| Photos from Swiss Pairs 18th Sept 2016 |
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| Last updated : 17th Oct 2016 12:14 BST |
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| Photos and Draft Minutes from the May 2016 AGM |
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| Last updated : 30th Jun 2016 15:49 BST |
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| 2015 Christmas Parties raised £350 for Chiltern Air Ambulance. |
Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to this worthy cause. 
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| Last updated : 17th Jan 2016 22:54 GMT |
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| Christmas Parties 2015 |
A familar looking Santa attended the Monday party and the Friday afternoon party. (Right) A break from the Monday party Chicago play.
A happy, peaceful Christmas and a
prosperous New Year to you all.
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| Last updated : 6th Jan 2016 09:08 GMT |
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| Chairman's Christmas message 2015 |
 Please click the title to read Colin Jones' Christmas message to all the members.
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| Last updated : 6th Jan 2016 09:09 GMT |
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| Happy Birthday Joan! |
We would like to wish Joan Grandison a very Happy Birthday. 
Joan, a member of the club since 27 December 1973, will be 95 on 11 April.
Many happy returns Joan.
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| Last updated : 14th Apr 2016 00:10 BST |
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| Monday Morning Bridge |
Following a successful trial, we will be continuing with our Monday morning bridge sessions. These will be held every Monday except on the second Monday of the month when the OBA County Seniors Event takes place at the club. We play from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. It is a friendly duplicate pairs session, playing 24 boards. Players are of mixed abilities and inexperienced players are welcome. Host available.
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| Last updated : 3rd Jan 2016 16:13 GMT |
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| Pead Plate Winners |
Congratulations to Prue Porter, Beryl Mc Creevy, Dave Workman and Gill Goodchild, who won the Pead Plate competition on Friday 11th September. £212.50 was collected for the bone marrow cancer research charity.
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| Last updated : 25th Sep 2015 22:46 BST |
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| Wallingford Bridge Club Blue Pointed Swiss Pairs Event 13th September |
 Our annual blue pointed event took place place on 13 September 2015. Congratulations to the overall winners Nigel Wilkes and Gillian Lonsdale. Please click here for the full results. Thank you very much to Barbara Antrobus and others for organising this enjoyable event.
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| Last updated : 25th Sep 2015 22:46 BST |
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| New Teams Calendar 2015 - 2016 |
The Teams Calendar for 2015/16 is now on the website. Select Competitions - Teams - Teams Calendar 2015 - 16 from the left hand column of this home page or click on the title to view.
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| Last updated : 4th Dec 2015 20:57 GMT |
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| EDNA GILLETTE |
We are very sorry to report the sad passing of Edna Gillette, one of Wallingford Bridge Club's founder members.
Edna with her husband Trevor were early members and very active in all our activities. With Trevor as Chairman they were very generous of their time to us and involved in all of our activities . . . playing in teams, arranging (and winning) club competitions and generally managing our sessions . . . they even arranged a twinning with a Dutch club and organising exchange visits.
It was Trevor and Edna who organised our early move from the Conservative Hall to the Upstairs of Field and Hawkins stores in the Market place. At that time they provided much of our early crockery and they were much in the lead when it came to the Christmas Parties .. . we even provided a turkey dinner in those days. .
Edna became Deputy Mayor of Wallingford in the early nineties and through her we were found the BullCroft Spider as a club house. We played there until the turn of the century. Trevor was the first President of the Club relinquishing it in the early nineties when they and a number of other members went to live in Spain. He pased away some 15years ago. The older members among us will remember that they both played to a high standard . Our thoughts are with Edna's family at this difficult time.
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| Last updated : 10th Aug 2015 23:23 BST |
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| Summer Edition of Trumpit and AGM Minutes |
Please click here for the latest edition of the Club's newsletter. It includes a summary of our recent AGM. For the full minutes, click here.
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| Last updated : 4th Dec 2015 20:56 GMT |
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| Congratulations |
Congratulations to the following 1st year students who have successfully completed the English Bridge Union's Beginning Bridge Course run by Gillian Weatherley at the Club:
Helen Adams, Wendy Mugggeride, Pauline and Alan Harvey, Gill Dexter, Liz Robertson, Wendy and Iain Morrison, Ann and George Lazur, Nicola Harrison, Sue Burfoot, Kathryn Murphy, Paul Compton, Roger Elliot, Stephanie Gibbons, Susie Mee, Claire and Riccard Andersson, Sylvia Walsingham, Sarah Whittaker, Jackie Johnson, Torril and Basil Evans.
Congratulations also to Debbie Roberts and Geoff Nicholas who came 2nd in a field of 106 in the recent Berks and Bucks Swiss Pairs.
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| Last updated : 16th Jul 2015 10:40 BST |
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| AGM 2015 Some Award Winners |
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| Last updated : 8th Jun 2015 09:40 BST |
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| Photos from the 2015 AGM |
Some of the club's 2014 competition winners, receiving their award from the club's President Graham Rayner
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| Last updated : 22nd Aug 2015 19:52 BST |
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| OBA competition and EBED student Sims at WBC |
The Oxfordshire Bridge Association competition and the English Bridge Education & Development student Sims were held at Roke on 22nd March. Five tables of bridge players and three of minibridge players took part from 16 schools in the area. Prizes were kindly presented by Richard, Earl of Macclesfield.
The leading student pair in the country at the moment are Arthur Anstis and Cameron Butcher, whilst the leading minibridge pair are Jacob Potter and Aidan Saunders. Congratulations to all.
More information on Bridge for Schools is here
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| Last updated : 13th May 2015 08:21 BST |
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| Andrew Robson Evening 9th Feb 2015. |
Andrew Robson's Masterclass at Wallingford Bridge Club was a great success Many thanks to all involved especially to Lyn Arnold.
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| Last updated : 2nd Mar 2015 19:04 GMT |
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| Blue Pointed Swiss Pairs Event 8th Feb 2015 |
 Congratulations to our Chairman Colin Jones and Jo Murray who won the Abingdon Blue Pointed Swiss Pairs on Sunday 8 February. They were first in a field of 40 with 89 VPs.
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| Last updated : 15th Feb 2015 10:11 GMT |
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| Christmas Parties 2014 |
Some big smiles from the Friday and Monday parties respectively. A total of £340 was raised for Helen and Douglas House.
 
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| Last updated : 28th Jan 2015 09:38 GMT |
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| Malcolm Simpson |
Malcolm's Funeral was held on Tuesday 8 November 2014 at Easthampstead Crematorium. 
There is a tribute to Malcolm by Clive Keep here
I would also like to add that Malcolm introduced me to bridge through his Didcot evening classes and I echo everything in Clive's tribute. I enjoyed his regular bridge column in the local Herald series and also his amusing book, "Bridge at the Blunt End".
R.I.P. Malcolm.
(Gillian Leaver)
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| Last updated : 28th Jan 2015 09:57 GMT |
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| Changes to Alerting/Announcing |
The EBU have sent out an updated sheet on changes to the Announcements and Alerting which came into effect on 1st August 2013.
Announcements have been modified for the first time since their introduction in 2006.
Non forcing minor suit openings, which may be short, are to be announced as "may be X" where X is 0, 1 or 2.
2NT openings, Stayman, and transfer responses are to be announced in a similar way to 1NT openings.
The alerting rules have been changed slightly for artificial suit bids on the first round of the auction. Previously, for example, a 1H 3S splinter was alerted, but 1S 4C was not. This has been corrected.
Please click here for the EBU summary sheet of these and other changes.
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| Last updated : 28th Jan 2015 09:39 GMT |
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