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
Congratulations to both pairs.