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28.10.2009 The Who's Who page has been updated with the photos that I took last Sunday
28.09.2009 Our first meeting will be held in St Cuthbert's (Parsons Field) bar at 7.30pm on Sunday 11th October. Please note that the St Cuthbert's Parsons Field accommodation is located near the University Health Centre and the bar is right next to reception. For a map please see the directions page.
29.05.2009 Blocker Heads is the title - there are no prizes for guessing the nature of the poorness!
07.10.2008 Poor Bridge of the week has taken a break over the summer but was revived today when I received a report from Chris Simpson
10.09.2008 Durham University representing Great Britain in the 4th World University Bridge Championship finished in 15th place. I've added photos to my Facebook account and they will appear on the website in due course.
01.09.2008 The Durham team (James Ewington, Robin Zigmond, Dom Maloney, Tom Dessain and John Probst (NPC)) travel to Poland tomorrow to compete in the World University Championships. Results should be available here
14.06.2008 Bridge Day was held last Sautrday, Phil writes about the Malicious Toilet Demon which looked after the movement while everone was drinking. The day after many of us travelled to Darlington to play in the Hurworth Bridge Event. It seems in the pairs event at least the previous day was taking its toll, well done to Paul and Neil who were the leading university pair. In the teams Phil, Robin, Dom and Tom managed to pull themselves together and won with their score of 77 imps.
03.06.2008 Apologies to Robin who sent me his report of the Portland Bowl Finals some time ago, after recovering from exam mania I have finally written it up and it is available from the Portland Bowl pages
03.06.2008 A multitude of Poor Bridge rolled into one board - A poorbridge half-dozen
03.06.2008 [UPDATED] Well done to Clare, Robin, Eve and James who won the B flight of the Championship Teams at the Yorkshire Congress. Additionally congratulations to Clare and Robin who were the leading non-expert pair in the Championships Pairs and to Eve and James who finished third in the Plate Final. Robin has wrriten a mammoth report which can be found here and James' Poor Bridge is here
10.05.2008 Poor Bridge of the Week direct from the Portland Club
05.05.2008 Reports from the Quarter-Final and Semi-Final Portland Bowl matches are now up on the Portland Bowl page.
02.03.2008 James has written a report from the third and final round of the BLUNEY
28.04.2008Durham A have won the Portland Bowl! Congratulations to Robin Zigmond, James Ewington, Dominic Maloney and Tom Dessain.
03.04.2008 Double victory for Dessain brothers in the England Junior Pairs Championships! The Under 25s was won by Dominic Maloney partnering Tom Dessain and the Under 19 category was won by Liam Jones and Mark Dessain. A brief report about one board from the event can be found here.
14.03.2008 I have two Poor Bridge articles to release, Michael's Matchpoint Manoeuvres and Once, twice, three times a crazy.
02.03.2008 Durham A won their quarter final Portland Bowl match against Edinburgh B yesterday. Thanks a lot to James for driving us there and back in the day! Consequently we qualify for the finals weekend which will be played at the Portland Club in London at the beginning of Easter term!
18.02.2008 The BLUNEY pages have been updated with reports and a matrix of results from round 2. This BLUNEY also saw for the first time an Edinburgh team competing, they have written a short report on their website which can be found here. Congratulations to Edinburgh who won this leg and to Durham A who have overtaken the Harrogate team to take the overall lead with one leg to go.
18.02.2008 Poor bridge of the week! The final Part of Chris Simpson's Brighton Bridge Memoirs is titled 700 The Hard Way
18.02.2008 The Durham B team of Rosa, Steve, Neil and Steve recently played their round 2 Portland Bowl match against the Edinburgh A team. The match was quite tight with a net score of -22 imps over the 32 boards. In particular I'd like to give Rosa and Steve a mention because they joined the Bridge Club at the beginning of this academic year having not played bridge before and to have got where they are today is fantastic, well done!
04.02.2008 The results from Durham City Bridge Club (Tuesday evenings) can be found here
04.02.2008 On a Sunday evening we now meet in St Cuthbert's Parsons Field Bar at the slightly earlier time of 7.30pm. This is by the racecourse, which is marked 49 on the university map
04.02.2008 Poor bridge of the week! Part II of Chris Simpson's Brighton Bridge Memoirs entitled Slam Bidding with the Norwegians
26.01.2008 Poor bridge of the week! First-round controls are for wimps by Geraint Harker
26.01.2008 Team Smith played their Gold Cup Round 2 match last Wednesday, Phil has written a report about our glorious defeat which can be found on the Gold Cup pages
18.01.2008 Poor bridge of the week! Chris Simpson has written his Brighton Bridge Memoirs (with apologies to Neil Simon). The first chapter of which is entitled The Adventures of 500 Guy
The club has a mailing list, ds-bridge, which you can access by mailing subsrcibe ds-bridge to majordomo@durham.ac.uk from the email address you would like adding to the mailing list or by sending an email to Tom Dessain
There is also a newsgroup, dur.soc.bridge, hosted on the Durham News Server. Info here.
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Updated 28/10/09
