Congratulations to the winners of the Harwell Cup, played F2F at Roke Village Hall on Sunday 14th September:

Kathy Talbot, Yining Yang, Lawrence Wang & Denis Talbot.  FULL RESULTS

Teams in the top half get free entry into the Presidents Cup.

And commentary on a few hands from the Swiss Teams, kindly written by Chris Wilson. CLICK HERE

WELL DONE Inter-County Teams Finals: Division 2 winners   FULL RESULTS

I am very pleased to report that the Oxfordshire B Team won the national inter-county competition held on 8^th June 2025. The competition is between the winners of all the Regional winners within the EBU area. Representing Oxfordshire were:

    Chris Wilson and Matthew Covill

    Christopher Whitehouse and Mary-Ann Sheehy

    Finn Clark and Suart Forsyth

    Gillian Lonsdale and Nigel Wilkes

A report of the competition has been compiled by Chris Wilson. Click HERE

Well done to:   Jackie Fairclough & Graham Orsmond, who came 2nd in the National Pairs.  FULL RESULT

GARDEN CITIES (10 May) : As winners of the Wessex League Division 1, the club representing Oxfordshire is:  Oxford A.  Denis Talbot, Kathy Talbot, Amr El-Kashef, Martin Illingworth, Charlie Bucknell, Jonathan Davis, Lawrence Wang, Yining Yang      5th/7 FULL RESULTS

NATIONAL INTER COUNTY LEAGUE FINAL (8 June)  Division 2  Well done to Chris Wilson & Matthew Covill, Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy, Finn Clark & Stuart Forsyth, Nigel Wilkes & Gillian Lonsdale, coming first. FULL RESULTS

9H CORWEN (31 May): Well done to:  Ian van Maanen & Michael Allen 5/51, Patricia & Cliff Hones 6/51, Ian Bishop & Christine Bishop 16/51,Diana Procter & Avril Bates 26/51    FULL RESULTS

CORWEN (31 May/1st June):  Well done to: Nick Smith & Alan Wilson 4/82, Graham Orsmond & Jackie Fairclough 13/82, Gillian Lonsdale & Nigel Wilkes 17/82, Andrea Smith & Jean Wadsworth 71/82    FULL RESULTS

PACHABO (14/15 June) :  Congratulations to the winners of the Presidents Cup who will be representing Oxfordshire in the Pachabo:  Jonathan Davis, Charlie Bucknell, Lawrence Wang, Yining Yang   17=/25   FULL RESULTS

Congratulations to Kathy & Denis Talbot, who have won the Pairs Ladder for Oct 2024 - Mar 2025 with an excellent score of 115  (Max 120). 

FULL RESULT

Congratulations to the NS and EW winners of the Cafe Bridge today:

       David Young & Beverley Thomson  62.56%

       Ann McMahon & Pauline Serby       62.35%

and many thanks for Joan Bennett for a tremendous amount of hard work to make this event such a success.

£375 was raised for Cancer Research UK.  FULL RESULTS

GARDEN CITIES (11 May) : As winners of the Wessex League Division 1, the club representing Oxfordshire is:  Menagerie A.  Ollie Burgess & Diana Nettleton, Graham Orsmond & Jackie Fairclough, Ewa Wieczorek & Charlie Bucknell, Lawrence Wang & Jonathan Green     Result: 4/7 teams  RESULT LINK

NATIONAL INTER COUNTY LEAGUE FINAL (2 June)  Division 2  Nigel Wilkes & Gillian Lonsdale, Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy, Martin Illingworth & Amr El-Kashef, Lawrence Wang & Yining Yang       Results 5/6   RESULT LINK

PACHABO (8/9 June) :  Congratulations to the winners of the Presidents Cup who will be representing Oxfordshire in the Pachabo: Jonathan Davis, Charlie Bucknell, Lawrence Wang, Yining Yang & Kim Hudson   Result: 11/29  RESULT LINK

CORWEN (15/16th June):  Well done to: Jonathan Davis & Charlie Bucknell 3rd/75  representing Oxfordshire in the Corwen. Also Kathy Talbot & Denis Talbot 12/75, Sandra Nicholson & Krys Kazmierczak 43=/75, Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy 48/75   RESULT LINK

Congratulations to the pairs who won prizes

  Overall Winners     Denis and Kathy Talbot 62.88%

  Best EW                 Liz Madeley + Gill Weeks  58.08%

  Best second best    Robert Procter + Jan Carter   61.36%

  Closest to 47%        David Young + Beverley Thompson     47.04%

                   FULL RESULT SHEET

On the 21^st May 76  players came to Abingdon to play bridge, eat lunch and support the Sobell House charity.   They played five hands of bridge at each of Cosener’s House, The Broad Face, The Crown and Thistle, The King’s Head and Bell and Bella Napoli, moving on after each session to the next in line.   At their third stop  they took a two course lunch.  These Café Bridge events were popular fund raisers  pre-covid but only restarted in Henley last September.   The Abingdon event was the next in a hopefully continuing series. This mixture of intellectual and gastronomical adventure was enjoyed by all. £500 was raised for Sobell House

Congratulations to the winners of the Swiss Pairs, raising funds for Juniors: Celia & Derek Oram with 85VPs. The runners up were: Liora Everleigh & Ewa Hardwick 83VP.

Click HERE for the full results

Congratulations to Angela Adams & Mike Wenble, who won the 2023-2024 seniors ladder. See:  2023/2024 LADDER

Congratulations to: Kathy & Denis Talbot for winning the County Pairs with 64.18%, Sandra Nicholson & Krys Kazmierczak were just behind with 63.30%. The other qualifiers were Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy and Charlie Bucknell &  Jonathan Davies. All qualify for the Corwen mid-June.  FULL RESULTS

Congratulations to the winners of the Swiss Pairs: Celia & Derek Oram with 92VPs. The other prize winners are: 2nd Priit Vohandu & Jaak Känd 83VP, 3rd Viking Yuen & Fu Cheung 80VP and 4th  Alison & Peter Jackson 79VP. 

Click HERE for the full results

The following represented Oxfordshire on 11-12th November 2023; and came 5th in their section just missing out on qualifying for the final. Results  (top four qualify)

Well done to Dave Dobson & Linda Allen who win after handicap adjustment    (£24 prize for the pair). see full RESULTS

Congratulations to the top two teams 

   Winners: Denis & Kathy Talbot, Graham Orsmond & Jackie Fairclough

   Second:  Peter Dyer & Ann Wright, Diane Mitchell & Richard Crawford

The Cafe Bridge Event on Wednesday 20th September was a great success. 60 entries, raising £1200 for the charity 'Hearing Dogs for Deaf People'. 

Robert Procter & Barbara Jordan presented OBA’s £1200 cheque to Kevin Game (Community Fundraising Manager - Northern Home Counties) of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People mid October. They have trained dogs in about 1000 homes all over the country, all bred and trained in and around their two centres in Bucks and Yorks, with hundreds of volunteers dealing with breeding, training and maintenance. They spend about £6,000,000 a year on this unsupported by the government. So whilst £1200 sounds like quite a small contribution Robert & Barbara came away convinced that it was towards a very worthwhile cause.

Prize winners:

N/S winners Peter and Michael, 2nd Monica and Joan, 3rd Lois and Stephen
E/W Winners Aine and Stuart, 2nd Diana and Julia, 3rd Adrian and Val

Stuart Fox (Phyllis Court & Wallingford BC)	Peter Collins & Michael Christmas (Phyllis Court BC)

The OBA Congress was held over the weekend 19-20th August 2023, at Radley College near Abingdon. Green Pointed Swiss Pairs on Saturday and Green Pointed Swiss Teams on Sunday.

SWISS PAIRS. 1st: £80,  2nd: £60,   3rd: £40,  4th: £20   (per pair)  Congratulations to the winners: Steve Raine & Adam Hickman with 111vps. The runners up were Robert Procter & Peter Finbow with 101 VPs. The leading NE pair were Everlyn Thomas & Steve Martin coming 3= with 94VPs. 

SWISS TEAMS.  1st: £120,  2nd £80    (per team)    Congratulations to the winners: Eduard Malhasyan, Jonathan Harris, Niall Igoe & Steve root with 98vps. The runners up were Abbey Smith, Richard Devas, Ollie Burgess & Robert Last with 96VPs.

Congratulations to:  Sandra Nicholson & Krys Kazmierczak, Robert Gasser & Alison Withers Green

    for winning the Midland Counties Mixed Teams. Scoring for the winning county also gave OXFORDSHIRE SCORES : 9+6.5 = 15.5, first place. So also well done to: 

Peter Finbow & Lorna Swadling, Irene Holland & Andy King whp were 3=      CLICK TO SEE RESULTS

Swiss Pairs raising funds for Juniors - 19th March 2023    (BLUE POINTED)

Congratulations to Derek Maggs and Jackie Davies, the winners with 95VPs. Congratulations also to 2nd, Kathy & Denis Talbot with 90VPs and 3rd, Malcolm Currie & Peter Litchfield with 87VPs.

FULL RESULTS        The amount donated to Juniors is £575 (Profit was £388.54, OBA has covered the cost of RealBridge/EBU MP fee). Thanks to all that played.

PRIZES: 10% of entry fees. 1st:  £32,   2nd:  £16 per pair ,    leading pair NGS9 & below: £16 (Jill Diggens & Michael McCormick Smith)

GARDEN CITIES: As winners of the Wessex League Division 1, the club representing Oxfordshire is:  Menagerie A.  Alan Wilson & Nick Smith, Simon Husband & Nick Doe, Andrew Lintott & James Forder, Tim Stanley-Clamp & Christopher Whitehouse. The team came 5th/9 team. SEE RESULT

CORWEN:  The following pairs are representing Oxfordshire in the Corwen: Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy (45th / 87 pairs), Alan Wilson & Nick Smith (40th / 87 pairs), Sandra Nicholson & Krys Kazmierczak (71/87)   (although four pairs normally, all other pairs with 50% or above were unable to play).

PACHABO:  Nick Smith, Alan Wilson, Robert Procter and Abbey Smith represented Oxfordshire in the Pachabo, coming 12th/23 teams

NATIONAL INTER COUNTY LEAGUE:   C TEAM:  Peter Litchfield & Malcolm Currie, Lorna Swadling & Liza Furnival, Andy King & Irene Holland, Robert Gasser & Alison Withers Green   (6th/6)

FULL RESULTS

WELL DONE TO NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, producing the best performance for any one county, and coming 2nd,3rd & 6th.  The best Oxfordshire pair was Christine & Ian Bishop who came 4th, well done. The results are available here, with the commentary by Ben embedded in the results

 A belated congratulations to Angela Adams & Mike Wenble, who won the 2022-2023 seniors ladder. 

Ladders for this year and last year are on display in the LHS under regular monthly events and can be seen by clicking links below:

2022/2023 LADDER     2023/2024 LADDER

At the EBU AGM recently, the EBU recognised various members' contributions to bridge in England

• The Tony Priday Award - given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the game of bridge at international, national and county level was awarded to Sandra Claridge (picture)

Manchester won scoring 88 VP, Middlesex were second on 69 VP, Kent were third on 61 VP and Oxfordshire were fourth on 54 VP.  RESULTS

Oxfordshire were represented by: Alan Wilson & Nick Smith, Matthew Covill & Chris Wilson, Ollie Burgess & Diana Nettleton, Tom Rainforth & Ian Angus, Robert Procter & Abbey Smith, Christopher Whitehouse & Mary-Ann Sheehy

WELL DONE TO OXFORDSHIRE, producing the best performance for any one county, and coming 1st,6th & 7th.  Well done to the winners: Diane Mitchell and Richard Crawford. The results are available here, and the commentary on the deals can be found by clicking here.

The next date is 25th March 2023.

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Congratulations to Mary-Ann Sheehy and Christopher Whitehouse who won the Surrey Swiss Pairs. FULL RESULTS

The Mercian Bridge Travel Trophy for the Seniors Pairs was won by Liza Furnival (from Oxfordshire) & Peter Randall (picture) (from Warwickshire) with a score of 148 VPs.

Well done. FULL RESULTS

Congratulations to David Telfer, Peter Burns, James and Alan Hobden from Sussex who won the Swiss Teams with 107 VPs, well clear of 2 local teams (Oram and Owen) who came joint 2^nd with 92 VPs.  36 teams took part.

FULL RESULTS

Congratulations to the prize winners: 

      Winners with the highest percentage £30 (Penny & John Eliot - see photo), 1st EW: £20 (Angela Beecroft & Eileen Vaughan),   

      Second in each direction £10 (Richard Westward & Terry Alexander, John Taylor & Heather Tarbard   (all per pair) 

FULL RESULTS

Well done to the top three who qualify for the Corwen: Winners John Deech & Robert Procter:       2nd=:  Martin Illingworth & Amr El-Kashel    and  Nick Smith & Jonathan Davis

Congratulations to Ollie Burgess and Diana Nettleton who won this event with Ximps of +121.6 (26-27th Feb 2022). Click for full results

2 teams were entered from Oxfordshire this time. Well done to the Graham Walcraft's team (Alasdair Macdonald, Marion Sheppard and Joanna Donkin) coming 3rd. The other team were 12th. 15 teams entered. 

The Portland Bowl Semifinals and Final took place on RealBridge this weekend.

In the semifinals, Oxford A beat Imperial and Cambridge B beat Southampton B. In the third place playoff, Imperial beat Southampton B by 75-43. In the final, after a very close match where there was not much between the two evenly matched teams, Oxford A beat Cambridge B by 128-115.

This is Oxford’s first win since 2011; Cambridge had won 6 out of the previous 7 tournaments before this year.

The victorious Oxford team was Yining Yang (captain), Lawrence Wang, Sam Anoyrkatis & Ewa Wieczorek, and they were virtually presented with the trophy on Zoom by Christopher Kemp, Chairman of the Portland Club, whose continued support of the event is very much appreciated.

The Oxfordshire Congress was very successful with 49 tables in the Swiss Pairs (winners: Richard Bowdry & Ian Angus), 36 tables in the Swiss Teams (winners: Barry Read, Ilan Sirkis, Gordon Maxwell, Marc Rivoira) and 21 tables of Friendly Pairs (winners: Brigid Lavelle & Michael Preston). Full results are top left. Many thanks to the directors Gary Contrad, Ken Johnston, John Rowe and to Kathy Talbot & Stephen Brown for their work in advance of the event. Also many thanks to our standby players - we had an odd number of entrants for all events!

This weekend there was another inter county Swiss teams, organised by the Midland Counties Bridge, for players 9 or below. It was a great success with 54 teams, 10 being form Oxon. A team from Wallingford Club won it by a large margin. This team was Lesley Sixsmith, Barbara Antrobus, Peter Dyer and Lynn Arnold.

Congratulations to the winners of the Jack High Event on Sunday 8th December:  Erica & Christopher Sheppard (pictured)

and to the winners of the Pro-am from 5th December:Liza Furnival, Holly Kilpatrick, Martin Illingworth & Howard Arnes

For full results, please click on the links on the left of this homepage, under Results

Henry Rose of Oxfordshire, partnered by Oscar Selby of London, won the bronze medal for U16s(RHS). On the left is Tommy Brass formerly, like David Gold and Mike Bell, pupils of Reading School with his bronze medal at U26. Henry & Oscar also represented England in China this summer- and we must not forget the amazing girls contributions from Laura, Ewa and Siyu in the girls events.

The Oxfordshire B and C teams have both won their divisions of the Midland Counties Leagues, and thereby qualified to play in the Inter-County Leagues Final against the winners of the B and C team leagues from the other regional county leagues that take place across the country.  This event took place on 24 June near Coventry, and the selectors invited the following players to represent the B Teams, that won its division:

B team - results

Adrian Lambe/Ron Quainton
Alastair Gidman/Lorna Swadling
Andrew/Dinah Lintott
Gillian Lonsdale/Nigel Wilkes