Deva Bridge Club's annual Chester Congress is now less than a month away.

Deva Bridge Club is holding its annual Chester Congress on Saturday & Sunday 25 & 26 January. It is Blue Pointed with Saturday being a 2-session pairs event and Sunday being a Swiss Teams competition, and takes place F2F in the club at Christleton near Chester. Details on the website: https://www.bridgewebs.com/deva/.

Both our teams scored well in the final round of this competition which was held on Saturday 19th October.  

Despite missing several regular pairs, the A team finished first on the day winning 2 from 3 matches & only just losing to Lancashire. The performance was anchored by Chris Pope & Andy Prothero who were in top position on X-imps for the entire session.  The C team also finished top winning every match with Bernard Kaye & Bob Mitchell top overall on X-imps. 

Over all four rounds, both teams finished in 2nd place behind Yorkshire. To check the detailed cumulative scores visit: http://www.manchesterbridge.org.uk/NBL/r2024.html

Congratulations and thanks to all for taking part and supporting our county teams. 

The Tollemache Cup is the prestigious inter-county teams of 8 competition for England & Wales which invariably involves many of the very strongest players in the UK. Merseyside & Cheshire last won this event  back in 1993 & the qualifying round for this season’s trophy took place on 9^th / 10^th Nov. Our team had mixed results on day 1 though still managed to win  5/8 matches & with a strong finish ended the day in equal 4th place. All pairs were +ve on X-IMPs with Paddy Murphy & Tracy Sherman near the top of the leader board.

Day 2 followed a similar pattern of mixed results but our team were still in contention for a place in the final going into the last round. Sadly, we only managed a draw in our last match against a strong London team and other results did not go our way so we missed out on going through to the final next year by the narrow margin of 3 VPs. Paddy & Tracy were again our best pair on X-IMPs.

Thanks to all for taking part and supporting our county & particularly to John Hampson for acting as team manager.