The 42nd Berwick Congress will be held on Sunday, 27 April 2025.
More details on the congress page.
Thanks to the SBU who has moved its ranked individual events to the Saturday to avoid a clash.
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The 2025 BABC Border Teams will be held on Sunday, 16 March at the Abbey Row Community Centre in Kelso. It will start at 1.30pm, cost £40 per team, with tea, coffee, cake and sandwiches provided.
This is always a friendly event where Berwick teams traditionally do well. For less experienced partnerships, it is excellent introduction to competitive bridge outwith the club.
Full details and registration form are available at https://www.bridgewebs.com/kelso/ and the contact is Shirley Redgrave.
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"Where do our boards come from" is probably not something you worry about when playing bridge at the Parish Centre but of course there is nothing magical about them appearing every Thursday which a fresh set of deals.
When the club first acquired a dealing machine, Terry Harris took ownership and dealt all the boards and produced the printouts. The dealing machine is an impressive bit of technology but it takes time to load it with all the used cards, opening the boards and removing the cards is...
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The following club members have achieved master point promotions since the start of the season in September:
National Master - Jill Connor
Regional Master - Jim McGuiness, Alice Wilson
Senior Master - Christine McCreath
2 Star Master -Trish Frew
1 Star Master - Tony Reed-Jones
District Master - Dave Holland
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In this weekend's SBU Winter Foursomes, Paul and his team (brother Alex, Brian Short and Alan Goodman) failed to win for the third time in a row playing face-to-face when they lost in the final to the MORAN team (Sara Moran, Andrew McIntosh, James Thrower, Abi Milne). The match was not close.
StormÉowyn meant that the Friday evening play was cancelled and the event was constricted to two days. This meant that the Saturday was a little random with shorter matches, but Paul's team managed to...
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