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RUBBER BRIDGE KNOCK-OUT - THE MELTZER 2019-2020
Entries are now open for the club's annual rubber bridge competition, that runs from October to May every year. The winners receive the Meltzer Trophy.
All members welcome!
Closing date for entries is Saturday 28th September.
Please click here for further details and online booking
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CLUB PAIRS COMPETITION - BECK SALVER
The club's duplicate pairs competition takes place on Sunday 29 September 2019 at 2pm. The winners receive the Beck Salver.
This is a blue-pointed event, and we will play approximately 36-40 boards, with a break for tea and refreshments.
All members are welcome to take part.
Click here for further details and to book your place online.
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| OFFICIAL OPENING OF REFURBISHED CLUB on 26th October. |
We invite all members to celebrate this opening by  Andrew Robson on 26th October at 12.00 noon, refreshments will be available.
The juniors are invited to a bridge session in the morning at 10.00am.
There will be a duplicate bridge session starting at approx 2.00pm - £4 table money. It would help greatly if members who are interested could sign up on the list displayed on the notice board.
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| TUTORIALS FOR IMPROVERS |
We are running a set of six tutorials on Saturday mornings during the autumn term. They are designed to consolidate or build on knowledge of selected topics for students who have completed year 2 of the Bridge for All course but are open to all. Each will comprise a short review of the key idea associated with the topic followed by supervised play of relevant hands. Click here for details and booking.
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| CONGRATULATIONS! |
Congratulations to Zane Soonawalla, who, playing with James Cater, won the B final of the Under 16 Pairs event in the World Youth Championships held in Croatia from 20th to 29th August.
Congratulations also to Laura Covill, who, playing in a transnational team, also at the World Youth Championships, won the bronze medal in the Under 26 Women's Teams event.
And last but not least, congratulations to Diana Nettleton, whose team won the Plate competition of the Crockfords Cup.
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| NATIONAL INTERCLUB KNOCKOUT (NICKO) |
Very well done to the Oxford B team, who have reached the semi-finals of the 2018-2019 NICKO Plate. The team's members are Matthew Covill, Emily Middleton, Diana Nettleton and Mary-Ann Sheehy.
Their semi-final match will be against the winners of the match between Petersfield D or Trowbridge County Town B.
The NICKO is one of the EBU's most popular knock-out competitions, with teams of four (or more) players representing their club. Oxford Bridge Club fielded four teams in the 2018-2019 competition.
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| TO CALL OR NOT TO CALL …… THE DIRECTOR |
This is the third in an occasional series where I will look at certain Laws based on incidents at the OBC, sometimes observed by me or otherwise reported to me. The series is intended to help players improve their understanding of the Laws.
I frequently receive comments such as “I did not want to bother the director ….. as they were busy/it did not seem important enough/ the opposition seemed to know what to do/I did not want to make a fuss”. Any of these statements may be true but the director should be called anyway. Law 9B1(a) is clear: “The Director should be summoned at once when attention is drawn to an irregularity”. Here, an irregularity is any deviation from correct procedure and that includes behaviour or actions that are not in accordance with Law 74 (on Conduct).
Directors prefer to be called even when it is not really necessary rather than not be called when it is. It takes very little time to deal with an unnecessary call. However, if a director is not called when they should be, it can take a lot of time and effort to sort out and can leave everyone feeling dissatisfied.
Please call the director – they are there to help. However, please call for the director in a courteous way: no-one likes to be ordered about!
Martin Illingworth, Chief TD
July 2019
Click for previous articles in this series
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