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Upcoming non WCBA Events

With many county and EBU competitions now online click here to see the full EBU calendar of national and county events

Hampshire GP Congress
9th-10th March
Winchester
and for more details
 
 

Newent Bowl

Blue point Swiss Teams

16th Mar 2024

Newent Bridge Club

 

EBU Easter Festival

29th Mar - 1st Apr

London

For full details and to enter, click here

 
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Wiltshire Contract Bridge Association
Wiltshire Contract Bridge Association

Wiltshire Contract Bridge Associaiton is affliated to the EBU and is the umbrella organisation for clubs in Wiltshire, supporting, developing and promoting bridge in the County.

Cafe Bridge

Do you fancy having a go at Cafe Bridge? Wiltshire are supporting a cafe bridge event on Wednesday 17th April 2024. The event will take place in various cafes and restaurants in Devizes and costs £35 per person to enter. This includes morning tea/coffee, lunch and an afternoon drink. There is a chance to win a prize in the raffle. If you would like to know more about cafe bridge in general, please click here. If you would like more information about the event on Wednesday 17th April, or would like to enter, please click here.

Wiltshire CBA AGM Sunday 14th April

The Wiltshire CBA Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday 14th April at 2pm at Nursteed Centre, Nursteed Road, Devizes. The AGM will be followed by the Chairman's Cup - a handicapped event. To see the agenda, please click here. To enter the Chairman's Cup, please click here. Please note - there is no charge for entering the Chairman's Cup.

Championship Pairs Winners

Congratulations to Garry Towns and Evelyne Thomas who won the Championship Pairs qualifier on Sunday 17th March. In second place were Susie Hands and Georgie Dalton, and third place went to Elaine Taylor and James Dunlop. For the full results of the qualifier, please click here. These three pairs will represent Wiltshire in the Corwen Trophy, to be played on 15th and 16th June, at Stone, Staffordshire. For more information on the Corwen, please click here. The Wiltshire committee wishes all the players good luck in representing our county.

Wiko final

This year's WIKO final was won by the Sloan team (Sam Sloan, Roy France, Katharine Hodgson and Keith Williamson) who beat the Pegg team (Nick Pegg, Bob Bannister, Jana Zlamalova and Chris Clements). The Sloan team will represent Wiltshire in the Pachabo Cup. In the Plate competition, the Treble team (John Treble, Chris Jones, Phil Meats and Alastair Spence) beat the Webb team (Gayle and Colin Webb, David Thackaberry and Ian Bell)

To see the full results, please click here.

Wiltshire Green Point Congress success

Despite the weather putting a small spanner in the works at the last minute by snowing on Saturday morning, everyone arrived safely at Bath University for the Swiss Pairs and the Swiss Teams on Sunday. The number of pairs and teams entering were upon last year, a positive move for Wiltshire. The winners of the Swiss Pairs on Saturday were Jack Armorgie and Alastair Catchpole, picture below with Lucy Cross, Chair, Wilshire Bridge Association. The Wiltshire pair, Andrew Parkes and Richard Samter came equal second with Sandra Nicholson and Krys Kazmierczak, from Oxford. A special mention to Alan and Vivienne Day who, at their very first congress, came equal 16th. Well done to all the players who took part. For full results, please click here.

 

The Swiss Teams was a close run event until the last set of boards when the winning team, Warner Solomon, Ian Walsh, Stefan Lindfors and Rob Lawy pulled ahead and won with a total of 100VPs. Wiltshire teams took 3rd and 4th places out of 29 teams. For full results, click here. Below is the winning team, with Lucy Cross.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

More Success for Wiltshire in Western League

Wiltshire B and Wiltshire C had convincing wins over their opponents, East Wales B and C, in the match played on Saturday 13th January. Wiltshire B won 14VP to 6PV and are now sitting in second place with 3 matches to go. Wiltshire C won 17VP to 3VP and have moved up to 3rd place in the C division with a good gap to the 4th placed team, Herefordshire. Unfortunately Wiltshire A were unable to complete a winning trio, losing their match 5VP to 15VP, despite Stuart Bridge and Richard Samter coming 3rd out of 48 pairs in the cross-imps. For the full results and to see the hands, please click here.

Garden Cities qualifier January 14th 2024

After a close fought battle, the Bath Bridge Club team of eight came out on top, winning by 79VPs from Devizes Bridge Club with 71VPs. Bath will now go forward to represent Wiltshire in the regional final, to be held on 11th May 2024 at Bristol. For more information on the Garden Cities Trophy, please click here.

For the full results of the qualifier, please click here.

With the new academic year fast approaching, there are many opportunities to learning bridge in Wiltshire. For more details of the courses and locations, please click here.

Non-expert pairs - 29th October 2023

Many congratulations to all who took part in Sunday's non-expert pairs, especially those who entered a Wiltshire competition for the first time - we hope you will enter future events, and perhaps try entering a team in next year's Wiltshire league. The winners overall were Alan and Vivienne Day (first-timers at a Wiltshire event) with a respectable score of 65%. Congratulations to John Maggs and Angela Gunning who the runners-up; Mike Smith and Ian Lund came third.

Also, a big thank you to everyone who looked for the missing wedding ring - good news - it was later found!

Have you considered becoming a bridge teacher in Wiltshire? EBED, the education arm of the EBU, are re-starting face-to-face training in September and there are courses on offer In Aylesbury, Yeovil and Solihull. Each EBU affiliated cub may apply for one free place every two years, and anyone applying via an affiliated EBU club (who will be paying the invoice), will be entitled to a 20% discount. This discount is funded by the EBU.

For more information about the course and details on how to book, please click here.

Latest Results
Match 6 16th Mar 2024
Avon A  14 - 8 Wiltshire A
Avon B 16 - 4 Wiltshire B
Avon C 14 - 6 Wiltshire C
League Table: click here
League One
Phillips 4 - 16 Meats
Jacklin 2 - 18 Bridge
Hodgson 20 - 0 Hands
 
League Two
Cross 2 - 18 Cooper
Dunlop 16 - 4 Webb
Parkes 18 - 2 Thackaberry
 
Results
Championship Pairs
Novice teams Match 4
Wiltshire League Match 9
WCBA GP Swiss Teams Overall
WCBA GP Swiss Pairs
Novice teams Match 3
Calendar
Fri 5th Apr 2024
Wiltshire League Match 10
Realbridge 7.30pm
Fri 5th Apr 2024
Novice teams Match 5
Realbridge 7.30pm
Sat 6th Apr 2024
Western League Match 7
Realbridge 2pm
Away to Devon
Sun 14th Apr 2024
AGM and Chairman's Cup
Nursteed Community Centre, Devizes 2pm
Wed 17th Apr 2024
Cafe Bridge
Devizes 10am
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