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Northland News with Tania Brown
29 Mar 2018
Kerikeri winners, Neil Ruddell and Andrew Liu Once again we are in the Winterless North and while we hope to have a nice Easter Weekend, they don’t call it “Whangarainey” for nothing. Life is slowly getting back to normal... read more here
TALES OF AKARANA
29 Mar 2018
a real hold FOUR VIEWS OF DUMMY So, what is a hold for no-trumps? You cannot always have AQJT in the suit the opposition bids. Sometimes with Kxx, you have to play the whole hand trying to keep one opponent off lead. Then, there are lesser holds... read more here
Opportunity- NZ Bridge Foundation
28 Mar 2018
NZ Bridge, in conjunction with the Trustees of the NZ Bridge Foundation, is looking to increase the number of Trustees supporting the Foundation and invites expressions of interest from interested parties. The Foundation, which... read more here
Welcome to New & Returning Players
28 Mar 2018
Welcome to the new (and some returning) players around the country since the start of the year. We will report number regularly in future. We hope you love this game as much as those who have played for years. Here are the numbers by club,... read more here
PLAY and DEFENCE for Improving Players
26 Mar 2018
King for Count in Queenstown This is the tale of an actual hand (well, all the stories are) but this is a kind of special one from last weekend’s Queenstown tournament. Are you ready for a defensive problem? Board 2East... read more here
HAMILTON BRIDGE CLUB TAKES TO THE AIRWAVES
23 Mar 2018
Members from Hamilton Bridge Club were invited to appear on the Free FM show Aapki Mehphile Harmony. You can listen to the broadcast by clicking on the link below. You may like to start 7 mins into the broadcast. Click here to listen to the... read more here
TALES OF AKARANA
23 Mar 2018
Triers “Rewarded” 26-30 high card points between your two hands are an awkward number to handle. On some days, you want to be in a cold slam while on others, you are picking up the mess of how many under-tricks you need to concede.... read more here
High scores
22 Mar 2018
High scores around the country 1 Jan - 20 March, Pairs events only, 40C club venues in first section, A and B tournaments later. 40C Club events Auckland Northland Region 40C Club events Patricia Porter, John Cooper... read more here
WAIKATO BAYS NEWS with Anna Kalma
22 Mar 2018
There is always a surfeit of Teams Events in the Waikato Bays at the start of the year, culminating (for a few months at least) with the Kelly Peirse Teams in Rotorua. This was held last weekend with 30 teams signing up to the 10A... read more here
JUST LOVING HIS BRIDGE
20 Mar 2018
"I Love playing Bridge with People" So says one of our youngest Bridge players. Introducing 8 year old Ollie Benton. Ollie's story is told here by Regional Bridge Mate for Otago-Southland, Susannah Pinckney: Stayman from the start... read more here
PLAY and DEFENCE for Improving Players
20 Mar 2018
PAIRS AND TEAMS PHILOSOPHY They can be the same and they can be so different. One similarity would be when you are in a normal contract, you would not risk going down in your contract by taking a finesse for the sake of an overtrick, unless you... read more here
TALES OF AKARANA
16 Mar 2018
Making the best of a bad job Whatever happened to Hamman’s Rule? If 3NT is amongst your choice of makeable game contracts, then go for it….or words similar to that! It did not seem to be particularly true at Akarana this week. When... read more here
Auckland News by Douglas Russell
15 Mar 2018
Greetings from the “Big Smoke”. As the weather turns less inviting, the appeal of spending several hours indoors with like-minded friends playing the game we love becomes even more appealing. Quite a light period for tournaments in the... read more here
Volunteer of the Month
15 Mar 2018
March 2018. Val Darragh, Hastings Our Volunteer of the Month is a quiet achiever, the kind of person every club needs. A Quiet worker Val has been a member of the Hastings Bridge Club for many years and while she has held no formal... read more here
2018 Board Election results
13 Mar 2018
A Big Bridge Weekend in Taranaki
13 Mar 2018
The team of Moss Wylie- Wayne Burrows and Steve Baron – Matthew Brown had a comprehensive victory in the Teams event at the weekend’s Taranaki Bridge Congress. Although only finishing 5th out of 6 qualifiers on day 1 and needing a big... read more here
PLAY and DEFENCE for Improving Players
12 Mar 2018
CUTTING ONE’S LOSSES Unless we know we are sacrificing, we bid games to make them. It is great if we do, especially with an overtrick or two. However, either partner’s hand is a let-down (never yours, of course!) , a bad break or good... read more here
33RD New Zealand National Congress
10 Mar 2018
Did you enjoy the Gold Coast Congress? Whether or not you went, it’s time to start planning for Hamilton. In just under seven months, it will be time for the 33rd National Bridge Congress to be held at the Distinction Hotel in Hamilton.... read more here
Taranaki Bridge Congress
10 Mar 2018
LINK TO RESULTS read more here
South Pacific Zone- World Bridge Federation
9 Mar 2018
I was honoured and humbled to be elected President of the South Pacific Bridge Federation at our annual meeting at the Gold Coast Congress in February, and at the same time, as our zonal representative on the World Bridge Federation... read more here
TALES OF AKARANA
9 Mar 2018
Viva “The Law” Many pairs use cue-bids of the opponents’ suits to make serious game tries when our partner makes an overcall. This enables a jump raise, or in certain circumstances, even a simple raise to be of a pre-emptive... read more here
Entering a tournament on this website
8 Mar 2018
We hope more and more clubs will use this online entry process which was introduced in September 2017. It utilises the Tournament schedule, to avoid duplication and errors. How to enter. Read the instructions below or scroll down to view the... read more here
Top of The South News with Jenny Pomeroy
7 Mar 2018
We seem a bit too far into the year to talk about Christmas, but several good parties with great attendances were held in TOTS region not to make mention of them. Kaikoura had almost a full house at their annual prize giving and lunch;... read more here
PLAY and DEFENCE for Improving Players
6 Mar 2018
Finessing is Fun Yes, it can be. Trust me. They do work sometimes. Indeed, sometimes, well maybe all the time, you really hope they work. Let’s see how many finesses you need on the following board. If they all fail, you could be in serious... read more here
Only ever one winning team. The 2018 North Island Teams.
5 Mar 2018
Last month’s South Island Teams was a relatively close run affair though only one team was going to win the North Island Teams, held at Palmerston North Bridge Club over the weekend of 3rd/4th March. The team of Michael Ware- GeO Tislevoll,... read more here
North Island Teams- Palmerston North 3rd-4th March 2018
2 Mar 2018
LINK TO RESULTS LINK TO ENTRY LIST read more here
TALES OF AKARANA
2 Mar 2018
Forcing and Invitational Bids 25 hcp between the two hands, a 4-4 spade fit, and not one of the 12 East-West pairs made it to the almost cold 4 game. Four will claim some dispensation as they reached and made 3NT, a contract which relied on the... read more here
Central Districts - News with George MacLachlan
28 Feb 2018
Wise Head on Young Shoulders It was a case of wise heads on young shoulders when Paula Martin partnered 12 year old Libby Winyawonk on Wednesday’s C grade night at New Plymouth on 7th February. Can you imagine the excitement when the... read more here
2018 WBF Women's Online Spring Festival
27 Feb 2018
The WBF Online Women’s Spring Festival is being held from 9th – 15th April with a great prize given by the WBF President. The overall winner and a partner of her choice will be offered free entry to the 2018 Women’s Pairs... read more here
PLAY and DEFENCE for Improving Players
26 Feb 2018
TUNNEL VISION It is a really good idea to look at your hand and dummy after the opening lead is made and see what can be done with all the losers in your hand. Then and only then should you play to the first trick. There is, though, a hand type... read more here
Gold Coast - Final Report
25 Feb 2018
Michael Courtney held on to win the East – West section of the Ivy Dahler Butler Swiss Pairs. Here are the final results of this event, the final event of the Congress. Ivy Dahler Butler Swiss Pairs Open 118 tables. North-South... read more here
Gold Coast Friday
24 Feb 2018
No joy unfortunately for the Kiwis in the final stages of the Gold Coast Teams. In the Round of 4 Open event (the Round of 4 was for the teams finishing 3rd-6th in qualifying…the winners and the top 2 met in the semi-finals), Bouton, which... read more here
TALES OF AKARANA
23 Feb 2018
The Unchanging Commodity Bidding styles change over the years because some traditional approaches, whilst effective, occur so rarely that we find more frequent uses for such bids. A prime example is reserving one’s 2 level suit openings... read more here
Thursday on The Coast
23 Feb 2018
A great last qualifying day for a young team of mixed Australian/ New Zealand players saw Bouton climb up to 4th in the Open where the top 6 teams qualify. The team includes Dunedin’s Vicky Bouton and Brad Johnston and ex Wellingtonian... read more here
WBF YOUTH TEAMS ONLINE CHAMPIONSHIP
23 Feb 2018
1st WBF YOUTH TEAMS ONLINE CHAMPIONSHIPS (March – July, 2018) PLEASE SUBMIT NZ APPLICATIONS TO NZ Bridge Secretary secretary@nzbridge.co.nz by 5.00pm Friday March 2nd 2018 Format of the Championship The Championship consists of... read more here
Gold Coast Update. Teams, Teams..it's "teeming" with them
22 Feb 2018
Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday are Teams days for everyone. That’s four 14 board matches per day, Swiss style. In the Open event, the top 6 qualify and in each of the others, the top 2 play a final. That makes it quite tough to qualify but... read more here
WELLINGTON REGIONAL NEWS with Paul Maxwell
21 Feb 2018
We are now off with the old and on with the new - going into 2018 with some new faces on the Board and some new approaches. One of these approaches has landed in Wellington with radio advertising, starting mid-February, in the city and the Kapiti... read more here
GOLD COAST BRIDGE CONGRESS
20 Feb 2018
MONDAY REPORT. MATTHEW BROWN WINS OPEN PAIRS. Congratulations to all the Kiwis who did well in the various Pairs and Swiss Pairs events. Leading the way was Matthew Brown who with his Australian partner, Johnno Newman, retained their lead to win... read more here
FROM COMMONWEALTH GAMES TO GOLD COAST
19 Feb 2018
Same venue but now time for everyone to join in. Firstly, though, we left you at the top 8 qualifying stage of the Commonwealth Teams. Australia Gold, Scotland White, India A and the President’s Team, an English invitation team,... read more here
PLAY and DEFENCE for Improving Players
19 Feb 2018
There are many ways of discarding which work most of the time. Sometimes, they all run into difficulty. When that happens think about the easiest way you can get your message across to your partner. If your card is not going to be easy to... read more here
Volunteer of the Month
19 Feb 2018
FEBRUARY 2018 MARION SILLICK, PARAPARAUMU. Dennis Lahman speaks on behalf of the Club Committee and reflects the views of so many at the Paraparaumu Club. "Marion arrived in Paraparaumu in 2004 from Orewa with a reputation of being fully... read more here
The Fifth Commonwealth Nations Championships - Day 3
17 Feb 2018
A Day of Two Halves The last four qualifying matches. A steady showing over these matches could mean top 8 for New Zealand. For a while it looked a possibility with two wins before lunch. However, the two afternoon matches did not go New... read more here
Calling Bridge playing Teachers
16 Feb 2018
New Zealand Bridge is trying to take Bridge into schools. We know that traditionally our game has been played mainly by older people. There are reasons why school age students would take to our game. Some will become “addicted”... read more here
TALES OF AKARANA
16 Feb 2018
“Full Marks”. There are some jobs in Bridge which are very hard to pass on to anyone else. One such role is President of the Akarana Bridge Club. Ask Jonathan Westoby although after at least a decade in the job, he did escape. Ask... read more here
The Fifth Commonwealth Nations Championships - Day 2
16 Feb 2018
A Roundabout Way to Where We Started At the end of the 11 round Swiss, 8 teams will qualify. However, it is not as simple as saying that will be teams 1-8 as the medals can only be won by the teams representing Commonwealth countries. The rules... read more here
Canterbury News with Max Robb
15 Feb 2018
A warm welcome to our new Canterbury correspondent, Max Robb. Max is well known around the Christchurch bridge scene. Please contact him if you have any news items. His contact details are at the end of this report.... read more here
The Fifth Commonwealth Nations Championships - Day 1
15 Feb 2018
The scene is the Gold Coast Convention Centre. Wednesday February 14th is the first of five days of competition, the first of the three day qualifying Swiss during which all 36 teams will play 11 by 14 board matches to qualify eight teams for the... read more here
PLAY and DEFENCE for Improving Players
13 Feb 2018
USING THEIR TIME So, what do you do as a defender when the declarer goes into what seems like a 10 minute reverie at the first sight of dummy? OK, it was only 30 seconds but you only had four minutes to play this board or else time penalties... read more here
A Lighter Look
12 Feb 2018
THE SECRET OF GRANT’S SUCCESS You may have observed that the team of Grant Jarvis, Ken and Kathy Yule and Jan Alabaster won the South Island Teams in Christchurch over the last weekend. Naturally, we wanted to report on some of their finer... read more here
A Weekend in Christchurch
12 Feb 2018
South Island Teams Exciting hands, excellent organisation, wonderful continuous catering and a full house of 38 teams at the Christchurch Bridge Club for this year’s South Island Teams. For most of the event, it was close at the top though... read more here
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