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The first Swiss Pairs held as part of new Tuesday "Challenge" night was fortunate to have Derrick Browne as our guest expert. Derrick gave a great pre-session talk on "Carding combat: Fake news and alternative facts" exploring signalling tactics. You can check the hands and notes Derrick provided.
The battle for the Swiss chocolates was intense. The top five pairs finished within a 5 VP range. But someone had to win, and with a great last round, Catherine Whiddon and David Farmer pipped Suzanne Cole and Susan Jensen by 1 VP, with Derrick Browne and Michael Draper and Sandie Rooke and Alan Davies tying for third, just ahead of Anne Crothers and Anita Kite. Check the full results and hand records - also on Pianola.
Our directors are critical to our success in providing our members and visitors a great place to play bridge - from the newest player in a Practice Play session to a top-flight competitor in one of our congresses.
We are fortunate to have a large group of members who have volunteered to undertake the training to handle most of our sessions. We supplement these directors with external directors from time to time to handle some of our major competitions. You can see our directors and read their response to the question of why they became a director below:
OUR VOLUNTEER MEMBER DIRECTORS:
Vickie Busteed
"I agreed to become a director because of my interest in teaching. The challenge also attracted me."
Sachiko Cathcart
Alan Davies
"I agreed to be a director when I was asked, and have always enjoyed it."
Vivien Eldridge
"I was asked to be Masterpoints Secretary, and then found out that this meant I had to become a director as well."
David Farmer
"I started directing to learn more about the game. I am continually impressed with directors making decisions and choosing movements that find the right balance between the social and competitive aspects of the game - always an interesting challenge. Our club is very fortunate to have a body of member directors prepared to help out the club in this way."
Simon Hunter
"John Rogers made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I enjoy directing, it's interesting and a way to contribute to the club. I have certainly learnt a lot."
Susan Jensen
"I became a director because I was a member of the Bridge Education team."
Leofric Kingsford-Smith
"I believe directing is about running a smooth and enjoyable session rather than just enforcing rules."
Bruce Kleem
"The main reason I was prepared to undertake the Directors course and the challengers of the directing role was to support our great club and members.
Hopefully this will also lead to a better understanding of this great game and improve my level of play."
Annegrete Kolding
Max Paterson
Sue Riley
"I volunteered when asked. I enjoyed playing in the club and thought I might help out."
John Rogers
Jim Rothwell
Terry Rothwell
Chief Director. "Our Bridge Club is run by volunteers and because, at one stage some years ago, there was a shortage of Club Directors, I volunteered. Being a Director can be quite demanding, but it is also a real pleasure to help members enjoy themselves playing a really interesting and challenging game."
Anne Small
"I started playing bridge in August 2004 and became so involved with game I decided to learn the rules becoming a director and teacher in 2005. Laws have seen many changes in that time but always with the view of fairness and understanding of systems to make the game a more level playing field. I have learnt that your only friend at the table is your partner so be kind and respectful to them.”
Cath Whiddon
"I undertook director training in 2011 when we decided to introduce supervised duplicate sessions at our club and so I could offer to direct restricted sessions at our special events."
Under 50MPs?
Time to pair up for the Australia Wide Novice Pairs coming up on Friday 26 May. Compete with other novices on the same hands being played across Australia. Make Peninsula proud!
Check the event for all the details, including the ridiculously low cost. Bookings required.
The Comms team's goal is to establish effective and efficient communication options (see below) and to support event conveners and others in their use of these options. This support can vary from backup technical advice through to training in how to use a channel through to, where appropriate, the actual work involved in using the channel.
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There was a great turnout of members for the Bridge for Brain Research charity event on Monday 1 May.
There were more than 21 tables playing, as well as a raffle and a lovely afternoon tea of member's cakes and other creations.
See the photo gallery (thanks to photographer Heidi Colenbrander) and the results (thanks to director Sue Falkingham).
Hans Van Weeren and Peter Clarke won the 2017 NSW Restricted State Championship. Marieta Borthwick and Annegrete Bach Kolding came fourth in the NSW State Novice Championship with Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst just behind them coming in sixth place. Both events were played at the Southern Highlands Bridge Club on the weekend of 29-30 April.
The matchpoint pairs events were played over four sessions - check out the NSWBA coverage and the full results for the Restricted State Championships and for the Novice State Championships.
Peter and Hans had an exciting fourth session with the pair coming second having a great last session but just not doing quite well enough.
The May NSWBA eCongress newsletter profiles the club's Swiss Teams Congress held at Peninsula Bridge Club in March.
Annegrete Kolding provided the NSWBA with expanded coverage of the event accompanied with the photos that are displayed in the profile's photo gallery. Annegrete is the channel coordinator of the various NSWBA and Australian Bridge Federation's publication options - please contact her if you think you would like to discuss these options or have some information that could be suitably profiled in one or more of the NSWBA's or ABF's publications.
This is part of an expanded emphasis on streamlining and expanding the internal and external communication channels available to the club.
The Committee would like to thank Verl Lawrence, who has done such a marvellous job for 17 years as our Chief Director. Along with her husband John, Verl has contributed to the Club in an amazing way. She has guided our directors in training, directed numerous events over the years, as well as being so friendly and welcoming to members, new and old. On Saturday 29 April, we will be thanking her with an afternoon tea. I hope you can either come to the session to play or drop in at 2pm for a glass of champagne!
- Thanks for Verl - Sat 29 Apr
- Peninsula at Trumps' Easter Teams
- Peninsula at Trumps' Good Friday Pairs
- Verl, our Chief Director, retires
- Harlequin Teams - Fri 28 April 2017
- Club registers for GST
- ABF praises Peninsula's education program
- ABF teacher workshop
- Workshop on Entries
- Michael Marks Shield 2017 winners
