The Over 50 Division of the October Online Pairs resulted in a photo-finish with less than 0.4 points separating the first three finishers. Lynn Baker and Jim Stewart won by a short head from Vivien Eldridge and Alan Davies with Lois and Terry Rothwell an even shorter head behind in third place.
In the Under 50 Division, Lyn Talmont and Susan Eason faltered a bit at the last fence but their consistent form over the earlier jumps carried them through to a comfortable win over Christine Marcroft and Lidy Seysener with the Colenbrander brothers a respectable third.
Congratulations to the winners and place-getters and, indeed, to everyone who took part. You can see the results here.
We will have a one-off all-comers event next Tuesday (while an even bigger horse race takes place) but we are planning another flagship cumulative online event for Tuesdays in November and early December. There will be red points on offer and, so that everybody has a chance, there will be three Divisions, based on Masterpoints as at Sept 30, 2020: Under 20, Under 150 and Open. Look out for more details here and in your Inbox!
Recent results:
Congratulations this week to Bronwyn Neal and Lynne Talmont for placing 1st E/W and 2nd overall (from 56 pairs) in Sunday’s ABF Novice Pairs event. Well done!
A member sent me this message and agreed to it being published anonymously:
"I know that there have been almost no cases recently in NSW but I also believe that we should be as COVID-safe as possible.
Bridge players are a very susceptible cohort so I believe that it is up to each of us to do our best (despite low case numbers).
One of the Peninsula Bridge Club’s major events, The Club Teams Championship, is to be conducted on three Thursdays during November, the 12th, 19th and 26th, starting at 1pm on each day.
Members only. Red points.
The long awaited Online Teams Congress will be held by the New South Wales Bridge Association this Sunday 25th October 2020! Even more exciting, they are going to host this Teams event on a brand new online platform REALBRIDGE – an online platform on which you can see (yes see!) and talk to your partner, teammates and opponents at the bridge table. This is really the next best thing you can have to a face to face congress.
The Congress will start at 10.00am on Sunday 25th October, 2020 on RealBridge:
The Club ran a gold point teams event in the clubhouse over three Thursday sessions in October. Twelve teams competed, each playing six matches of twelve boards.
Congratulations to the winners of the event: Anne Small, Lynn Smith, Jan McLennan and Linda Abbenbroek.
Members of teams received gold masterpoints for each winning match. Ronnie Ng directed.
The event was run using a Swiss draw after the opening round was determined based upon the order of teams’ entry (quasi random).
We are now looking at SALT4. Given the proximity of the year end and in the interests of exposing club members to different types of competitions I am proposing the following:
Start date 26 October End date 14 December.
Play times Monday evening. Substitutes allowed.
Matches 2 10 board matches (as with SALT3). Scoring IMPS/VPs (same as SALT3). Masterpoints Green.
Structure one division. Swiss format (means after 1st round each team plays the nearest ranked team that it hasn’t already played). The result is you tend to play teams of your own standard.
Cost TBD (estimated one off payment of $30-$35 per player). Please let both Viv Eldridge and myself know if you wish to enter.
As always we run a matchmaking service if you don’t have a full team
This event has now finished and congratulations to the winners and thankyou to all participants.
Serpent Division - the Eldridge Team (Viv Eldridge, Alan Davies, Robin Devries, Peter Bendelstein)
Staircase Division - the Eason Team (Susan Eason, Lynne Talmont, Simon Hunter, Bronwyn Neal)
SALT4 coming shortly.
