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See the boxes below for Wilts, Corsham and EBU competitions coming up.

Support your County

Please consider entering any of the following events:

7 and 8 March - Green Pointed Swiss Weekend at Bath (see below).

15 April - Cafe Bridge in Chippenham.

19 April - Pachabo Teams Qualifying Event at Devizes.

17 May - Chairman's Bowl and WCBA AGM at Devizes.

Corsham Bridge Club is doing very well this year compared to other Wiltshire clubs.

As of 5th March, we have 4 players (Ian, Richard, Pat and Sue) in the top ten as measured by Masterpoints awarded this year.

Wiltshire Green Point Weekend

Saturday 7th March

9 High NGS Swiss Pairs

Click here for information and entry form.

Green Point Swiss Pairs

Click here for information and entry form.

Sunday 8th March

Green Point Swiss Teams

Click here for information and entry form.

Corsham Competitions

Competition dates

COMPETITION DATES 2026

Corsham trophy and prize competitions

14 April   Eileen Harding Handicap Pairs

9 June     Robin Sutton Swiss Pairs

7 July      Nesbitt Teams

15 September    Marjorie Cox Pairs

17 November   Mixed Ability Pairs – Free meal prize

Simultaneous Pairs

3 March       EBU Stratified

12 May    EBED Spring       

21 July     British Summer

6 October    British Autumn

Please note that the extra cost of Sim pairs events is paid by the Club. Normal table money charge applies.

 

EBU Events Mar-May
EBU Events Mar-May
Social Events 2026

SOCIAL EVENTS 2026

TUESDAY 21 APRIL :  BRING AND SHARE

SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER : QUIZ

 

WEEKLY QUIZ 14

 

Weekly Quiz 16.

You are playing Acol, Weak NT, Benji, 2 weak 2’s, Reverse Attitude Signals and Discards.

Dealer

South

Vul.

None

♠️

♥️

♦️

♣️

A

J

K

A

10

J

9

8

10

7

5

3

4

You have had your auction as below; you are sitting South.

S

W

N

E

2C*

P

3C*

P

6NT

P

P

P

South opens 2C (18-22 or 8 playing tricks)

North 3C shows 13-15 HCP (Buchanan)

South adds 13+ to their 20 and bids 6NT.

West has led the 2H?

West

2♥️

N

W                     26                          E

S

♠️

♥️

♦️

♣️

K

A

A

K

4

K

Q

J

7

8

10

6

5

26a) Does the lead give you any information about that suit in Wests’ hand?

26b) How many top tricks do you have if you were to claim now?

26c) How can you make more tricks?

(answer example; finesse KH, trump a D in dummy, make good your long suit).

How to contact members?
 

Please use email address corsham@corshambridgeclub.org.uk to send a

message to all members especially when looking for a partner for a particular Tuesday.

Use 'REPLY' when responding to any such email. DO NOT use 'REPLY ALL'

 

SIM PAIRS RESULTS 3 March 2026

9 clubs, comprising 156 pairs, have reported results for this event.

A further club may yet report.

Currently, Ian and Ernest are top scorers and are expecting a cash prize. Let's hope that they maintain that position.

Corsham had 7 pairs who came in the top third of this competition and thus were awarded additional Masterpoints.

Furthermore, as this was a Stratified event, 4 other pairs also got Masterpoints, by virtue of coming in the top section of their Stratification group.

Our 11 pairs shared a total of 490 Masterpoints.

Very well done to Ian and Ernest for coming top (and gaining 111 MPs), Wendy and Claudia (15th with 84 MPs), David and Roger (20th with 75 MPs).

Full results are at Sim Pairs.  A special mention to the 2 pairs who came 6th (out of 9) at the Club, but still got Masterpoints in this event in national competition with other Cat C and D pairs respectively; Martha and Graham, Rosemary and Claire.

2025 Masterpoints

EBU have recently published their 2025 Club Masterpoints report, here.

It shows that the player obtaining the most masterpoints at Corsham Bridge Club in 2025 was Richard Freeman (986 MPs) with Ian Roach coming second with 922.

These were well ahead of their nearest rivals, Wendy and Claudia with 532 and 510 respectively.

Follow this link to view your own performance.

Note that this only lists MPs won by playing at Corsham. You may have won MPs at other clubs too.

PROMOTIONS
 ♠   CONGRATULATIONS  ♣  
Promotions for January 2026
 
Terry Sawers     Advanced Master
Ray Elms              2 Star Master
Wendy Hodgson    Advanced Master
Ian Roach           4 Star Premier Master
National Pairs Regional Finals

CONGRATULATIONS to the following players who have qualified to play in the EBU National Pairs Regional Finals.

Ernest Armstrong,      Robert Barnett,

Adrian Foster,            Ray Fussell,

Bridget Hardstaff,      Paul Hardstaff,

Wendy Hodgson,       Adam Jacob,

Claudia Jones,          Sue Phillips,

Ian Roach,               Jo Watson,

Patricia Williams.

Qualification for this event was through achieving a score of over 55% in any of our regular club games between 1st and 14th February.

We encourage them to enter the South Western Regional final on 22nd March, on either BBO or RealBridge. 

Entry details can be found by following the relevant link here : BBO or RealBridge

Garden Cities Result

Congratulations to Corsham A team of 8 who came second (of 12 teams) in this competition on Sunday 18 January.

Well done too to Corsham B team for competing well against strong opposition. It was great for Corsham to have 16 players entered into this competition.

Corsham A team (Ian and Richard, Bridget and Paul, Sue and Pat, Ann-Marie and Ray) won 9 of their 11 matches. Ian and Richard did particularly well, coming 2nd in the rankings overall.

Presentation to Green Room
Presentation to Green Room

The Green Room says "It was lovely to welcome the Chair Lady from Corsham Bridge Club to our AGM to present the members with the £263.00 they kindly raised for us and to say Thank You in person. We look forward to our “Easy Bridge” lessons in the spring! THANK YOU AGAIN!"

Calendar
10th March 2026
Pairs
Box 1845hrs
11th March 2026
Assisted Play
Box 0945hrs
17th March 2026
Pairs
Box 1845hrs
Results
Assisted Play
Box
Director: Sue
Scorer: Gordon
EBU Stratisfied Sim Pairs
Box
Director: Sue
Scorer: Ian
Assisted Play
Box
Director: Sue
Scorer: Ray