Club Match
25/04/2012
The final match of the season was a very close affair with only 6 points separating the first 7 places. Margaret & Jean clinched top spot by 3 points over Ally & George with third place tied between Pat & Glad, Mike & Christine and Malcolm & Isobel.
The hands were also very flat tonight with not a sniff of a slam and the hands were a lot more balanced than usual.
The best HCP count was only 27 and there were only THREE hands in total with 25+ points.
So was it desperation which caused the game calls on 15 boards?
Board 13 was one of the few interesting hands, the points were split 24/16: after N passes E could pre-empt 3 hearts which would probably stop any further bidding but, even though there is only 9 HCP, it is a strong hand and is worth opening 1 heart.
Over 1 heart south is able to show the club suit and west is now able to bid 2 spades.
North should raise in clubs leaving east to ponder whether it should be a heart or spade contract.
There are 10 guaranteed tricks in either clubs or spades, 4 hearts should go off after south leads the singleton spade. 5 clubs are there if you can guess which way to play the diamonds.
Congratulations to Malcolm & Isobel who won the Handicap shield from Alan & Linda, Dave & Davie won the Match Point shield over Jim & Clinton.
25/04/2012
The final match of the season was a very close affair with only 6 points separating the first 7 places. Margaret & Jean clinched top spot by 3 points over Ally & George with third place tied between Pat & Glad, Mike & Christine and Malcolm & Isobel.
The hands were also very flat tonight with not a sniff of a slam and the hands were a lot more balanced than usual.
The best HCP count was only 27 and there were only THREE hands in total with 25+ points.
So was it desperation which caused the game calls on 15 boards?
Board 13 was one of the few interesting hands, the points were split 24/16: after N passes E could pre-empt 3 hearts which would probably stop any further bidding but, even though there is only 9 HCP, it is a strong hand and is worth opening 1 heart.
Over 1 heart south is able to show the club suit and west is now able to bid 2 spades.
North should raise in clubs leaving east to ponder whether it should be a heart or spade contract.
There are 10 guaranteed tricks in either clubs or spades, 4 hearts should go off after south leads the singleton spade. 5 clubs are there if you can guess which way to play the diamonds.
Congratulations to Malcolm & Isobel who won the Handicap shield from Alan & Linda, Dave & Davie won the Match Point shield over Jim & Clinton.
Bridge Club - September 2011The club has moved back into the Kirkwall Bowling Club for the winter session, in the past the club has closed over the summer months but this year we held 'Summer Drop-in' sessions at the Orkney Hotel. The aim of these casual evenings was to give players opportunity to 'perfect' or try out new conventions by talking through them while playing. They also provided an easy introduction to anyone who hadn't played duplicate bridge before. These evenings proved quite popular and we expect to run them again next summer. In previous years our weekly matches were 'stand alone' competitions with a token prize for the winner, at the last AGM it was decided to introduce two trophies for the overall winners at the end of the season, a Match Point shield and a Handicap shield. The results from each pairs best 14 matches would decide the winners.   The final evening again ended up a cliff-hanger, maximum points for Alan & Linda saw them both with the same final score. The final result was determined by countback in favour of Ally & George. |
Shetland Inter-County 14-15th May 2011  The weekend kicked off with the Team competition and Orkney was hoping to return to winning ways.  At the interval the prospect didn't look good and the second session saw no improvement with Shetland coming away easy winners of this fifth annual match. The Orkney players turned things around in the Pairs match with 3 of the top 4 places, Davie Aim & Dave Higgins winning the event for the Stewarts Rum Cup by 10 match points.  The Teams of Four competition was a handicap event with the pairings for each team based on the final positions in the Pairs match.  The foursome of Shetlands Drew Tulloch & Jim Moar and Orkneys Jim Burgher & Clinton Rendall came out winners of the team shield.  The lucky recipients of the special prize were Katherine Kemp, Ella Glue, Margaret Mainland & Sheila Lyons. Thanks go to Orkney Builders who provided the trophies for the weekend. |
Aberdeen Inter-Club 12th March 2011 After breakfast at Linda Ross's we played 2 sessions with a break for lunch; due to the tight schedule we only played 36 boards.  We had to finish by 15:30 to give us time to get the scores finalised and then get back to ferry terminal in time for the 17:00 boat. The 6 hour trip back soon passed by playing the odd hand of bridge! |
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