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2013 World Wide Bridge Contest
The 2013 World Wide Bridge Contest is now underway, and all the results can be found by clicking here
Final results of the Children in Need Pairs
We are really delighted to report that this year's Children in Need event reaised £66,874.56 - a truly stupendous resut. Thank you so much to all who took part and make it such a great success. That's a total of £ 600,189.26 raised to date.
Andrew Robson
How lovely to have some really good news - Andrew Robson (The Andrew Robson Bridge Club) has been awarded the OBE in the Queen's New Year Honour List in recognition of his work in bridge and for charity. We are absolutely delighted for him, and he really deserves it.
Jimmy Ortiz-Patiño
Mark and I are both deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jimmy Ortiz-Patiño ... Jimmy was President of the World Bridge Federation for many years and his influence on the game will be part of bridge forever. There will, we know, be many obituaries written, many words spken about this great man. But for now, we just want to say - we will miss you Jimmy.
Anna and Mark ... ECatsBridge
General News from ECatsBridge ...
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WBF News ...
3rd World Youth Bridge Open Championship - Atlanta
The first information letter has been published by the President. Please click here to downloadd it.
41st World Bridge Team Championships - Bali
The first information letter has been published by the President, together with information about the hotels in Bali. Click here for the letter and click here for the hotel information.
New VP Scales
New VP Scales have been published by the WBF and can be downloaded here. Data for creating your own will be available in due course.
New Simultaneous Pairs launched to support Youth Bridge.
The WBF is to run four new Simultaneous Pairs each year to raise funds for its projects to support Youth Bridge. Read more ...
EBL News ...
The 2013 European Open Teams Championship
A 3rd information letter has been released, together with a booklet describing details of the event. Note that some of the schedules have been changed (notably the Women's and Senior Teams)
A second Press Release has now been sent with details of the entry fees etc. Please click here to download it
It has been announced that the European Open Teams Championships will be held at the Kursaal Oostende (Sea Promenade), Ostend, Belgium from 15 - 29 June 2013. The first information letter has now been sent to the NBOs and is published here - just click to download it.
The European Online University Championships
These will start on 1st January 2013 and entries will be accepted until 21st December 2012. Read more ...
The 2012European Championship results and Bulletins can be found here
IMSA News ...
A press release has been issued about the 2nd World Mind Sport Games to be held in Lille, France from 9th - 23rd August 2012. More ...
News about Youth Bridge
The 1st European University Online Bridge Championship will start on 1st January 2013 and registration is open until 21st December 2012 - click here for full details of how to register and information about the event.
