GB win Seniors Camrose

The Great Britain team won the Seniors Camrose in Ayr, Scotland, at the weekend. Congratulations to Bernard Teltscher, Tony Priday, Gunnar Hallberg, John Holland, Victor Silverstone and Tony Waterlow. As GB is ineligible, Scotland in second place took home the trophy. England came third.

• Results page

 

Eric Crowhurst
The EBU is extremely sad to announce the death of Eric Crowhurst. Eric has long been considered a first-rank bridge theoretician, and is the author of several bridge books. He was the inventor of the Crowhurst convention, which is widely used by British tournament players. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time. An obituary will follow soon.

 

**Brighton Congress changes** Read all about the changes to the Brighton Congress here.

 

 

EBU 75th Anniversary Sim Pairs

The results of this event can be seen at the links below.

Tuesday 8th	Commentary	Booklet
Wednesday 9th	Commentary	Booklet
Thursday 10th	Commentary	Booklet
Friday 11th	Commentary	Booklet
Monday 14th	Commentary	Booklet

 

Crockfords Cup 2012

Congratulations to Alexander Allfrey, Derek Patterson, Peter Crouch, Tony Forrester, Andrew Robson, and David Gold for winning the Crockfords Cup 2012. Crockfords is the premier knockout teams event in the EBU calendar.

• Results

 

 

Tournament Focus, Spring 2012

The spring issue of Tournament Focus, written especially for our tournament player, is now available to read on-line, here.

 

 

Premier League 2012

Please note that the closing date for all entries is Thursday 31st May 2012. For information on the event and how to enter please click here.

 

Alec Salisbury Award, 2011

The English Bridge Union has awarded Mary Mills, the Alec Salisbury Award for 2011 in recognition of the outstanding service she has given to the development of bridge at her school: Nottingham High School, over many years. Congratulations to Mary!

• Read more
• Previous Alec Salisbury winners
• More information on the EBU Awards

 

Liggins win Schapiro Spring Foursomes

The Liggins team have won the Spring Fours in a very exciting final. They beat Allfrey by 92-78 but were trailing by 29 IMPs after the full 32 boards and had to invoke their undefeated team's privilege of 8 extra boards. Congratulations to Glyn Liggins, Joe Fawcett, Ben Green and John Holland!

• Final results
• Teams list (with seedings)

 

 

New Club Liaison Officer appointed

The EBU is pleased to announce that Andrew Urbanski has recently taken on the position of Club Liaison officer. He can be contacted via: andrew@ebu.co.uk.

Andrew  is based in Bristol and has been playing competitive bridge for about 20 years, playing club bridge 2 or 3 times a week. 

Andrew says “I am delighted to be joining the EBU as Club Liaison Officer taking over the good work done by Krys Kazmierczak. I will endeavour to make a valuable contribution to the future of the EBU and the nation’s affiliated bridge clubs”.

 

 

Licensed Bridge Holiday Adverts

All licensed bridge holidays that have advertised in the latest edition of English Bridge are now linked from our website on the below page.

• EBU licensed bridge holiday adverts

 

 

NGS goes live!

The new National Grading Scheme is now up and running and you can look up your own grade, grade history and partnership performance along with the grades of other members.

• Top Players (with search)
• Help page
• NGS Full Guide (PDF)
• NGS Overview Guide (PDF)

If you want to send an emailed query please send it to ngsqueries@ebu.co.uk.  You will normally not receive a personal response but your query or comment WILL be considered and any response will be included in an “omnibus” response at a future date.

 

Online Competitions Entry

Members are now able to book into EBU events online through the members area. Take a look at Barry's blog to read (and watch) all about it.

• Barry's Blog #50
• Members area