Deva Bridge Club's Chester Congress will take place over the weekend of 30th and 31st January 2027. The event will be held face-to-face at the club in Christleton.

On the Saturday, there is a pairs competition for the Capel Cups (yes, there are two of them!) and, on the Sunday, there is a teams competition for the Latham Knox Trophy and Eric Howarth Cup. This year the Sunday is being run in conjunction with Merseyside and Cheshire Bridge Association and is Green Pointed. Saturday is, as in previous years, Blue Pointed. For further information and to enter, click here.

This teams of 4 competition is now underway. The six entries have been placed into two mini-leagues of three. Each team will play the other once. The first and second placed teams will go through to the semi-finals, which will be played on a knockout basis.

The teams are named after their captain.

Pool A                                      Pool B

Team Hunter                           Team Stevenson

Team Merrill                            Team Krasner

Team Madeley                         Team Smith

Round 3 of this year's competition was held online on Saturday 12th September. Unfortunately once again all three of our teams had very mixed results with none finishing very high in the overall rankings. Our top scoring pairs on X-imps were Matt Foster / John Hampson (A), David Smith / Stewart Hart (B) & Tom Green / Mark Madeley (C). Full results for this round can be seen via the Cumbria County website ( https://www.bridgewebs.com/cumbria/ ) & cummulative scores on the NBL website ( http://www.manchesterbridge.org.uk/NBL/r2026.html ). 

The Deva's new programme of lessons for 2026/27 starts at the beginning of October and includes daytime and evening lessons for both beginners and improvers. Click here for details.

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The Presidents Cup is a prestigious teams of eight competition contested by counties and regions from all over the British Isles and is hosted and organised by Merseyside & Cheshire. This year’s event was played out on Realbridge over the weekend of 4^th/5^th July. Our squad (John Hampson / Matt Foster, Julian Merrill / Paul Roberts, Mark Roderick / Paddy Murphy, Laurence Stone / David Smith & Mark Weeks, Chris Pope / Andy Prothero with Alan Stephenson as NPC) performed creditably finishing in 4th place is a very strong field albeit some way behind the top three teams. Our top pair on X-imps were Paddy & Mark but all were above or close to par. The overall winners were the team from Dublin who were well ahead at the end of day 1 & never lost the lead. Full results can be found on the Cumbria County website at:-

https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwos/bw.cgi?pid=display_rank&event=20260705_2&club=cumbria

Thanks to all for taking part and representing M&CBA & to our chief county TD David Stevenson for organising and running the competition so successfully.

Eight teams played in an enjoyable, friendly and high standard competition over 28 boards. The clear victors (carrying on from their win last year) were the team of Paddy Murphy, Alan Stephenson, Mark Weeks and Stuart Matthews - see pic below.