Thank you to Gordon Sobey and Christine Hudson for representing Rutland in the Leics county Hyman Crammer pairs event held on 4 May 2016 at the Rothley Centre.  This was the first occasion that a Rutland pair had played in the event for a very long time.  They report "although we did not have a very successful evening, we thoroughly enjoyed it. Several people asked us who we were representing and expressed pleasure that Rutland were represented".  To see the result of the event, click through from this panel to the LCBA home page and then click "4th May 2016" in the list of results on that page

At our local heat of the Charity Challenge sim-pairs on 1oth March a total of £155 was collected for the benefit of Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research.  Thank you to all who gave generously at this event.  All monies collected on the evening are paid over to the charity: the club meets any costs itself.

Our next charity sim-pairs will be in November, in aid of Children in Need.

Congratulations to Christine Hudson and Gordon Sobey for winning the Ruddles Cup for 2015, with the redoubtable average score of 65.42.  A 70-plus result in the final session lifted Bill Greenslade and Graham Goode into second place with 62.95 (a score good enough to win in 2014), ahead of last year's winners Frank Williams and Roy Taylor.  For the full ranking list, click "Competitions" in the menu and then click "Ruddles Cup 2015".

Play for the 2015 Ruddles Cup competition commenced on 1st October and finished on 10th December.  The winners of the cup are the pair (both being members) with the highest percentage score, taking the average of their 3 best scores over the 9 weeks during which the competition ran.

Following the decision of the 2015 AGM, we shall be running just two teams-of-4 events this season: in February and August 2016, at the first Thursday in those months where there is an exact number of tables in attendance.  Teams will still be made up on the basis of pairs drawing for teams, as hitherto.  If no Thursday in the month has seen an exact number of tables, the teams event will lapse (to prevent uncertainty dragging on).

Players have asked for time to return to their home tables and compare scores at the end of teams events.  Therefore, because of our overall time limit, the number of boards played in teams events will necessarily be reduced.  The exact number of boards played will depend on the number of teams, but may be as low as 20-21 rather than the "normal" 24.

During the 2015-6 season we shall continue to have one game each month with computer dealt hands.  This will normally be the last week in the month, with December excluded.  The hands will be generated by the SB Dealer program and Andrew Bisson has very kindly offered to make up the boards for us.