Congratulations to the YC team (Ollie Burgess, Paula Leslie, Margaret Nygren, Phil King, Peter Taylor, Susanna Gross, Sally Brock & Barry Myers) who represented London in the Garden Cities
Regional Finals. 

They came top of the field and will play in the National Finals in June - where we wish them good luck.

We are sorry to  hear of the recent death of Yolande Glasman, a bridge player and member of Hurlingham Bridge Club. She will be missed by her partner David and her many friends in the Bridge community.

Congratulations (somewhat belated, apologies) to Nick Sandqvist & Nathalie Shashou, Glyn Liggins & Andrew Dyson who won the London Teams of Four for the Ian Gardiner Trophy in January.

Congratulations also to the winners of the Championship Pairs in March, Chris Duckworth and Brian Callaghan.

Twenty pairs competed in the LMBA Championship Pairs on Sunday 13th. March 2021.

The 4 pairs who qualified to represent London in the Corwen are:

Chris Duckworth & Brian Callaghan
Nick Sandqvist & Nathalie Shashou
David Newman & Chris Brewin
Gad Chadha & Stephen Lee

In addition Qian Li & Tony Ye are also entitled to represent London in the Corwen as a 5th pair because they won the Championship Pairs last year and there was no Corwen last year.

Michael Hill was elected President of LMBA at the AGM on 3rd. September 2020. Good news for members who know Mike from his decades of service to bridge and LMBA.

This was very successful with 21 teams. The winners were all from the Anorykatis family - Sam & Venetia,Theo & Harry.

Click here for the full results.

The London Mixed Pairs event on Sunday 13^th September 2020 was held on BBO and was greatly enjoyed by the participants. The winners were Jules Davidoff & Carla Sidney-Woollett with 57.38%. 

Full results may be found here
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We are sad to report the death of  Bernard Teltscher, President of the London Metropolitan Bridge Association and sponsor, as well as winner of, the prestigious Lederer and Teltscher trophies.

EBU Chairman, Ian Payn said “Not only was Bernard a fine player, but also a great patron of the game he loved so much and played so well. He was President of the London Metropolitan Bridge Association and a deserved first recipient of the EBU’s Tony Priday Award. Our condolences to Bernard’s family and friends.”

More about him here: LMBA Spring 2009 Newsletter: Meet Bernard Teltscher.

LMBA members will be saddened to learn of the death, earlier this month, of Mike Durrant at the age of 68 at his home in Córdoba, Spain. He was a club member since the 1980s until he and his partner Helen Chambers retired to Spain about 15 years ago. Mike will be remembered as a kind and clever man who was one of the club’s personalities. He edited the club newsletter in the 1990s where this caricature first appeared. The other picture shows him as he was in Spain in 2019.

Helen writes:

Mike was an underrated and unassuming player. He could have been one of the top players in the country if he’d had the inclination. He was always happy to play with partners at any level and took pleasure in getting good results playing with beginners or less experienced people. At his best, Mike was an intuitive player. In defence, he could somehow sense what cards his partners had to play and would make it easy for them to get it right—something many experienced players would lack patience with. Among his friends he will be very much missed.

Andrew Thompson Funeral July 23, 2019
Andrews Thompson's death was reported on the EBU website last month. Link here.

We now have details of Andrew’s funeral; it will be at 14:30 on Tuesday 23rd July at Telford Crematorium, Woodhouse Lane, Red Hill, Telford, Shropshire TF2 9NJ and after at the Swan Inn, 4 Lower Bar, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 7BQ.​

Congratulations to Dave Muller and team ( David Muller - Malcolm Pryor, John Holland - Alan Mould, Dave Kendrick - Trevor Ward, N.P.C David S Jones) - the silver medalists in the D'Orsi Bowl, the World Senior Championships 2019.

A link to old news pages.