscuits will be provided free.  

Annual subscriptions £15.00

Table fees £2.00.

Visitor’s fees stay at £4.00.

Junior fees half of the appropriate adult rate.

For the full report use AGM button on the left of your screen

In a strong field of players Mike Ayers and Stephen Barney, representing Loughborough Bridge Club won the Hyman Crammer trophy. This is an LCBA Pairs competition for players representing clubs playing in the Leicestershire League. Pat Simpson and Gary Jones, also representing Loughborough came 11^th.

Other Loughborough players taking part were Richard Rees and Diana Bowden (representing Bradgate) 3^rd, Lucy and Dick Pathan (County B) 4^th, Ken Moore and partner (JSH) 13^th, Val Rees and Pauline Dignan (Bradgate) 17^th.