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At the half way stage in this year’s competition Yorkshire teams are performing strongly in all three divisions.
The A team is in second place some distance behind leaders Manchester. The B team has a narrow lead over the North-East.
In the C division the county has entered two teams - Yorkshire SE is in third place and Yorkshire NW is fifth.
The selection policy of spreading the net wide allows a large number of players the opportunity of representing their county,
but the teams are none the less competitive.
What happened at Wetherby
Notes of the Pay2Play meeting on 12th May at Wetherby Bridge Club
National Inter-Club Knock-Out, Rd 5
Sheffield A (Martin Cantor, Bazil Caygill, Keith Cornish, Nicolas Leprovost, David Waxman,)
beat Manchester D to make it through to the last 16 teams.
National Pairs Final
19th-20th April
Sheffield pair Dave Robinson & Pete Waterman were 4th with 55.37%
Arnout Kalverda & Dominic Pinto were 15th with 51.11%
Golfprint Final
Catterick Golf Club, representing the North of England, came 2nd in the National Final,
on 29th March. Please click on the heading for more details.
Recent successes by Yorkshire players
Richard Winter and Graham Jepson finished second in the
Premier Grand Master's Pairs.
Ian and Julie Grant of Sheffield won the
Regional Masters Pairs
Sarah Teshome won the Championship Pairs at
Blackpool with Ollie Burgess.
Special Meeting on Pay2Play
There is to be a meeting of all YCBA clubs (max 2 representatives per club) on MONDAY 12th MAY at Wetherby Bridge Club
11a.m. start (12.30 complimentary sandwich lunch). The meeting's opinions and decisions will inform the four YCBA shareholders
and hence influence the EBU shareholders' meeting on 4th June when a final decision needs to be made on Pay2play.
Please ensure your club will be represented.
EBU Awareness Day - York
The EBU (with the English Chess Federation) is holding an awareness day on 13 April at the York Railway Museum.
At the museum we will be holding an exhibition of bridge from 10.30am to 4pm and some of the highlights include...
* the chance to learn bridge
* the opportunity to play the game
* meet the experts
* meet local bridge clubs, especially York Bridge Club
* meet the Chairman of the English Bridge Union
* watch exhibition matches, with some of the best young England players, who will be competing later this year in Beijing.
Junior Camrose (Home Internationals)
Congratulations to Fiona Brown and Steve Raine, two Yorkshire players who were members of the winning
England team of six. (Click on the heading to see the details of the results.)
Sarah Teshome (England international) commented "It's great to see that they came first.
Well with one third of the brightest stars in the country, the future for Yorkshire Bridge looks rosy!"
Mind Sports Online Petition
An online petition has been set up, asking the government to give equal status to mind sports and physical sports.
For more information, please click on the heading above. The deadline is 20th February.
National Swiss Teams
Tony McNiff's team (Bill Townsend, with Willie Crook and Rob Sharpe, both of Notts) came 5th with 167 VPs
The best all-yorkshire performance was by Roy Garthwaite, Heather Hobson, Stan Collins & Agnes Blewitt,
who came 27th= with 137 VPs. A total of 72 teams competed.
New Laws
The WBF has promulgated a new edition of the Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge.
From the point of view of club players, not much has changed: the revoke law is simpler, and dummy's rights
to prevent irregularities by declarer are more specific. A general change is from "penalty" to "restitution".
National Bridge Organisations will decide when to adopt them during 2008. As yet there are no printed copies
available, but clicking on the heading above will take you to the ECATS website, where they may be viewed online.
Northern Bridge League
At the end of the season Yorkshire were 2nd in Divisions 1 & 2 and Yorkshire SE won in Division 3,
while the Juniors won in the u25 division
The team selected as Yorkshire (SE) from those who played so successfully this season is:
Terry Jacobs [capt] & John Gibson [Sheffield]
Margaret Johnson & Pat Powell [Sheffield]
David Ward & David Beresford [Doncaster]
Alan Dean and Diane Dean [Keighley]
The national final will be at Solihull BC on Sunday 13th July 2008 [entry paid for by the YCBA]
The YCBA would like to thank all players in all Northern Leagues this season for their efforts: much appreciated.
Leads to Kill
Sarah Teshome executes a brilliance against France in Shanghai
Venice Cup
Congratulations to Sarah Teshome on being selected to play in the England Women's Team in the forthcoming
world championships, in Shanghai. We wish her and all the team the very best of luck.
For more information and news of the competition, please click on the heading to visit the EBU website.
Pay-2-Play ?
The new EBU membership strategy
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