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 Spring 2016 Newsletter
Forthcoming LMBA  Events
Date Time Event Venue
Sat 16 Jul 2016 1pm London Congress - Green Pointed Swiss Pairs** Central Hall, Westminster
Sat 16 Jul 2016 1.30pm 'London Lite' Congress -  Pairs** Central Hall, Westminster
Sun 17 Jul 2016 11.30am London Congress - Green Pointed Swiss Teams** Central Hall, Westminster
Sun 17 Jul 2016 1.30pm 'London Lite' Congress -  Teams** Central Hall, Westminster

**Please note the email address for the event  organiser Mike Hill that was published in the brochure was missing a ".".
The correct address for email enquiries is michaelrd.hill@btinternet.com

Other  Events in London
Date Time Event Venue
Sun 12 Jun 2016 10.00am Minibridge Teach-the-Teachers Course Farnham, Surrey
Sun 12 Jun 2016 2.00pm Justin Wickens Memorial Pairs Wimbledon Bridge Club
Sat 2 Jul 2016 12.00noon Blue Point Club Weekend Swiss Pairs Young Chelsea Bridge Club
Sun 3 Jul 2016 11.00am Blue Point Club Weekend Swiss Teams Young Chelsea Bridge Club

London Trophy and Della Porta Plate Finals Sun 5 June 2016

London Trophy Winners: HM Treasury
 From left: Peter Donovan, Roy Westwater (captain), Peter Brook, Sir Alex Allan.  (Pat Brotherston far left presented the prizes)

London Trophy Runners-up: Royal Mid-Surrey GC
From left: Karen Milliner, Christine Tomkin (captain), Neil Tomkin and Pip Smitham. (Pat Brotherston far left presented the prizes)
Della Porta Plate Winners: MCC From left: Gary Diamond, Russell Tenzer (captain), Harvey Laurance, Nigel Clayton. (Pat Brotherston far left presented the prizes) Pralab Barua and Geoff Lane played in earlier matches Della Porta Plate Runners-up: Thakeham BC From left: Diana Caplin, Carolyn Phillips (captain), Frances Fuller, Joan Kellett. (Pat Brotherston centre presented the prizes.)


Championship Teams Play-Off for the Ian Gardiner Trophy - Sun 8 May 2016


Winners (L to R) Ian Payn, Chris Duckworth, Brian Callaghan, Frank To
beat Tim Gauld, Paul Martin, Stephen Popham, John Pemberton by 14 IMPS over 48 boards.
The winning team are unavailable to play in the Pachabo, so the runners-up will be London's representatives in that event.
Garden Cities Regional Final - Sat 7 May 2016
Young Chelsea Bridge  Club, London's representatives in the event, have won the Regional Final and so have qualified forthe National Final to take place in Solihull on Sat 25  June. The team was Chris Duckworth,  Brian Callaghan, Kath Stynes, Debbie Sandford, David Muller, Trevor Mathews, Richard Creamer, Mark Davies.
Full Results
Seniors Pairs for the Fox-Shammon Trophy Sun 24 Apr
Winners - Victor Silverstone and Gerald Haase (on a split tie)

Full Results
Tonsleys Cafe Bridge -  Tue 19 Apr
Winners (front right) - Margaret Hamilton and Mike Skelly
(left) Hicky Kingsbury from Age UK  (back) Chris Duckworth, the event organiser

Full Results
London Trophy Pairs -  Sun 17 Apr
Winners - Peter Brook and Roy Westwater

Full Results
London Championship Pairs - Sun 10 Apr
Winners  L to R - Nick Sandqvist & Shahzaad Natt 

The leading four pairs will have the honour of representing London in the Corwen Trophy in Birmingham on 4th 5th June.
Full Results
Garden Cities Heat - Thu 7 Apr
Winners - Young Chelsea Purple - Chris Duckworth,  Brian Callaghan, Will Roper, Niall Igoe, Margaret Nygren, Martin Nygren, Kath Stynes, Debbie Sandford. They will have the honour of representing London in the South-East Garden Cities Regional Final at Richmond Bridge Club on Sat May 7.

 A score that was incorrectly entered into the Bridgemate was drawn to our attention after the event,  it has now been corrected. This has changed the final order of the  teams, second and third swapping  places, fourth and fifth swapping  places. The revised scores are now posted (click on Results).
 Results

LMBA apologises for the delay in the result of this event being uploaded correctly on this website.
The difficulty has arisen because the Teamscorer program used on the night seems reluctunt to display the results as a teams-of-eight rather than two separate
teams-of-four! Please note that the positions that were shown on Friday on this website were incorrect, as they reflected the scores only of half of each team. The
correct order is as now shown. Thank you for your patience with this!
Lederer Memorial Trophy
Results, teams, news, pictures from the event can be found on the blog
London win the Tollemache
Congratulation to the London Team on winning the Tollemache, after a brief fallow period.
London  was represented by (pictured  below, left to right) Frank To, Willie Coyle, Graham Orsmond, Rob Cliffe,
Kieran Dyke, Tom Townsend (with trophy), Mike Bell,  Stelio Di Bello, Phillip King and Nick Sandqvist (not in picture) 
Silver at EBL Winter Games
Congratulations to London members Phillip King, Gunnar Hallberg and Andrew Black, who along with
Andrew McIntosh, Willie Whittaker and Swede Peter Berthau won the Silver medal at the 1st European Winter Games .
Link to EBU report here.

Spring 2016 MetroBridge Newsletter
The Spring 2016 issue of MetroBridge News is now available for viewing on this website. Just click here. The paper copies of the newsletter have been dispatched.
Seniors Pairs for the Fox Shammon Trophy - Sun 24 Apr 2016 - Announcing change of venue
It has unfortunately become necessary to change the venue for the Fox Shammon Trophy.
Please note that this event will be held at the Young Chelsea Bridge Club and not at Queen's Club as was previously advertised.
London Teams of Four for the Ian Gardiner Trophy - Sun 7 Feb 2016
1. 123.5 vps Dean Swallow, Peter Rogers, Michal Dajwlowski, Alexander Brett
2. 110.5 vps Mike Bull, John Bernard, Stefanie Rohan, Paul Lamford
3. 107.5 vps Tim Gauld, Paul Martin, Stephen Popham, John Pemberton*
4. 105.5 vps  Chris Duckworth, Brian Callaghan, Franklin To, Ian Payn *
* The 3rd and 4th placed teams qualify for the play-off for the  Ian Gardiner Trophy as the two highest placed teams with all members 'Primary Allegience London'
The winner of the play-off will represent London in the Pachabo Cup in June.
Full Results
Palmer Bayer Trophy - Sun 31 Jan 2016
Congratulations to Jason Crampton and Sam Oestreicher, winners of the Palmer Bayer Trophy. for the  second year in succession.
Full Results    Pianola
News from 2015
New LMBA Bridge Clubs
The LMBA would like to extend a warm welcome to the New Chiswick Bridge Club, the West London Gay Bridge Club, 10 CC Bridge Club and The Royal Automobile Club, (Pall Mall). They have recently affiliated their Club to the EBU and chosen London as their County of allegiance.
Well done! We look forward to seeing your members at some of our County events.
Match Result Submission
For matches played privately, winning captains have the facility to submit their results to their organizer by email form.
London Trophy - London & Home County Leagues
Welcome to all our New Members
Following the EBU's introduction of Universal Membership in April 2010, our Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Chris Duckworth, published a special edition of MetroNews for all our new members of LMBA Affiliated Clubs.
Read on.
Why not send us a hand, your news or constructive comments.
You can email them to the webmaste, David Muller at d1muller@yahoo.co.uk
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