First night at New Chiswick Bridge Club.  All are welcome - come with or without a partner. 

Tonight we played a heat of the World Bridge Federation's "World Wide Bridge Contest". Oliver Buckley & Derek eked out a last board win over Martin & Cookie Hooffman but sadly not with a high enough percentage to win the offered expenses paid trip to China.  Next time maybe!!  Full international results at www.ecatsbridge.com/sims. 

On November 10th 2015 we played a heat of the Ecatsbridge BBC Children In Need Sim Pairs.  The same deals were played in many clubs up and down the country.  Jeremy Hart & Eugene Hertzman were our local winners and you can see the national standings at www.ecatsbridge.com/sims by following the CiN link The Club raised over £100 for the CiN appeal and this helped boost the total raised by bridge clubs nationwide to over £70,000.  Well done all and thank you. 

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. Click here to access this page.

8½ tables in play in our 2nd anniversary duplicate

We marked our second anniversary in style with a glass of prosecco each and a slice of celebration cake - home made by bridge director Ned Paul. There were 8½ tables in play and the winners were Maggie Christmas & Julian Hutson. By chance we also had 8½ tables on Opening Night two years ago and there were nine players who were in both games. The Club is healthy and we look forward to growing further in our third year.

In the Ladder Competition Chuck Campbell maintained the lead but Eugene Hertzmann had a good game to stay in contention for the end-August prize.

Tonight we hosted a heat of the EBU National Pairs, so welcome to all the guest players who came in for their chance to qualify for the next stages of that competition.  But we were boosted also by local new players.  Thank you to all and it looks like the attendance is in good shape.   Father and son Patrick & Oliver Lawrence were our winning pair tonight by a head from Jane Williams & David Thompson.  In the Ladder competition Adrian Haberberg had a good session with Mike Landon and closes right in on the absent Sue McLaren for the lead.  All in all a good night.

Click results link above for detailed bridge results and the 'Competitions' link in the menu opposite for the full Ladder standings.