Congratulations to Erica and Christopher Sheppard on winning the OBA's first-ever "Jack High" competition, held on Sunday 8th December.

Congratulations to Peter Finbow and Alison who won the Binyon Cup on Monday 21st October with a magnificent 73.48%!  Sandra and Krys were second, Linda Edwards and Diane third.  The Cup will be presented at the next AGM, but the winners received a bottle of wine each on the evening.

Nancy and Tim Binyon, mother and son, were two loyal members of the club in its early years.

Congratulations to Moira and Trevor who came top in our heat on 7th October with 65.66%. Also to Mike and Irene who were second with 63.66% and Annabel and Sandro with 60.1 who were third. 

You can go directly to the national listing (where Mike and Irene are currently lying first in the club) here and to the commentary by clicking here.

Very well done to Mary-Ann Sheehy, who played in the Derbyshire County Bridge Congress on 28th & 29th September.  She and her partner (not an SBC member) came top of 50 pairs on Saturday and top of 20 teams on Sunday - in very stiff competition.

Congratulations to Alison & Diane and Mike & Irene who were first equal in our heat of the EBED Autumn Sim Pairs on 2nd September with a score of 59.66%.  Tom & Ameena and Dave & Linda were very close behind, on 59.47% and 59.09%.

Here is a link to the national results which, as always, are slightly different.  Here is a link to the commentary.

Congratulations to Zane Soonawalla, who, playing with James Cater, won the B final of the Under 16 Pairs event in the World Youth Championships held in Croatia from 20th to 29th August.

Also, congratulations to Diana Nettleton, whose team won the Plate competition of the Crockfords Cup.  

On Monday 19th August, the Club held its now annual handicap event. 

Congratulations to Christopher and Erica on their fine win with a handicap adjusted score of 61.38%. They will each receive a £10 Marks & Spencer voucher.

Well done also to Peter Stevenson and Trevor in second with 57.86% as well as Diane and Linda in third with 57.81%.

The full table of results can be found by clicking on "Competitions" in the left hand menu and selecting "19 August 2019 Handicap".

A splendid effort on 22 July by all you generous people: we raised £900 in aid of Flexicare (more information at http://flexicare.org/.)

Huge thanks to all those involved: Christina (in particular for selling her delicious honey), Moira, Valerie, James and Cliff.

Many congratulations to Sandra & Krys who, with another pair, won the Green Pointed Swiss Teams on 21st July at the Gloucestershire & Herefordshire Congress!  34 teams took part.

The previous day they came 9th out of 66 in the Swiss Pairs - also a very respectable result.

Hugh Simmonds played in the team which won the leading non-expert prize.

A very successful Blue-Pointed Swiss Pairs was held on Sunday 23rd June, jointly with Oxford Bridge Club.  There were 17 tables, and the winners were Judy & Isabel.  Congratulations to them!  Lorna & Alastair were second.  Full results are here.  Holly, playing with Freddie Beneat, won the second half ascenders' prize.

Many thanks to all involved in the organisation: primarily Sandra who masterminded the whole event, but also Lawrence for directing, Liza scoring, Claire catering, Judy for collecting the money and Krys for selling raffle tickets.  Thank you also to Eileen & Anna who acted as our standby pair but in the end were not needed.

A grand total of £640 was raised for our two charities, Pancreatic Cancer UK and Safeline.

Congratulations to Linda Edwards & Diane Coe on winning the Midsummer Pairs Competition on 17th June with the fine score of 64.41%. They will be
presented with the David Bygott trophy at the Club's AGM next April.

Very well done also to David Dobson & Brian Wright in second place with 63.64% and to Mary-ann & Tim Sheehy in third with 59.00%.

As some of you know, Oxfordshire fields three teams-of-eight in the Midland Counties League. A few of our Club's members represent the County in these teams. This year Oxfordshire's B team won their Division. The team then went on to play in the National Finals of the Inter-County Leagues on 16th June against all the other counties that had won in their various regional leagues. Oxfordshire emerged victorious for the second year running.  Very well done to Mary-Ann Sheehy and Matthew Covill who were part of this winning team.

Congratulations to new junior member Zane Soonawalla, playing with his father, Zahir, on winning the Friendly Pairs cup in the Oxfordshire Congress.

Also to Mary-Ann Sheehy and Matthew Covill who were part of the team who came third in the Swiss Teams and Liza Furnival who was in the team finishing in sixth place out of the 48 competing.

The partnership of Henry Rose and Freddie Beneat played for the England under-16 team in the World Bridge Federation online championships and have won! They beat the favourites, the USA in the final. Freddie and Zane (see above) have also won the Oxford Times Cup which will be presented at the OBA AGM on Thursday evening 13th June at the Oxford Bridge Club. 

Many congratulations to Sandra Nicholson & Krys Kazmierczak who finished in 11th place out of a national field of 94 top pairs in the Corwen Trophy on 1st - 2nd June.

Please click here for the full results.

Many congratulations to Liza Furnival who, playing with a non-member, came 4th= in a tough field at the EBU's Spring Bank Holiday Swiss Pairs event at Stratford on Sunday 26th May!

Congratulations to Alison & Robert, who won our heat of the EBED Sim Pairs on 13th May with 62.71%. Tunde & Kati were very close behind with 62.09% and Peter Sherry & Mary were third.   Here is a link to the national results and here is a link to the commentary.

Here are Freddie Beneat and Zane Soonawalla, pictured at SBC where they played on the May Day Bank Holiday.  Earlier this year they won the Oxford Times Cup, which is awarded to the highest placed Oxfordshire pair competing in the annual EBED Student Simultaneous Pairs.  Click here to see previous winners.

Many congratulations to Sandra & Krys on winning the OBA Mixed Pairs on Sunday 7th April.

Here is a link to the results.

Sunday 17th March saw 20 pairs, who had qualified in the semi-final, taking part in the County Pairs Final at OBC.

Well done to Sandra & Krys who came fourth in a tough field - see here for the full results. This qualifies them as one of four pairs to represent Oxfordshire at the Corwen Trophy in June, where they will compete against top players in other counties.

Liza also did well to finish fifth.

Several members took part in the Masters Pairs event for those ranked below Regional Master, which was held at multiple venues around the country on Sunday 24th February including Oxford Bridge Club, and scored nationally as a Sim Pairs.

Notable results of SBC members out of the 242 pairs taking part nationally were as follows:

Tom Brus, playing with a non-member, won the Oxford heat and came 11th nationally with 59.83%. 
Bridget & Holly came third in the Oxford heat and 29th nationally with 57.22%. 

Well done!  Click here for a link to the Oxford results, and here for a link to the national results.

To qualify for the ladder you have to be a Club Member and to have played at least ten times during the season (September to February - but Monday 25th February doesn't count as it's teams).

Many congratulations to Matthew & Irina who won the Summertown heat of the British Winter Sims on 14th January. Second were Carol & Aleks, and third were Erika & Joanna. Well done to them too.

The club results on the EBU website are here:
https://www.ebu.co.uk/sim-pairs/000306/clubs/00210427

And the commentary is here:
https://www.ebu.co.uk/sims/results/000306/display/commentary/commentary.pdf

Congratulations to the following members promoted in the EBU's monthly rounds of master point promotions:-

December 2019

Steph Bliss – 2 Star Premier Regional Master

Irene Holland – 3 Star Regional Master

Kati di Gleria – 4 Star Master

Christine Bishop – District Master

Elizabeth Middlemiss - Area Master

November 2019

October 2019

Howard Arnes – 2 Star Regional Master

Lawrence Haines – Regional Master

Brian Wright – 4 Star Premier Master

Ruth Jones – Advanced Master

Freddie Beneat – Area Master

February 2019

Mary-Ann Sheehy – Premier Life Master

Diane Coe – 4 Star Premier Regional Master

John Deech – 2 Star Regional Master

Lawrence Haines – 1 Star Premier Master

Neil Whiting – 1 Star Master

Christina Hardyment – Advanced Master

Erika Syba – District Master

January 2019

Matthew Wilkinson - 1 Star Regional Master