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World Championships in Marrakech

46th World Bridge Teams Championships....and the Kiwis are there!

The World Championship competitions starts on Sunday, 20th August, in Marrakech, Morocco. New Zealand has three teams competing as follows:

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   a repeat of this, perhaps?

or:

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Open (Bermuda Bowl)

Ashley Bach – Michael Cornell

Matt Brown – Michael Whibley

Malcolm Mayer – Michael Ware

Chef de mission and npc: Jonathan Westoby

Women (Venice Cup)

Jan Alabaster – Pam Livingston

Andi Boughey – Carol Richardson

Christine Gibbons – Jenna Gibbons

npc: Kris Wooles

Mixed (Wuhan Cup)

Wayne Burrows – Clair Miao

Barry Jones – Jenny Millington

Mariusz Tumilowicz – Mindy Wu

npc : GeO Tislevoll

Watching matches live on BBO will largely be for “night-owls” only as Morocco is 11 hours behind New Zealand. We will bring you news and some of the interesting hands here from Monday 21st  onwards.

Each match is 16 boards and each competition a round- robin of 23 matches.

These are New Zealand’s opponents on Day1, Sunday.

Open                          Women                     Mixed            Start time NZ time

Panama                     USA 2                        Chinese Taipei          9.00 pm

Poland                       Chinese Taipei            Germany                 12.15 am

Switzerland                India                          Tunisia                     2.50 am

Go, Kiwis.

Richard Solomon

 

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