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We are now taking entries for the NICKO, the National Inter-Club Knock-out for Teams of Four.
The NICKO is a perfect gateway for anyone interested in getting into national teams' competitions. Matches are friendly, only 24-boards in length, and in early rounds are regionalised &/or online. All standards are welcome and you're guaranteed at least two matches because 1st-round losers get free entry to the NICKO Plate competition.
If you've never played before... then why not give it a go?
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Friday, 08 August 2025 by Bazil Caygill
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The final trophies for the club year 2024 to 2025 have now been determined:
Chamberlain (Wed evenings)
Arthur Hughes
Jepson (Tuesday Afternoons*)
Cathy Anderson, Stuart Anderson
Rankin (Thursday afternoons)
Richard Pike
Frith (Thursday afternoons*)
Caroline Cousins
Barber (Wednesday afternoons*)
Caroline Cousins
Lee (Saturday afternoons**)
Pat Jones
Derek Jepson Memorial Trophy
Bazil Caygill
Teams Pentathlon
Russ de Haney, David Fletcher
* Restricted to NG less than 48% at start...
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Saturday, 02 August 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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The last silverware of the season was won by Peter Camm, Glyn Foley, David Fletcher and Russ de Haney with a score of +35 IMPs. Richard Pike, Sandy Davies, Bazil Caygill & Matthew Kiggins were second with +29 IMPs.
Results here.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2025 by Bazil Caygill
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We have received the sad news that Bill Barraclough passed away on Monday 21st after a long battle against cancer.
Bill had been a member of the club for almost 40 years. He took part in all club activities, incuding a stint as Treasurer and about 20 years as Assistant Treasurer to Derek Jepson. Bill frequently directed club sessions and was an extremely popular member of the club. Although Bill had no immediate relatives, it is clear that he will be missed by the whole Sheffield Bridge Club family.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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The Chairman's Pairs was won by James Green and Bazil Caygill with a score of 61.98%. They werejust ahead of John Edwards & Bill Cullen, and Gill Woodcock & Ruth Ringrose.
Results here
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Wednesday, 09 July 2025 by Bazil Caygill
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The Yorkshire Festival of Bridge - formerly the Yorkshire Congress - is held in Harrogate.
Best placed Sheffield players in the Pairs were David Waxman & Ian Johns, who finished fourth. (Ian is technically a former member but he still counts as he's an old friend of the club.)
Results
Richard Pike was part of the team which won the B-final of the Teams event.
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Sunday, 29 June 2025 by Bazil Caygill
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The Sheffield heat of this event was won - before & after handicaps were applied - by David Price & Mike Ruck. Congratulations to them.
David and Mike finished in 22nd place in the final, county-wide rankings. (Full ranking list is here.)
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Thursday, 05 June 2025 by Bazil Caygill
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Congratulations to Barrie Partridge, Sue Lloyd, Judy Jackson and Richard Gilbert; winners of the Nancy Campfield Trophy on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. They came top of a field of eight tems with +58 IMPs.
Second were Terry Jacobs, Keith Cornish, Bill Barraclough & Dave Duckworth with +49 IMPs.
Results here.
TheMusson Trophy, for the leading "non-expert" team, was not awarded at this event as no team met the criteria. (A non-expert team could have won a trophy literally just by turning...
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Monday, 26 May 2025 by Bazil Caygill
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Congratulations to Jean Rodgers and Morag Laycock on winning the Flo Dornan Swiss Pairs with a score of 75 VPs, ahead of Guy Hollingsworth and Andy Smith, just 1VP behind with 74 VP.
Results are here
The two leading pairs also win the handicap prizes by a clear margin.
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Monday, 05 May 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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David Waxman and Richard Pike were part of the Brereton team (with Frank Dixon) that have won the Waddington Shield, the Yorkshire KO for teams of four. The quartet will represent Yorkshire in the Pachabo, the EBU Inter-county Teams of Four next month.
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Monday, 05 May 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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The club's heftiest teams' trophy was won this year by Sandy Davies,Tom Gisborne, Bazil Caygill & Matthew Kiggins with a score of +82 IMPs. Margaret Johnson, Pat Powell, Jean Rodgers & Bill Barraclough were runners up with +43 IMPs.
Results here
The trophy also comes with free entry to the EBU's National Inter-club Knockout (NICKO) competition. This competition is a perfect gateway for anyone interested in getting into national teams' competitions. Matches are friendly, only 24-boards...
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Sunday, 04 May 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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Congratulations to Sandy Davies and Tom Gisborne on winning the Swiss Pairs at this event, and to David Waxman (with Keith Joules) just 1 VP behind in 2nd place.
Results here
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Monday, 28 April 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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The Stones Easter Swiss Pairs was contested by 21 pairs yesterday.
Winners of the Gold Shield were Bob Brown & David Fletcher with an impressive 85VPs.
Runners-up and winners of the Silver Shield were Bazil Caygill & Sandy Davies with 66VPs.
The Bronze Shield, which goes to the pair with the greatest increase over their expected performance based on their NGS grade,was won by Margaret Johnson & Peggy Hall with 11.5% above par.
Congratulations to all the above. Full results are here.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2025 by Simon Woolham
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We have received the sad new that Pam Lawson died peacefully at Ashgate Hospice on the morning of the 27th March.
Tony Long writes:
"Pam was a vibrant and positive individual and learned to play bridge with Dom along with me and Julie around COVID time. She loved her bridge and despite not feeling well (with her undiagnosed cancer) filled in to play in one of the Waddington league matches as recently as the 3rd February.
She loved Saturday afternoon sessions and often said there would be...
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Friday, 28 March 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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Congratulations to Arthur Hughes who, with Manchester's Kath Nelson, finished 5th in the final of the National Pairs.
Three weeks earlier, they won the Northern Regional Final. and finished 6th nationally and qualified to play in the National Final.
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Friday, 28 March 2025 by Barrie Partridge
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Congratulations to our three teams in this season of the Yorkshire League F2F Teams of eight.
Our A team has won Division 1 of the league after beating arch-rivals York A in the final match, and will go on to represent Yorkshire in the Regional Final of the Garden Cities Trophy at the club on 10 May.
Sheffield B has retained its place in Division 1 by the slimmest of margins, sneaking ahead of Doncaster on a tie-break.
Results: Division 1
Sheffield C had already won Division 6 with a match...
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Sunday, 16 March 2025 by Barrie Partridge