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 |
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.
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.
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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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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