MAYFIELD DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB
NEWSLETTER No. 48 – JULY 2008
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The
23rd Annual General Meeting of the Club was held on 22nd
April 2008 with 48 members present. This ran very smoothly lasting only 20
minutes so enabling us to complete 22 boards.
The
following Committee was elected: Sylvia Timberlake (Chairman), Rosemary Rice
(Secretary), Peter Lee (Captain), Chris Pullan (Treasurer), Andrew Barnett,
Malcolm Channing, Ron Maclaren, Ann Madden, Roger Sugden, Keith Jackson and Roy
Smith.
The Club
trophies were presented by Jean Davies as follows:
Norman Cup |
Tim Cook, Roger Morton
|
Mayfield Teams Cup |
Bernard Pike, Roger Morton, Liz Phillips,
Bill Hodgkiss, |
Mayfield Cup |
Roger Morton |
Mayfield Handicap Cup |
Andrew Barnett |
Kath Coward Cup |
Malcolm Channing |
K Coward Handicap Cup |
Philip Brooks |
D Williamson Teams |
Helen Seymour, Rosemary Rice, Terry
Kedgley, Chris Pullan |
Mixed Pairs |
Loraine Murphy, Tony Belton |
Ladies’ Pairs |
Denny Wade, Liz Phillips |
Men’s Pairs |
Dean Morley, John Lockyer |
Liz Phillips Cup |
Peter Lee, Margaret Lee |
Committee Cup |
Laszlo Magos & Philip Brooks |
Pro-Am Cup |
Alan Bailey, Andrew Barnett |
Subject
matter discussed at the AGM included the following items:
a)
the
-introduction of the Surrey Simultaneous Pairs into our programme.
You will see from your new membership programme card that this has been
reinstated – one on Friday and one on Tuesday.
b)
A
question from the floor regarded the large sum of money on deposit and whether
we might consider investing in the Duplimate dealing machine.
The Committee carried out an extensive study of this subject matter about 3
years ago and had concluded then that
not only was it very expensive to implement but it was not feasible for a club
without its own premises. The work involved is an unacceptable load on the
Committee having to duplicate boards and set up the system for play.
c)
A
further question from the floor asked about using Bridgemate scorers but again
the problem of storage and the need for a computer on site means it is more
suitable for a club with its own premises.
In response to this, we have agreed to have a demonstration of the Bridgemate
system at the club on a Tuesday – yet to be arranged. The demonstration will need the Committee (and all other interested
parties willing to help with the system if we were to take it on) to be at
the club about 1½ hours prior to play on that day so clearly it has to be
arranged in August while the dance school is not using the hall.
Andrew Barnett will coordinate this but, if we do go ahead with it in the
future, we will first need re-assurance from those wishing to include it that
they will volunteer to form a group to set it up on a regular basis. The
Committee members have too little time to set up everything else after the
dance school finishes and cannot undertake this task as well.
d)
The
Chairman reported that the Club’s response to the P2P had been based on a straw
poll sent to the Surrey Committee. The
voting had been 5 in favour and 41 against the new proposals.
As you now know, P2P has been accepted and the EBU propose to introduce it in
2010. The increased load on Committee members will be enormous and we will be
looking for new volunteers for Committee who are computer literate and prepared
to take on the extra tasks that P2P imposes on the club.
FORTHCOMING
EVENTS
Dorothy Williamson
Handicap Teams -
Tuesday, 29th July. The entry list is on the notice board.
Committee & Liz Phillips Cups – Tuesday, 19th August. The rank determining the split between these two
events will be decided on the night in order to even out the number or pairs in
each. It will be either National Master plus or Premier Regional Master plus.
EBU Simultaneous Pairs - Tuesday, 16th September.
Surrey Simultaneous Pairs - Tuesday, 23rd
September.
Pick-up Teams - Tuesday,
30th September
Pro-Am - Tuesday, 21st October
Christmas
Party - Tuesday, 16th
December – NOTE 6:30pm for play at 7pm
No
Bridge - Friday,
14th November, Tuesday 26th December
MEMBERS ADDRESSES & TELEPHONE NUMBERS
The membership database
has been updated and the list of telephone numbers is included with this
newsletter. Please check that we have your correct address (on the envelope)
and the correct telephone number on the list. If in error, please inform either
Ron Maclaren or Rosemary Rice of the required correction.
NEW MEMBERS
We are pleased to welcome
Penny Butcher, Alan Rainbow and Jacky Russell
Smith
as new members since the last newsletter.
LEAVING MEMBERS
We are sorry to lose
members Rolf Alexander, Hazel
Farmer, Lucia Grant, Audrey Grzesiak and Angela Samuelson who have not renewed
membership this year but we wish them well and look forward to seeing them at
any time when they are in the area on a Tuesday or Friday evening.
MEMBERS SUCCESSES
National
Peter Lee’s team made it into the final of the Garden Cities
but had a bad day – see his report at the end of this newsletter for members
who represented the Mayfield and some interesting hands.
.
Surrey
President’s Cup 1st Peter Lee & partner (Graham Osborne)
Affiliated Teams of 8 1st Peter Lee, Bob Rowlands, Liz Phillips, Tim Cook
Malcolm Pryor. Bill Hodgkiss, Bernard Pike Arun Suri
Lady Rose Cup 1st Peter Lee, Bob Rowlands, Liz Phillips &
one other
County League Div 1 1st Peter Lee & four others
Senior Pairs 1st Tony Turnage & John Cruickshank
Surrey Affiliated Clubs
League Division 1 1st Mayfield A
(Tim Cook, Bill Hodgkiss,
Peter & Margaret Lee, Roger Morton,
Sean O’Neill, Liz Phillips, Bernard Pike, Arun Suri)
Club
Mixed Pairs 1st Dean Morley & Gwen Easto
2nd
Bernard Pike & Denny Wade
Men’s Pairs 1st
Arun Suri & Peter Lee
2nd Roger Sugden
& Tony Belton
Ladies’ Pairs 1st Ulla
Adilz & Joyce Munns
2nd Denny
Wade & Liz Phillips
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Despite my entreaties in the
last Newsletter it is disappointing that there have still been instances of
thoughtless behaviour. Please
pay more attention to this by:
a)
being polite at all times
b)
not talking across opponents
c)
making visitors and new members very welcome
d)
moving as soon as possible after the move is called
e)
not hassling the director particularly as we now have a good set of
volunteer directors
f)
being careful of body
language during the play of the cards which may give unauthorised information to both your partber and to the
opponents
It has been noticed that the
exit to the car park has been used as an entrance. Please do not do this as it is extremely
dangerous.
For those interested, the AGM
Minutes are at the club and available for all to peruse. If they are not put out they can be found in
our storeroom.
As mentioned at the AGM, it
is the Silver Jubilee of the present club in January of
2009. We intend to celebrate this and
the present idea is to hold a teams event on a Saturday or Sunday a little
later in the year. It was felt that
January would be too early to hold the event after all the festivities
associated with Christmas and the New Year.
It is also intended to make the event free to members in view of our
healthy funds.
Following on from the
healthy funds we are also looking into the possibility of using Bridgemates. This is only in an early stage because, as
explained at the AGM, we always have the problem of storage. However, as mentioned above, we will try to
arrange a demonstration of using them in the near future by Martin Cahm.
Finally, as I announced at
the club, the EBU P2P scheme was passed at an EGM in early June and will come
into force in April 2010.
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CHIEF
TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR
Andrew Barnett is now running the
Directors List. Thank you to all those
who have volunteered (or have been coerced) to take on the role as director on
a Tuesday evening. It certainly eases
the workload on Sylvia and me.
The new Laws are coming into
force on 1st August 2008, but don’t worry as there are only a few
minor changes and our Directors will be instructed to be lenient for the first
few months whilst everyone is getting used to the new Laws.
The EBU has decided not to update
the “Yellow Book” this year. This is the book that sets out the limitations on
what can and cannot bid on such things as Strong Twos.
The EBU notes the following
changes in Rules and Ethics coming into force on 1st August
You should shuffle your cards after the hand before returning them to
the board.
You are still required to agree a hesitation, for example, when it
happens (and one side thinks it may be relevant to a claim) and the TD should
be summoned if there is any disagreement. The new laws state that the best time
to claim actual damage is at the end of the hand (e.g. rather than on sight of
dummy).
You are now allowed to ask about the meaning of an individual call in
the opponents’ auction. But it shouldn’t be done in such a way as to suggest a
call or play to partner such as "does that 2H bid show hearts?" –
perhaps indicating that the questioner holds hearts.
Sometimes players ask questions
because they do not think their partner has understood. It is illegal to do so.
There is a short period between the final pass and the first card being
faced, when questions are asked. This is now called the Clarification Period.
Members of the declaring side may consult their own system cards during this
time to make sure nothing has been mis-explained, for example.
When you put the dummy down you must display it with the lowest ranking
cards nearer declarer.
Dummy cannot ask a defender whether he has revoked (but he can still
ask declarer).
Defenders are allowed to ask one another whether they have revoked.
This returns to a situation outlawed in 1987.
Players are now allowed to point out that a quitted trick card is
pointing the wrong way. Declarer can do it at any time; dummy or defenders can
only do it before the lead is made to the following trick.
It’s now official - the chief object while playing is to obtain a higher score than other contestants!
The
following Local Points that have been registered with the EBU during the first
half of 2008:
Name |
Points |
Times |
|
Name |
Points |
Times |
|
Name |
Points |
Times |
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|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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John Timberlake
|
534 |
23 |
|
Peggy Moir |
177 |
6 |
|
Mike Aubrey |
75 |
2 |
Sylvia Timberlake |
483 |
20 |
|
Pete Cogliatti |
172 |
7 |
|
Steve Bourton |
75 |
5 |
Molly Slevin |
440 |
24 |
|
Mary Street |
170 |
9 |
|
John Osborne |
73 |
5 |
Roger Morton |
424 |
12 |
|
Tony Scouller |
170 |
4 |
|
Helen Seymour |
64 |
3 |
Roy Smith |
406 |
11 |
|
David Dick |
166 |
6 |
|
Alan Laker |
63 |
6 |
Tim Cook |
366 |
12 |
|
Audrey Kolbe |
160 |
5 |
|
Dorothy Laker |
63 |
6 |
Jill Leslie |
358 |
10 |
|
Olivia Dawson |
160 |
8 |
|
Clive Allum |
62 |
3 |
Alan Bailey |
356 |
10 |
|
Keith Jackson |
149 |
6 |
|
Brian Smith |
60 |
4 |
Liz Phillips |
344 |
12 |
|
Joyce Munns |
144 |
9 |
|
Ita Walsh |
60 |
4 |
Roger Sugden |
338 |
15 |
|
Tony Belton |
143 |
7 |
|
Liz Martin |
60 |
3 |
Bernard Pike |
325 |
9 |
|
Pam Jardine |
124 |
8 |
|
Maria Martin |
60 |
3 |
Philip Brooks |
325 |
19 |
|
Trevor Munns |
120 |
8 |
|
Loraine Murphy |
55 |
2 |
Malcolm Channing |
324 |
17 |
|
Valerie Lacey |
116 |
6 |
|
Audrey Randall |
52 |
3 |
Peter Lee |
322 |
7 |
|
Kerstin Tompsett |
111 |
7 |
|
Martin Trouse |
52 |
4 |
Adrian Patrick |
316 |
13 |
|
Norman Grant |
110 |
5 |
|
Dorothy Wharton |
48 |
3 |
Arun Suri |
306 |
10 |
|
Mike Cowley |
105 |
4 |
|
Adrian Boulding |
45 |
6 |
Dean Morley |
278 |
11 |
|
Lynne Hiorns |
102 |
7 |
|
Jacky Boulding |
45 |
6 |
Andrew Barnett |
269 |
15 |
|
Lucia Grant |
95 |
4 |
|
Renate Lane |
42 |
2 |
Denny Wade |
264 |
8 |
|
Heather West |
91 |
8 |
|
Julian Hemsted |
40 |
1 |
Rosemary Rice |
257 |
8 |
|
Laszlo Magos |
90 |
3 |
|
Neville Grant |
30 |
1 |
Joan Cullen |
243 |
9 |
|
Les Roffey |
85 |
3 |
|
Carol Letts |
27 |
2 |
Chris Pullan |
238 |
11 |
|
Pam Hoskins |
84 |
3 |
|
Cyril Staples |
27 |
2 |
Bill Hodgkiss |
228 |
3 |
|
Pat Hunter |
83 |
2 |
|
Shirley Preuveneers |
24 |
2 |
Ron Maclaren |
227 |
12 |
|
John Frosztega |
80 |
2 |
|
Alan Rainbow |
20 |
1 |
Gwen Easto |
224 |
8 |
|
Sean O'Neill |
80 |
2 |
|
Jean Davies |
18 |
1 |
Ulla Adilz |
216 |
10 |
|
John Lockyer |
78 |
4 |
|
Joan Underdown |
16 |
2 |
Rosemary Lyttle |
215 |
11 |
|
Ann Madden |
76 |
3 |
|
Audrey Grzesiak |
15 |
1 |
Elizabeth Johnson |
204 |
8 |
|
Julia Brough |
75 |
5 |
|
Hazel Farmer |
15 |
1 |
Philip Tilbrook |
199 |
8 |
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The following have earned
points but are not members of the EBU |
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Geoff Jackson |
110 |
5 |
|
Dick Wharton |
48 |
3 |
|
Jean Quigley Parsons |
15 |
1 |
George Foot |
96 |
3 |
|
Jeannette Malcouronne |
27 |
2 |
|
Mickey Poole |
12 |
1 |
Moira Slevin |
70 |
2 |
|
Fiona Clark |
20 |
1 |
|
Sam Atfield |
12 |
1 |
Geoff Whitehead |
50 |
2 |
|
Vivian Cronin |
18 |
2 |
|
Gillian Hutt |
6 |
1 |
Jack Feld |
50 |
2 |
|
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There were a few results from the first quarter that were corrupted
when they were transferred to the EBU. These Local Points together with those
for non-members have been printed and are in the local point box. |
EBU members who have access
to the internet can check on the EBU website that the points have been
allocated correctly.
Mayfield
at the Garden Cities by Peter Lee
Mayfield went into the final of the Garden Cities with fair hopes,
having a strong team with eight very experienced players with many successes to
their names – Sean O’Neill and John Frosztega, Malcolm Pryor and Bill Hodgkiss,
Liz Phillips and Roger Morton, and Bob Rowlands and myself. However nothing
went right on the day and we could only manage 7th out of 8.
One interesting flat board was where Bob and I mis-defended 2S doubled
to concede –670 while in the other room Liz and Roger made +660 in 3NT.
Another was when John opened a Multi 2D showing a weak two in a major
or some sort of strong hand. Sean had
S KQJxxx H x D AKQ C xxx. What
are the odds that John would have a weak 2 in hearts compared to one in spades?
Small, but it came to pass! With S Axxxxx H xxxx D xx C x all routes lead to
4S, though if the oppo bid to 5C as they did in our room you have to go on to
5S to do well.
Technically the most interesting hand was this.
North
♠ KJ10xx
♥ Q
♦ Jxx
♣ 1098x
West East
♠ None ♠ Axxxx
♥ AKxxxx ♥ Jx
♦ K10xx ♦Ax
♣ Axx ♣ KQxx
South
♠ Qxx
♥ 109xx
♦ Qxxx
♣ Jx (Some irrelevant small cards changed to clarify the hand)
East West bid unopposed
1S-2H 3C-3D 3NT-4C
4D-4H 4S-6NT
I imagine they were playing 2 over 1 game forcing as otherwise 3C is a
gross overbid.
Defending as North I thought that East had a stronger hand.
The contract is hopeless on a spade lead, but noone would lead one in
this situation and Bob led a heart which ran to my Queen. I switched to a
diamond which declarer won with the Ace. Can he make it now? The answer is yes.
Cash the Ace of spades (throwing a diamond), then two high clubs ending in
dummy, and then run the hearts.
In the 4 card ending
North ♦Jx
♣109
West ♥x ♦K 10
♣x East ♠x ♦x
♣Qx
South ♠Qx
♦Qx.
On the last heart, North must come down to one diamond else the clubs
run. Now if East realises the position he throws a club, then cashes the club
queen, squeezing South in spades and diamonds. This is a genuine double
squeeze.
In practice East erred by not cashing his Ace of spades early. Now the
5 card ending should be
North ♠K
♦Jx ♣109
West ♥x ♦K10 x ♣ x East ♠Ax
♦x ♣Qx
South ♠Qxx ♦Qx.
Now on the last heart North throws a spade and East has no winning
move.
Unfortunately I thought East was likely to have the spade Q on the
bidding and kept 2 spades and 2 clubs. Now East made the contract by cashing
his back suit winners and finessing the diamond 10. Yuk!
Some Hands from the Norman
Cup Final 2008
by Tim Cook
For starters let me say that Roger and I were lucky to survive the
qualifying heat in February and oh so grateful that there was no carry forward
score!
That being said, we had not played badly in qualifying but if anything
could go wrong…………………!
The hands for the final were dealt randomly on the night and offered
some very interesting problems both in bidding and play.
Board 10
You sit North and hold at Game All ♠ A 8 4 2
♥ A 8 7 4 2
♦ 4
♣ A Q J
After two passes, West opens
1♠. What do you bid?
Board 11
Again North at Love All ♠ Q
♥ K Q 3 2
♦ Q J 10 9 5 2
♣ 8 6
Partner opens 1
♠ and, with opponents silent, you respond 2 ♦.
Partner now bids 2 ♠. Over to you.
Board 15 offered an
interesting declarer problem in 4 © against silent opponents
♠ 8 7 2
♥ 4 2
♦ A K 9
♣ K 9 8 7 5
♠ A 10
♥ A K Q 10 7 3
♦ J 8 7 4
♣ J
The lead is 4 ª. You win and
play two rounds of trumps finding RHO
with J 9 8 6. You abandon trumps and play J § on which LHO pounces with
the Ace, cashes Q ª and plays 6 ª. What next?
Board 19
Again North with
E/W Vul and partner opens 3 ♥
You hold ♠ A K 8 6
♥ A 9
♦ A J 8 7
♣ A 6 5
Your bid?
Board 21
Again North Vul
against not
You hold ♠ A K Q
♥ K
♦ A K Q 10 7 5 4 2
♣ 2
What do you open?
Tim’s comments;
Board 10 was played against Peter Lee & Bill Hodgkiss. Inspite of holding
15 HCP I did not fancy either a take-out double (off centre!) or bidding this
ropey ♥ suit at this vulnerability, so I
passed. After 1NT from Bill, Peter re-bid 2 ♠ which became the final
contract. The next problem was the lead. Following the old adage of leading a
long suit when holding 4 trumps, I chose A © which proved a
good plan with partner holding K ©, A ¨ and 10 ª! Refusal to over-ruff declarer
and an eventual trump promotion via a club endplay on dummy secured a 200
penalty for all the matchpoints.
Board 11 offered the chance to follow another ancient wisdom – stop bidding on
a misfit! Roger played well for one off – another top score!
Board 15 had not looked too difficult when dummy appeared with good chances in
the diamond suit or a favourable position of the A§. But the bad trump
break was an additional problem.
After ruffing the spade, the obvious line is to cash K § , cash the A
K ¨, ruff a
club and exit with a diamond. The defence must allow your heart 10 to
make in the end game. So I crossed to A ¨ to play
the K § which RHO
ruffed! I overruffed and took out the abacus. LHO has 6 clubs, one heart and 3
or 4 spades leaving, at most 3 diamonds. Therefore, my line was to draw the
last trump, and play the K¨ and a third towards the Jack. I knew the suit must
either break 3-3 or leave a winning J¨ in my hand
Unbelievably, someone made 5, but 7/10 was a good result!
On board 19 yet another maxim – bid what you think you can make!
3NT with an eventual 3 overtricks from a pseudo squeeze looked to be good and
got even better when the room played in the heart contract.
However, it was not all plain sailing and on board 21 I failed to spot the best opening bid – 4NT which should ask partner to bid any Ace he holds ( 5 § = none, 6 § = Ace). This would have seen us in 5 ¨ making and not the greedy 6 that I bid via a strong two opening.