Hi everyone, monthly Prizes for November go to::

• Monday              Ron Coulter
• Wednesday        Terry Jones and Sue Pemberton 
• Friday                  Jerry Hopkins

Well done all of you.

We do not have sufficient pairs registered for the NGS10+ session on Thursday (5 December) and so with regret the session is CANCELLED.

Friday 10th January 2024

Start time 17.30 – online via BBO

$8 per person entry – pay on the day but pre-registration to play is essential.

Please support your county and enter this competition. The event will run as a single long session with a 30 min mid-way break. It will operate as an all play all arrangement (Howell movement) of 36-39 boards using standard pairs scoring.

As always, green points are awarded to the top half of the field & the top three eligible pairs also get the chance to represent the county in the national pairs championship in May.

To register to play please complete the entry form which can be found on the county website at: https://www.bridgewebs.com/merseysidecheshire/.

Please note that entries will close at 22.00 on Wednesday 8th Jan as we need some time to set up this event on BBO.

For any queries please contact Chris Raymond - drcjr56@gmail.com or 0151 334 5206.

Our mini-congress in Llandudno took place last weekend (22-24 November) with 48 of us taking part, and included 5 sessions of bridge. We were comfortably housed at the Dunoon Hotel, well sheltered from the storm outside, and enjoyed excellent meals laid on by the hotel chef. The weekend was organised by Sheena and we arrived to a wonderful display of prizes for the weekend, which gradually were handed out to deserving contestants. As there was a rule that no one could win more than one prize quite a few of us came away with something. Here are photos of the playing area, the 2 TDs for the weekend, and the prizes.

This year's Christmas Party on Sunday 8 December is now FULL.

If you would like to be notified if we have any cancellations then please let me

know. Sheena

The Chester Bowl blue-pointed pairs competition was held on Sunday 20th October and attracted a high-quality field.

The first session was a qualifier with all 32 pairs taking part and was won by Paul Roberts and Julian Merrill with Jackie Pye and John Holland coming second.

The top 14 pairs contested the final with Peter Richmond and Roger Allison winning the trophy and Paul Roberts and Julian Merrill coming second.

The remaining 18 pairs contested a consolation final session which was won by Ian Blackhurst and Peter Sumption with Brian Crawford and Frank McAleavy coming second.

The Club's President, David Smith, is seen here presenting the prizes (and, of course, the trophy) to all those named above.

Thanks also go to the EBU's James Vickers who directed the event and is seen here with David and the winning pair.

Well done everybody!

The Daniel Miller Cup for students of our bridge classes and recent attendees and players in supervised sessions was held on Monday 7 October. The competition was well contested with 18 pairs taking part. Congratulations go to Jane Marvin & Carly Scholey who won with a tremendous score of 76% and to runners up Pamela Selby & Wendy Spencer. Here are the winners being presented with the trophy by Sheena, and the runners up.

We held the final of the Bob Graham Individual Trophy on Monday 30 September. 20 players qualified for the final and played 19 1-board rounds - each player partnered each other once and (yes - you've guessed it!) played against each other twice. Here is a picture of the finalists:

Congratulations to the winner, Phil Nuttall seen holding the Trophy, and to Martin Booth who was 2nd and Joan Webb who was 3rd.

Clicking on this link will take you to a page with information about the competition.

Deva Bridge Club held a bridge drive on Thursday 26 September in aid of Christleton's Village Playing Fields' upgrade. We played 24 hands, stopping for a sumptuous lunch in the middle, and (with a raffle and proceeds from ticket sales) raised £540. Here are photos from the event, firstly Susan handing a cheque to Elizabeth for the playing fields, and then presentation of prizes to 1st and 2nd N/S and E/W (in the order of % scores).

Our regular Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday sessions in the week w/c 9 September were part of EBU's Festival of Bridge (BRIDGE IT'S A BIG DEAL) which was in aid of Cancer Research UK. Deva Bridge Club has now paid £425 to the charity this amount being the table money collected (£4 in club and $4.50 on BBO) less the normal UMS paid to EBU and BBO's share. EBU are also donating the UMS to the charity which (thanks to those who played in those sessions) means we raised £491 in total. In total the Festival has (as of Sept 29) raised over £80,000. Not bad hey!

We held the 75th Anniversary Party on Saturday at Chester Golf Club. On arrival we were greeted by Sheena and a wonderful display of photos from similar past events. The afternoon was taken up by 24 hands of bridge after which we each we toasted Deva with a glass of prosecco. There then followed a sumptuous 3 course meal. Here are photos of the 1st and 2nd places north/south and east/west.

To review a summary of Deva's 75 years you can either click this link here or look for it in the Information menu on the LHS of the home page.