Festival Of Bridge

Thank you to Patricia Tooze and friends from Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Club who recently raised money for Cancer Research UK as part of the Bridge - It's a Big Deal! Festival of bridge.

Eight members from the Y2 Beginners’ class at Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre played in a “Barbie” themed bridge afternoon at Patricia's house. They raised £50 for the Bridge - It’s a Big Deal! fund in aid of Cancer Research UK.

The official Festival week will take place from 9th - 15th September, but we welcome groups big or small to raise funds at any stage. We hope you will join in and have fun playing or learning bridge while raising money for this wonderful cause.

If you are planning an event, please let us know, email EBU and/or Espen Gisvold

You can make a donation to Cancer Research UK via: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/.../english-bridge...

(Taken from Aylesbury Staff on FaceBook)

The non-expert pairs competition on April 10th was an enjoyable and competitive evening.

Congratulations to the prize winners: Brian Thompson and Charlotte Bruce-Foulds; and Julie Suckling and Tony Bowden   

Full results are HERE

The next two special events on Wednesday evenings are:

Wednesday April 10th: Non-Expert Pairs ...please sign up HERE

Wednesday April 24th: Mixed Teams (at least one male and one female player) ...  please sign up HERE

Events start at 7.30pm - tea and coffee from 7pm. Members and visitors all welcome

George Leigh  1 Star Regional Master
Barbara Eastabrook  National Master
Chris Lam  District Master
Tammy Lam  District Master
Derek Reynolds  Club Master

Congratulations! 

It is timely to remind our members to always engage in Best Behaviour at Bridge as outlined in the EBU document that can be read HERE.

11 teams participated in the Swiss teams 'special' on March 27th. Congratulations to the Mystical Machine Gun team (Neil Thomas, Gillian McMullan, Rodney Lighton and John Holland) who won the event. The full results are HERE

The centre will be open as usual for duplicates on:

Good Friday March 29th - 7.30pm - at Bramhall - come on your own or with a partner!

Easter Monday April 1st - 1.30pm at Bramhall

Easter Monday RealBridge at 7.30pm

Our next special will be Swiss Teams

Wednesday March 27th at 7.30pm. 

We are looking forward to a good turn out for this popular event. Members and visitors all welcome. Tea/coffee available from 7pm.

Please sign up HERE.

Congratulations to the 3 teams from the centre who have recently won their 3rd round matches in the EBU's Inter Club Knock Out Competition

Royce Alexander, John Currie, Peter Foster and John Roberts

Neil Thomas, Gillian McMullan, Irene Davies and Roger Hopton

Michael Byrne, John Holland, Rodney Lighton, Gary Hyett, Tom Slater and Alec Smalley

Our next Wednesday evening 'special' for non-experts.

Wednesday March 13th

Start: 7:30pm

Tea & Coffee from 7pm

Members and visitors all welcome.

Please sign up HERE

Anne Whitehead  4 Star Master
David Shonfield  Local Master
Phillip Taylor  Premier Regional Master
Andy Robertshaw  Area Master
John Commons  Club Master
Martyn Berrisford  Club Master
  
Congratulations! 

B&CHBC was very well represented at the MCBA Green Point Pairs event on Saturday March 2nd.  Cogratulations to the winners who are members of the centre: Rodney Lighton and Tom Dessain

All results can be found HERE and more pictures can be found HERE

Congratulations to the Manchester county team of 8 who won the national inter-county Tollemache Cup final, for the second year running, held in Coventry on February 17th and 18th. The team was Tom Slater/Alec Smalley, John Holland/Alan Mould, John Hassett/Jeff Morris, and Phillip Taylor/Nicholas Greer. The results are on the EBU website (HERE)

For your diaries - we are running the following Special Events

Wednesday February 28th:   Butler Pairs - with IMP scoring - please sign up HERE

Wednesday March 13th:   Non-Expert Duplicate -beginners and improvers welcome

Wednesday March 27th:   Swiss Teams

Wednesday April 10th:   Non-Expert Duplicate

Wednesday April 24th:   Mixed Teams

These events start at 7.30pm with tea and coffee from 7pm.  Members and visitors all welcome. Table money £2.50

Area Master: Milly Lang

Club Master: Shailesh Patel

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Mary Green, Rob Harris and Fly Leung who have recently taken the EBU  TD training courses and assessment and are now qualified EBU Club Directors.

We look forward to them joining the TD team at the centre.

B&CHBC entered 3 teams in the MCBA inter-club teams of 8 competition on February 4th. Congratulations to the winners: the centre's team of John Holland and Raymond Semp, Rodney Lighton and Gary Hyett, Tom Slater and Alec Smalley, Stephen Ward and Peter Grauer.  They will now play in the Regional finals of the Garden Cities Trophy in May.  The results are HERE

Bramhall Village Club

 

B&CHBC is the largest section and membership group at Bramhall Village Club.   BVC is a registered charity and is managed by a group of trustees and representatives of the member sections who deal with the management of the building and the activities that take place - these include building issues,  membership, and liaison with those who rent the various rooms for their activities and events. The management team are all volunteers and are presently looking for new members to join the committee to participate in the present running of, and future planning for BVC.  If you have a little time to spare, and would be willing to volunteer your time and expertise, then the chairman Ross Worthington will be delighted to talk to you.  Please let me know if you are interested and I will pass on your contact details to Ross.
 

B&CHBC members were well represented at the Chester Congress on January 27th and 28th with some measure of success! Tom Slater and Alec Smalley were 2nd in the pairs with Ann Thornton, Barbara Lewis, Steve Mattinson, Pauline Lang and Raymond Semp also scoring well. In the teams, there was a very close finish between the top 3 teams with Tom and Ann, Alec and Barbara coming 3rd. Full results: HERE

The bridge centre is thriving and we now have 227 members. Consequently, the duplicates are very busy with up to 12 tables.

To assist our  TDs and scorers will everyone please:

Arrive in the Rhodes Room no later than 10 minutes before the start of play so that the movement can be decided and set up, and the boards put out.  Latecomers  may not be guarateed a game. Also, before the start of each round it is the responsibility of players to check the names and board numbers on the bridgemates - please ensure that you do this.   Thank you.

We look forward to seeing you at Bramhall.

Area Master: Karen Jagger

Congratulation! 

The MCBA Gazette Cup competition upon us - it is the county's inter-club teams of 8 competition which is a qualifier for the inter-counties Garden Cities trophy...

1. Scheduled for Sunday February 4th

2. 2 sessions approx 11am -7pm

3. Venue to be confirmed

4. Free to play for B&CHBC member

If you would like to play in this event then please let me know (EMAIL)- no charge, pairs preferably, but singles hopefully can be paired up.

Regards

Alec

Happy New Year to all our members from the B&CHBC committee.

We wish you all the best for a healthy and happy year with success at bridge.

B&CHBC recruited 32 students for the Beginners' Bridge Course that started in January, with expert teaching and guidance from Ann Thornton and her fantastic team of mentors. The students have completed Year 1 of the course and on December 5th were presented with certificates and offered encouragement to continue learning by Irene Davies, chair of MCBA. Alec was also present to support the occasion.  The group will be starting Year 2 - Continuing Bridge - in January 2024.

The qualifying round of the inter-county teams of 8 competition took place on RealBridge on Nov 11th and 12th. Congratulations to the Manchester team that included B&CHBC members Michael Byrne, John Holland, Alec Smalley, Gary Hyett and Rodney Lighton: they finished top of their group and will play in the face-to-face final in February. Results are on the EBU website.

RealBridge - Monday evenings at 7.30pm. You do not need to register, just click on the appropriate link in the "Login RealBridge" on the right of our home page.

Results - The results are all on this website together with the ‘leader boards’ to be found under Competitions in the Menu.

TD's - Our TDs are all volunteers: Espen, Alec, Paul & Mike

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