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Welsh Bridge Union Former Winners of the Welsh Invitation Pairs 2002 Tony Forrester & David Mossop (England) 2003 Gay Keaveney & Rory Timlin (Republic of Ireland) 2004 Rex Anderson & David Greenwood (Northern Ireland) 2005 Malcolm Cuthbertson & David Walker (Scotland) 2006 Artur Malinowski & Nick Sandqvist (England) 2007 Rex Anderson & David Greenwood (Northern Ireland) 2008 Tim Rees & Filip Kurbalija (Wales) 2009 Dafydd Jones & Gary Jones (Wales) 2010 Rex Anderson & David Greenwood (Northern Ireland) 2011 Thor-Erik Hoftaniska & Svein Arild Naas Olsen (Norway) 2012 David Burn & Nick Sandqvist (England) 2013 David Burn & Nick Sandqvist (England) 2015 David Kendrick & Patrick Jourdain (England/Wales) WELSH BRIDGE UNION The 14th Patrick Jourdain Welsh Invitation Pairs 2017 2015 Winners - Patrick Jourdain and David Kendrik, with Gary Jones (centre) @ The Park Inn, Cardiff North July 22 and 23 12 1 Welcome We warmly welcome our visitors to the 14th Welsh Invitation Pairs, Format renamed this year the Patrick Jourdain Welsh Invitational Pairs. This The event is an eight table round-robin with each pair playing a six competition was conceived and organised by Patrick and following his board match against each other pair. Pair numbers are listed on the untimely death last year we have taken up the baton and organised it score card in the centre pages. in his memory. Patrick was a very well-known and unique personality in the bridge world and is missed by many. It will of course not be quite the same Scoring without him and it is particularly poignant that he is the current holder Scoring is Butler scoring (IMPs converted to VPs). There are 50 Victory of the title along with David Kendrick - but we hope that we can live Points at stake in each match, ie a match drawn in IMPs will be scored up to his high standards and that the event will continue to be enjoyed 25-25 in VPs. For each IMP, the score will improve by 1 VP; a match by our home players and visitors alike. won by 25 IMPs or more will be scored as 50-0. The same six boards are in play at all tables, so please avoid The weekend itself is a blend of top class bridge and Welsh hospitality. discussions during play. The competition will be fierce, but we also hope that existing friendships will be strengthened and new ones made. Spectators Finally, thanks go to Cardiff Bridge Club, where Patrick played and Spectators are welcome and you may watch the players in action in taught bridge for many years, for their generous donation towards the playing room, but please note: funding this event. Thanks also go to the people who have worked so You must refrain from any remarks, mannerisms or reaction to hard to make it happen. events at the bridge table. _________________________________________________________ You may not talk or otherwise disturb a player while the bidding or play is in progress. Programme If you happen to notice an irregularity such as a revoke, you must not draw attention to it. Saturday Sunday 12.50 Match 1 11.00 Match 9 13.40 Match 2 11.50 Match 10 Bridge Base 14.30 Match 3 12.40 Match 11 The touranment will be broadcast on Bridgebase Online (BBO) at 15.20 Match 4 13.30 Match 12 www.bridgebase.com, throughout the weekend. One six-board match per round will be broadcast with a different line-up for each match. 16.10 Tea Break 14.20 Tea Break 16.30 Match 5 14.40 Match 13 Officials 17.20 Macth 6 15.30 Match 14 Tournament Director: Chris Rochelle 18.10 Match 7 16.20 Match 15 BBO Mananger: Simon Gottschalk 19.00 Match 8 17.15 Prize-giving Match Manager: Ceri Pierce Hospitality: Maggie Pierce Front cover photograph courtesy of Flickr, Pete Birkinshaw. 2 11 he has played with Mike Pownall, Patrick Jourdain, Simon Richards and Paul The Visiting Pairs Lamford in Camrose and European events for Wales. Sam Punch & Stephen Peterkin (Scotland) The Selectors’ Choice: Mark Roderick & Jonny Richards (Wales) Sam and Stephen formed a partnership eight years ago. They have recently Mark is 41 years old and started to represent Wales in the Junior team at the played in four Camroses together and they were on the winning team for the age of 17. Since then, he has played in three Camroses. Before Bridge Mark Commonwealth’s Transnational teams in Glasgow. played competitive schools’ chess and last year started to play the Paralympic Sam has played in the Scottish Womens’ team since 2008 with five Lady Milne sport of Boccia in which he hopes to achieve the same success as bridge. wins and her team narrowly lost to France in the semi-final of the World Jonny is 23 years old and started playing when he was just nine, taking Bridge Games in Poland last year. She is Dean of Graduate Studies and advantage of two bridge playing parents. He played in the European Youth Professor of Sociology at Stirling University where she is developing a new Teams Championships in 2007 and the Pairs’ Championship in 2008. Jonathan research field on the Sociology of Bridge. This research includes projects on has represented the Welsh Juniors numerous times in both the Peggy Bayer the benefits of bridge, learning bridge across the lifecourse (in partnership and the Junior Camrose. Away from bridge Jonathan keeps himself busy with English Bridge Education and Development) and gender inequalities playing and refereeing international water polo and is a keen cyclist. within the game. Some of you may recognise Stephen as a regular BBO operator. He also has a Gallery bridge partnership with Derek Sanders, which included playing in the open Europeans together in Budapest last year. He is a classically trained pianist but more recently has been teaching English to students from across Europe. Rex Anderson & Pat Barry (N. Ireland/Republic of Ireland) Sam Punch Stephen Peterkin Rex Anderson Pat Barry BJ O’Brien Peter Rex has previously played in the Welsh Invitation Pairs with David Greenwood, Goodman recording three wins! His Camrose career commenced in the 60s and he will reach his target of 110 caps if he makes the NI team this year. His wife, Mabel, encourages his bridge as she appreciates the peace and quiet when he is absent. Pat took up bridge in the 1960’s and won most of the major Irish Richard Winter Sarah Teshome Norman Selway Kay Preddy Paul Lambert Dilip Gidwani Championships, before the arrival of four kids in the 1970’s changed his priorities. He comes from a stable of top bridge players, with his father and two sisters having also represented their country. Pat is married to Maria who is also a high bridge player. Nowadays they spend most of their time looking after six grandchildren. Pat also likes a game of golf, quite often with Tom David Kendrick Jon Cooke Pat Quinn Cian Holland Gary Jones Tim Rees Hanlon, and it is the opinion of Pat that Tom is much better at the golf than at the bridge. Pat who lives in Dublin and Rex who lives in Coleraine did not meet on Tinder, but their partnership evolved through parental arrangement. Rex and Pat played for Ireland in the Junior European Championships in Dublin Filip Kurbalija Diane Kurbalija Mike Tedd John Salisbury Bob Pitts Barry Jones in 1970, and then in the Open in Brighton in 1975. After a short break the partnership resumed in the Senior European Championships in Dublin in 2012. Their last outing was at the D’Orsi in Chennai in 2015, when Ireland was third in the 22 Team Round Robin. Gilly Clench David Birt Julian Pottage Simon Richards Paul Denning Richard Plackett BJ O’Brien & Peter Goodman (Republic of Ireland) Peter Goodman moved from Wales to Ireland some years ago as a result of Cupid's arrow. Peter was a member of the Welsh team's first historic Camrose win and has won many National competitions both in the UK and Ireland Mark Roderick Jonny Richards Chris Rochelle Simon Gottschalk Ceri Pierce Maggie Pierce 10 3 including Crockfords, Tollemache and the Holmes Wilson. Peter was the NPC Association. A Yorkshireman by birth, Bob met his Lancashire born wife whilst of the winning Irish Teltscher team in 2015 (too young to be a player!). at University. They opted to move to the neutral territory of North Wales B J O'Brien loves Wales and all it's bridge players. He has won the Camrose where they have resided ever since and now proudly regard themselves as and Teltscher trophies and all Irish National events bar the Mixed Teams. Welsh. Bob is a retired mathematics teacher and now tries to spend his days When he fails to make the national team squad, he invariably plays a role as gardening, swimming and walking his border collie, with the occasional game NPC to either the Juniors’, Womens’ or Seniors’ teams. of bridge thrown in and a glass of good wine to recover. Barry was born in Wrexham where he has lived all his life. He is a regular Paul Lamford & Dilip Gidwani (Wales and India) member of the North Wales Bridge team and a keen armchair sports Paul learned to play bridge in Haverfordwest Grammar School in Wales, and enthusiast. He played darts for North Wales in his youth. recalls passing an Acol 2. in his first duplicate! After that he mainly played This year Bob and Barry will be eligible for the Seniors’ team and will attempt chess for many years, and competed in four Olympiads. Bridge is now his to try to qualify for next year’s Senior Camrose event as well.
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