Teams of Three another great success.
Bridge can be fun.
What a nice break from the really serious stuff this competition was.
The Teams of Three combines three friends with a truly accomplished player. Each friend playing with the ace, in turn. The fun starts when the expert is expected to learn our funny ways of playing and foibles in about two seconds and then promptly forgetting them when they are joined by the second member of the triumvirate. Makes for a very short, sharp learning curve.
The friends also have to try to remember what they have discussed a few minutes ago, Some of us are better at that than others. I welcome you to the others.
Many, many thanks to all our top players:- Jim Routledge, Hope Tomlinson, Christine Hadaway, Sylvia Foster, Martin Johnson, Barry Foster, Chris Hannan, Jaan Oitmaa, Robin Vaughan, Lorraine Lindsay, Karen Ody and Ed Vaughan. I just hoped we didn’t teach you too many bad habits.
A big thank you to Director for all his hard work.
Place | Team | W-D-L |
1 | Elaine Hume - Kathryn Ivits - Alma Van Der Walt - Jim Routledge | 3-0-0 |
2 | Hope Tomlinson - John Aldersley - Beryl Lowry - Marcelle Goslin | 2-1-0 |
3 | Wendy Byrne - Christine Hadaway - Caroline Nichols - Connie Lewis | 2-0-1 |
Practise might make perfect.
Jean Pelham Charity Day.
The final results of the Jean Pelham Charity Day are in.
The total of cash, from table fees and the monster raffle, for the SDA Food Pantry was $1533, combined with about $70 of donated assorted groceries and other goodies making a Grand Total of $1600.
The pantry offers help and assistance to the needy people of the Peninsula.
It is open every second Friday at the SDA Church, opposite the carpark entrance to the Peninsula Plaza.
Swiss Pairs Championship (Restricted <300 MPTS).
This annual event proved a winner, yet again. It is an opportunity for up and coming players, while competing against those of similar ability, to accumulate some of those much sought after masterpoints.
The game was played over consecutive Wednesday afternoons with three, six board matches played each day. A field of sixteen pairs committed to play. The significance of the Swiss movement is that your next opponent is decided by your score from the previous round. So winners play winners and losers play losers. You never play against the same pair twice. Points are awarded after each round.
Congratulations to winning pair Faith Ross and Elaine Hume. And thanks to Director Peter Hume who kept the event proceeding successfully.
Here are placegetter results ... Full results here
VPs | W-D-L | |
Faith Ross / Elaine Hume | 84.58 | 4-1-1 |
John Aldersley / Beryl Lowry | 81.88 | 5-1-0 |
Hilary Owen / Meg McGregor | 73.23 | 4-0-2 |