August 2022

Swiss Pairs – Day One

by Brian Senior Lending credence to the old story about the monkeys and typewriters, my partner, Nigel Bird and I, led at the end of day one of the Swiss Pairs. We did well on defence on this...

The First 24 Hours

Brian Senior has written about a key board from Thursday evening's Mixed and Open Pairs. My presentation from the first 24 hours of the 2022 EBU Summer Meeting, in Eastbourne, is more a matter of...

Castner Team win Brighton Bowl

The Swiss Teams competition for the Brighton Bowl was won by the team of Kevin Castner, Phil King, Stephen Kennedy & Charlie Bucknell (pictured), with 93 VPs. They were 10 VPs ahead of the second...

Daly & Hillis win Mixed Pairs

In the Summer Meeting Mixed Pairs Huey Daly & Sonya Hillis finished first with a score of 65.17%. In second place was Debbie Sandford & Gad Chadha, with a score of 64.53%. In third place were...

Maureen Hiron

As well as being the widow of Alan Hiron, Maureen was a well-known bridge player in her own right, and succeeded Alan as bridge correspondent for the Independent. Long resident in Spain, Maureen enjoyed great success at creating games. Perhaps the best known were Continuo and Quizwrangle. She also set questions for early seasons of the popular TV quiz show Fifteen to One, and devised puzzles for The Krypton Factor. At the bridge table she was on the winning England team in both the 1974 and 1975 Lady Milne Trophy and represented Great Britain in the European Championships of 1974.

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Assaraf & Rosenthal win Open Pairs

The Open Pairs was won by Eran Assaraf & Lee Rosenthal with a score of 62.36%. In second place were Alan Sparkes & Eric Campbell with a score of 59.34% and in third place were Gary Carpay &...

Summer Meeting Underway

The 2022 Summer Meeting is now underway, with the Mixed and Open Pairs. Thank you to Eastbourne's Deputy Mayor for Opening proceedings. Details for the weekend's events can be found on the Summer...