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Coming soon ....

Surrey Green Point Swiss Pairs Sat Sept 27th Entry form
Surrey Green Point Swiss Teams Sun Sept 28th Entry form
date to be arranged: Surrey One-day Junior Teach-in at Charterhouse School, Godalming. Free entry. Details from CYO
19th September: Learn & Play sessions - Farnham Bridge Club

July
Sun27Swiss Pairs (Marietta Andree 020 8893 4846)Richmond Bridge Club
August
Sun03Swiss Teams (E. Hammergren-Smith 01737 242146)Bletchingley
Fri-Sun8-17EBU Summer MeetingBrighton

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Bridge matters

Treasurer's report
The treasurer's report for 07-08 is now on the page 'Rules & Info'.
21 July 2008
SCBA competition rules
The rules for: Newcomer's pairs and teams, Novice and Intermediate leagues, Surrey bowl and Wanborough cup have been amended. These changes will take effect from August 2008.
Rules for all Surrey competitions can be found on the page 'Rules & Info'.
EBU strategy
The Surrey County Committee held an Extraordinary Committee Meeting on Monday June 2, solely to discuss the EBU’s Strategic Proposals around Universal membership and Pay-To-Play (P2P). At this meeting, the Surrey Committee voted to reject the EBU’s Proposals by a majority decision.

Although the Committee agreed the principle of Universal Membership of the EBU, it felt that it could not support the Proposals because:

  • The County’s Clubs and Individuals who had written to the Chairman to express an opinion had asked the County to reject the proposals by a significant majority. The Committee noted the possibility that opinions had been largely received from those who felt strongly on the subject, and therefore those that had not written might well be in favour of the proposals, or at least not opposed to them. However, many of the reservations expressed by Clubs & Individuals reflected reservations held within the Committee themselves;
  • The Committee do not believe that the Proposals as they stand will meet the stated objectives of the EBU Strategy;
  • The Committee do not believe that the Proposals address the EBU’s financial issues; indeed, the high costs of implementation add to these. The Committee also feel that the revenue predictions are subject to too many uncertainties, and that assumptions about the level of Club affiliation are both simplistic and optimistic;
  • The Committee believe that the Proposals will have a divisive effect on Clubs. The Committee believe that many Clubs, particularly the smaller ones, will choose to disaffiliate from the EBU, and that whether a Club chooses to disaffiliate or not, some part of its membership (EBU members in clubs who choose to disaffiliate, non-EBU members in clubs who choose to remain affiliated) will be disaffected and may choose to discontinue membership;

The Strategic Proposals were adopted by the EBU at the Shareholders meeting on Wednesday June 4 by a majority vote. You can read further details about this on the EBU Web Site.

Now that the proposals have been accepted by the Union , the County will give its full support to the proposals and will be looking to engage with the EBU to assist in implementing them as smoothly as possible.

In particular, the committee will be looking for ways that the County can assist those clubs and individuals who feel unable to continue EBU affiliation under P2P, and ways that the County can help to address the detailed issues that members and clubs have raised through the course of the debate.


Chris Stableford
Surrey CBA Chairman
June 11, 2008


  • Law changes become effective on 1st August 2008. How do these affect players?
  • Law changes become effective on 1st August 2008. How do these affect directors?
  • Surrey enthusiastically supports the Best Behaviour at Bridge initiative from the EBU.
    It will be applied at all Surrey events. Surrey clubs are encouraged to do the same. For more information see this article by Roland Bolton. (Jan 2007)
Rulings
If you require a ruling during a match in a Surrey event please contact Roland Bolton (01483 560056) or David Stevenson (0151 6777412). If neither of us is available please contact any EBU panel Tournament director whose telephone numbers are listed in the EBU diary.
Roland Bolton Surrey CBA Chief Tournament Director

Details of rules and appeal processes can be found on the Results page.
Juniors
To bring ourselves in-line with EBU policy, juniors (under 25) can enter SCBA competitions for half the stated price.
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In general

County secretary
The County Secretary, Leonie Lockhart, is ill at the moment, so anyone trying to contact her may encounter some delays. If the matter is urgent, please contact the Chairman, Chris Stableford, instead.

Surrey bridge teachers can advertise here free! For more details contact me -
Committee vacancies
There is a vacancy on the committee for someone to co-ordinate the communications sub-committee. This committee oversees the magazine, the website, gives assistance to the county youth officer, oversees and initiates projects for the promotion of bridge in Surrey.
If any of this is of interest to you. Please contact our chairman
Richmond swiss pairs
July 27th
See the Richmond website for more details
New on teachers page
Tim Cook and Sue Jackson - new training sessions in September
Learn & Play sessions - Farnham Bridge Club - start September 19th

(16th June 2008)
Dorin Salver
Final results now on the Results page.
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Congratulations to:
EBU Events
Peter Lee, Bob Rowlands, Mrs.E. Phillips and R.McRobert - as winner's of the Lady Rose Cup for coming 5th in the Pachabo as Surrey's representatives
Peter Lee/Bob Rowlands, Jeffrey Allerton/Frances Hinden, Graham Osborne/Cameron Small, Jonothan Cooke/Martin Garvey, Ian Swanson/Ken Ford (our Tollemache team) for winning their group, and so qualiying for the final
Mayfield bridge club for coming second in the garden cities regional finals, and thus qualifying for the finals

Surrey County Events
Tony Richards and Marilyn Frame for winning the Mixed Pairs
Frances Hinden, Graham Osborne, Jeffrey Allerton, Peter Lee, Mike Scoltock for winning the County League - Division 1
Tony Cummins, Trevor Sweeting, Graham Barrett, Sheila Barrett for winning the County League Division 2
Mike Scoltock for winning the Victor Ludorum
Mike Scoltock and Brian Powell for winning the AGM Swiss Pairs
Peter Lee, Bob Rowlands, Liz Phillips, Bob McRobert for winning the Lady Rose Cup
Norma and Bill Macmillan, Derek Eneas, Roger Hitt and John Ward for winning the Lady Rose Plate
Farnham (Mac Derwig, Jane Morton, Jack Goody and Richard Currie) for winning the Wanborough cup
Alan Bailey and Jos Beresiner for winning the Mary Edwards final
J. Woollatt, J. Woollatt, C. West and Y. Wynne for winning the Novice league
T. Greenhalgh, R. Greenhlagh, G. Tripp and J. Tripp for winning the Intermediate league
T. Cook, E. Phillips, S. O'Neill and B.Hodgkiss for winning the Affiliated league division 1 final
J. Morton, Mac. Derwig, R. Currie and V. Derwig for winning the Affiliated league divisions 2 & 3 final
Ed Girdler, Jackie Pooley, Cindy Gregory and Mark Gregory for winning the Newcomers teams
Michael Hill and Mike Clack for winning the Surrey Golf bridge
Cindy Gregory and Ed Girdler for winning the Newcomers pairs
Charterhouse A (Mark Luk, Bryan Chu, Ollie Rhode and Archie Gammell) for winning the School's cup teams
Kira Gooding and Kelly Klimaytis (Claremont) for winning the School's cup minibridge
Tony Turnage and John Cruikshank for winning the Senior pairs
David Sims, Tracey Tibos, John Dockerill and Barry Mercer for winning the 30K teams
Wendy Miller and Varda Derwig for winning the County pairs cup
Peter Lee and Bob Rowlands for winning the County pairs plate
Scott Hobbs and Louis Bissex from Claremont Fan Court School in Esher for coming first in the EBU Autumn MiniBridge Simultaneous Pairs event with 67.5%
Joe Xuereb and Chris Xuereb for winning the 30K pairs
Peter Lee and Graham Osbourne for winning the President's cup
P.N. Lee, R. Rowlands, Mrs. E. Phillips, T. Cook, M. Pryor, B. Hogkiss, A. Suri and B. Pike (Mayfield) for winning the Affiliated teams of eight
Peggy Griffin and Gaby Mollart for winning the Ladies pairs
Mike Scoltock and Brian Powell for winning the Men's pairs

Other events
Jeffrey Allerton/Graham Osborne and Frances Hinden/Jonothan Cooke for winning the Daily Telegraph Cup
Barry Stoker, captain, Barbara Stoker, Penny Macleod, Rob Cookson, Jim Laker, Gordon O’Hair, Richard Currie, Jack Goody, Keith Wilson, Jane Morton, Tony Eastgate and Bob James for winning the Home Counties League. They haven’t lost a match in the last 5 seasons but this year accumulated enough VP’s to win the league

2008-2009  SCBA Committee

President: ,   Chairman: ,    Secretary: , Treasurer: ,  
Chief Tournament Director: ,   Competition Secretary: ,
Membership Secretary: ,   Match Secretary: Peggy Griffin,   Communications Officer: position vacant
Committee: (Web Manager),  Malcolm Channing,  Jill Cook, Bomi Kavarana (Youth Officer),  
Shirley Pritchard (Master Points Secretary), Elizabeth Hammergren-Smith, Judi Lawson, Holger Marsen,
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