Winning Ways

Since the weather was foul yesterday, it was a pleasure to turn up the Armidale Bridge Club's Spring festival. I played in the Swiss Pairs on Saturday and the Swiss Teams today. The term Swiss seems to have nothing to do with the country that has a similar name, but I will not bore you with procedural details.

In the pairs, my regular partner ... Barbara Gates ... and I came 7th overall out of 56 pairs, a creditable performance. We we extremely tired after the event which took 8 hours including various stops for meals etc. The we turned up for the teams at 9am today (Sunday), with each team comprising two partnerships. Our team-mates were Nick Wall and Ed Hahn. Well, we had two wonderful sessions stretching over 9 hours during which we played 56 boards and the outcome was a very clear win for our team. Don't tell the tax-man that there were money prizes for the event, but we also won a very large silver bowl donated by Robin Stokes to commemorate his esteemed wife, Jean. The same team was second last year, so we went one better.

And, to lift the spirits, the rain has cleared away leaving brilliant blue skies and warm days.

AS