Our annual Individual Competition (the Fearn Cup) was help on Sunday 19 April. Well done to Janice Mairs who was the overall winner - a tremendous achievement on top of having won the Championship Pairs last month. Congratulations also to Bob Ashton and Alan Sharples who were 2nd and 3rd.

The final was a competitive game of bridge played in a friendly atmosphere. As well as all playing 38 boards we had time for a social lunch sat around one large table. Here are photos of the top 3 and us all enjoying lunch.

Our annual Ladies and Men Pairs competitions took place in the club on Thursday 16 April. The ladies winners were Joan Webb & Dee Smith (well done to them) and the winning men were David Smith & Stewart Hart (can't believe it!).

Don't forget to reserve the date for our Mixed Pairs competition on Thursday 21 May - for further info and to enter click here. 

The Wednesday afternoon session on 15 April was a heat of an EBU Sim Pairs event. We had 14&1/2 tables which was a good attendance. As of Sunday evening our best 3 pairs were Jeremy Dodd and Ali Crossley (66.9% & 3rd out of 286), Philip Waring and Mark Weeks (61.6% & 25th) & Robert Hunt and Mark Thompson (60.1% & 29th). Well done to them!

This link will take you to results on the EBU website from where you can filter on Deva to see just Deva results and find the commentary booklet and other analysis.

28 of us had a super weekend at Lytham St Anne's. Good Bridge run by Helen and excellent food. Booked again for 9/4/27. Here are some photos:
 

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!!!

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: