We no longer advise that face masks are worn at the club but you may choose to do so. Please do not attend the club if you or someone you live with has Covid symptoms.

Updated 4 March 2022.

Peterborough finished equal second in the Cambs & Hunts Garden Cities qualifier on 6 February 2022.

Full results here: Garden Cities 2022

The 2022 Annual General Meeting was held on 7 April 2022. 

The following decisions were confirmed.

• ​A new committee was elected.
• The annual membership fee is now due and is unchanged at £12.
• Table money will now be charged, and for 2022-23 remains at £2.50 for members.
• Payment for members will be collected monthly in arrears.
• Visitors will be charged £3 to be collected on the day.

We are trialling a new day of Tuesday for an evening session at the usual 7pm. The first session was on 17th August. If you need a partner please let us know in advance that you will be attending and we will do our best to match you up with someone. Please arrive by 6:45 pm to allow the director time to organise the movement. If you are going to be later please let us know. Note that the club has a new telephone number 01733 896078.

We may play pairs or teams, depending on numbers.

We also plan to start teams bridge on some Wednesday evenings when possible. More information about that will follow.

You will be asked to pay your annual membership fee of £12 but individual sessions will be free of charge to members until the end of March 2022. Non-members will be charged £3. 

We are pleased to report that the club re-opened on Thursday 5th August, with a good turnout.

This year you will be asked to pay your annual membership fee of £12 but individual sessions will be free of charge to members until the end of March 2022. Non-members will be charged £3. Tea and biscuits will be provided as before. Please arrive by 1pm to allow the director time to set up the session.

There is no requirement to wear a face mask but you may choose to do so. We recommend you maintain social distancing. Hand sanitisers will be provided and windows will be open for ventilation. 

We will display a QR code for those wishing to check in using the NHS COVID-19 app but this will not be compulsory. Visitors should leave their contact details if not scanning the QR code.

Re-opening of evening sessions is under consideration and will be announced soon.

During the lockdown period club members have been playing online and the club has been represented in competitions.

Peterborough won the online Cambs & Hunts league. The team was Chris, Christina, Mark, Trevor and Don.

Click here for the League table

In the Online NICKO 2020-21

Peterborough A (Mark, Trevor, Rob, Tim) reached the 4th round with wins against Keswick, Allendale and Torquay.

Peterborough B (Chris, Christina, Don, Bill) reached the 4th round with wins against Exeter and New Amersham (and one bye).

NICKO Plate 2019-20

The NICKO Plate competition which started in 2019 was paused as teams were not obligated to play online.

Peterborough A are stll waiting to play their second round match against a Cambridge team.

In view of the club closure, the remaining rounds of the Teams Championship, Pivot Teams, Handicap Trophy and Alpine Bridge Championship are cancelled. The Committee Cup had completed, although the last round was cancelled. The current standings in all competitions are declared as the final results and may be seen on the website. 

• The Peterborough Pairs is postponed until the club re-opens.
• The AGM is postponed until the club re-opens.

We restarted Wednesday bridge on 20th October and plan to play on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.

We will need to know who is coming so we can make up teams. You can enter either with your chosen partner or as an individual and we'll try to match you up. The teams will be arranged, to be reasonably fairly balanced and to be different each time. We'll play as long as we have at least 8 people signed up. With 2, 3 or 4 tables we'll play a movement where you play both pairs in the other teams.

All are welcome including non-members.

Start time: 7 pm
Table money: Free to members until 31 March 2022, £3 for guests.

To enter or for further information please email bridgeclubpeterborough@gmail.com.

Peterborough bridge club is now closed until further notice, following the government/PHE guidelines.

We will postpone the AGM and defer collection of subscriptions for 2020-21 until the club re-opens.
Whenever this happens we'll update the website and notify members by email.

In the meantime take care.
 

The Cambs & Hunts qualifier for the Garden Cities was played on Sunday 2 February.

Despite winning all their matches, the Peterborough team missed out on qualification by one VP.

Full result here: Garden Cities Qualifier

Peterborough Bridge club is now running training sessions on Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 10pm.

These will be aimed at novices and improvers and the cost will be £3.50 for non-members and £2.50 for members.

Initially sessions will be on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month commencing 8th October 2019. If response is good, they may become weekly.  Please promote this initiative amongst your friends and contacts. It is hoped that experienced players will attend sessions to help with the coaching and make up pairs.

The regular club competitions will be starting again soon.

Wednesdays

• Wed 15 May Pivot Teams
• Wed 29 May Teams Championship
• Wed 12 June Committee Cup (cross-imp pairs)

Mondays

• Mon 13 May Alpine Bridge Championship (for Pairs but sometimes played as Teams)
• Mon 27 May Handicap Competition (twice a month, with an individual winner)

Peterborough A beat Glenfield A by 85-11 and Stamford A 58-31 and lost 53-63 to Coventry and North Warwickshire A in round 3.

Peterborough B beat Stamford D by 77-22, had a bye in round 2 and lost to Cambridge G in round 3.

Peterborough C lost to Stamford C and in the plate lost to the aforementioned Glenfield A by just 2 imps.

Peterborough have qualified for the Garden Cities national final for the first time since 1996. On Saturday 21st April at Peterborough the team finished second of nine teams in one of four regional finals. The team was Mark Tilley, Kieran Tilley, Trevor Thrower, Ufuk Cotuk, Christina Heames, Don McFarlane, Trevor King and Marion King. Full result here.

On Sunday 4th February, Peterborough won the Cambs & Hunts qualifier for the Garden Cities. 6 teams played at Trumpington and Peterborough won with 64 VPs ahead of Lines (60) and Cambridge A (55). The team was Mark Tilley, Kieran Tilley, Trevor Thrower, Ufuk Cotuk, Christina Heames, Chris Heames, Tim Durdin and Tony Hough. Full result here.
 

Peterborough A (Mark, Trevor, Rob, Tim) won 5 matches in the NICKO Plate and reached the Semi Final which was played on August 29th.

After a close match the team lost the semi-final against Young Chelsea by 17 imps.

In the quarter final against Watford and Bushey the team won by 60 imps.

In previous rounds Peterborough A beat teams from Cambridge, Stamford, Coventry and Lines.

Peterborough entered three teams in the National Inter-club Knockout this year. The only winners in the first round were the B team (Trevor King) who beat Louth by 23 imps. They progressed to round 3 after Stamford D withdrew but lost to Cambridge F in the third round.

The Peterborough team of Chris and Christina Heames, Trevor Thrower and Mark Tilley finished second in the first division.

The team of John Crane, Karl Farquhar, Brian Hope, Bob Vajda and Janet Porter won the second division and gained promotion.

Peterborough hosted the qualifying event for the Garden Cities on Sat 4 February. Two Peterborough teams were entered along with three Cambridge teams. The winners were Cambridge A with Peterborough A second.

Full results here.

The Peterborough team of Chris and Christina Heames, Trevor Thrower and Mark Tilley have won the 2015-16 Cambs & Hunts league with 5 wins and 2 draws. They beat the University team 19-1 in the final match of the season.

The team of Trevor and Marion King, Mary and Terry Knights, Mike Keogh and Mike Kennedy (The Six Ks) have won the second division and gained promotion after finishing the season with 3 big wins.

12 June: Congratulations to Trevor and Marion King with Chris and Christina Heames who won the Cambs & Hunts county knockout plate, winning the final by just 3 imps.

Starting from Tuesday 5th January 2016, the Lincoln Road bridge club will host the City Bridge Club (known as the Tuesday club).

The City Bridge Club, which is not EBU-affiliated, meets every Tuesday at 7 pm for a 24 board duplicate.Three competitions run monthly throughout the year, the Pairs, the Nene Pairs and the Individual.The charity night on March 1st is in support of Peterborough Mobility (guide dogs) and is open to all.

Membership is £5 a year and table money is £2 (£2.50 for guests). The full programme and results can be found on the club website: www.bridgewebs.com/city

Peterborough bridge club members are welcome to attend 3 times without the extra guest charge and the same applies to City bridge club members attending PBC sessions.

Pease note the following dates over the holiday period:

Mon 19 Dec: Christmas Party. Fun bridge, bring food to share.
You don't need a partner, game guaranteed.

Mon 26 Dec  No bridge
Wed 28 Dec  No bridge
Thu 29 Dec  Open as usual
Mon 2 Jan  Open as usual (bank holiday)

January 25: Peterborough A beat Retford A in the third round by 56-38 and play Stamford C in the 4th round (who knocked out Peterborough B).

Previously: Peterborough A (Mark) and Peterborough B (Trevor) have both won their first round matches against Stamford teams. Trevor's team had a fine result in beating Stamford A. Both teams have a second round bye.

In the NICKO plate, Peterborough C won their first round match against Cambridge E but lost to Saffron Walden in the second round.

In the Garden Cities qualifier held at Peterborough on 8th February Cambridge qualified for the Regional Final. Peterborough A were second. For full results click here.

For a trial period of January to March 2016, Peterborough bridge club will be running duplicate bridge on Wednesday afternoons.

If successful we hope to extend it, so do please support this new gentle duplicate session.

We start on 6th January at 1:15 pm.

Please note that there will be no Thursday afternoon bridge on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

Instead, for these two weeks only, there will be an afternoon session on Tuesday, December 22nd and 29th, starting at the usual time of 13:15.

• There is a close situation in division 2 where Peterborough 2 (Brian)  and Peterborough 3 (Trevor K) finished equal on points with P2 finishing higher due to winning the head-to-head.It is yet to be confirmed whether P2 will be promted due to one unplayed match.
• Peterborough 1 (Chris H) in division 1 finished third.
• Peterborough 4 have been relegated from division 3.

• New...Starting Monday 11th May 
• Fun Bridge Evenings on selected Mondays during the Summer
• Play some light hearted Social Bridge with Supervised play.
• Trevor and Marion King will be on hand to offer advice on bidding and play to the less experienced player.
• This will be in addition to the Normal Club Duplicate.
• Please arrive by 6.50 pm for a 7.00pm start. Normal Table Money.

It's time to confirm with your partners and team mates! Please note the following start dates for the new club competitions:

Peterborough A (Mark, Mike T, Trevor T, Tim) won their first round NICKO match against Stamford A by 27 imps, had a bye in the second round and lost a close match to Kettering in round 3.

The B team lost to North Cambridge, the C team lost to Stamford C and the D team lost to King's Lynn. These three teams played into the plate competition but were all beaten in the first round.

Deeping Bridge Club is a new club who first met in January 2014. Sessions are on Fridays between 10:00 and 13:00 at the Deepings Centre, 2 Douglas Road, Market Deeping PE6 8PA. There are occasional 'Learn and Play' sessions with Marion and Trevor King. Annual membership is £7 and the session charge is £3. The club purchased equipment using grants provided by the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society, the Town Council of Market Deeping and the Parish Council of Deeping St James. For further information contact Felicity Horsfield using the contact form on this web site.

In the Cambs & Hunts League, Peterborough 1 (Chris Heames) have won division 2 with a 100% record over 5 matches played. They will swap places with Peterborough 3 (Trevor King) who were relegated by just one VP. Peterborough 2 (Brian Hope) have also been promoted back to division 2.

In the Autumn Congress played at the Holiday Inn in Peterborough, Ufuk and Rob had a fantastic result to finish second in the main teams event. Tim and Tony reached the final of the Two Star Pairs.

Welcome to the Peterborough Bridge Club website on BridgeWebs where you will find club results, event calendar and archive results and information.The club's web address www.peterboroughbridge.info is still valid and redirects to the BridgeWebs site.

In an exciting finish where everything was decided on the very last match of the season, Mark's team (Ufuk, Mary, Terry) just pipped Trevor T's team (Brian, Rob, Tim) by 0.2%. Trevor K's team (Marion, Chris, Christina) were only 2% behind them with a score that would usually be more than enough to win. Well Done Mark's team.   

There were some good results for club members in the Northants Swiss Pairs at Bugbrooke on 21 June, Ufuk and Mark finished second, Trevor T was 4th and Rob and Tim were 7th. For full results click here.

The EBU Autumn Congress, one of the major national bridge weekends, will be held in Peterborough for the first time this year. The venue is the Holiday Inn and the event takes place on 17-19 October. Full details can be seen on the EBU web site at http://www.ebu.co.uk/competitions/autumn-congress.

Those that have not played at a congress before may like to try the Really Easy Afternoon on Friday 17th October at 2 pm. This event is aimed at those with no experience of green-point events, and such players are probably below the rank of Master. It is intended as an introduction to 'congress bridge'.

The Peterborough Pairs was won convincingly by John Crane and Karl Farquhar. See under Competitions on the left for the combined result.

The A team (Mark, Mike T, Trevor T, Tim) beat Stamford by 15 imps in the 4th round and will play Coventry in the 5th round.

Well done to John Crane and Bob Vajda who finished 5th in the Cambs & Hunts County Pairs Final. Mark Tilley and Ufuk Cotuk were 8th, Mary Knights and Mike Keogh 13th. See full results.

Well done to Mary Knights and Michael Keogh who finished 4th in the National Pairs B final. See full results.