Bridge may be a sport after all - European Court

Pinner Bridge Club are hosting an EBU Directors’ Training Course with the three modules on the following dates:

Saturday 30th September  Book / Judgement rulings day 1

Saturday 28th October      Book / Judgement rulings day 2

Saturday 2st December     Assessment                                

The cost for each module is £54.00 per person for EBU Members.

Middlesex are offering a £14.00 subsidy to Full MCBA Members.

The course will be based on the New Laws and conducted by Gary Conrad, Chief Director for Middlesex and Hertfordshire.

Each session will be from 10:30 until 16:30 with a break for lunch.

Teas, coffees squash and biscuits will be available free of charge throughout, but all candidates must make their own lunch arrangements.

Entry is by email to: lewisselby@yahoo.co.uk.

Middlesex County Bridge Association is proud to announce the launch of its Minibridge Summer Camp for children aged 6-16

The Summer Camp will take place each Monday afternoon, starting on 24^th July, at Pinner Bridge Club, 103 Marsh Road, Pinner, HA5 5PA, and will last for six weeks.

There will be three one hour sessions a day, starting at 13:00, 14:15 and 15:30 with fifteen minute breaks for refreshments. Children may attend as few or as many sessions as they wish and all are free to enter!

Bring your children and grandchildren!

Minibridge is a fun, social game and we warmly welcome children aged 6-16, especially those new to playing cards, to join us during the summer. 

Click here for entry form

Leading the team of volunteers will be MCBA Vice Chairman Harish Patel, with teaching under the tutelage of MCBA President Paul Wilson and MCBA Committee member Harold Schogger, all three of whom are DBS checked.

Volunteers wanted to assist with the running of the Minibridge sessions - please help us help the kids!

All enquiries to: Harish Patel, MCBA Vice Chairman

harish1948@hotmail.com - 07505 664 834

Click here for the Flyer

Middlesex County Bridge Association wishes to thank the members of

Pinner Bridge Club for donating their premises for this event free of charge

CONGRATULATIONS TO
KIRIT AND VANDANA WADHAR

The 2017 World Wide Bridge Contest played on Friday 2nd June 2017 had 2131 pairs playing at 140 clubs in 22 countries across the world.  The winning pair was MCBA Members KIRIT & VANDANA WADHAR. 

This makes them one of the 20 pairs to qualify to attend the Final which will be held in Beijing, China from 21st - 24th September.

Kirit & Vandana will each receive four nights hotel accomodation as well as a subsidy of US$1,200.

The final will have a prize fund of US$ 20,000. 

For more information go to ecatsbridge

MCBA Officers and Committee 2017/18

President: Paul Wilson

Vice Presidents: Jill Feldman & Gulab Shah

Chairman: Peter Hasenson Vice Chairman: Harish Patel

Treasurer: Pradip Shah Secretary: Vacant

Committee: Irene Fine, Dilip Mithani,

Harold Schogger, Lewis Selby, Pankaj Shah

Victor Silverstone, Jacqui Tobias, Tony Waterlow

EBU Shareholders: Peter Hasenson, Harish Patel, Harold Schogger

The position of MCBA Secretary is currently vacant and we invite Middlesex Members to apply.

Interested parties should contact a Committee Member whose details can be found at the 'MCBA Committee' link to the left

2017

David Arundel & Andrew Bannock on winning the London July Swiss Pairs

Paul Walker & Frank Wharton on winning the Championship Pairs at the EBU Summer Seniors Congress

Artur Malinowski on finishing in 12th place in the Open Pairs Final at the European Open Championships. Alexander Allfrey finished in 31st place and Shireen Mohandes & Andy Bowles finished in 37th place. David Sherman won a silver medal in the EBL Cup.

Alexander Allfrey on winning the EBU Schapiro Spring Foursomes and to Gerald Haase & Victor Silverstone on winning the Punchbowl

Artur Malinowski & Marilyn Malinowska and TGRs Bridge Club on winning the EBU NICKO

Martin Jones on winning the Harrogate Spring Congress Swiss Pairs

Andrew McIntosh on winning the EBU Point-a-Board Consolation Teams

2016

Anne & Neil Rosen on winning the EBU Year End Swiss Teams

Alexander Allfrey on winning the EBU Premier League

Nevena Senior on winning the EBU Premier League second division

Andrew McIntosh on winning the Burlington Cup at the EBU Autumn Congress

David Sherman on winning the Satellite Pairs at the EBU Autumn Congress

Michael Davis and Ben Ritaca on winning EBU Crockfords Plate

Alexander Allfrey on winning the Harold Poster Cup at the EBU Summer Congress

Jacqui Tobias & Tony Waterlow on winning the Essex/Herts September Swiss Teams

Tom Paske on winning the London July Swiss Teams

Andrew McIntosh on winning the London July Swiss Pairs

Nevena Senior, Nicola Smith & David Burn (Coach) on winning the European Womens' Team Championship

Lyn Fry & Ian Pagan on winning the EBU Corwen Trophy

Catherine Seale & Tom Paske on winning the EBU Spring Bank Holiday Swiss Teams

Alexander Allfrey on winning the EBU Schapiro Spring Foursomes

Peter Hasenson & David Sherman on winning the EBU National Pairs

Janet de Botton & Thor-Erik Hoftaniska on winning the Swiss Teams at EBU London Easter Festival

Waseem Naqvi & Tony Waterlow on winning the Swiss Pairs at EBU London Easter Festival

Andrew McIntosh on winning a silver medal at the EBL Winter Games European Championship

Simon Cope & Tom Paske on winning the EBU National Point A Board Teams

Nevena Senior on winning the EBU National Swiss Teams

Congratulations to TGRs on winning the EBU National Inter-Club Knockout (NICKO)

Team members: Artur Malinowski (Captain), Janet de Botton, Thor Erik Hoftaniska, Marilyn Malinowska, Graham Orsmond, Tom Townsend

Over 50 children aged between four and fifteen took part in a series of mini-bridge camps held at Pinner Bridge Club over the summer resulting in over 25 children reaching the necessary standard to receive EBED Junior Award Scheme certificates.

Bob Blackman, MP for Harrow East and Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Bridge, paid a visit on Monday 15^th August and commented, “I was delighted to visit the mini-bridge summer camp to meet many of the participants and to play some hands with them. I strongly support the development of the game and the younger you start the more chance there is that you become a strong player. It was really good to meet the young players who had only been learning the game for a few days yet had started to become proficient as a result of the excellent teaching and coaching that they were receiving. Let us hope that we can see many more such summer camps and school development of Bridge so that more and more young people learn this mind sport.”

The sessions were sponsored by MCBA and run by a team of volunteers led by MCBA member Trupti Shah and included President Paul Wilson, Vice Chairman Harish Patel as well as Vanessa Clarke, Shirish Dodhia, Steven Lipman, Chandra Mehta, Theresa Mullane, Anjana Shah, Manjari Shah, Rajesh Shah, Titksha Shah. Our thanks go to them all for generously donating their time.