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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.

 

 

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 Feb-Mar
EBU Events Feb-Mar
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'

 

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!"

British Winter SIM Pairs 13th Jan 2026

All 26 clubs, comprising 423 pairs, have reported results for this event.

Corsham did pretty well in this event, having 5 pairs in the top third of this competition and thus gaining additional Masterpoints.

There were very good results for Richard and Ian who came 7th overall with 210 MPs. 

Terry Sawers and Mo O'Shaughnessy came 36th with 168 MPs.

Sue Phillips and Pat Williams came 43rd with 158 MPs,

Cath Elms and John Maggs came 58th with 137 MPs.

Wendy Hodgson and Claudia Jones came  98th with 79 MPs.

Full results are at Sim Pairs.

 

Calendar
3rd March 2026
EBU Stratisfied Sim Pairs
Box 1845hrs
4th March 2026
Assisted Play
Box 0945hrs
10th March 2026
Pairs
Box 1845hrs
Results
Assisted Play
Box
Director: Sue
Scorer: Ray
Pairs
Box
Director: Sue
Scorer: Ray
Assisted Play
Box
Director: Sue
Scorer: Gordon