October 8th - We have more than four tables committed. Any further pairs will be most welcome. 

Each week we send out an email asking players to indicate if they are playing next Tuesday. This was started after the pandemic when sometimes we didn't get four tables, which was seen as the minimum number needed for a proper duplicate movement.

As attendance has improved slightly, we have rarely failed to reach that four table minimum, so we have stopped sending the confirmation email. However I shall update this page each week on Monday or Tuesday to confirm that we have reached the four table minimum.

All 5 tables played this hand in 2S by W, one suspects with the same auction at all tables. North, not wanting to lead away from his honours, led a trump at all tables.

Only one declarer went down, however. 

After the trump is led to the J,Q and A, W led a diamond to the K. The only winning continuation at this stage is to continue diamonds. When the declarer who failed took the losing H finesse, N continued spades and S won the K and played a third round. Now when declarer played on diamonds again, N took the A and switched to K of clubs (W had already shown AS, AJH,QD and so couldn't have the AC). The defence were then able to win 3 clubs, 2 red winners and one trump trick.

E missed an opportunity for brilliant play on this hand from the duplicate on October 8th. After leading a spade, declarer won in dummy, and not wanting W to gain the lead to play a H through, ran the JD successfully. He now cashed all his spades and then all the diamonds, coming down to HK9 and CA10. E discarded to HAJ and CK9.

Declarer then led the QC from dummy and when it was not covered, rose with the A and exited with the ten to end-play E. How could the defence have avoided this ending?

Robin Griffiths  has been promoted to EBU National Master

David Dawson & David Norman Won the Harold Poster cup at the EBU Summer Meeting 

Julian Hemsted & Alan Bailey won the Liz Phillips and Ann Madden & Maria Martin won the Committee Cup for ranked pairs on 23rd July 2024

Roger Morton & Alan Bailey,Tony Scouller & Tom Peer won the Dorothy Williamson Handicap Teams Cup on 25th June 2024

Congratulations to Peter Lee and Dave Norman who won the National Pairs recently, repeating their victory of 2023. This is the sixth time Peter has won, a record we believe.

Julie Allman and Derek Ash won the Cliff Street Trophy for the best score vs their NGS handicap on 19th March

Robin Griffiths won the Mayfield Cup for the highest number of matchpoints scored over the entire year (April 2023-March 2024)

Sue and Paul Chapman won the Mixed Pairs cup on 14th May

At the AGM on April 9th, it was agreed to continue to use BridgeWebs and discontinue updating our old web site, which will be retained until autumn 2024 in order to transfer across legacy information

Any questions please contact Peter Cogliatti or Julian Hemsted