This is a new event where the Chairman has invited regular players at County events to bring along 2 newer players to play in this new introductory event.
Each team of 4 has 2 county experienced players (unlimited ngs grade) and 2 newer players with a max ngs grade of a 9, Date of grade review is Dec 1st.see published list
There are no other restrictions and teams can substitute any player in any of the 4 events providing that the ngs requirement above is complied with, , any team playing a pair above the NGS limit will be unable to win a session. You don't have to pre-register, but if you wish to pre-enter use the form below. The intention is that in the assignments where possible the two pairs NGS 9 (or lower) will play each other. Player ngs rankings are shown on the list published in entry forms

The Consolation Hazel Whinfrey Event takes place on 2nd Feb starting at 12 Noon, price includes Light Sunday Tea. Click here for full details
Entry fees can be paid by bank transfer to:
Account name - Derbyshire Contract Bridge Association.
Account No 64528618
Sort code 55-50-53
Ref HW25

The County Pairs takes place on 2nd Feb starting at 12 Noon, price includes Light Sunday Tea. Click here for full details
Entry fees can be paid by bank transfer to:
Account name - Derbyshire Contract Bridge Association.
Account No 64528618
Sort code 55-50-53
Ref CP25

FINAL Derby A v BRB

DITKO Plate – Final Bakewell A v Ripley B
Winners Ripley B

Brian Minion receiving the trophy from DCBA Chairman Alastair McCance

Entries closed

!st round is on 15th May, there are 6 rounds, to win the Smedley Salver your best 4 scores out of the possible 6 events count. see calendar for dates

This year the event is handicapped, all scores will be evaluated against a players NGS rank and the winner will be the pair who perform best against their own ranking

The following DCBA Committee positions become vacant at our AGM on 2nd May (7:30 @ Spondon)

If you wish to volunteer for any of following positions, please register your interest with the web form below.

Chairman. Secretary, Treasurer, Masterpoints/Membership Sec, Webmaster, Chair of Conduct & Disciplinary Committee, Teaching/Development Sec please enter position you want to volunteer for in the comments box

The DCBA are running 3 events aimed at helping players interested in partnering a player that regularly participates in County events. Our hope is this may help players to take the next step and that they themselves will become regulars in County events. Anyone interested please forward their name and contact details to DCBA Secretary Jim Parker 07980716894 (text/phone/Whatsapp) or email jimparker@totalise.co.uk 

These details will be passed on to the DCBA Event Organiser who will co-ordinate the 3 events which will be held at Spondon on Wednesday's 13th Dec, 3rd Jan & 13th March 7pm start, We hope that partnerships will try and play in all 3 events and there is a prize for the newcomer who gets best result(the best two scores in the 3 events will be used to declare the winner), newcomers will be permitted to retain all their scores irrespective of who their partner was for the overall prize.

At last night's event a mobile phone was left at Spondon venue, please contact Jim Parker 07980716894 if it is yours, John Sowter will be taking it to the venue tonight for the Thursday social bridge session.

Regular Pairs interested in playing for Derbyshire in County Matches can register interest by email to:

richardwynedwards@gmail.com 

Additionally we need more pairs to play in our Realbridge County Matches.(usually 2nd Sunday in Sept-Apr starting at 2pm)

If anyone is interested in attending a Debyshire taster session on Realbridge (to be held on either a Thurs or Sun evening @ 7pm, lasting approx 1 hr) then please contact Jim Parker 
jimparker@totalise.co.uk / 07980716894

The fixture list for Derbyshire is:

10 September -home v Leicestershire

8 October -away at Oxfordshire 

19 November - home v Warwickshire

10 December - away at Nottinghamshire

14 January - away at Worcestershire

11 February - home v Gloucestershire

10 March (might be 17/03) home v Staffs & Shrops

THE VP SCALES

This is an annual event which this year is being held at Spondon. Final movement depends on numbers, we are looking to play 6 × 6 board rounds, 18 in each session.

Entry fee £18 per player (juniors half price), good prize money and Sunday tea included at end of session 1

As we didn't have enough players registering their intent to play by the deadline of Wed 20th March, the Atkins Cup is cancelled

Winners of the Derbyshire County Championship Pairs Trophy, John Griffin and Malcolm Young

Winners of the Hazel Whinfrey Plate, Roy Fey and Wallace Bryce.

Alastair and Roman tied with them on points but here Alastair is happy to be presenting the trophy to the winners

Chairman Alastair McCance presenting the Dimme Fleming award (for services to bridge, these awards are made specifically to publicly recognise those who have worked hard promoting bridge locally at County level) to DCBA Secretary Jim Parker on Wed 8th November

Malvern Congress - Newcomers' Pairs 28th and 29th Oct
https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwoq/bw.cgi?club=worcestershire&pid=docs_MalvernCongressBrochure2023.pdf

Middlesex Mixed & Unmixed Pairs 2023.

Pairs can play in a mixed or unmixed partnership and there will be a cash prize for the winners in each category.

Date: Thursday, 26th October 2023 Time: 7.30pm 

Platform: RealBridge Duration: 24 boards

Entry close date: Midnight 25th October

Entry fee: £10 per pair

Click here to enter

Due to insufficient entries this event is cancelled

  Good  to see a few new partnerships but prevailing in the night were, Sandy Davies & Roman Gembicki.  Well done to them.  Presenting  the trophy was Jim Parker 

The Vic Morris Cup and Plate knockout pivot teams-of-4 competition.

The Vic Morris Cup & Plate are a handicapped Knock-out Pivot Teams of 4 competition, the losers from 1^st round are entered into the Plate event which starts at round 2 of the event.

This year the matches can be played F2F @ Spondon, F2F at other venue or played on BBO. The captains to agree match date/time/venue/on-line. If any team has concerns about playing F2F they shall have the right to insist that match will be played on on-line.

Please click here for the competition rules & entry form, please forward all entries to Jim Parker by 10:30 pm on Wednesday 15^th September

The handicap is based on a players NGS rating on 1^st Sept 2021, the team aggregate handicap ratings are compared and the resultant difference will be added to the lesser ranked teams total score. Vic Morris handicap scale

It is with great sadness that the DCBA has to announce the death of Don Smedley 12/Oct/2020.

John Griffin has written some words about Don's life and bridge that can be downloaded by clicking here.

Very best wishes from the DCBA Committee, and bridge players in Derbyshire and much much wider, go to Don's wife and family.

Don's wife June has written..

First may I thank everyone for the lovely bunch of flowers you sent to me in memory of Don. It contained some stems of purple hebe which I am going to attempt to root as cuttings so I can keep them permanently. Also my thanks for the astonishing number of sympathy cards I received. They were of great help to me as they reminded me of Don as he was before the Alzheimer's took hold. We had a short service of commital for the close family. There was no need for us to be reminded of Don's life history or of his qualities as a husband, father and grandfather. Instead the celebrant used quotations from the cards to show how much he was valued by all his friends in the world of Bridge and the world of composition and solution of Chess problems. Don had so many years of pleasure from playing Bridge and made so many friends over the years, so thank you for your kind words.

A new EBU affiliated bridge club in Bakewell is playing on-line on Monday nights. See the Useful Links tab on the left for more information.

I've decided to create a new tab on the left to cover all bridge tuition taking place in Derbyshire. I already have some information which I will add. If I have anything wrong or you know of any other teaching taking place now or that will restart post Coronavirus, please let me know at floutier@yahoo.co.uk.

To see fixtures and final results for this year's Presidents Cup competition, please click here.

After 11 rounds, our Derbyshire teams finished 4th and 5th out of 12 teams. 

Round 1 -

ROBSON beat MARSHALL;  FLOUTIER beat SOWTER; YOUNG beat REAVY and MADDEN beat FRAPE.  PARKER had a bye.

Semi Final - 

Cup: ROBSON and PARKER beat FLOUTIER. MADDEN beat YOUNG.

Plate: MARSHALL beat SOWTER. REAVY beat FRAPE.

Final -

Cup result: MADDEN (Cedric Cockcroft, John Squib, Paul Madden and Harry Madden) beat ROBSON and PARKER.

Plate result: MARSHALL (Mary & David Marshall, Roger Malinson and Richard Edwards) beat REAVY

If you have an opinion about readiness to playing Face to Face bridge, please CLICK HERE and return your completed questionnaire to jimparker@totalise.co.uk.

Or if you want the word version with response boxes see side tab

Online, Inter-county bridge is starting slowly and Derbyshire entered a Pilot competition on 23rd May. See details here.

If you are interested in playing in future games and have an NGS score of between K and AC, please contact jimparker@totalise.co.uk.

The DCBA's Facebook site is fully operational and many members are now enjoying its content.

To access the site click on NEWS, at the top right of this page.

News on Coronavirus and online bridge has been moved to "Coronavirus and BBO" on the left of this page.

The new link to the right takes you to an EBU page for Laws and Ethics, including new guidance on playing online.

The DCBA committee has decided to abandon the remaining matches of the 2019-20 Teams of Eight and awarded point for matches called off due to the Coronavirus.

Click here for more details and final table positions.

As Matt would have it, it would be nice to live in precedented times. But sadly we don’t and the current situation with COVID 19 is worrying and distressing for us all. The announcements yesterday from Boris Johnson, Sir Patrick Vallance and Prof Chris Whitty were sobering and worth listening to if you missed them. The advice is very clear. Since bridge can only be classified as a ‘non-essential social gathering’ we have no choice but to cancel all our events for however long this advice remains in place. It may well be for considerably longer than the 4 weeks, which we have cancelled so far. Some of our regular players are over 70 and advice for this group seems to be coming that they should self-isolate, probably for a protracted period of time, which will be challenging in itself. Roger Floutier will continue to update the website as appropriate.

I have not previously been a great fan of online bridge but 2020 could be the year – any port in a storm as the saying is. Many of us will inevitably be exposed to this virus but I do hope none of us will be seriously affected. The situation is developing rapidly and as soon as we think it is safe and reasonable to do so we will reactivate our calendar – but I am not expecting that to be soon.

Alastair McCance

Due to Coronavirus concerns

• Bakewell have had to postpone the Atkins Cup until a later date.
• The DCBA AGM is postponed. A new date will be decided in a few week's time.

Click here  to see the club director training courses available this year.

Also see item in News for course dates and contact detail of course organiser.

DCBA news is now on Facebook.

Click on the link just below "News" on the left, where it says "News on Facebook".

If you do not already have a Facebook account you will be asked to create one.

The DCBA are running a new competition for Improvers on Wednesday 29th April.

For more information, click here.

Please note that Belper Yellow have had to pull out of this year's teams of eight competition.

The remainder of matches in division 5 will continue except that matches against Belper Yellow will be FREE.

If you need any further info, please contact training organiser Richard Banbury at richard@ebu.co.uk. 

The training dates at Spondon are:

• Sunday 22^nd March “How to run a club duplicate”
• Sunday 19^th April Book Rulings
• Sunday 10^th May Book & Judgement Rulings
• Sunday 24^th May Assessment

The first of these 4 dates is optional – and serves as an introduction to the rest of the course. For info about course content etc, please see here http://www.ebedcio.org.uk/td-training

The course trainer is Barrie Partridge

There is also a course starting soon in Leicester if that is a more convenient venue for anyone. There’s no problem to mix and match between different venues and dates (although ideally best to do the individual days in the right order). Courses can be booked in part  or in full – and can be completed over a 2 year period of necessary. Members of non-affiliated clubs are welcome.

The full course calendar can be found here  http://www.ebedcio.org.uk/td-course-calendar

Natashire Romaine and Phil Thompson achieved a score of 90.18% in a duplicate session on 25th Jan.

For more details, click here. Well done!

Graham Jepson of Sheffield has initiated mini-bridge at William Gilbert Primary School at Duffield among a group of very enthusiastic and pleasant youngsters.  However, Graham needs to pass this on to someone more local.  If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in continuing with this work, please would you get in touch with Mary Marshall on 01335 360582.  Graham will be at the school for 2 more sessions, tomorrow and a week on Monday.  (The normal DBS check is mandatory but Graham assures me that the EBU would pay for this.)

In an exciting finish, the EBU team (including Harry Madden, playing with Oscar Selby) came second in the Junior Camrose, only 0.58 VPs behind the winners Scotland. More info on the EBU website.

Amanda/Judy, please click here

Congratulations to Harry Madden and the England under 21 team for winning the Channel Trophy!!! See results here.

His captain, Michael Byrne, said the team are a joy to captain.

Hopefully some of you saw viewgraphs on BBO of the England Trials this last weekend, hosted by EMBA at Spondon.

Both the venue and excellent work from the EMBA team (led by Anne Townsend) made the event very successful.

Many thanks to all the team at EMBA for their fantastic, hard work!

In the long overdue final of the Brigden, Richard Edwards (+ Bob Ross, Peter Kelly and Alex Hogg) beat Andy Wells (+Cedric Cockcroft, Roman Gembicki and Janusz Adamowicz) by a single IMP!

Please note that Rolls-Royce home matches for the rest of this season will take place at Spondon.

Also note that Rolls-Royce B and Ripley Orange have withdrawn this year.

There were mixed result against top-of-the-table Gloucetershire, with both 1st and 3rd teams losing.

But with help from excellent results from Paul Knighton and Mike Douglas, the 2nd team won 16-4.

You can click on the match result on the right of the home page to take you to the GCBA site or see Butlers by clicking on the County Matches link on the left of the home page.

A few nights ago our team played a Brigden knockout team of 4 match against a team from Ripley. We have known each other for rather a long time but I would still like to record what a pleasure it was to play this match in the correct spirit. Everybody can always do better. We all make mistakes but there was no criticism, no falling out, plenty of banter and also a nice speed of play (finished by 10.15).

It was a pity one team had to lose. Even more so that the margin of victory after 28 boards was 1 IMP ! So there were 364 tricks contested and 1 trick separated the teams. Thanks to all players involved. Trevor Pilkington

Please note that the Brigden, Vic Morris and Teams of 8 competitions have no official TD so please don't call for one and expect a reply. For more information click here.

The Mixed teams an India cup competitions scheduled in September are being moved to other venues date and venues TBC.

The prize winners in the less experienced group were:

1st Paul Atkins (playing with an experienced partner!) 41 match points

2nd Karen Jackson and Jack Judd 31 match points

3rd Adrian Goddard and Dean McCluskey 30 match points

Well done to all three Derbyshire teams for winning their county matches on Sunday 13th Oct against Worcestershire. For more details, click on County Matches on the left of this page.

In the September Green Point Event at Spondon, Derbyshire's Amanda Sowter & John Griffin came second in the Swiss Pairs and Margaret Watson, Pat Hobson, Graham Burgess & Cedric Cockcroft also came second in the Swiss Teams.

The Atkins Cup, run by Bakewell Bridge Club, was won by John Griffin & Malcolm Young. Full results can be found here.

Congratulations to Cedric Cockcroft and John Squibb for coming 16th in the recent Corwen Trophy, which is a national pairs event.

Congratulations to John Griffin for winning the Gerry Fletcher Individual on 6th Aug 2019. For full results click here.

Congratulations to Alan Kenny, Richard Horsley, John Griffin and Malcolm Young for coming second in the A Final of the teams at Scarborough.

In the final round of the competition, the U21 team with Harry narrowly lost to the winners Holland, but it was enough to move them into 3^rd place as the silver medallists France thrashed Poland. They qualify for the World Championships next year.

In the U26’s the first 8 teams of the 23 qualify for the World championships next year. At the start of the day England were 10 victory points off Czech Republic, the 8^th placed team. Both teams had resounding wins, but at the end England were still 8.5 VPs off the 8^th slot, now held by Bulgaria. Ian played in the second game, and a 20 IMP gain on the last two boards saw them whitewash Ireland 20 – 0. They were now 3VPs behind Israel, 6 behind Bulgaria and 8 behind the Czechs.

The final game was against eventual silver medalists Holland. After 7 hands they were 19 IMPs behind, clawed it back to be 4 ahead, then with 2 hands to go were 8 behind. The Czechs had finished their 15 boards, still 5 VP’s ahead. On board 14 the Dutch stopped in 5H, but Kennedy and Ye bid and made 6NT. On the last board England needed to gain at least 3 IMPs to get the necessary VP’s.  Norton and Natt made an overtrick in 3C, 110 points. So Kennedy and Ye needed to get a positive score. The Dutch bid 3NT, a contract made by 9 other pairs. The pressure told and the Dutch player erred in trying to establish Diamonds rather than clubs. Down 1.  5 IMP’s to England who gained 8^th place with 270.67 VP’s to 270.11.

The ladies team with Hannah Tuus had an up-and-down series of matches, finishing 8^th of the 9 teams.

The England U16 team also took a Bronze medal, finishing 3^rd of the 18 teams by the narrow margin of 1.2 VPs.

I have attached two bulletins from the 27th European Youth Team Chamionship. In particular see p14 from Bulletin 3 and p9..12 from Bulletin 4.

Bulletin 3.pdf

Bulletin 4.pdf

Congratulations to Don Smedley and John Griffin for winning the Smedley Salver in 2019. Click here for full results.

Since mid April, I have been learning about the DCBA website and making some changes. Below is a summary and some help for you to find your way around...

1. Up to date - I have updated the honours boards and other pages, hopefully so the website will be more current.
2. Simplify - I've tried to reduce the clutter and group similar items together under standard menu items on the left.
3. Left Menu - Where left menu items are in UPPER CASE, you will find more options below by clicking on the heading. E.g. If you click on MASTERCLASSES you will see a sub-menu containing many of the masterclass document delivered by our experts 

Roger Floutier 3rd May 2019

Hanna Tuus - Hanna's biography

White House, Amsterdam U26: March 2019    3rd place in Junior Channel Trophy: 2018    3rd in Junior European Championships: 2017    2nd with Ian Robson in Eastbourne U26 Pairs: 2017

Ian Robson - Ian's biography

1st in Junior Camrose: 2019    3rd in European Youth Pairs U26: 2018    2nd in Eastbourne U26 Pairs: 2018    2nd with Hanna Tuus in Eastbourne U26 Pairs: 2017

Harry Madden - Harry's biography

Channel Trophy, Lille U21: December 2018    World Youth Championship, China U21: 2018    1st in Peggy Bayer: 2018    Junior Channel Trophy: 2017

World Youth Teams: 2016    Peggy Bayer: 2016    Czech Junior Teams U15: 2015     European Youth Teams U15: 2015

EMBA at Spondon has been selected to host Stage 2 of the English Trials for the 2020 European National Teams Trials from Friday 22nd November to Sunday 24th November.

It is understood that spectation is possible though space may be limited. Click here for more details.

Congratulations to Derbyshire pairs Janus Adamowicz & Roman Gembicki and John Griffin & Malcolm Young who finished 1st and 2nd in the Notts Green Point Pairs on Saturday 20th July. For the full results, go to the NCBA website.

Congratulation to Derbyshire players Harry Madden, Ian Robson and Hanna Tuus for great results representing England in the 27th European Youth Team Chamionship.

For more details, see the news page, which can be accessed from the button on the left of this page.

The rules of our competitions are published on the DCBA website and details of our calendar and competitions (Sept-Aug) are published in our members hand book. This year we emailed the document to as many members that we could and it is also available via this website. Each year competitions are discussed at our AGM and then the competitions subcommittee meet in June/July to finalise the new calendar and agree any competition changes, the calendar/members hand book is then approved at the following main committee meeting. If any members have any comments or suggestions please try and attend the AGM on May 2nd 2019 and then members attending can agree or make comment. Should you have comments or suggestions and are unable to attend the AGM please pass them to the DCBA secretary (Jim Parker; Mob 07980716894; jimparker@totalise.co.uk) or your Club’s DCBA Representative and they can be raised at the AGM on your behalf. Please try and avoid making suggestions too close to an event as often it is too late to make changes and may only increase the stress levels of the event organisers. Your input will be appreciated and making it at the right time means we can evaluate your suggestion and hopefully improve our competitions for the benefit of members.

The DCBA are seeking a volunteer to monitor location of our trophies and to keep engraving up to date. If interested please contact Jim Parker or John Sowter.

Did you know three young Derbyshire players are selected regularly to represent England?

Click on the NEWS item on the left of the screen to find out more.

Leicestershire are running a Green Point Swiss Pairs event on 22nd June.

If you would like to play, details can be found under "Entry Forms" on the left of this page.

Due to the lack of interest, the trials for entry into the President's Cup, scheduled for Sunday 12th May, has had to be cancelled.

Our entry will now be made wholly by the selection committee.

Please be aware should your phone make a noise during play you WILL be fined 1/2 VP 

If you are looking for information that is older than 1-2 weeks try looking in our old news section

The Winter Swiss Event Finished on 13th March winners were:

Eric White (open event) was won by Team Mallinson
Winter Plate (teams Ave NGS no higher than Queen) was won by Team Parker
Secretaries Cup (team Ave NGS no higher than 10) was won by team Curzon

This has been cancelled as numbers for the planned workshops were lower than needed. It is hoped to reshedule the event on a more popular date.

Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire are hosting a bridge festival in Oxford from September 18 to 21 inclusive.  The festival is aimed at players who play for fun rather than master points. See side tab for details 

We will be holding our review of competitions rules on 5th July. Our current rules are available via a side tab on this website, if anyone has any suggested amendments or issues they feel need addressing please pass them in writing (or marked up existing version) to Ken Smith, Derek Turner or Jim Parker by Wed 4th July.

Winners Jim Parker, Mike Douglas, Alan Smith & Paul Knighton (Maggie Beale was 5th member of team)

Jim's team beat Jennifer Floutiers team in the Final (Don Smedley, John Griffin & Roger Floutier were in Jennifers team)

Due to the inconsiderate actions of the England football team there will be insufficient people at Spondon on Wednesday, 9th July to allow a viable competition to take place. This round has therefore been cancelled.

As a result the following changes have been made to the rules (for this year only)

1. Pairs need to play in at least 3 rounds out of the 5 available to qualify (from 4 out of 6)

2. The final score in the Smedley Salver will be calculated based on the best 3 scores acheived whilst playing in the event.

Unfortunately suggestions, such as another Wednesday (September!) or playing on a Thursday, may well be intrinsically unfair to a section of the people playing and, as such, are not viable alternatives.

Please let anyone you are aware of who does not look at this Web Site know.

Congratulations to the 2018 Brigden Cup winners!

Roman Gembicki, Janusz Adamowicz, Cedric Cockcroft, Andy Wells

Below we have the DCBA's President Ian Blake handing over the cup to 3 of the Team

Due to having to postpone the Invitation Pairs event to play an outstanding MCL match postponed in November due to poor weather, we are now holding a joint event on April 15th 2018. The event will also be a County trial with best placed pairs being offered places in this years Preidents Cup team. The event will start at 1pm.

Regarding Entries, Ian Blake will be inviting the County & Club competition winners to play in the Invitation Pairs event. The County Trial is an open even and any pairs interested should advise the DCBA Secretary

Jim Parker – jimparker@totalise.co.uk
or
Chaiman of Selectors Andy Wells - andywells140@gmail.com

Enterance Fee is £12 per person (£8 Juniors)

1st Team won 11-9

2nd Team Won 13-7

3rd team lost 9-11

There will be lessons for beginners and intermediate players at EMBA Spondon on Monday evenings (7 p.m.) starting on September 4th.  For further details, please contact Mary on 01335 360582 or by email to msbmarshall@w3z.co.uk

Lessons are also run by affiliated clubs and Caledonian School of Bridge offer free coaching, for link to each affiliated club web site please click on our useful link's tab.

The DCBA are looking for a volunteer to manage our trophies, this will include monitoring their location, organising engraving (all costs reimbursed) and getting them returned for award at competitions/AGM.

Anyone interested please approach John Sowter 07811564518

Winners of the County Pairs were Roman Gembicki & Janusz Adamowicz with Harry Madden & Alex Hogg 2nd

Winners of the Consolation Final were Peter & Susan Illsley with Elaine Madden & Ken Smith 2nd (Note Derek & Roy entered event at start of session 2)

There is a heat of the EBU Midlands Improvers Pairs being held at Spondon on 25th Nov start 2pm see details on MIP2017 side tab

2.00pm start.

The teams are:
1st team -  John Squibb/Paul Madden, Roman Gembicki/Janusz Adamowicz, Roger Mallinson /Andy Wells(c), Alex Hogg/Harry Madden
Lost 3-17

2nd Team - John Griffin/Don Smedley, Derek Brookes/Steve Cave(c), John & Amanda Sowter, Mary & David Marshall
Won 16-4

3rd Team - Jim Tomlinson/David Briggs, Chris Challinor/Clive Case, Mike Douglas/Paul Knigton, Randy(c) & Doreen Curzon
Lost 9-11
res Alan Kenny/Malcolm Young

The next match in the 2017-18 season is against Notts at Spondon on Sunday 8th October with a 2:00pm start

The selected teams are:

1st team Paul(c)/John  Roger/Richard  Alex/Peter David/Mary - Won 11-9

2nd team John(c)/Amanda  Alan/Malcolm Jim/David  Harry/Cedric - Lost 9-11

3rd team Randy(c)/Doreen  Mike/Paul  Richard/John  Ian/Chris - Won 19-1

1st team Lost 1-19
Paul Madden (capt)/John Squibb Don Smedley/John Griffin Roger Mallinson/Richard Edwards Harry Madden/Cedric Cockcroft

2nd team Won 18-2
John Sowter (capt)/Amanda Sowter Mary& David Marshall Alan Kenny/Malcolm Young Derek Brookes/Steve Cave

3rd team Won 18-2

Jim Parker(capt)/Ron McEwan Alastair McCance/John Gould Mike Douglas/Paul Knighton Ian&Chris Robson

This is a Swiss pairs event held at 7.00pm at Spondon fortnightly throughout the summer(6 sessions, 4 best scores count towards winning overall event), starting on Wednesday, 17th May playing 3 x 8 board matches per session. Players joining the event late during the summer will start in the middle of the table. Prizes are awarded on final finishing positions and to the highest scoring pair on the night. Scoring is by IMP's converted to Victory Points (EBU scale). Because of the competition format, pairs will find themselves in matches against pairs close to them, therefore, this event is suitable for players of all standards and it is possible for any Pair to win on the night.
Do not worry if you have not been playing long, this competition is one that all can enjoy. The normal DCBA contact for this event is Derek Turner email derekhome@hotmail.co.uk mobile 07851262493. Throughout the event please let Derek know if your partnership cannot play in a session.  Remember you can enter this event at any time throughout or even just play once, all are welcome.

Please note our AGM is being held on May 4th @ Spondon (7:30 pm), 

Members are invited to attend.

Could all trophy holders please return them ASAP so that they can be awarded as part of the prceedings.

On May 14th DCBA is holding a Trials Event with a view to selecting the team of eight to represent Derbyshire in this year's President's Cup - the 'Northern Tollemache' - which this year is on the weekend of 15th/16th July at Manchester BC (teams for Saturday and Sunday may differ so players do not have to be available for the whole weekend). 

The trials are on Sunday 14th in Spondon and start at 1.30pm. We have pledged to choose at least 3 pairs from the ranking list of this event and performances in this trial will be reviewed by selectors in picking teams for forthcomming inter county events. Players on the county teams list and players hoping to be included on the selection list should all be interested in participating in this event.

This is a first time that we have used trials in this way so it would be good to see the event being a success; feel free to make bridge players aware of this event.

If you wish to register to play in this event please advise the DCBA Secretary click for email link.

Contact info:
Jim Parker
Mob 07980716894 email jimparker@totalise.co.uk 

1st team - Lost 9-11

Andy Wells (c)/Roger Mallinson John Griffin /Don Smedley  John Squibb/Paul Madden Harry Madden /Cedric Cockcroft

2nd team Lost 7-13

Steve Cave (c)/Derek Brooks  Richard Horsley /John Shaw  Jim Tomlinson /David Briggs Mike Douglas /Paul Knighton

3rd team Lost 9-11

Alan Kenny (c)/Jeff Caledine  Jim Parker /Maggie Beale Alastair McCance /John Gould Mo Logan / Malcolm Young

1st team Andy Wells(c)/Roger Mallinson John Griffin/Don Smedley  Cedric Cockcroft/Harry Madden Dave & Mary Marshall result lost 6-14

2nd team Steve Cave(c)/Derek Brookes Jim Tomlinson/David Briggs Mike Douglas/Paul Knighton Richard Horsley & John Shaw result won 18-2

3rd team  Alastair McCance/John Gould Chris Challinor/Clive Case Malcolm Young/Jeff Calledine  Jennifer&Roger Floutier result lost 4-16

Res Randy&Doreen Curzon
For Butler Report and Hand Annalysis Report see side tabs via main heading County Matches.

WINTER SWISS TEAMS of 4 ENCOMPASSING

THE ERIC WHITE CUP - THE WINTER PLATE - THE SECRETARY’s CUP 
(DCBA Team of Four Championship - Pachabo Cup qualifier)

This will be run as a Swiss Teams event, the team finishing 1^st will be champion team
of four for Derbyshire and will be invited to represent the county in the Pachabo Cup
(providing all members have Derbyshire registered as their primary county of allegiance
with the EBU). The winners of the Winter Plate will be the highest placed team that have
an average team ranking of no higher than a J on the EBU NGS system, the winner of the
Secretary’s Cup will be the highest placed team that have an average ranking of no higher
than an 8 on the EBU NGS system. Latest change is highligted in yellow.
                     Additional Rules

1.  Teams may consist of up to 6 players but only 4 may play in any one match. 
Exceptionally a player may play for more than one team

2. Three matches of 8 boards will be played on each night.  If necessary a group
of three teams will be formed playing 4 board mini-matches, in which case a team
may have to play another team twice on the night.

3. On the first evening teams will draw lots; thereafter pairings will be based on teams'
cumulative scores.  Except in the case of a mini-match,teams will not meet twice on the
same night.

4.  There are no entry forms and teams may turn up to play unannounced at any event. 
Teams entering late or missing an event will be awarded a 50% score for all matches
missed. However, to qualify for a prize at the end of the competition teams must play
in at least two-thirds of the events.

Regretfully the following teams have advised they are unable to fulfil their fixtures
and have withrawn from the compitition:
Caledonian S of B
Burton
Belper A
The fixtures for the above teams have now been cancelled and the opposition teams
will have a sitout 

The Invitation Pairs will be held  at The East Midlands Bridge Academy, The Old School, Chapel Street, Spondon, Derby DE21 7JR on Sunday February 26th 2017 at 2:00 p.m.

This is aspecial invitation only event and the DCBA Committee invites pairs who have won or been highly placed in Club and County events to compete in this event.

Click header to open the list!

This is the provisional qualification listing and can all pairs please confirm their intention to accept there place in our finals, also please advise if you are unable to accept your place.
Contact is Jim Parker jimparker@totalise.co.uk 
This list will also be sent to the clubs that held the qualifying heats. The finals will be held atSpondon on Sun 29th Jan 2017 13:30 start
Arrangements for finals day, you are welcome to bring your own tea, food will be available to be purchased from the bar. The menu is:

Jacket Potato with choice of filling and salad garnish (chilli, cheese or tuna mayo).

Ploughman's with ham or cheese.

Soup & sandwich.  

Price £5, purchased from bar on arrival on the day.
Please do not bring your own alcohol to the event

Following the resignation by Arnold Chandler as Chairman of the DCBA earlier this week, Alistair McCance (Vice Chairman) has agreed to be Chairman of DCBA.

He will carry out the duties of Chairman, until the associations next AGM.

The results of the Midlands County Home League match on 9th Oct are

1st team won 13-7

Paul Madden(capt)/John Squibb Alex/Peter Kelly  Roman Gembicki/Janusz Adamowicz  Roger Mallinson /Richard Edwards

2nd team won 14-6

Steve Cave(capt)/Derek Brookes Dave&Mary Marshall  Jim Tomlinson/David Briggs Cedric Cockcroft/Harry Madden

3rd team won 13-7

Alan Kenny/Jeff Calledine  Mike Douglas/Paul Knighton Jim Parker (capt)/Maggie Beale Alastair Mcance/John Gould

Reports and analysis to follow

A working party is scheduled for Sat 8th, see notice boards or contact Andrew for details

The Final was played last night and Brian Elliott's team beat Don Smedley's team by 62 imps

The winning team was Brian Elliott, John Sowter, Roger Mallinson & Richard Edwards.

On 21st of September we have the 2016 mixed teams (all play all) event (team of 4 with at least 1 Man and 1 Lady), there is no entry just turn up and play.

This years final of the Vic Morris Plate took place last Tuesday between Malcolm Young (Alan Kenny, Jeff Calladine and Richard Horsley) and David Briggs (Jim Tomlinson, Chris Rogers, and Richard Hodgkins).  Despite several swingy boards, Malcolm's team emerged the victors by just 630 aggregate points.  This was even more remarkable as David's team were fined 600 for late arrival.

NCBA Green Point Results - DCBA team take the Notts silverware!
Click here for winners photo
Click here for link to results (Sat Pairs)
Click here for link to results (Sun Teams)

At the Spondon Event we had joint winners Jenny Roe & Sue Rhead; Linda Pritchard & Sue Wright

Click on link for overall winner https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwom/bw.cgi?pid=display_rank&msec=1&event=20160703_2&wd=1&club=warwickshire

Team that played against Manchester on 3rd July was:

Randy/Doreen Curzon,  Mo Logan/Malcolm Young, Alistair McCance/John Gould, Mike Douglas/Paul Knighton, Steve Lemmings/Natasha Romaine,Chris Challinor/Clive Case

The result was a 15-5 win to Derbyshire by 32 imps

The result of the 1st Friendly on Sunday 22nd May at Sheffield Bridge Club was an 18-2 win for Derbyshire (+64 imps)

Jim Parker (capt) Maggie Beale, Geoff Alderman Derek Turner, Steve Lemmings Natasha Romaine, Malcolm Young Jeff Calladine,

Mike Douglas Paul Knighton, Clive Chase and Chris Challinor

Anyone interested in playing in the remaing friendlies should approach Andy Wells, Alan Kenny, John Griffin or David Marshal or email Andy at andywells140@gmail.com 

All members are invited to the DCBA EGM which is being held at Spondon @ 18:15 on 25th of May 2016.
This EGM has been called due to a quorum not being achieved at the recent AGM. Meeting will start once a quorum is achieved and is scheduled before the Summer Swiss Teams Event scheduled on that evening.

At the recent AGM the members agreed that we should amend clause 7 of our constitution. The vote to accept or decline this amendment will be held at the EGM on 25th May 2016.

The new proposed amendment for clause 7 is that highlighted in yellow:

7) GENERAL MEETINGS Each affiliated Club Secretary will be notified of the time and place of a General Meeting by written communication which may be posted, emailed or delivered by hand. Notice of fourteen days is required for a General Meeting. Clubs have the responsibility to inform their members. No other notification of members by the DCBA is required. All individuals in attendance who are members may vote at a General Meeting. The quorum for a General Meeting shall be 15. If there are insufficient members at the meeting to form a quorum, then the meeting may proceed except that any vote for an Officer where there is more than 1 candidate for that office must be delayed until an EGM is held in not less than 2 weeks and not more than 4 weeks after the AGM.
At the AGM further amendments were proposed:
In the event of only one applicant for officer positions that we should not need to call an EGM for the election.
Also
In the event of an EGM being called the number of attendees shall be a quorum.
These additional changes will be put to the members for acceptance at the EGM

This is a knockout pivot teams-of-four competition (in which each player must play 9 boards with each other player of his team in turn during the course of a 27-board match). Scoring is by aggregate points. All rounds in both events are handicapped (National Grading used, details supplied by Competitions Secretary prior to match). Teams defeated in the first round of the competition play in the Vic Morris Plate, which starts at round 2 of the Vic Morris Cup. Each member of each team carries a handicap, the aggregate of which becomes the team hadicap. Matches for rounds 1 & 2 of the Cup and the 1st round of the Plate, will be played at Spondon at 7.00pm on Wednesdays as prescribed in the calendar. Result is decided by Aggregate scoring. 
Entry form available via side tab

The final match for the 2015/6 season was away at Gloucs on 3rd April

As per Meatloaf song two out of three ain't bad, with the 1st team winning 14-6, 2nd team losing 8-12 and 3rd team winning 16-4.

Report and analysis of the match is available via County match side tab at side or follow this link to Glouscestershire result page https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwom/bw.cgi?pid=display_rank&msec=1&event=20160403_2&wd=1&club=gloucestershire

Final league table placings are also available via County Match side tab (highest placed Derbyshire team was the 3rd team finishing a mid table =4th)

The next match is against Worcs on 21st Feb at home (2.30 start)

The teams selected are:

1st team Andy Wells(c)/Roger Mallenson John Griffin/Don Smedley Dave/Mary Marshall Jim Tomlinson/David Briggs - 1st team won 15-5

2nd team Steve Cave(c)/Derek Brookes Alan Kenny/Jeff Calledine John/Amanda Sowter Cedric Cockcroft/John Squibb - 2nd team won 18-2

3rd team Jim Parker(c)/Maggie Beale Richard Horsley/John Shaw Randy/Doreen Curzon Alastair Mcance/John Gould - 3rd team drew 10-10

Reports available via the county matches tab on LHS