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| ECBA - Quizzes to Entertain |
♥ ♥ ♥ !!! Brainteaser !!! ♥ ♥ ♥
Quiz 2 - Morton's Fork - Thank you Robert Elliott
How would you play this hand?
Well done to Peter Scotting, Brian Davies, Mike Graham, Graham Beeton, Dave Warren and Frank Morrison who all submitted correct solutions.
Special congratulations to Peter who was first off the mark.
Solution
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| ECBA - Quizzes to Entertain |
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| Other clubs - Quizzes to Entertain |
♥ ♥ ♥ !!! More Entertainment !!! ♥ ♥ ♥
Check out the Bidding Quizzes on the Barleylands Mid Essex Website
Please let me know if there are any other websites that offer bridge quizzes.
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| ECBA Competitions & Notifications |
♥ ♥ ♥ !!! STOP PRESS !!! ♥ ♥ ♥
All ECBA events will be cancelled while this situation continues and deadlines for playing matches in the Knockout Competitions and Leagues are suspended.
County representative fixtures for the 2020/21 season are still in place at present but the position will be kept under review.
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| EBU Competitions & Notifications |
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| EBU - National Pairs |
♠ ♥ Well done ♥ ♠
23rd - David Sherman & Frank Morrison
25th - Jacek Lapszys & Sandy Riach
51st - Val & Paul Mollison
Results
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| Other County Competitions - East Anglian Bridge Weekend |
♠ ♥ Well done ♥ ♠
Graham Beeton & Rick Henley, Ray Clarke & John Sucliffe
for 4th place in MultipleTeams
Graham Beeton & Rick Henley
8th place in Swiss Pairs
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| EBU - Ranked Master Pairs |
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| ECBA - Warboys - February 2020 |
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| Forthcoming Competitions |
♥ ♥ ♥ PLEASE BOOK NOW ♥ ♥ ♥
SAVE THE DATE:
Essex/Herts Congress on Sat/Sun 18/19 July and 19/20 September 2020
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| Eastern Counties League |
Last Game of the Season
Essex played Camb & Hunts away as follows:
A Team lost 5-15 B Team lost 7-13 C Team lost 3-17
Butler Scoring
Overall ECL League 2019 Results:
Division 1 - Essex A: 6th (out of 8)
Division 2 - Essex B: 4th (out of 7)
Division 3 - Essex C: 6= (out of 7)
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| ECBA Competitions |
Winners Ray Cornell Trophy
Team Mid Essex B
Simon Moorman & Paul Mollison, Sandy Riach & Jacek Lapszys
Winners Ray Cornell Prize
Team Mid Essex
Simon Moorman & Paul Mollison, Sandy Riach & Jacek Lapszys, Richard Register & Robert Elliott, Paul Spencer & Marc Chawner
Congratulations to Team Mid Essex for representing Essex in the Garden Cities Competition.
Results
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| Eastern Counties League |
Sixth Game of the Season
Essex played Beds away as follows:
A Team lost 1-19 B Team won 12-8 C Team lost 5-15
Results
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| ECBA Competitions - Nicko |
 Congratulations to the Mountnessing Team in the NICKO
David Tennet, Theo Todman, Peter Oake & Colin Scott
beat in round 2
the seeded, last year's NICKO Trophy winners Young Chelsea (Thrower, MacIntosh, Rosen, Hamed).
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| ECBA Clubs - Woodham Ferrers Congress |
♠ ♥ Congratulations ♥ ♠
Robert Elliott & Richard Register
for winning the Woodham Ferrers Swiss Pairs
David Piper & Rick Hanley,
Graham Beeton & Ray Clarke
for winning the Woodham Ferrers Swiss Teams
Robert Elliott & Richard Register
for winning Best Performance over the two Days
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| ECBA Clubs - Woodham Ferrers Congress (Copy) |
♠ ♥ Congratulations ♥ ♠
Robert Elliott & Richard Register
for winning the Woodham Ferrers Swiss Pairs
David Piper & Rick Hanley,
Graham Beeton & Ray Clarke
for winning the Woodham Ferrers Swiss Teams
Robert Elliott & Richard Register
for winning Best Performance over the two Days
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♠ ♥ WELL DONE ♥ ♠
Cathebridge raised £1,000 for Essex Community Foundation.
The winners were Jon Ward & Coral Fallon with runners up Alan Aylott & Robert Elliott.
Results
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| EBU Competitions - London Year End Congress |
♥ ! Congratulations ! ♥
to some decent results for the ECBA players in London
Swiss Pairs (130):
31st - Ray Clarke & Robert Elliott
Mixed Pairs (81):
12th - Robert Elliott & Tanya Genthe
Swiss Teams (86):
22nd - Sandy Riach, Jacek Lapszys, Paul Spencer, Marc Chawner
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| Online Competition |
Congratulations to
Marc Chawner
for 48th (70.45%) out of 16,147 players
in the Biggest Online Tournament (as advertised by EBU)
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| Eastern Counties League |
Fourth Game of the Season
Essex played Beds away as follows:
A Team won 16-4 B Team won 16-4 C Team won 11-9
Results
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| ECBA Competitions - Sue Taylor Teams |
Congratulations to:
Chris Taylor & Sandy Riach, Pat Johnson & Steve Cade-Bowyer
and
Mike Graham & Ian Moss, Tanya Genthe & Robert Elliott
for jointly winning the Sue Taylor Memorial Trophy Competition
Team Taylor will win the Trophy on a split tie
Results
 apologies from the webmaster for her oversight of the joint win
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| EBU Competitions - Premier League |
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| EBU Awards |
CONGRATULATIONS
TO
BERNIE HUNT
FOR RECEIVING THE
DIMMIE FLEMING AWARD
In recognition of a valued contribution to the game of Bridge and voluntary services in Essex and to the English Bridge Union
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| ECBA Competitions |
Fletcher Trophy
Mid Essex
Richard Register & Robert Elliott, Simon Moorman & Paul Mollison, Anne & Andrew Smith, Jacek Lapszys & Sandy Riach
Cup for Clubs
Hutton
Linda Fleet & Coral Fallon, John Cosgrove & Carol McCue
Congratulations to the Winners
and a big ♥ Thank you ♥ to the Organisers, Directors and all the Players.
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| Eastern Counties League |
Fourth Game of the Season
Essex played Northants at home as follows:
A Team lost 4-16 B Team drew 10-10 C Team lost 4-16
Results
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| EBU Overseas Congress - Sicily |
NEWS FROM SICILY
More than 30 Essex Players are having a fabulous time in Sicily with some decent results.
Pre Congress Pairs
2nd - Paul & Val Mollison, 3rd - Graham Foster & Colin Scott, 8th - Cath Fox & Anne Owen
Open Pairs
4th - Peter Scotting & Stephen Lally
Pivot Teams - Blue
1st - Team Mollison, 3rd - Team Scott, 6th - Team Scotting
Swiss Pairs
10th - Bernie Hunt & Ray Clarke, 15th - Graham Foster & Colin Scott
Mixed Pairs
6th - Ray Clarke & Petra Bromfield
Swiss Teams
8th - Marcia Levan-Harris, John McCoy & 2 others
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| Felixstowe Congress |
♠ Well done to our Essex Players in Felixstowe ♠
Swiss Pairs
3rd Chris Megahey & John Sutcliffe
Swiss Pairs Consolation - winner Graham Beeton & Rick Hanley
Swiss Pairs Qualifying - 3rd John Ward & Alan Aylott, 5th June Brown & Cath Fox
Swiss Teams
3rd Jill & Roger Tattersfield, Chris Megahey & Alaric Cundy
5th= Team Elliott, 7th= Team Chorley, Team Davies, 9th Team Beeton, 10th Team Levan-Harris
X-IMPS Teams
TOP with +116.93 (!!!) - Robert Elliott & Sandy Riach
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| ECBA - Warboys - September 2019 |
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| Warboys 2019 |
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER OF THE WARBOYS TROPHY:
Martin Smith (average 1.17 Imps per board)
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF THE WARBOYS B-FLIGHT:
Alan Bryant and Geoff Webber (average 1.01 Imps per board)
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| Eastern Counties League |
Third Game of the Season
Essex played Suffolk at home as follows:
A Team won 12-8 B Team drew 10-10 C Team drew 10-10
Butler Scoring
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| ECBA - Warboys - August 2019 |
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| Eastern Counties League |
Second Game of the Season
Essex played Herts away as follows:
A Team lost 6-14 B Team lost 4-16 C Team lost 6-14
Butler Scoring
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| ECBA - Leagues |
ESSEX LEAGUES
Essex Contract Bridge Association run a League for Teams of Four each year.
The season runs from October to April and is normally five or six games.
If you would like to enter a team could you please contact Bernie Hunt by email
firstclassbridge@btconnect.com. If you want further details please ring on 07973-925315.
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| EBU - Eastbourne Summer Meeting |
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| Essex Herts GP Congress |
♠ CONGRATULATIONS ♠
Roy Button & Maria Budd for winning the Swiss Pairs
Bill Briscombe & Peter Oxley, Colin Campbell & Ross Midgley for winning the Swiss Teams
Essex Pairs in Top 20:
12th - Graham Olliffe & Keith Thompson
14th - Richard Register & Robert Elliott
Essex Teams in Top 15:
7th - Sandy Riach & Martin Smith, Sandy Smith & John Sutcliffe
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| EBU - Seniors Congress Eastbourne |
Well Done to our Essex players in Eastbourne
Graham Beeton & Ray Clarke - 4th Pair A Final
Pat Johnson & Peter Scotting - 5th Pair B Final
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| ECBA - Warboys - June 2019 |
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| ECBA - Warboys - July 2019 |
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| ECBA -Club Pairs |
ECBA Club Pairs
Congratulations to
Alan Aylott & John McCoy
&
Mayflower Bridge CLub
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| Eastern Counties League |
First Game of the Season
Essex A Team won 17-3 against Cambridge University
Results
the webmaster apologises for this late reporting
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| Eastern Counties League (Copy) |
First Game of the Season
Essex A Team won 17-3 against Cambridge University
Results
the webmaster apologises for this late reporting
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| Other County Competitions - Oxford Congress |
Congratulations to
Chris Taylor & Joyce Skelton
for 5th place at the Oxford Congress
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| EBU-Pachabo Cup |
Team Essex
(Paul Spencer & Marc Chawner, Frank Morrison & D Sherman)
played a respectable 16th place (out of 29) in the Patchabo Cup
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| EBU - Corwen Trophy |
Well done to Marc Chawner & Paul Spencer
for 7th place (out of 94!!) in the Corwen Trophy
 being through to the last 16 teams in the country for the National Crockfords Cup
 for playing in Round 3 in the EBU Silver Plate competition
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| EBU - Nicko Plate |
Well done to Mountnessing A for playing in R4 (last 16) of the Nicko Plate.
Good luck for the next round against Young Chelsea K
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| ECBA - AGM |
The ECBA Committee would like to thank everyone who attended the AGM.
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| ECBA - Members |
Scottish Bridge Union Overseas Congress
Well done to our Essex Players in sunny Spain:
Colin Scott & Peter Oake - Pre-Congress EW Winners
Colin Scott & Peter Oake - Swiss Pairs Joint Winners
Linda Fleet & Cath Fox, I & I Hunter - Open Team Winners
Prizewinners
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| ECBA - Warboys - May 2019 |
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| ECBA - Members |
♠ ♥ CONGRATULATIONS ♣ ♦
to Peter Scotting for his Promotion to Grand Master
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| ECBA - Warboys - April 2019 |
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| ECBA Competitions - Championship Pairs |
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| EBU Competitions - National Pairs Finals |
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| EBU Competitions - British Spring Sim Pairs |
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| ECBA - Warboys - March 2019 |
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| EBU Competitions - Portland Pairs |
Congratulations to
Robert Elliott & Tanya Genthe
for an amazing 3rd place (out of 246) at the Portland Pairs
Well done also to:
26th: Tony Verran & Naomi Cohen
33rd: Chris Taylor & Joyce Skelton
39th: Mary Homer & Peter Styles
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| ECBA Competitions - Spring Seniors |
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| ECBA Competitions - Switch Cup |
Congratulations to
Martin & Sandy Smith, Ted Cockle & Tony Philpott
for winning the Essex Switch Cup
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| ECBA Competitions - Spring Seniors |
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| ECBA - Warboys - February 2019 (Copy) |
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| EBU Competitions - National Pairs |
Well Done to
Paul Spencer & Marc Chawner
for a good 34th/158 in the National Pairs Regional Finals
and qualifying for the National Pairs Final in Warwick.
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| East Anglian Congress |
Congratulations to
Graham Beeton & Rick Hanley
for 1st place in the EABW Swiss Pairs
Pat Johnson & Peter Scotting, Val & Paul Mollison
for 4th place in the EABW Swiss Teams
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| EBU Competitions - Ranked Masters Pairs & Masters Pairs |
♠ ♥ ♦ ♣
There were some decent results for Essex Players in heavy playing fields:
Grand Masters - 17/26: Albert Kitchin & Chris Taylor
Premier Life Masters - 3/17:Ray Clarke & Graham Beeton
Premier Life Masters - 8/17: Pat Johnson & Peter Scotting
Regional Masters - 9/12: Cath Fox and Ann Owen
Masters: 49/242: Colin Scott & Tony French
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| Eastern Counties League |
Seventh Game of the Season
Essex played Norfolk away as follows:
A Team lost 9-11 B Team lost 3-17 C Team lost 4-16
Results
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| ECBA Competitions |
Winners Ray Cornell Trophy
Team Mid Essex A
Richard Register & Robert Elliott, Marc Chawner & Paul Spencer
Winners Ray Cornell Prize
Team Mountnessing
Frank Morrison & Peter Franklin, Graham Beeton & David Piper, Roger & Jill Tattersfield, John Sutcliffe & Alaric Cundy
Congratulations to Team Mountnessing for representing Essex in the Garden Cities Competition.
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| Eastern Counties League |
Sixth Game of the Season
Essex played Cambridge University away as follows:
A Team lost 8-12 B Team n/a C Team n/a
Results
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| EBU -SIMS |
Congratulations to
Bernie Harrison & Dave Duffy
for 1st Place in the Thursday Bridge England SIMS
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| EBU - Overseas Congress |
NEWS FROM ATHENS
Congratulations to our Essex Players in Greece:
Pre-Congress Pairs: 2nd Cath Fox & Ann Owen, 4th Paul & Val Mollison
Swiss Pairs: 6th Paul & Val Mollison
Pivot Teams: 1st Cath Fox & Anne Owen, Paul & Val Mollison
Ladies Pairs: 1st Cath Fox & Ann Owen
Mixed Pairs: 2nd Chris Taylor & Joyce Skelton
Swiss Team: 2nd Chris Taylor & Joyce Skelton (WOR), Kathy & Denis Talbot (OXF)
Swiss Teams: 4th Val & Paul Mollison, Cath Fox & Ann Owen
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| ECBA Clubs - Woodham Ferrers Congress |
Congratulations to:
Chris Megahey & John Sutcliffe
for winning the Woodham Ferrers Congress Swiss Pairs
Results
Richard Register & Robert Elliott, Simon Moorman & Peter Oake
for winning the Woodham Ferrers Congress Swiss Teams
Results
Richard Register & Robert Elliott
for winning the Trophy for Best Combined Performance over the two days
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| ECBA Competitions - Gwen Herga |
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| ECBA Competitions - Swiss Pairs |
Congratulations to:
Marc Chawner & Paul Spencer
for winning the ECBA Swiss Pairs
Results
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| Eastern Counties League |
Fifth Game of the Season
Essex played Beds at home as follows:
A Team won 19-1 B Team won 13-7 C Team won 15-5
Results
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| ECBA Competitions - Mixed Pairs |
Congratulations to:
Robert Elliott & Maureen Huntingford
for winning the ECBA Mixed Pairs
Laurie & Stephanie Burtt
for winning the ECBA Flitch Trophy
Results
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