Welcome to our new format NSBC Club March Newsletter. We will provide club highlights, and several links to more information for you to read and enjoy. This PDF is an interim step towards a fully HTML based newsletter. If you have any comments or suggestions please contact
The Editor, Email: kdav1951@gmail.com
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45th World 2021 Bridge Teams Championships, Salsomaggiore Terme, March 27 - April 9, 2022
A number of NSBC members are representing Australia at the World Bridge Championships late this month. We wish them & the teams every success.
Australian Open Team Liam Milne, Peter Gill
Australian Women's Team Giselle Mundell & Rena Kaplan,
Jessica Brake & Susan Humphries
Australian Mixed Team David Beauchamp
Australian Seniors team Peter Buchan (NPC) |
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I am pleased to advise that the recruitment process for the NSBC Club Manager has reached a successful conclusion. After approximately one year, Mike Prescott will be returning to our club and taking up the role of Club Manager again.
I would like to take this opportunity to again thank and recognise the huge contribution and support that Liam Milne has provided to NSBC during his year with the club. Liam has done an amazing job considering the challenges that have been thrown at him in these extraordinary times.
Mike will be commencing on March 1st and Liam will provide him with a handover prior to heading off to Italy later in the month to represent Australia.
David Fryda
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Club AGM
Date: Saturday 2nd April, 2022 at 10:30am
Location: East Lindfield and via Zoom
- A light lunch will be provided to members attending the AGM at EL
- All current committee members vacate their positions each year and must re-nominate for the committee before the AGM.
- Most current committee members have indicated they do not intend to re-nominate in 2022.
- These vacated roles include President, Vice President, Secretary, treasurer, and committee Members
- Call for nominees for the new Committee will be opened mid March.
- Closing date for nominees will be Saturday 26 March, 2022 at 10:30am
- Red Points - Open Duplicate pairs will follow the AGM at 1:00pm @ EL
Link to Website AGM documents for more details |
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Read Liam's final report before he heads off to Italy to play bridge for Australia.
We all wish him well in his new endeavours! |
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The Summer Teams results, with all 22 teams playing each other.
Link to full Results Link to Honour Board
table includes: $1000 Prize Pool Winner Distribution, CC Points Awarded
Notes: VP=Victory Points, WDL= Win, Draw, Loss CC = Club Champion points |
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The winning team was the Ashton Team.
Sophie Ashton
Maurits Van der Vlugt
Dagmar Neumann
David Beauchamp |
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| The Milne Team, captained by our current manager, has won the NZ Open Teams at the NZ National Congress! A long event (2 days qualifying, followed by full day Quarter finals, Semi finals and the Final. |
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| Winning members at the Gold Coast "Bobby Richman" Pairs |
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Winning members at the Gold Coast Teams Championships
Open Teams - Tony Nunn & Liam Milne
Restricted Teams - Tony White & Jake Andrew |
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| Members were winners in the first Gold Coast Rescue event -
Kevin Davies
Rakesh Kumar
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| Members were winners in the second Gold Coast Rescue event -
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The February Monthly Grade Winners (Open, Restricted & Rookie) are determined by the number of Master Points earned that month in all club events.
Website News or see Results eNews |
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2022 Club Champion race - .
In Feb only the Summer Teams Championship completed. |
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| Current leader (Peter Gill on 22 CC Points) after 3 out of 20+ 2022 NSBC events |
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The NSBC Next Congress Event : Pauline Evans Swiss Pairs
Will be held at East Lindfield (F2F) on Sunday 20th March
Entries via link to NSWBA Website |
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INVITATION TO HYEGROVE WILLOUGHBY
As a sponsor of our Stratified Pairs Championships, Hyegrove Willoughby, a new luxury retirement living community would like to invite you to view their new display suite . To book your private Hyegrove Willoughby display suite visit at 44 Penshurst Street, Willoughby.
Phone Mitsuko on 0475 775 000 or visit hyegrove.com.au |
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| The current Hyegrove Willoughby Stratified pairs are underway on all Saturday afternoons in March (EL & RB). Good cash session prizes ($100, $50, $25) are on offer at every session in march! Just turn up, play and enjoy. The first week session cash winners are shown above. All current results (session and 4 Stratified category leaders) can be found in Stratified Pairs Management.Shows your category & Progressive scores. |
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Morgans Financial, our sponsor of the Morgans Club Swiss Pairs Championship, are offering free initial consultations at their Chatswood offices for financial advice for bridge club members.
“Are you frustrated at how little interest your savings are earning?”
“Are you paying high adviser fees for low service?”
“Is Estate Planning on your agenda but constantly being deferred?”
Contact Danny Dreyfus directly on 02 81161717 Email: danny.dreyfus@morgans.com.au |
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| Links to key sites in our website
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| Other sites of interest include
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Pat O'Connor, Pat Harrington, Joan Dziekanski Andrew Robson & Eddie Kantar
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NEW ROOKIE SESSION STARTING TUESDAY 8TH MARCH 1.30PM EAST LINDFIELD
This session will be run by John Newman. This will have a free 30-minute lesson from 1.30pm till 2.00pm. Then 18 boards played finishing around 4.00pm. John is a very experienced bridge player and a great presenter of lessons. This is well worth coming along to so please join John on Tuesdays at 1.30pm. |
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Liam Milne - Defence
Brent Manley - Odds
Mark Horton - Misplays
Brent Manley - Touch
Rakesh Kumar - NSBC Congress
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NEW 9:30am free Lessons before the Wednesday 10am OPEN session @ EAST LINDFIELD.
Starting on Wednesday 9th March, I will be running a 30-minute free lesson at 9.30am prior the duplicate game which starts at 10.00am. All attending will receive notes to take home and study at your leisure. Please come along. All players will get something out of these pre-game lessons to improve your game. Mike Prescott
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The Thursday Night RB Competition program has been firmed up for 2022. Next 3 months shown in image.
Note: Any Thursday nights that clash with National Events, (eg Tasmanian Festival, Adelaide Autumn Nats, Melbourne VCC). The club will not run a filler event, unless strong demands from players. |
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ABF 2022 Masterpoints
The clubs master points have been loaded by the ABF master point center, and the february promotions have been published. February Club Promotions. are detailed |
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More Bridge Bulletins you could read
ABF Newsletter (about 6 per year, Latest February 2022)
NSWBA eCongress News (Issued monthly, register you email?)
ABF Gold Coast Congress daily PDF bulletins (have to scroll up after entry) |
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Selected Upcoming Congress Event Links that may interest you
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Beginners Classes Report
Our pioneer online group has completed the program for new players with Anita Curtis and Liz Wilkinson, and we now have close to 100 new club members who are playing Supervised Bridge. This group has also provided more than 50 starters in Build on The Basics with Jessica Brake. Many of those that didn’t complete the new player program would like to start again in the second half of the year. We are now making extensive use of “Replay Rooms” in RealBridge, so that our Supervised players can replay session hands at their leisure, and so that Build on The Basics participants can replay the lesson hands. The February 2022 face-to-face courses were deferred due to Omicron, but a new online course has started, with another 60 participants.
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Regular Supervised sessions are back!
Thursday at 7pm & Saturday at 10am. Ably led by by directors Jenny Barnes & Allan Pike, and a large team of helpers (Ann, June, Sandra. Kay & Liz) |
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