| The Corwen played 30th/31st May in Telford |
The National event, the Corwen, was played on 30th/31st May 2026 in Telford. All top three pairs in the SSCBA Championship pairs, played on 29th March at Newcastle under Lyme, took part in the Corwen, The three pairs were Paul Hackett & Mike Goldsmith, Martin Aherne & Steve Smith and Tracy Aherne & Mark Booth.
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| 2025-26 League final match completed 28th May 2026 |
A nail biter until the last this year, the top two teams met for the final division 1 league match on May 28th with Paul Cutler's team winning the match against Dave Nelson's team by 12 - 8 VPs and thus coming top of league division 1, click for the full results, Paul's team fielded the same team without any subs for the whole season and Dave's team had a sub in only one match. Some photoshop used to find the faces in the archives, one player still missing in picture below.
Division 2 was completed in March and was won by Sheila Gilford's team, for the full results click here.
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A nail biter until the last this year, the top two teams met for the final division 1 league match on May 28th with Paul Cutler's team winning the match against Dave Nelson's team by 12 - 8 VPs and thus coming top of league division 1, click for the full results, Paul's team fielded the same team without any subs for the whole season and Dave's team had a sub in only one match. Some photoshop used to find the faces in the archives, one player still missing in picture below. ..........
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| County Mixed Pairs - Played Sunday 10th May |
The County mixed pairs was held at Newcastle Under Lyme Bridge Club on Sunday, 10th May 2026. Fourteen pairs took part, winners Tracy Aherne & Mark Booth with 58.33%, Helen & Peter Lees not far behind with 57.37% and Gillian Allsop & David Moir in third place with 56.73%. Earlier in the year Tracy & Mark were also winners in SSCBA Championship Teams competition and third in the Championship Pairs competition, what a wonderful season for them. David Moir third in the mixed pairs was in running up team in the Championship teams competition.
The results can be found here.
A very pleasant afternoon's bridge. Many thanks to James Vickers for directing and Tracy Aherne for refreshments at half time.
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| Championship Teams on Sunday 26th April at 11 am |
Five teams took part this year and the winners were Kevin Goode, Rajiv Talathi, Tracy Aherne and Mark Booth. Paul Cutler, David Moir, Martin Aherne and Steve Smith were second. The results can be found here. To view the travellers click on the individual sessions.
1st Prize: free entry to the Pachabo on 13th & 14th June on RealBridge. 2nd Prize: free entry to the Midland Counties Challenge Bowl in June/July in Derbyshire(date tba)
Many thanks to James for directing and to Tracy for the great spread of food at "half time". The next SSCBA event is the Mixed pairs on Sunday May 10th
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| Staffs & Shrops Online Bridge |
Wednesday Evening 7 pm BBO duplicate session
Good News: Numbers playing in the Wednesday on-line duplicate sessions have now built up to a sustainable level to continue. More players always welcome so please join the group if you have not already done so, click here for information on how to join the group. All players wishing to play in this session must be registered with John Withers, to register (email John with details of BBO alias, EBU number and contact details or phone 01384 271089)
AN INVITATION TO ALL MEMBERS of S&SCBA TO PLAY BRIDGE IN A FRIENDLY CLUB ATMOSPHERE ON LINE
Regular SSCBA Virtual Bridge
SSCBA set up a virtual “Club” with the help of the EBU and Bridge Base Online (BBO), holding sessions on Wednesday evenings (a traditional County night).
Rulings and scoring queries
If you have any queries about the scores during the play, try to bring it to the attention of the director by making a director call in the usual way. If you can't do that before the game ends, either contact the director, or James Vickers on jvickerstd@gmail.com or 07759 151748, giving as much detail as you can about what the problem is.
From Online Membership Secretary's Newsletter of 29th November 2021
Robots: We believe that when we set up the online club on Wednesdays we stipulated that robots would only be used in an emergency: loss of partner or to complete a full table (BBO can’t cope with half-tables). No one likes to meet a robot at the table so we have asked our current TD to tweak the rules of our game to exclude starting to play with a robot. The county has to pay the BBO fees and the P2P fees for stand-in players and robots.
“Partnership Desk”: If you are without a partner for the evening, I understand that this site is a place you could try to find one. Such a partner has to be a member of our club though: so that means other members have to use that system too. Alternatively, if you are prepared to play with another person or a robot, the TD might invite you to be part of that standby pair.
Alerts & Explanations: These are much improved, but don’t forget to add an explanation if you click on Alert.
System cards: You can complete any number of convention cards, one for each partner, and your opponent can look at yours by clicking on one of the white lines in the blue box at top left. A shorter version can be completed under Account to the right of the page, and opponents can look at that by clicking your user name.
Names: How nice and friendly it would be if we had a name for each player rather than a blank. Someone might greet you by name! You can presumably delete it if you are playing elsewhere and you want to remain anonymous.
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Wednesday Evening 7 pm BBO duplicate session
Good News: Numbers playing in the Wednesday on-line duplicate sessions have now built up to a sustainable level to continue. More players always welcome so please join the group if you have not already done so, click here for information on how to join the group. All players wishing to play in this session must be registered with John Withers, to register (email John with details of BBO alias, EBU number and contact details or phone 01384 271089)
AN INVITATION TO ALL MEMBERS of S&SCBA TO PLAY BRIDGE IN A FRIENDLY CLUB ATMOSPHERE ON LINE
Regular SSCBA Virtual Bridge
SSCBA set up a virtual “Club” with the help of the EBU and Bridge Base Online (BBO), holding sessions on Wednesday evenings (a traditional County night). ..........
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