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Keep Bridge Alive Pro-Am Pairs Central London, 20 February 2020
The University of Stirling is
delighted to offer you the chance to be a part of a unique bridge
experience. Featuring a special guest appearance by Victoria Coren Mitchell, you will have the chance to play, dine and network with world class bridge
players in the setting of one of London’s historic hidden gems, Stationers' Hall.
The Keep
Bridge Alive Pro Am will be an exclusive event, to include a drinks reception
and buffet dinner prior to the tournament itself. Guests will have the chance to bid to partner an International or UK expert from the world of bridge – a thrilling opportunity for keen bridge enthusiasts!
Players who
will be part of this special auction include Sabine Auken (Germany),
David Bakhshi (UK), Dennis Bilde (Denmark), Sally Brock (UK), Boye Brogeland
(Norway), Tommy Garvey (Ireland), David Gold (UK), Barbara Hackett (Germany), Fredrik Helness (Norway), Zia Mahmood (USA), Artur
Malinowski (UK) and Roy Welland (USA), and many more. All top players participating in the main event are available as partners sold by auction.
The auction opens for bidding on Monday 4 November 2019 at
12:00 and closes on Friday 7 February 2020 at 12.00.
There is also a great opportunity for you to ‘sponsor a
junior to play’ as a key goal of the Pro-Am is to raise the profile of bridge
as an intergenerational game for young people and families.
By joining
us at this distinguished event you will contribute to the wider recognition of
bridge as a fun and meaningful mind sport with positive lifelong impacts on
brain fitness and healthy ageing (for further information see: https://keepbridgealive.bridgecloud.com/).
If you are unable to join us then please consider making a
donation to the campaign to promote bridge widely at https://bit.ly/35dqvsCThe University can also accept charitable donations via
cheque or bank transferby emailing philanthropy@stir.ac.uk or phone 01786
466029
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Keep Bridge Alive Pro-Am Auction Conditions
1.All the expert participants of the main event
will be available as partners sold by auction, except for David Burn, Liz
McGowan, Neil Rosen and Stefan Skorchev who are raffle prizes.
2.The Pro-Am
tournament is open to bridge players of all skill levels.
Bidders will
receive a notification if they are outbid.
4.Bidding starts from £275. All successful bids entitle the partnership to the reception drinks, dinner and wine, and taking part in the Pro-Am bridge tournament. A competing bid must be
£25 or £50 higher than the preceding bid, depending on the expert. A
bidder can decide to bid anonymously or publicly. In case of the latter the name of the bidder
will be displayed on the website next to the name of the player the bid has
been placed on.
5.In the case of two identical bids the first bid will be deemed the
winning bid and the other party will receive a notification. In case of bids made in the last 5 minutes
before the auction closes, 15 minutes will be added for that particular player,
which will be repeated should yet another bid arrive within the last 5 minutes.
6.If a bidder wins more than one pro by the end of the auction due to
multiple bids, the bidder will have two pros to dispose of since all bids are binding.
7.The auction opens Monday 4 November 2019 at 12.00 and closes on Friday 7 February 2020 at 12.00 BMT. Bids
received after this time will not be valid.
9.In addition to participation in the Pro-Am, the auction fee includes a sparkling
wine reception, drinks and a fork buffet before the tournament and prizes post
tournament. The event starts at 6pm with the bridge and prizes finishing around 11pm, and the bar open for mingling until midnight.
10.Sponsors of the event and KBA Patrons have the right to select a partner according to
their contribution. That player will no
longer be available for public auction.
11.Payment (by credit card, bank transfer or cheque) is due before playing in
the event on Thursday 20 February 2020.
With special thanks to the Pro-Am Committee including Kitty Teltscher, Pauline van Luven, Monica Davis, Stephen Peterkin and Sally Brock. Many thanks also to Briony Brock, Christina Lund Madsen, Tove Goddard, Peter Hasenson and Shireen Mohandes for their support and insight from previous Pro-Am events. Grateful acknowledgement to the EBU, WBF and DBF for some of the photos and bios of the players.
The man hardly needs an introduction. The charismatic Pakistani is perhaps the most famous bridge player in the world, equally known for his imaginative play and sparkling personality.
In 1981 Pakistan, a small nation bridgewise, reached the final of the Bermuda Bowl, and it was obvious to the world to whom they owed their success.
Since the early 90's Zia has represented the United States, winning the World Championship in 2009. He is extremely popular among the kibitzers because he enjoys joking and involving them in his thoughts during the play.
And you can be certain that Zia is always the best-dressed man in the room.
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Sabine Auken
Sabine Auken
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Sabine is the only woman in the bridge world to have achieved the goal of being regarded as a peer by her male competitors. To put it in the words of an anonymous top player with a glimpse in his eyes: "Roy and Sabine shouldn't be allowed to play in the mixed." Among their many victories, the highlights were capturing the Vanderbilt in 2013 along with the European Open Pairs, Sabine being the first woman ever to win the event.
When she is not attending a tournament somewhere in the world, Sabine lives in Denmark with her two adolescent sons.
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Roy Welland
Roy Welland
Roy Welland has probably won more titles with Sabine than with all his previous partners combined, starting with their Vanderbilt Victory in 2013. Three months later the pair won the European Open Pairs, and they keep adding titles to their resumé. It is difficult to find a tournament where they don’t do well.
Although a modest consumer himself, Welland is a wine enthusiast with an outstanding collection and owner of a vineyard in Italy. Roy has seen most parts of the world and according to him, Copenhagen with its combination of charming canals, history and fine dining is the best city in the world.
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Dennis Bilde
Dennis Bilde
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Dennis, 28 years old, is a young danish champion . World junior champion when he was 18, he won the Vanderbilt trophy in 2013 when he was 23. Today, he lives in Norway and is a member of Lavazza Team. He was awarded by the ACBL the title of Player of The year 2017.
Easily recognisable as always having a smile on his face.
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Boye Brogeland
Boye Brogeland
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Though he looks as young as ever, Brogeland's list of merits is longer than the articles he writes. Next to his career as a bridge professional he is the editor of a popular Norwegian bridge magazine. He has been part of the team during all Norway's bridge triumphs, both as a junior and adult. He is a world champion, a European champion and even a mix champion - partnering his wife, who also represents Norway on the women's side.
In September this year he won a bronze medal at the Bermuda Bowl in China in a play-off against the USA in a nail biting finish. It was such a close match that Boye said: "That bronze felt like gold!"
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David Bakhshi
David Bakhshi
David has numerous successes in domestic and international tournaments. Over the last 20 years, he has represented England and Britain at both Junior and Open levels of competition. He has represented England at the World Team Olympiad/World Bridge Games (2004 and 2016), the European Team Championships in 2012 (where England achieved a 4th place finish), 2014 (where they won a bronze medal - later upgraded to a silver medal) and 2016, and the 2013 and 2015 Bermuda Bowl (finishing 4th after two extremely narrow defeats in the semi-final and bronze medal play-off). He has also won a bronze medal in the European Open Teams (2005), won the NEC cup in Japan (2011), and was runner-up in the Vanderbilt in 2011.
David’s domestic achievements include winning the Gold Cup (five times), Crockfords (twice), the Spring Foursomes (three times) and the Lederer Memorial Trophy (three times).
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Sally Brock
Sally Brock
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I started playing bridge with my parents when I was 14. Then I went to Nottingham University, joined the bridge club there and played in my first Lady Milne, with Sally Eggett, in 1976. I played in my first European Championship in 1979 with Sandra Landy, which we won. And we won again in 1981 and also the Venice Cup that year. The British women won the world championship again in 1985.
In 1993 I gave up any interest in international bridge to have two children, but started playing again in. I formed a partnership with Margaret Courtney and we won the European Championship in 2001 in Tenerife. In 2003 and 2004 I played with Kitty Teltscher. Our best performance resulted in a bronze medal in the 2004 Olympiad in Istanbul.
At the end of 2008 I was brought in to form a scratch partnership with Nicola Smith in order to join the England Women's team for the World Mind Sports Games, where we won the gold medal. We then became a regular partnership, played in four European Championships with medals in 2012 (gold), 2014 (silver) and 2016 (gold). We also won the world women’s teams in Lille in 2012, Sanya in 2014 and Orlando in 2018. In 2017 we changed partnerships and I was runner-up in the Venice Cup in partnership with Fiona Brown.
Nowadays I make living mostly by professional bridge of one sort or another: writing (I am the columnist for the Sunday Times, and also write for Mr Bridge), playing and teaching online.
Sally received the Diamond Award from the EBU in November 2017 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to England's international teams. In 2019 Sally was inducted into the European Hall of Fame.
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David Gold - SOLD
David Gold - SOLD
David was born in Perth, Scotland on September 10th 1979. David started to get seriously into bridge in 1999 when he had just turned 19. He began working as a host at the St John's Wood Bridge Club, and in 2000 started a partnership with Tom Townsend who had been taught to play as a school boy by David's father!
David has since formed partnerships with Tony Forrester and David Bakhshi and has represented England with them numerous times in the European Championships (winning a bronze medal in 2014 - later upgraded to a silver medal following the disqualification of the winning Israeli team), Bermuda Bowl (finishing 4th in 2015 after two extremely narrow defeats in the semi-final and bronze medal play-off), and World Olympiad.
In 2017 he was part of a team which won a bronze medal in the Transnational competition at the World Teams Championships. David has numerous domestic titles on his bridge CV, including victory in the Gold Cup three times, Premier League seven times, and the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Spring Foursomes. He was the winner of the inaugural Player of the Year Championship for the 2014/15 season. He is now partnering Andrew Robson.
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Artur Malinowski
Artur Malinowski
Artur Malinowski was born in Poland, moved to Norway and then England where he is now a full-time bridge professional.He won the silver medal at the 2007 European Pairs in Antalya, and was in the England Open team that took the silver medal in the World Mind sport Games in Beijing in 2008. He also has two bronze medals in the European Mixed Teams, and has won Crockfords as well as the Gold Cup.
My involvement with the game started by chance: I read a bridge book together with a friend from football at the age of 17, and I have not stopped learning and playing since. When I was in Norway, I worked for the Norwegian Bridge Federation and for a while I was the editor of the national bridge magazine. This was a welcome change from the odd jobs I had had to do for the first few years after leaving Poland with very little money in my pocket – and proof that an ear for languages helps in all walks of life. I am fairly fluent in seven languages, and I sport a proud Polish accent in all of them. This is not a problem in England, where people are tolerant, and it is this tolerance that, to me, represents the major charm of this country. I came to visit for two weeks nine years ago and I still live here very happily.
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Tom Hanlon
Tom Hanlon
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Born in 1967 Tom has been playing bridge since 1981. Long time partner of Hugh McGann. In 1994 he moved straight from the Irish Junior Team to the Irish Open Team. In 2004 he became Ireland’s youngest Grand Master and in 2006 was part of the Irish team which won silver at the European Championships and semi finalist in the 2012 world Olympiad. All time leading Irish master point holder. He has more than 50 National titles under his belt and has won the Camrose (7 times) and the Lederer (twice), the Gold Cup and Crockfords. Winner of the Copenhagen invitational, 3 times (in a row) runner up in the springs 4s. Runner up in Cavendish teams. Partner of Cedric Lorenzini in the Street team in US Nationals and Zaleski team in French Premier League.
When not playing bridge Tom is fond of the odd game of poker.
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John Carroll
John Carroll
Playing and passionate about bridge for over 25 years, representing Ireland, at junior and open level, for most of it. Highlights include a silver medal in European championships in 2006, semi-finalist in 2012 World Championships and a fourth place in 2013 European Pairs championship. Closer to home there’s been numerous Camrose victories and three Lederer wins and 4 times losing finalist in the Spring Fours.
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Tom Paske
Tom Paske
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Known in the bridge world as ‘Mini Paske’ on deference to his older brother, Tom is 28 years old and started playing at school in Hereford at the age of 12. Since then it has been a very important part of his life, socially and competitively. Internationally he won Bronze medal in the Rosenblum, Orlando 2018 and gold in the Open teams at the European Championships, Istanbul 2019.
This year he has won both the Spring Foursomes and Crockfords in partnership with Ed Jones.
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Victor Silverstone
Victor Silverstone
Victor Silverstone is a six-times Lederer winner. He has represented Great Britain in two European championships, has won three Gold Cups and played for Scotland in over two dozen Camrose matches. Victor has won the English Senior knock-out trophy four times. Despite all this he lists his greatest achievement as getting 79.5% at the Acol, playing with his wife.
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Stefano Tommasini
Stefano Tommasini
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Thor Erik Hoftaniska
Thor Erik Hoftaniska
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Thor-Erik Hoftaniska is a bridge professional and Norwegian International. He has been a core member of the de Botton team for some years and was instrumental in victories such as the Spring Fours in 2013. He was in the Middlesex team that won the 2015 Tollemache.
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Jessica Larsson
Jessica Larsson
Jessica played on the Swedish Women's Team who won the World Championship in China 2019. It was my first gold medal! Won silver in McConnell (2018). Bronze (2010) and silver (2018) in the Europeans. When I don’t play bridge I prefer out doors activities like hiking and fishing.
Jessica was born in and plays for Sweden but now lives in Norway with another good bridge player.
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Emma Övelius
Emma Övelius
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I am from Sweden and started playing bridge in 1995. In 2000 I played my first junior championship for Sweden and went on to play on the junior team for ten years. My first championship on the Swedish Women’s Team was in 2008, which I have represented since then. Highlights include our gold in European open women’s pairs in Tromsö 2015, bronze in the Venice cup 2017 and our Gold medal in the Venice Cup in China this year (2019)
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Irving Gordon
Irving Gordon
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Represented Britain in Eurpeans. Scotland in Open and Senior Europeans and Camrose. Won Gold Cup & Spring 4`s several times. Macabiah Games Silver & Bronze medals. 2nd in Sunday Times/Macallan. Commonwealth Gold 2010.
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Barry Myers
Barry Myers
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Barry was born in London on 14 October 1951 and learnt to play bridge at Wanstead County High School. He got a book from the library and taught three others the game; coming last in the Parents' Association Bridge Drive but winning on the next attempt. Barry then went to Manchester University where he was fortunate enough to play with a number of players who went on to represent their country.
He has made one previous Camrose appearance with Robert Sheehan in 1986 and then gave up the game for a number of years when he read for the Bar. He is still a practicing criminal barrister and between that and playing bridge he have little time for other hobbies. However now that Barry is in partnership with Sally Brock, both at and away from the table, he believes that further success is only just around the corner.
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Tommy Garvey
Tommy Garvey
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Tommy Garvey is a World International Master and stalwart of the Irish team. His bridge accomplishments include a second place in the European teams Championships, a fourth place in the World Bridge Olympiad and, closer to home, several Camrose trophies. When not playing bridge, Tommy works for an investment company in London and is a father to two noisy boys – Tristan 9 and Killian 7. Those who know Tommy commonly agree that Keturah, his wife, must have the patience of a saint.
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Peter Crouch
Peter Crouch
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Peter Crouch is a 57-year-old Chartered Accountant who spends his time juggling work for his clients, helping to look after his two children with his wife Sara and trying to get out to the Golf Course.
His bridge successes include seven Gold Cups (making the joint-fourth most successful player in the history of the competition), two Spring Fours, two Crockfords Cups and two Premier League wins as well as representing England in a number of Camrose matches.
He represented England in the European Championships and World Mind Sport Games in 2012.
In 2017 he was part of a team which won a bronze medal in the Transnational competition at the World Teams Championships.
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Barbara Hackett
Barbara Hackett
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Barbara has been playing Bridge for over 30 years and regularly represents the German Ladies in international events. She says that her proudest achievement has been winning the Silver medal in the World Championships in Lille in 1998 in her first ever international event. Since then a number of medals including the Gold medal in the World Championships in 2001 in Paris have been added. Through Bridge Barabara also met hher husband Justin Hackett and she is now part of the well-known Hackett family.
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Ida Grönkvist
Ida Grönkvist
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Ida lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Her parents taught her to play bridge when she was 11. A few months later, after she had been to her first junior tournament, she was absolutely hooked. She’s been playing on the national junior team since 2007, the women’s team since 2012 and recently also on the mixed team. Highlights include two gold medals in the U26 European Teams (2017 and 2019), one gold in the U26 Team World Championships (2018), a bronze and a gold in the Venice Cup (2017 and 2019), a silver in the European Women Teams (2018) and a gold in the European Mixed Teams (2019). 2020 will (sadly) be her last year as a junior.
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Mike Bell
Mike Bell
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Mike, 35, is one of England's leading players. In the past four years, he has won three Spring Foursomes and three Premier Leagues, all in partnership with David Gold; most recently, they added the Gold Cup to that list. He has also won a number of major events around the world.
Mike has recently embarked on a new regular partnership with Ben Norton, 22, a future star of the game, and is confident they will enjoy similar success together.
When he isn't playing tournaments, he can be found playing professionally in clubs around London. He lives in Shepherd's Bush with his wife, Sarah, herself an England international.
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Fredrik Helness
Fredrik Helness
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Fredrik started playing bridge when he was 19, and a couple of years later was hooked. He has won many tournaments in Norway, including the big money tournament Marit Sveaas, twice, with his father Tor Helness. About bridge he says “No matter how good you get, there is always more to learn.”
Fredrik has recently moved from Norway to London to pursue a professional bridge career.
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Maruša Gold
Maruša Gold
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Marusa is from Slovenia but now lives in London. She started playing bridge in 2009 at the age of 22. Her breakthrough came in 2012, when still a junior, she won the Slovenian Pairs Trials (the first woman to do so and only one other has done so since). Also, winner of: Slovenian mixed pairs 2015, 2016, Slovenian mixed teams, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, Slovenian Open teams 2016 and 2017. In 2016 she finished 4th in The North American Mixed teams Championships in Orlando, in 2015 won bronze in the European open championships in Tromso and also won bronze in the Open European Women’s team championship in 2019. Marusa also won the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (Point-a-Board) at the ACBL Summer Nationals in Toronto in 2017.
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Norman Selway
Norman Selway
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Norman learnt bridge at the age of 14 and was taught mainly by a player called Paul Gordon, whose better half Fritzi was half of the best women’s pair of all time. He played mostly high stake rubber bridge with the likes of John Collings, an ailing Jonathan Cansino, an embryonic Zia Mahmood, Paul Hackett and Geoffrey Breskal, amongst many others! It didn’t do much for Norman’s bidding in that company, but his card play became very sound – it had to be!
When he converted to duplicate he won all the major competitions more than once, with the exception of the Gold Cup, which he is hoping to add very soon.
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Ben Green
Ben Green
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Ben was extremely successful as a junior player, and repeatedly represented England in international events.
His most recent success on the national scene was winning the 2013 Premier Grand Masters Pairs with John Holland.
Ben was the Coach of the England Open Team that came fourth at the 2012 European Championships and third in the 2014 European Championships (later upgraded to a silver medal following the disqualification of the winning Israeli team), and was coach for the team when they competed in the 2013 Bermuda Bowl.
Ben also won the Gold Cup in 2015 and a silver medal in the Commonwealth Bridge Championships in 2014.
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Gunnar Hallberg
Gunnar Hallberg
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Gunnar is Swedish, and moved to Brighton UK 1995. He has won several Swedish Championships and was a regular on the Swedish national team in the eighties. He represented England with playing partner Colin Simpson, before moving to the senior national team.
Gold medals: Austrailian open 2002, Cavendish teams 2005, the Vanderbilt 2006, senior Bermuda bowls 2009, senior world championship 2010, European senior champion 2014. Three Gold Cup and three Spring Foursome wins. Pro on Team Black. Playing for money at TGRs bridge club is his passion.
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Kathrine Bertheau
Kathrine Bertheau
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I was born in Norway and started playing bridge when I started university in 1994. In 1999 I moved to Sweden, and since then I have always competed for Sweden. My first championship on the Swedish Women’s Team was in 2004 when we won the European Championship in Malmö. Since then there have been many championships with the Swedish Women's Team, the last one being our Gold medal in the Venice Cup in China this year.
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Gary Jones
Gary Jones
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Gary has been playing bridge for over fifty years. Over the past twenty years he has been a regular member of Wales Camrose, Senior Camrose, Open and Senior European, World Senior, and Commonwealth teams with a total of six different partners. During this time he has won gold and silver medals in Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships and was a member of the first Welsh team to win the Camrose Trophy in 2011. Domestically, Gary has won the Spring Foursomes, the Brighton Four Stars and the Tollemache twice, together with many other events. He has been retired for seventeen years and can frequently be spotted hacking his way around a West London golf course.
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Sarah Bell
Sarah Bell
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Sarah is a chemistry teacher by profession but still manages to play bridge regularly, even when she should, perhaps, be trying to get an early night! She plays with a variety of partners, including her husband, Mike, whom she met through playing junior bridge an undisclosed number of years ago. Her proudest bridge achievement was winning the Freeman Board-a-Match at her first and only US Nationals; she was particularly pleased to win her first US national championship before her husband won his!
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Jeremy Dhondy
Jeremy Dhondy
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Jeremy has been playing bridge since 1968 and is a Premier Grandmaster. An early congress saw him playing with a school partner against Omar Sharif. This would have been a pleasurable occasion were it not for the fact that his partner's father who was watching and was an occasional solo player thought it appropriate to try to teach Omar's partner (a leading French international) some of the finer points of bridge.
He has won quite a few domestic trophies, represented England in a winning Camrose team and won a gold Medal in the European Transnational Championships. Has just stopped being chairman of the EBU after six years (the maximum sentence)!
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Partnership Tickets - Two Available
Partnership Tickets - Two Available
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We are offering two partnership tickets for the Keep Bridge Alive Pro-Am. Auction price includes drinks reception, buffet dinner and wine and then the tournament itself. The bar is open for mingling with the experts until midnight.
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Ed Jones
Ed Jones
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Ed has had a fantastic bridge year so far winning the Spring Fours, Crockfords and the European Open teams in Turkey.
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Partnership Tickets - Two Available
Partnership Tickets - Two Available
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We are offering two partnership tickets for the Keep Bridge Alive Pro-Am. Auction price includes drinks reception, buffet dinner and wine and then the tournament itself. The bar is open for mingling with the experts until midnight.
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Brian Short
Brian Short
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Brian has represented Scotland at bridge regularly for over 40 years, with 43 Camrose (local 5-nations) appearances and 12 in European and World Championships. Before 2000, when Scotland got its own identity in world bridge, he represented Great Britain on 3 occasions. He has won every major national trophy in Scotland – a total of 54 wins in all! – and has also won the Gold Cup, Britain’s premier teams event.
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Kay Preddy
Kay Preddy
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Kay started playing bridge at quite a young age. She came home from school one day and told her mother – international player Jane, that she had found a great new game, bridge! Kay learnt quickly and soon represented England and Great Britain on several occasions as well as winning the prestigious Harper Queen ladies tournament twice.
Kay gave up the game completely for 15 years on the birth of her daughter Louise, but started again and plays mostly with her husband Norman with whom she has had great success.
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David Burn (RAFFLE PRIZE)
David Burn (RAFFLE PRIZE)
David has played for England in 7 Camrose matches, 1 European Championships and 1 World Olympiad. Domestically, he has won all the major trophies including The Gold Cup ( 2008 and 2010), Crockfords (2007), Spring Foursomes (2000 2003 and 2013), Brighton Pairs(1979 1989 1990 and 2001) and Brighton Four Stars Teams (1995 and 2004).
Perhaps best known for his coaching , he coached Britain to Bermuda Bowl silver medal (1987) and victory in the European championships (1991), has coached the highly successful England Women's team over recent years, picking up numerous medals, including victory in the 2016 European Championships and silver medals in the 2013 and 2017 Venice Cups, also aiding the Senior team in their victory in the 2014 European Championships. He has also acted as NPC for recent Camrose teams.
He is also a popular bridge journalist, writing his own columns and often ghost writing for Zia Mahmood.
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Liz McGowan (RAFFLE PRIZE)
Liz McGowan (RAFFLE PRIZE)
Scotland’s most successful woman player, Liz played in the British Women’s Team from 1988-2000, winning two European Championships and finishing runner-up in two World Olympiads. She also won the 1996 inaugural World Mixed Teams with Heather Dhondy when the two were eliminated from the Venice Cup and, while drowning their sorrows in the bar, “chatted up” the Icelandic men who had suffered the same fate in the Bermuda Bowl. She is Scotland’s only World and European Grand Master, and heads the Scottish Master Point rankings by some distance. She has been playing bridge for longer than she cares to admit, and is very grateful for all the opportunities the game has given her to travel and make friends all over the world.
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Neil Rosen (RAFFLE PRIZE)
Neil Rosen (RAFFLE PRIZE)
Neil Rosen has won many of Britain’s major events, including the Gold Cup and the Spring Foursomes, several times. He has also won the previous incarnation of the Premier League, and has represented England on many occasions.
Neil is married to Anne, herself an English Ladies International. They have two children – Nikki and Andrew and live in North London where Neil owns and manages a full-time bridge club; the Ace of Clubs.
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Stefan Skorchev (RAFFLE PRIZE)
Stefan Skorchev (RAFFLE PRIZE)
Stefan Skorchev is a charming Bulgarian pro who is supporting the KBA website via his startup company, BridgeLife. Focused on giving bridge players more and better ways of enjoying their favourite game, BridgeLife aims to help bridge clubs around the world improve their financial results and offer more and better services to their customers. Currently, Stefan’s company is developing the bridge software for bridge clubs - BridgeCloud; and organising bridge vacations in Europe including the highly successful Sofia Bridge Festival (www.SofiaBridgeFestival.com).
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Espen Erichsen - SOLD
Espen Erichsen - SOLD
Espen is Norwegian and moved to London in 1997 to play high stakes rubber bridge. His bridge career began in the Norwegian army. With 23 hours of darkness each day what else was there to do? He quickly progressed and was selected for the Norwegian junior team which won the European Junior Championships in 1996 and came second in the World Junior Teams Championship in 1997. Later successes include winning the European Mixed Teams in 2005 partnering his wife, Helen, and winning the Nordic Championships in 2009 representing Norway. In Norway he has won four national championships. In England he has won the Premier League twice and the Gold Cup once.
He lives in Tunbridge Wells with his family. Espen’s other passion is tennis. He was the 8th ranked junior player in Norway but now has to content himself with playing in the over-45 team for Kent. He also enjoys a bad game of golf.
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Alex Hydes
Alex Hydes
Alex was born in 1980, and is originally from Barnsley, but now lives in London. He learnt to play bridge at a young age, and was a successful junior player, representing England in a number of events at Under 20 and Under 25 level, including the European Championships on four occasions, winning bronze medal with the Under 20s in 1996. He also won the Portland Bowl three times - twice with Oxford University and once with London - and played in the World and European University Championships.
His successes include victories in the 2006 2015 and 2016 Crockfords Cup, the 2014 Two Star Pairs at the Autumn Congress, the 2015 Premier League, the Easter Pairs three times and three events at the 2014 Summer Meeting. He was also part of the winning team in the 2014 Pakistan Day International Bridge Championship.
He was a member of the successful 2016 Camrose team, and represented England in the Mixed Team at the 2016 World Bridge Games. He has had a fantastic year winning the Vanderbilt in the US in March, the Spring Fours in May and the open European Championships in Istanbul in June partnering David Mossop.
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Glyn Liggins - SOLD
Glyn Liggins - SOLD
Glyn is a self-taught bridge professional, who lives in London with his wife Sarah. He has represented Great Britain and England in numerous major international tournaments, his most significant result being reaching the semifinal of the 2000 Olympiad in Maastricht. He has played for England in the Camrose and Junior Camrose with 5 different partners.
He has won many competitions in England and abroad, including the Gold Cup twice, the Spring Foursomes (he successfully defended the title on two separate occasions), the Premier League, the Brighton Four Star Teams, Schiphol tournament, Bonn nations cup, and many more.
Away from the bridge table he is a keen golfer, playing off a single figure handicap.
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Simon Cope - SOLD
Simon Cope - SOLD
Simon Cope, 37 year old full time Bridge Professional from Hertfordshire. Having graduated from Leeds University in French and Italian, and played on the England Junior Team several times, he stumbled upon life as a Bridge Pro while working for a French Property Agency, and has never looked back since. He has captained various England teams, most memorably at two Bermuda Bowls as NPC as well as guiding a team to Bronze in the Europeans in 2014 in Croatia – finishing behind Israel and Monaco. In terms of his playing career, he has won two Gold Cups and one Crockfords Cup in partnership with his good friend Peter Crouch. Away from Bridge, he loves following Liverpool and playing some tennis as well as hacking around a golf course.
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Phil King - SOLD
Phil King - SOLD
Phil has enjoyed great success in his bridge career, firstly as a junior international in the late 1980s, and then in EBU tournaments, winning the Gold Cup, Year End Swiss Pairs, Brighton Four Stars Teams. He has played in the Camrose on multiple occasions across three decades and has also been a successful coach and NPC, guiding five Peggy Bayer winning teams, and also acting as coach at the Venice Cup and NPC at the World Olympiad.
After a break from the game, he returned, writing shortly after his comeback: "Since becoming a fish at poker, Phil decided to return to the world of bridge. He is now a full-time player and coach and uses this to fund his rubber bridge losses against Zia and company in the TGR big game. After a brief tournament hot-streak towards the end of 2013, success has proved elusive. He lives in Harrow-on-the-Hill with his wife Su."
Phil also won a silver medal at the EBL's European Winter Games in February 2016.
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Andrew McIntosh
Andrew McIntosh
Andrew McIntosh, known universally as ‘Tosh’, is a professional bridge player in London. His Camrose career started many years ago playing for Scotland with Malcolm Cuthbertson. He has won the Camrose on three occasions, the Gold Cup five times, the Spring Foursomes three times and in 2016 won a silver medal at the EBL's European Winter Games in Monaco.
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Nicola Smith
Nicola Smith
Nicola comes from a strong bridge family; her parents, Pat and Nico Gardener both represented their country at International level.
Nicola has won just about everything there is to win at the game. At world level she has won the Venice Cup twice (1981 and 1985) and the World Women's Individual once (1994) as well as silver medals (1976 2013 and 2017) and a bronze medal (2015) in the Venice Cup. At European level, she has won the European Women's Teams eight times (1975, 1979, 1981, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2012 and 2016) as well as a host of other European. She has played in the last ten olympiads, now renamed the World Mind Sports Olympiad winning the Gold Medal in Beijing in 2008 and in Lille in 2012. Domestically she has won all the major competitions including the Gold Cup, Crockfords and the Spring Foursomes.
For many years after her father's death Nicola continued to run the London School Bridge in the King's road, Chelsea. These days she is training to be a healer.
In 1995, Nicola's contribution to the game of bridge was honoured at national level when she was awarded the M.B.E.by the Queen. She was an inaugural recipient of the EBU's Diamond Award in 2015. In recognition of her enormous success, Nicola was inducted to the EBL's Hall of Fame in the inaugural class in 2017.
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James Thrower
James Thrower
James Thrower was born and raised in Harrogate. He was fortunate, along with a few others to have been taught bridge by Cedric Cockroft when in his teens and hasn't looked back since.
After working in the betting industry for the past 8 years, James has decided to focus on his bridge and will be moving down to London to play professionally. If you do see him at a London duplicate, please take the time to say hello, as he doesn't know too many people there!
He has represented England many times at junior level, and in the Mixed Teams at the 2016 World Bridge Games, and has won various domestic tournaments including the 2015 National Pairs.
Away from the bridge table, James enjoys socialising with friends, horseracing and watching TV box sets (Game of Thrones being his favourite!)
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Steve Root
Steve Root
A hard-working, funny, yet serious, (his words, not ours!) bridge professional from North London. A winner of countless events, both nationally, and internationally. Also, the co-creator of New Tricks Bridge Club, an online masterclass of teaching materials, and active supporter of youth bridge, and Keep Bridge Alive.
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Joe Fawcett - Partnering the Chairman of the EBU
Joe Fawcett - Partnering the Chairman of the EBU
Joe Fawcett was once a promising player but is now just tournament fixture. He has played in the Camrose and the European Championship as well as the Bridge Olympiad with no great success. Joe works in IT as a software development lead.
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Willie Coyle
Willie Coyle
Willie took up bridge in 1960 while at Glasgow University.
Domestic successes included winning the Gold Cup in 1969 and 1973, an event Willie has won twice more since, and playing for Scotland in six winning Camrose series.
Along with Victor Silverstone, he played in the British Open team in the 1969 and 1973 European Championships and was in the bronze medal team at the Common Market Championships in 1973. In partnership with Rob Sheehan he played for Britain in the 1975 European Championships and the 1976 Olympiad, winning the bronze in the latter. Playing with Barnet Shenkin, Willie was in the British teams which played in the Olympiad in 1984 and the European Championships in 1985. With the advent of senior bridge, he has played with John Matheson in the Scottish teams in the 2004 Olympiad and the 2008, 2010 and 2012 European Championships.
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Simon Stocken
Simon Stocken
Simon, 50 comes from a family of bridge players and bridge teachers and was part of the England U25 squad for 9 years. He went onto to found the Andrew Robson Bridge Club in 1995. He now spearheads the David Davenport Trust - a fund dedicated to bringing bridge into schools and introducing the game to youngsters. Simon has just returned from The World Championships in China, where he was one of the commentators in the Vugraph theatre. Simon’s calm presence at the table makes him an ideal partner.
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Jasmine Bakhshi - JUNIOR
Jasmine Bakhshi - JUNIOR
Jasmine is one of the youngest players to represent England in a junior international event, playing in the Czech Republic in November 2015 shortly after her 11th birthday. She then went on to play in the Women's U26 team in the Channel Trophy the following month. She was then part of the Under 16 team that performed well at the World Youth Team Championships in 2016, finishing 8th and winning more than half of their matches in the round robin phase.
Jasmine won the Under 19 Championship Pairs in 2015, and defended her title in 2016 (when it was then for those Under 21) playing with her brother Liam Sanderson.
She lives in London with parents, David and Heather, who are also leading bridge players.
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Anders Brogeland - JUNIOR
Anders Brogeland - JUNIOR
Anders is travelling to London with his dad, Boye Brogeland, and is looking forward to playing in this fun Pro-Am event. Anders won the 2018 EC U16 with Marius D. Austad. He is a two-time Nordic champion in U16. For Norway he has also played two European Championships (EC) and one world championships in U16. Outside bridge, football and gaming are his main interests. He played in the Summer Nationals in Las Vegas 2019 with Zain Mahmood and they won a couple of 299ers tournaments.
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India Leeming - JUNIOR
India Leeming - JUNIOR
India was first taught how to play bridge by her grandfather at the age of 11 but began playing regularly at 18, when she joined the Cambridge University Bridge Club. This led to her joining the England Junior Squad in 2015 and making her international debut in the Junior European Pairs Championships in 2016. She has played for England several times since, including a very successful outing in the Junior World Championships in 2019, where she and her partner Hanna Tuus came a close 4th in the Pairs.
Since graduating in Linguistics from Cambridge, she went on to do a Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She has now moved to London to live with Shahzaad Natt (her full-time life partner and occasional bridge partner) and is currently teaching and playing bridge full-time.
When not playing bridge, India likes to learn languages. She combines her interests by translating for a mobile bridge app, as well as doing more general translation work
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Shahzaad Natt - JUNIOR
Shahzaad Natt - JUNIOR
Shahzaad was born in 1994. He took up bridge on Boxing Day in 2011 after being stranded at an airport with 3 players who needed to make up a foursome. He is currently a member of the U26 England squad in partnership with Ben Norton.
Away from the table he is a keen (although not very good) rock-climber and enjoys running. He is also attempting learn Swedish in the hope of one day moving there and marrying a beautiful blonde.
He was winner of the Easter Festival London Teams for the Rixi Markus Cup in 2017.
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Louise Selway - JUNIOR
Louise Selway - JUNIOR
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Athena Chow - JUNIOR
Athena Chow - JUNIOR
Athena first started playing bridge at the kitchen table at the age of 8. She is 23 years old and is currently studying a postgraduate diploma in Actuarial Science at the University of Kent. Athena made her debut for the Scottish U-26 Team at the Junior Camrose earlier this year and has since played in the same team at the Junior European Championships in Norway in July. She can usually be found at the YC on a Friday night, at the pub or occasionally enjoying a round of golf.
She is competing with Sam Punch as Scotland's most enthusiastic (obsessive?) player, and pesters good players to play nearly as often as Sam used to...
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Les Steel - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
Les Steel - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
Semi retired British and Scottish internationalist.
Spending his dotage enjoying golf, Guinness, red wine, real ale and long distance walking.
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Jan Kamras (EBL President) - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
Jan Kamras (EBL President) - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
Jan Kamras, from Gothenburg, Sweden, was elected as a member of the Executive Council of the EBL in 2018. He was the Vice-President of the Swedish Bridge Federation for 10 years, elected to the European Bridge League Executive Committee in 2010 and elected EBL President in 2018.
He was NPC for the Swedish national team for many years between 2000 and 2010, and as a player won the Swedish Team Championships in 2010 and the Cavendish Teams in 2013
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Gianarrigo Rona (President of the WBF)
Gianarrigo Rona (President of the WBF)
Gianarrigo Rona, from Pavia, Italy, and currently living in Milano was first elected President of the World Bridge Federation (WBF) in September 2009 and re-elected in August 2017 for a third four-year term which will run until 2022. He was President of the Italian Bridge Federation from 1986 to 2009 (under his presidency in 2001 the FIGB was recognised by the Italian National Olympic Committee) and President of the European Bridge League from 1999 to 2010.
He was elected as EBL President Emeritus in 2010 and awarded with the EBL Gold Medal. In 2001 he received from IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch the IOC Golden Diploma and in 2006 he was awarded by CONI the Sportive Merit Gold Star. He was IBPA Personality of the Year in 2003 and in 2004 was elected member of the WBF Committee of Honour and awarded the WBF Gold Pin. In 2007 the City of Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy, bestowed him Honorary Citizenship, as did the City of Opatija, Croatia in 2015. He is also a member of the Board of the International Mind Sports Federation (“IMSA”).
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David Kendrick - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
David Kendrick - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
David learnt the rules of bridge at school, but it was during his time at Southampton University that he began to play too much. David has completed a rare 'trifecta' (along with Tony Forrester), having won the Junior Camrose (in 1972 and 1974), Camrose (in 1999) and Senior Camrose - the Teltscher Trophy (in 2017). He has also won numerous competitions including the NICKO, Tollemache, Pachabo, Division 2 of the Premier League, Seniors Congress Teams, the Year End Swiss Teams, Two-Star Pairs, National Teams Congress and Seniors Knock-Out. Apart from his domestic wins, David has especially enjoyed travelling to play his bridge. He is a recent holder of the main teams championships in Portugal, Madeira and Iceland. In July 2014 David was part of the England team which won the Chairman's Cup - the primary open teams event run by the Swedish Bridge Federation.
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Marek Malysa - Bridge to the People Foundation
Marek Malysa - Bridge to the People Foundation
Marek is vice President of the Polish Bridge Union (PBU) and former NPC of Poland U-21. He is chairman of the Bridge & Science Committee of the WBF. He is a member of the Senior Committee of both EBL and WBF.
Marek is the organizer of the research "Bridge against dementia" financed by "Bridge to the People" Foundation.
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Ian Payn - Chairman of EBU
Ian Payn - Chairman of EBU
Ian Payn is Chairman of the EBU. He will be partnering Joe Fawcett at the event. Throughout the evening each will be making increasingly implausible claims about how much the other has paid to partner him.
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Jun Nakamaru-Pinder - JUNIOR
Jun Nakamaru-Pinder - JUNIOR
Jun Nakamaru-Pinder has been playing bridge for over 70% of his life, including several appearances for the Scottish junior team and a handful on the Open team - most recently in the European Championships in 2018 and the Camrose earlier this year. His greatest achievement to date is winning the European U26 mixed pairs with then Scot Olivia Bailey in 2016. When not playing bridge (this proportion of his life has increased since graduating), he is an actuarial consultant in the exciting world of pensions.
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Joan Forsyth - Incoming SBU President
Joan Forsyth - Incoming SBU President
Scottish Bridge Union Council delegate from Central District, member of Dundee Bridge Club.Delighted to be given the opportunity to play in this important event with one of Scotland’s pool of talented juniors thanks to the generosity of the SBU Council. Looking forward to meeting or at least glimpsing some of the world’s best bridge players and picking up a few tips in the beautiful surroundings of Stationers’ Hall.
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Edward McGeough - President of the SBU
Edward McGeough - President of the SBU
Eddie has been President of the Scottish Bridge Union since May 2018. He is partnering one of the Scottish juniors at the KBA Pro-Am.
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Liam O’Brien - JUNIOR
Liam O’Brien - JUNIOR
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Henry Rose - JUNIOR
Henry Rose - JUNIOR
I am 15 years old and started to learn some bridge aged 8 at my school bridge club. I started to take it seriously when the Oxford Junior Bridge Club was opened in September 2014. I have played ever since and like to play as often as I can.
I have been lucky enough to represent England at u16 level several times. Since then I have played bridge in many different venues across the world.
My family didn’t play bridge at all when I started, but my mum has now learnt after me, and starting at school meant I still had a way to learn, for which I am very grateful.
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Jamie Fegarty - JUNIOR
Jamie Fegarty - JUNIOR
I am 14 years old and live in Cambridgeshire sometimes playing at the Cambridge bridge club, however I play most of my bridge at congresses. I live with my brother, my parents and our 4 dogs. I have represented England twice in the World Championships in China and the Euros in Norway where we achieved a bronze medal.
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Erik Saelensminde
Erik Saelensminde
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Gordon Rainsford - Tournament Director
Gordon Rainsford - Tournament Director
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Jonathan Lillycrop - Tournament Director
Jonathan Lillycrop - Tournament Director
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Andrew Black
Andrew Black
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Charles Bucknell - JUNIOR
Charles Bucknell - JUNIOR
Charles ”Charlie” Bucknell is an enthusiast of all things to do with classics, bridge and halo. Having previously been both a bridge and chess player, four years at Durham university guided him towards the correct path and he has now represented England on the U26 team in international tournaments on multiple occasions. Never afraid of experimenting with system or solving squeeze problems, I would caution any player who plays believing Charlie’s weak 2 vulnerable openings ‘must surely have at least one honour’.
Charlie started working for the EBU as Tournaments Administrator at the beginning of September 2019, perhaps with the ulterior motive of finding more tournaments that he could enter.
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Simon Gillis
Simon Gillis
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Tom Townsend
Tom Townsend
Tom Townsend is a full-time bridge player, who lives in Shepherd’s Bush with Ewa and their son Max, 10. Tom was part of Raymond Brock’s Junior team in the mid-90s, that won the European and World Championships. At full international level, Tom won silver in the 2008 Olympiad final, and bronze in the 2005 European Pairs. Last autumn on the de Botton team, he won his fifth English (or British) Premier League. Tom is Daily and Sunday Telegraph bridge columnist.
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Mikael Rimstedt
Mikael Rimstedt
Junior world/european champion 5 times (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018). One NABC win 2017. World pairs champion 2018. Lives in Stockholm. Teaches and plays bridge in Sweden. Only 24 years old but a few handy wins under his belt. Also happy to accept a one hand press-up challenge in the bar after bridge.
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Stephen Peterkin
Stephen Peterkin
Stephen was on the winning team for the Commonwealth’s transnational teams in Glasgow. This year he will be playing for Scotland in the open Europeans in Madeira and the Camrose in Belfast. He is a classically trained pianist who may be persuaded to give us a tune or two at the KBA Pro-Am!
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Janet de Botton
Janet de Botton
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Andrew Murphy
Andrew Murphy
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Ronan Valentine - JUNIOR
Ronan Valentine - JUNIOR
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Tracy Capal - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
Tracy Capal - PARTNERING A JUNIOR
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