MAYFIELD DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB

NEWSLETTER No.49 – JANUARY 2009

 

 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – Tuesday 21 April 2009

 

The 26th Annual General Meeting of the Club will take place in St John’s Hall on the above date at a start time of 7.30pm followed by bridge as soon as possible.  The usual format will apply with the Officers’ reports being posted on the notice board and, in some cases, on the web site in advance of the Meeting.  It is hoped that these will be taken as read at the Meeting.

 

Please advise the Secretary, Rosemary Rice, of any business that you wish to be raised at the Meeting by 14 April 2009, otherwise she may not be able to include it in the agenda.  A copy of last year’s minutes has been available at the Club for the past 11 months and will remain so until the Meeting.  If you require an individual copy please speak to Rosemary Rice.  It is hoped that the accounts will be available in advance of the Meeting.

 

Nominations for the Committee should be made no later than 14 April 2009 and a list will be up on the notice board for these.  New nominations are always welcome so do not hold back!

 

 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

 

Norman Cup – 10 Feb/10 Mar (final):  The final will be limited to 5,6 or 7 tables according to the original entry.  There will be Open Pairs on 10th March for those who do not qualify for the final or who were unable to enter in the first place.

 

Mayfield Teams Cup – 24 Feb/31 Mar.  Teams may have up to 6 members but no player may play in 2 different teams.

 

Surrey Sim Pairs – Friday 27 Feb.  

 

Mixed Pairs Cup - 12 May – Members should note that although unmixed pairs may turn up to play, they will be expected to pair up with other unmixed pairs where possible.  Any pair left unmixed will still be able to play but without standing.

 

Men’s & Ladies’ Pairs – 16 Jun.

 

Dorothy Williamson Handicap Teams – 30 Jun.  As in previous years we will introduce a handicap for this event.

 

Note:  The date of Committee and Liz Phillips Cups has been changed to 25 August 2009 due to a clash with the Brighton Congress

 

 

 

PLEASE GIVE ALL THESE COMPETITIONS YOUR SUPPORT

 

 

 

 

 

CHRISTMAS PARTY NIGHT

 

This event was once again well supported with 15 tables in play.  Unfortunately 8 members had to drop out at the last minute due to illness.

 

Many thanks are given to all those who worked so hard to make it such a successful and fun evening:

Rosemary Rice who organised the refreshment together with her team of helpers:

            Mary Street, Helen Seymour, Sylvia Timberlake and Ann Madden

Ron Maclaren who purchased the booze.

Roger Sugden, Chris Pullan and Ron Maclaren who ran the bar.

Chris for organising the competitions and prizes and directing the evening.

George and his wife Angela for their work throughout the evening running the catering and clearing up with their usual efficiency, especially as George had been unwell.

 

Winners on the evening were Molly Sleven & Clive Allum with Elizabeth Johnson and Audrey Kolbe.

 

MEMBERS SUCCESSES  

 

Crockford’s Plate                        1st            Bill Hodgkiss & Malcolm Pryor

 

Surrey Competitions

County Pairs                             1st            Bob Rowlands & Peter Lee

                                                7th            Arun Suri & partner

                                                9th            Alan Bailey & Roy Smith

Men’s Pairs                              3rd            Andrew Barnett & Peter Cogliatti

Senior Pairs                              2nd            Liz Phillips & partner

Swiss Teams ‘A’ Flight            1st        Peter Lee & team

                                                3rd            Bernard Pike, Liz Phillips, Arun Suri & partner

Year End Congress                        6th            Peter Lee’s team & Liz Phillips and Arun Suri’s team

 

Club Competitions

Committee Cup                        1st            Kerstin Tompsett & Pam Jardine

                                                2nd            Andrew Barnett & Jack Feld

Liz Phillips Cup             1st        Olivia Dawson & David Elvin

                                                2nd            Alan Bailey & Roy Smith

Pro Am                                    1st            Margaret Lee & David Dick

                                                2nd            Tony Turnage & Andrew Barnett

 

NEW MEMBERS

 

We welcome to the club Angela Wright, Lyn Brodie and Chris Lemon and hope they will enjoy their bridge at the Mayfield.

 

LEAVING MEMBERS

 

It is with regret that we had to lose Audrey Vaughan as she has had to go into a Nursing Home.  She played at the Mayfield Club for many years and will be greatly missed.

 

 

 

 

CHAIRMAN’S NOTES

 

Kathleen Hewitt and Jill Leslie

 

Firstly, on a sad note, we announced recently the deaths of Kathleen Hewitt and Jill Leslie.  Kathleen had been a member since the inauguration of the Mayfield Duplicate Club 25 years ago and Jill joined a few years after.  Kathleen was due to be 100 this month before her fatal stroke. She had been in a retirement home in Reigate for a couple of years and, although she resigned before she moved, this was not possible as she was an honorary life member.  Jill, who had been an active sportswoman, suffered a fatal embolism.  She was a very frequent player at the club and enjoyed her bridge so much that she went on many bridge holidays. She organised the Surrey Affiliated League for many years.  We shall miss them both very much.

 

JUBILEE PARTY

 

On to brighter things and our JUBILEE PARTY on Saturday 21 March at the Woodcote Park Golf Club.  The party is to celebrate 25 years of the present members’ club.  To give members the background, the original club, which was a proprietor’s club, started before the war and was owned by several different persons and it moved from various venues in Epsom.  Until 1983, it had been owned for many years by Kath Coward, who is one of our honorary members and who will be 100 later this year.  However, she decided in late 1983 to let it become a members’ club and this took place in January 1984.  We initially played at the Drift Bridge Hotel and moved to The Heathside Hotel when the Drift Bridge Hotel was refurbishing.  Many of us will remember having to play in the bedrooms on a Friday if there was a large function at the hotel. Then the Heathside decided to refurbish and we moved to our present location. We are celebrating what has been a very successful club over those years.  It was decided to hold the festivities slightly later in the year as there would have been a lot of parties around Christmas and the New Year and all our waistlines would have suffered!  There is a notice on the board for members to sign up and also details of the planned evening in this Newsletter and on the board.  Please sign up early and get your tickets from Rosemary Rice or Sylvia Timberlake.  It is a pairs event but if you do not have a partner you will be accommodated so still put up your name with partner wanted.  It is hoped that you will all be able to get to the event under your own steam but if any member has problems please let a member of the Committee know and we will do our best to help out. 

 

JUBILEE NOTICE

 

Jubilee Celebration Party

The club will be celebrating 25 years of its existence as a

Members’ club at Woodcote Park Golf Club on

 

SATURDAY, 21 MARCH 2009

 

The festivities will commence at 5pm with tea and cake.

This will be followed at 5.30pm by bridge until 7.30pm.

 

There will be a short break for a celebration drink and at

8pm we will sit down to a 2  course dinner with wine, coffee and mints.

 

There will be a nominal charge for this of £5 per head and it

is hoped that as many of you as possible will attend.

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Norman

 

Peter has been a member of this and the original club since before the war and along with other stalwarts like Kath Coward and Jean Davies has been a great supporter of the Club.  At the Christmas Party he gave his usual thank you to the Committee for their hard work and then announced that he was unlikely to rejoin.  It is a rather long way for him to come and in his late eighties he finds it difficult driving at night.  We shall miss him very much and hope that perhaps he will reconsider this decision and, if not, at least visit us from time to time.  His parents were the donors of the Norman Cup.

 

In recognition of his long service to the Club he has been made an Honorary Life Member.

 

Friday Championship

 

You will have seen from the forthcoming events that there is going to be a Friday Championship.  This is to be held regularly on the last Friday in the calendar and this year it falls on 27 March.  We have quite a few members who only come on a Friday and it was felt that they should have the opportunity to be a champion.  A condition is that you must have played at least 6 times on a Friday.

 

Julia Brough

 

Our congratulations to Julia on becoming the President of the Surrey County Bridge Association last July and my apologies to her for not announcing this when she has been at the Club.

 

Dorothy Wharton

 

Our congratulations to Dorothy on joining the ranks of the nonagenarians who have belonged to this club.  We wish her and Dick continued longevity and enjoyment of their bridge with us.

Friday Refreshments

 

Just a helpful point.  Will Friday players please make sure that after they have used the kettle it is then refilled and switched on so that there is no hold up after the next round waiting for the kettle to boil.

 

Martin Trouse

 

Martin is needing partners for the first Tuesdays in odd months and the fourth Tuesdays in even months.  Please contact him if you can help him out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHIEF TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR

 

Local Points

 

The Local Points have been registered directly with the EBU and cover the last six months of 2008. Those people who have earned Local Points and are not listed below will have had their certificates printed.

 

Name

 

Certs

 

LPs

 

 

Name

 

Certs

 

LPs

 

Ulla Adilz

9

142

 

Ron Maclaren

11

192

Clive Allum

2

78

 

Ann Madden

5

123

Alan Bailey

5

128

 

Laszlo Magos

1

10

Andrew Barnett

19

336

 

Liz Martin

2

47

Tony Belton

5

120

 

Maria Martin

4

119

Adrian Boulding

4

69

 

Peggy Moir

6

177

Jacky Boulding

4

69

 

Dean Morley

13

352

Steve Bourton

3

46

 

Roger Morton

9

224

Philip Brooks

15

272

 

Joyce Munns

7

123

Julia Brough

3

46

 

Trevor Munns

5

72

Maurice Cahm

1

20

 

Loraine Murphy

5

156

Malcolm Channing

14

240

 

Peter Norman

1

10

Pete Cogliatti

7

145

 

Sean O'Neill

5

168

Tim Cook

6

150

 

John Osborne

2

28

Mike Cowley

5

104

 

David Ould

1

20

Joan Cullen

4

102

 

Adrian Patrick

14

222

Jean Davies

8

104

 

Liz Phillips

7

186

Olivia Dawson

6

155

 

Bernard Pike

12

286

David Dick

6

186

 

Shirley Preuveneers

4

125

Gwen Easto

4

66

 

Chris Pullan

8

205

David Elvin

2

57

 

Alan Rainbow

4

52

John Frosztega

1

42

 

Audrey Randall

4

93

Mae Gayner

2

36

 

Rosemary Rice

6

116

Norman Grant

6

74

 

Les Roffey

3

60

Audrey Grzesiak

1

48

 

Tony Scouller

3

110

Julian Hemsted

7

156

 

Helen Seymour

3

38

Michael Hill

1

30

 

Molly Slevin

25

439

Lynne Hiorns

8

110

 

Brian Smith

8

138

Bill Hodgkiss

4

131

 

Roy Smith

7

144

Pat Hunter

3

32

 

Cyril Staples

2

21

Keith Jackson

10

277

 

Mary Street

8

120

Pam Jardine

6

149

 

Roger Sugden

13

196

Elizabeth Johnson

4

30

 

Arun Suri

11

312

Audrey Kolbe

2

36

 

Ian Swanson

2

63

Valerie Lacey

3

60

 

Philip Tilbrook

11

183

Alan Laker

5

54

 

John Timberlake

21

437

Dorothy Laker

5

54

 

Sylvia Timberlake

17

281

Renate Lane

4

93

 

Kerstin Tompsett

6

155

Margaret Lee

1

48

 

Martin Trouse

7

148

Peter Lee

7

202

 

Tony Turnage

2

66

Chris Lemon

1

6

 

Joan Underdown

4

54

Jill Leslie

7

227

 

Denny Wade

5

146

Carol Letts

3

36

 

Ita Walsh

6

96

John Lockyer

3

89

 

Heather West

6

109

Rosemary Lyttle

12

271

 

Dorothy Wharton

1

24

 

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Alerting

 

To clear up some confusion that arose a few weeks ago. Any artificial Opening Bid of 3NT and above must be alerted. This applies to a gambling 3NT, Texas 4§ and 4¨ openings and a 4NT opening bid which asks for Aces.

 

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New Web Pages

 

The more eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that there is a new section to the Mayfield Web Site. The section is entitled "Statistics" and contains details of the average scores and number of wins for each player and partnership for the years 2001 to 2008, split between Tuesdays and Fridays. The information comes from the Database of results that we have, but this only goes back to 1st January 2001 (which now runs to about 13,000 records). If anyone would like an Excel Spreadsheet with their results from 2001 to date, please E-Mail the Club and we will send them to you. If you are not on the Internet and would like a printed copy please see Malcolm and he will produce a list for you if the demand is not too great.  

 

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Scoring Programme

 

The Club has been using Scorebridge to do our scoring for the last six months. From the feedback that we have received, members prefer the additional information that we are able to put on the Web Site such as the contract and the number of tricks made. We are also able to link together the travellers and the hand records.

 

I am afraid that it does sometimes take a little longer to put the results on the Web Site but most people feel it is worthwhile. There is one way that you can assist the scorers and that is to make sure that you write on the travellers clearly ensuring you enter the contract, declarer and the number of tricks as a number (eg 8, 9, 10 etc). East should check the entry on the traveller and ensure that the contract and the number of tricks and the score are correct. This will mean that scorers will not have to ring players the following morning to confirm the score when the traveller says 2ª + 1 and is scored as + 170.

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Bridegmates

 

In August Maurice Cahm came to the Club and gave a demonstration of Bridgemates.

 

The cost of introducing Bridgemates to the Club would be about £2,500.

 

The general consensus was that the Bridgemate demonstration worked well during the evening but was not suitable for the Mayfield, mainly due to practical problems such as the set up time at the beginning of the evening, lack of an experienced operator and secure storage.

 

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Note from Peter Lee on County Pairs

 

            This was held as a two session event in Cobham on 11th January.  Almost 50 pairs played, with 14 qualifying for an all-play-all final, the rest going into the plate.  Mayfield were well represented in the final, with Alan Bailey and Roy Smith finishing 9th, Arun Suri and his partner 7th and Bob Rowlands and myself winning.  The qualifying event went very well, with a mixture of good play, suicidal play by opponents and luck giving us 67%, helpful as there was a small carry forward to the final.

 

            Luck was evident when we overbid to 7NT making needing ♣AKQ9652 opposite void to play for no losers.  On the very next hand I held ♠9854 ♥AKQ84 ♦A105 ♣7.  Bob opened 1♣, I responded 1♥ and after he rebid his clubs, my right hand opponent overcalled 2♦, vulnerable against not.  However you play it, it seems right to double now, and Bob was happy to pass it with a 2-2-4-5 shape with Kxxx of diamonds.  After Bob discarded a spade on three rounds of hearts, and we played spades, we eventually made legions of club ruffs and spade ruffs, declarer managing all of 3 tricks for -1400.  Why, holding ♠AK2 ♥1065 ♦QJ976 ♣J2, he did not overcall 1♦ on round one, and wait until later to bid at the two level when we had already exchanged information, I cannot imagine.  An example of suicidal opponents.

 

            The final started badly, when we bid a no play grand slam on the first board and then had a system error for a further zero.  A top under average after 6 boards, we then had an undisturbed  string of average or above average boards interspersed by the odd very good one to end with 62%.  One play hand of some interest was the following:

 

Dummy            ♠8763

                        ♥A86

                        ♦K82

                        ♣AK4

 

You                  ♠AK952

                        ♥Q3

                        ♦A53

                        ♣1098

 

            The auction goes 1♠ by you, 2♥ overcall, 3♥ by partner (= good raise to 3 or more spades), 3♠ by you, raised to 4♠.  The Q♦ is led.  You win in hand, and draw trumps which break 2-2.  What next?  The over-caller surely has the heart king (bid them and did not lead them) so there seemed no point in leading to the queen to try to set up a discard for a minor loser.  One could take two club finesses, but that seems a small chance too.  Better to try to endplay your left hand opponent.  I played a diamond towards the king on which West played the 10.  Looks like QJ10 blank, so hoping West had overcalled with 6 hearts, as one would expect, and therefore had a 2-6-3-2 shape, I cashed two clubs and exited with a diamond.  Bingo!  He now had to lead away from his heart king for +650. 

 

            This was the first time either I had won the Surrey Pairs and only the second time Bob had.  This is particularly surprising for Bob who I regard as one of the best pairs players in the country, with numerous other successes to his name.

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