GNSP and GNIP

Sunday, 02 October 2016 by Bazil Caygill

The Great Northern Swiss Pairs, arguably the best pairs event in the EBU calendar and now hosted by the YCBA, was attended by a strong Sheffield turn-out who put in some decent performances although ultimately all failed to trouble the engravers.

Tom Gisborne & Sandy Davies were leading overnight, but fell away on the Sunday to finish 11th. Also in the top twenty were Bazil Caygill & Matthew Kiggins (13th) and Graham Jepson & Frank Littlewood (17th).

Full results are available here.

 

The Great Northern Improvers Pairs is a parallel event run at the same venue. The two leading pairs were the two pairs of Sheffield players who were there. They were

  • 1st: Helen McCormac & Jennifer Weatherall
  • 2nd: Michael Warwick & Fiona Drew

Congratulations to both pairs.