Our annual Ladies and Men Pairs competitions take place in the club on Thursday 16 April - starting at 7pm. Last year we had 10 ladies pairs and 9 men pairs and, naturally, we hope for more for of both this year. Why not come and join us for a relaxed social session as well as the 2nd tier competition. For further information click here.  

Our Mixed Pairs competition takes place on Thursday 21 May - for further info and to enter click here. Last year we had 14 pairs and of course this year we hope for more.

Our club Individual Championship (the Fearn Cup) has its final on Sunday 19 April. Qualification for the final is based on the Fearn Cup Ladder which included duplicate pairs sessions in the 5 months October through to February. You can see where you are in the table by clicking here. We are going down the table in order to get 20 players for the final - if you haven't heard from us but think you should have please contact us. 

The top 8 individuals in the ladder gain master points as in the table below. Congratulations to Jerry for coming top and Jeff and Bob for coming 2nd, 3rd.

Hi everyone, monthly prize winners for February 2026 are as follows:

Monday………..........Janice Mairs and Steve Walker

Wednesday…………Susan Haywood

Friday………………..Bernard and Gill Farrell

Congratulations to you all.

The committee has decided to make Kate Beckett an Honorary member to mark her long years of service and loyalty to the club.  While she hasn't lately been able to come to the club as much as she used to, she was in the club yesterday (Wednesday) and the President said a few words of thanks and presented her with a certificate. Kate served on the committee for many years and helped with a multitude of tasks, often behind the scenes. John Dawe was very appreciative of her support when he was PTD and she organised Saturday duplicate bridge evenings (yes we did have them in the past!). She was always prepared to volunteer in ways others weren't, she helped organise the helper rota for (and helped at) lessons and wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty getting involved in the garden and sorting out our bins, and in more ways than we can mention. Thank you Kate! Here is a photo of her in the club yesterday. Her photograph will join those of our other two Honorary Members, John Dawe and Fred Dixon.
  

Did you know you can download a blank System Card from the EBU website? Here is a link which will will take you to a page from which you can choose a word document version that you can edit at home or a pdf version you can print and write on. Look for the "Blank EBU 20B Card (Word or PDF)" links.

We should all have a completed system card when playing in the club duplicate pairs sessions and make it available to opponents. We would encourage using the EBU 20B layout as it is widely used and familiar to many of us. However, if playing a simplified system then a simplified card as on the cover and back of Deva scorecards is perfectly adequate. 

Filling in a full or simplified system card with your partner should help define/clarify your system and avoid misunderstandings - and provide a basis from where you can extend your system going forwards. In other words, they should be a benefit to you as well as to opponents. We will place a few blank system cards by the score cards in the club - help yourself if you want to - and feel free to ask for help in completing the card if you need it.

Our Championship Pairs competition finished on Wednesday 19 March and it is pleasing to see new names to go up on the board. Congratulations to Janice Mairs and Steve Walker who are the new champions. Here is a photo of them holding the trophy being congratulated by the President.

Well done Janice and Steve - a great achievement - the rest of us will have to wait till next year and try again!

It is our Championship Pairs Final tonight (Wednesday 18 March) - congratulations to those who qualified for it and good luck!

The 2 semi finals took place over the 2 previous Wednesdays, and qualification to the semi finals depended on the Championship Pairs Ladder which ran September-January including all results from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Pairs sessions. You can see where you are in the table by clicking here. The top 4 pairs gain master points as in the table below. Congratulations to Bob & Peter for coming top! Congratulations to Jerry for coming 2nd, 3rd and 4th with different partners!! Despite that he only gets master points for 2nd position!!!

We had 12 tables for this year's President's Day on Sunday. Proceedings started with a game of bridge after which there was a talk from Robert Whittall (CEO of the Chester Aid to the Homeless - CATH) about the charity, and a 2 course meal. Winners N/S and E/W were Sheena Parker & Joan Webb and Stewart Hart & Jane Campion. Janet Falcon & Joan Lythgoe and Dave Stretch & Steve Ingleby were runners up N/S and E/W. Here are photos of the winners and runners up together with Philip Waring (TD) and Sheena who organised the afternoon.  

We don't yet know how much was raised for CATH in total (we will include it here when we can) but the raffle on its own raised £272.

During lockdown we played a series of online matches against other clubs, pitting a range of pairs against similar strength pairs - a much needed bridge fix to relieve the tedium!

One of those (very welcome) opponents was Tyler Hill BC from Canterbury in Kent and recently they contacted us to arrange a re-match. We managed to put together seven matches of which Deva won four and, overall we came out on top by 78 VPs to 62. Well done everybody and particular thank to those from both clubs who helped to organise the match. Here are the full results:

There are running marathons and there are bridge marathons! Deva Bridge Club ran a two day bridge marathon on January 24 & 25 with two sessions each day - we call it the Chester Congress. Players came from far and wide such as from clubs in Manchester, Liverpool, North Wales and Shropshire, as well as our own club. The Congress was ably Directed by James Vickers and assisted by Simon Anderson. Catering by Sophie was provided on both days with delicious meals and even more delicious desserts.

Saturday's Swiss Pairs competition was won by Bob Loveridge and Nicholas Sutcliffe and Tracy Sherman and Boris Ewart were runners up. They can be seen in the 1st photo below - the winners are holding the Capel Cups. Third place was Tom Slater & Daniel Kelsall and the Ascenders prize was won by Sebastian Jones and Keith Shuttleworth. Sunday's Swiss Teams competition was won by John Hassett, Alan Mould, John Holland, Jackie Pye (2nd photo - holding the Latham Knox Trophy) with Rhona Goldenfield, Kath Nelson, Jeff Smith and David Barton coming 2nd (3rd photo). Congratulations to all of you.

The Monday evening session on 12 January was a heat of an EBU Sim Pairs event. Results are in the results calendar for our club on its own. Results with all heats is on the EBU website together with analysis of the hands: click here.