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Northern Bridge League

The second set of NBL matches was played online on Aug 15th.

In the A division the team of Peter Foster/Royce Alexander, Phil Taylor/Dan Kelsall, David Barton/Robert Ferrari, Kath Nelson/Rhona Goldenfield finished third and are now fourth overall.  David and Robert were our best pair on cross imps.

In the B division the team finished second on the day, but increased their lead at the top of the table.  The team was Eddie-Thornton-Chan/Ray Ashleigh, Roger Hopton/Irene Davies, Alan Tranter/Andy Burnett, Raymond Semp/Espen Gisvold.  All four pairs were positive on cross imps, with Eddie and Ray the best pair.

In the C division Manchester were sixth, dropping to third place overall.  The team was Karen Jones/Barbara Eastabrook, Karen Reissmann/Ann Thornton, Richard Acaster/Christine Benson, Susan Triggs/Graham Winn with Karen & Ann and Susan & Graham positive on cross imps.

Detailed results are on the Cumbria web site.  Summary results on the NBL site.

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EBU Summer Meeting

Congratulations to Michael Byrne who won the Swiss Pairs with Kieran Dyke at Eastbourne.  This major event is a 12 round 8 board Swiss attracting a large entry of 150 pairs.

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Llandudno Swiss Pairs

A good contingent of Manchester players went to Llandudno for the Swiss Pairs weekend of 1st-2nd August.  Rodney Lighton finished second with Barry Myers (a partnership that first played at Manchester University in 1971!).  Martin Taylor and Justin Hackett were fourth.  Results are on Oliver Cowan's web site.

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Green Point Swiss Teams

Manchester's annual event at Altrincham took place on Sunday 26th July at 11.00.  17 teams entered.  The winners were Rodney Lighton, Tom Dessain, Alec Smalley and David Barton just ahead of John Holland, Jackie Pye, Jeff Smith and John Stell.  The winning team were leading after three matches, but then lost to the runners-up.  After six matches the Holland team had a 10 VP lead, but in the last match a 20-0 victory for the Lighton team coupled with a loss for the Holland team meant that the Lighton team won by just under 4 VPs.

Thanks to Daniel Kelsall for organising, Jonathan Lillycrop for directing, Gordon Bickley for presenting prizes and members of Altrincham Bridge Club for help with setting up and clearing away.  Full results are on the results site.

Winners: Tom Dessain, Rodney Lighton, (Gordon Bickley MCBA Chair) Alec Smalley, David Barton	Second: John Holland, Jackie Pye, John Stell, Jeff Smith
Non-expert Karen Reissman, Irene Davies, Gillian McMullan, Ann Thornton

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