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Deal
of the Week Derbyshire
Match
The annual match against Derbyshire took place at Cheadle Hulme Bridge Club on Sunday 14th July. Manchester were 24 IMPs down at half time but fought back to win by 16 IMPs. The team was Adam Wiseberg/Ann Thornton, Sylvia Massey/Herbert Potts, Elena & Marcelo Rosenbaum, Tricia Blum/Simon Townsend, Joan Lewis/Roy Higginbottom, Andrew Jackson/Nathan Marks. Thanks to Victor Ridding for directing.  Tricia
Blum, Simon Townsend, Elena Rosenbaum, Sylvia
Massey,
Joan
Lewis, Adam Wiseberg, Nathan Marks, Herbert Potts,
Ann
Thornton, Andrew Jackson, Roy Higginbottom, Marcelo
Rosenbaum
Northern Bridge League The first round of four of this season's Northern Bridge League took place on Saturday 13th July. Well done to the Manchester C1 team who lead their division. In
the A division at Sheffield the A1 team of Kath
& Alan Nelson, Rhona Goldenfield/John Holland,
David Barton/Leslie Klein, Alec Smalley/Tom Slater
finished third behind the two Yorkshire teams.
The A2 team of Steve Mattison/Joyce White, Paul
Beckwith/Andy Green, John Roberts/Pete Foster, Lance
Bloohn/Roger Hopton were sixth. John and Pete
shared the top spot in the cross imps rankings with
John and Rhona.
In
the B division at Bradford Manchester are second
behind Yorkshire again. The team was Eddie
Thornton-Chan/Tony Hodgson, Gillian McMullan/Neil
Thomas, Mel Pelham/Rod Franks, Stephen Ward/Chris
Hine. Gillian and Neil were our best pair on
the cross imps.
In
the C division at the new venue of Preston both
Manchester teams did well. The C1 team of Adam
Wiseberg/Jonathan Engler, Barbara Eastabrook/Karen
Jones, Karen Reissmann/Irene Davies, Phillip
Taylor/Josh Clarke won ahead of Yorkshire NW with
the C2 team of Liz & Stephen Halstead, Keith
Boulton/Nigel Pearce, Suzanne Beckett/Adele Hodari,
Andrea Mills/David Welsh in third place. Adam
and Jonathan headed the cross imps for the division.
Full
results are on the NBL web site.
Bronze Medal for Michael's Juniors Congratulations
to the English Juniors who won two bronze medals at
Oslo in the European Championships. Pictured
below are the under 21 team with non-playing captain
Michael Byrne. Michael puts in an enormous
amount of effort training the juniors; it is
good to see his efforts leading to success.
 Oscar
Selby, Elizabeth Gahan, Daniel Winter, Liam
Sanderson
Michael
Byrne, Sam Anoyrkatis, Harry Madden, Alex Roberts
Intermediate Player of the Year Next
week, before the Green Point Teams on 21st July,
we will be sorting out who is eligible for the
Intermediate category for the player of the year
competition. Intermediate means NGS J or
below and below Premier Regional Master. To
do this we need your NGS rating to be visible on
the EBU site. If your NGS rating is hidden,
then we will assume you are in the expert
category.
EBU Summer Seniors Riviera Congress Congratulations
to Gary Hyett who won the Swiss Teams at Torquay on
30th June playing with Alan Cooke, Robert Miller and
Bill Taylor.
President's Cup The
annual inter county teams of eight event took place
at Bradford Bridge Club over the weekend of 29-30
June, ably directed by Stuart Davies and Adrian
Goulding. The Manchester A team finished
second to Mersey and Cheshire in a close
contest. The Manchester B team fared less well
but gained valuable experience.
The
A team was Alec Smalley/Tom Slater (both days), John
Holland/Rodney Lighton, Kath Nelson/Rhona
Goldenfield, David Barton/Leslie Klein (Saturday),
Rodney Lighton/Royce Alexander, Joy & Irving
Blakey, David Barton/Michael Newman (Sunday).
The
B team was Roger Hopton/David Fussell, Gillian
McMullan/Neil Thomas, John Stell/Max Sampson, Adam
Wiseberg/Jonathan Engler (Saturday) and Dhun
Daji/Howard Stubbings, Tony Hodgson/Eddie
Thornton-Chan, Rod Franks/Steve Mattinson, David
Olliver/Howard Kay (Sunday).
John,
Rodney, Royce, Tom, Alec, Kath and Rhona all scored
well on cross IMPs.
Full
results are on the Merseyside county page.
European Open
The
European Open Championships are taking place in
Istanbul from 15-29th June. Manchester players
participating are Michael Byrne in the Leslie team
in the Open and John Holland in the Penfold team in
the Seniors. Both teams qualified for the
knock out phase from the Swiss event, where the
Leslie team lost in the round of 32, the Penfold won
their quarter final match but lost in the
semi-finals, thus earning a bronze medal. In
the open teams Justin and Jason Hackett played in
the Mossop team which won the event.
Click here for results. Selections
The
following selections have been made for matches in
August.
Taster
Session
Manchester
County
Bridge Association is running a membership drive to
tell people about the wonderful game of bridge and to
encourage more people to learn to play bridge.
Members from a number of different clubs are joining
together (with support from the EBU) to try out some
new ways of increasing interest in learning to play
bridge. One part of this strategy is to run a
number of taster sessions. We are holding a
taster session at Manchester Bridge Club on Saturday
27th July, starting at 11 am. We already have
people who have signed up from this session via the
Didsbury Festival (see info elsewhere on this website)
but would welcome more interested people. If you
know of any-one who would like to find out more about
playing bridge, please encourage them to contact Irene
Davies (details on the flyer) and come along to the
taster session. At the taster session we will be
telling people about any beginners bridge courses
starting in the Autumn which being run by EBU
affiliated clubs in the MCBA area.
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