Congratulations to the A and Commiserations to the B team who played in the ECL match against Northants.  The results are:

A team won 14 - 6

B team lost 15 - 5

C team lost 15 - 5

Full results are on the Cambs & Hunts website: - Cambs & Hunts Contract Bridge Association, cambshunts (bridgewebs.com)

League Positions can be seen by following this link: - EBU Results | Eastern Counties League 2024-25

The major green-pointed teams-of-four championship, with matches played privately. The matches are to be arranged between the two captains and can be played online or Face-to-Face, in the event that agreement cannot be reached the default will be RealBridge.

This year the draw for the first round of the event will be made in early November, so enter early.

The winners will represent the county in the Pachabo. There is also a Plate event for first round losers.

This is a level 4 event. Masterpoints won will be credited by the EBU (green points for the main competition, local points for the Plate event).

It's free to enter so follow this link to enter your team.

Congratulations to Peterborough who won the Cambs and Hunts heat of the Garden Cities. Full result HERE.

Congratulations to Sue Willcox and Roger Timmins who won the above event with a score of 64.5%. The full results can be seen here.

Congratulations to Susan Merrell and David Green (Pictured) who won the 9 High Pairs. 

The results can be found HERE

Congratulations to: -

Alan Shillitoe who was awarded the Silver Award, given in recognition of long service and an outstanding contribution to the administration of the game of bridge.

Jamie Fegarty who was Young Player Award - given in recognition of outstanding play during the year (2022/23)

Congratulations to Gretta Bredin & Jonathan Bradshaw who won the Cambs and Hunts heat.

The Results:

Local Result: on this LINK. With link to hand commentary.

National Results: on this LINK.

Handicap Results: on this LINK.

Congratulations to all those who played in the ECL Match against Suffolk.  The A and B teams won 20-0, and the C team won 18-2.

You can see the full results by clicking HERE and the current League standings HERE

Blue Pointed Jack High Pairs

Thanks to all those who played in our Jack High Pairs and to Peter Grice for directing both events.

The morning session was won by Sylvia Blackwood and David Parish with a score of 65% and the afternoon session by Jane de la Tour and Nicki Cann with a score of 60%

Results of both sessions can be found on the results page by clicking HERE

Well done to the team from Cambs and Hunts, Catherine Jagger, Jonathan Mestel, Jamie Fegarty, Paul Barden, Paul Fegarty and Catherine Curtis who finished second in this years Pachabo Cup, just one point behind the winning team.

The full results can be seen by clicking HERE

Congratulations to the Cambridge Bridge Club team of David Kendrick & Jon Cooke, Jonathan Mestel & Julian Wightwick, Catherine Curtis & Liam Fegarty and Victor Milman & Nadia Stelmashenko who won the Garden Cities trophy at the weekend. The results can be seen HERE

The draw for this years County Teams Knockout has now been drawn and full details of the draw can be found on this link: - Draw

Congratulations to all the teams who played in the ECL match against Norfolk.  The results are:

A team won 12-8

B team won 13-7

C team won 17-3

Full results are on the Cambs & Hunts website: - Cambs & Hunts Contract Bridge Association, cambshunts (bridgewebs.com)

League Positions can be seen by following this link: - EBU Results | Eastern Counties League 2023-24 Division 1

The 9 High Pairs was played on 28th October 2023 at The Fulbourn Centre, 20 pairs competed in the event with Lynn Bouchier and Dennis Collins coming out on top with a score of 64.34%, so our congratulations go to them. A link to the results can be found HERE

Thanks to Fulbourn Bridge Club for the loan of their equipment and Thursday Bridge Club (Cambridge) for the loan of the scoring equipment and thanks to everyone who played.

22 pairs contested the County Blue Pointed Swiss Pairs held at Fulbourn Centre on Sunday 28 April. In a closely fought contest the winners were Nadia Stelmashenko and Victor Milman (pictured) on 86 VP’s, narrowly beating Kevin Clark and Graham Johnston on 84 VP’s with Rosanne Mattick and Iain Watson third. Full results can be found HERE

This year with the new format we had 16 teams in two leagues competing in the event. The first division was won by Peterborough and division two won by Team Last. Results can be found on this link: - Cambs & Hunts Contract Bridge Association, cambshunts (bridgewebs.com)

Paul Barden & Claire Robinson (pictured) won the Guardian Trophy for the Championship Pairs of the Easter Festival in London after a very close-run event in which top place changed many times over the two days. Click HERE for results.

Congratulations to Stephen Goodwin and Michael Krause who won the County Pairs Final, the full results can be found on this LINK

The Cambs and Hunts team finished third in the final of the Tollemache Cup which was played over the weekend of 17th - 18th February 2024.

The results can be found by clicking HERE.

The team that represented us in the final was: -

Catherine Curtis & Paul Fegarty

Jonathan Cooke & Jamie Fegarty

Paul Barden & Claire Robinson

Graham Hazel & Julian Wightwick

On Sunday January 14^th, Cambs and Hunts played Northants in the Eastern Counties League.  Congratulations to the A team who won 15-5 and to the B team who won 12-8.  Commiserations to the C team who lost 3-17. Full results can be found HERE The current league standings can be found HERE.

Cambs and Hunts played their latest league match against Essex in the Eastern Counties League on October 1st.
Congratulations to the A team, who won 14-6.
The result for the B team was 5-15, and for the C team 7-13.

A link to the results are HERE and current league standings can be found HERE

The remaining matches for the current season are on January 14th and
February 25th.

Congratulations to Cambs and Hunts member Claire Robinson who was part of the winning team in the Swiss Pairs at the EBU Northern Midweek congress. Results.

The Crockfords Cup and Plate final took place over the weekend of 23rd and 24th September 2023. The Crockfords Cup is England's premier teams championship, with a knockout qualification and an eight-team final.

Cambs and Hunts members in the final of the cup were Jon Cooke, Paul Barden & Julian Wightwick with Ian Pagan completing the team. Congratulations on reaching the final.

In the Plate the Fegarty Team of Catherine Curtis, Paul Fegarty, Liam Fegarty & Jamie Fegarty finished 2nd, well done to them. 

Full details of the results can be found using this link.

We have now added links to interesting articles from our old website to this site, these can be found from the main menu,

Cambridge Bridge Club held a heat of the National Handicap Pairs on Sunday 10th September at the Fulbourn Centre and the results for the local heat can be found here. 44 players took part in the heat (no pun intended but it was warm) at Fulbourn which is part of a national event played at various venues around the country, the EBU national result are below. Congratulations go to Geoff Burbidge and Gladys Gittins who came out top of the Cambridge heat.

Thanks to Cambridge Bridge Club for organising the event.

National Results here

The results for the ECL Match against Hertfordshire are A team lost 8-12; B team lost 5-15; C team won 18-2.  Many congratulations to the C team on an excellent result.

The full results are available by clicking HERE

The next ECL match is on Sunday October 1^st against Essex.  The remaining 2 matches are next year on January 14^th and February 25^th.

The EBU have updated the Blue and White books with changes becoming effective from 7th August 2023. Use this link to see the changes.

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Why not enter a team into the Cambs and Hunts County Teams League. All you need are four players to form a team, so ask you partner and find another pair and form a team. You will play approximately 4-7 games between September and March It’s completely free to play, if you play your matches online.

Games can be played Face to Face (Home team to pay any table money) or on an online platform. (If no agreement can be reached the default will be RealBridge).

More information email: - competitions@cambsbridge.org or enter by following this link

Many congratulations to the team of Graham Hazel, David Kendrick, Julian Wightwick, John Liebeschuetz, Catherine Curtis, Paul Fegarty, Claire Robinson and Paul Barden for winning the Garden Cities National Final on the 17th June  Full results https://www.ebu.co.uk/results/1217. 

Paul Barden, John Liebeschuetz, Catherine Curtis, Graham Hazel (captain) Claire Robinson, Paul Fegarty and Julian Wightwick with the Garden Cities trophy.

Congratulations to John Liebeschuetz and Rod Oakford on winning the prestigious EBU Corwen Trophy on the 4th of June with a score of 59.81% in a strong field.

The Corwen is a national event run by the EBU. 87 pairs representing their county associations competed in four sessions, playing a total of 96 boards over two days. The Cambs and Hunts County Pairs was not run this year. Instead, qualifiers were drawn from the County Swiss Pairs held on the 15th of April.

Full results may be viewed on BridgeWebs here.