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 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 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 , 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.

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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 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. game of choice, partly because his partner at the table and in life, Stefanie Rohan also plays and has represented the English Women. Paul has also Gilly Clench & David Birt (Wales) dabbled with poker and he reached the final stages of the World Series a few Gilly’s claims to fame are winning the Portland Pairs with Adrian Thomas, years ago. Paul switched from England to Wales in 2016 and has since played winning the competition that preceded this (The International Masters) in the Camrose and Senior Camrose for Wales, the former with Richard (twice), winning most Pairs competitions in in Wales, being a member of the Plackett, the latter with Gary Jones, although he still plays for London and Lady Milne team with a myriad of partners and representing Wales in the added another Tollemache Cup this year. European Championships, Olympiad and Commonwealth Games. She enjoyes Dilip learned to play bridge at Engineering School (IIT Bombay) and continued rambling, skiing and pursuing a variety of other dangerous sports with her playing at national level until 1993. In 1993, he was NPC of the Indian daughter Mel. National Womens’ team for the and this is when he joined the Gilly and David only became a regular partnership a few years ago, having International Bridge Press Association. He wrote for The Hindu and The Times played sporadically together over the last 30 years. David is a chartered of India, covering international bridge events until 1997 and then moved to surveyor with an estate agency in Cowbridge near Cardiff, and is married to West Africa to set up an engineering business which he ran for 18 years. Anne with two children. Bridge then was limited to visits to World Championships for IBPA matters. His most notable success was a silver medal at the South African National Julian Pottage & Simon Richards (Wales) Championships in 2005, playing on a transnational team; his partner was the Julian and Simon played in the Welsh team in the 2016 Camrose and have also late Pierre Chavannaz of France. played as teammates in the 2016 European Championships in Budapest. Simon Dilip and has travelled from India to be here. He and Paul have never played has played in the Camrose before while Julian has played in the 2014 (or even met) before, so it will be an interesting weekend for both of them. Commonwealth Bridge Games. Having previously worked in pensions and financial compliance, Julian now works on a number of bridge related Richard Winter & Sarah Teshome (England) activities, including being bridge correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, as well Richard was born in Yorkshire where he continues to live and practice as a as side lines of breeding golden retrievers and photography. Julian has a wife solicitor. He was introduced to bridge by his mother, who took him to various and four children, none of whom play bridge – and neither does his dog! local bridge clubs, where he met and was encouraged by Brian Senior, Tony Simon runs his own business providing regulatory affairs and quality assurance Forrester and Roman Smolski. Whilst still a junior, Richard won the Pairs at consultancy to the medical device industry. His wife, Debbie also plays bridge Brighton with Andy Eastwood and they formed part of the Great Britain team and his son Jonathan is playing in this event. He has another son, but Alastair which came second in the Junior European Championships in 1982. Later has never taken to bridge! Richard formed a partnership with with whom he had a number of appearances for England in the Camrose and other international events and Paul Denning & Richard Plackett (Wales) won the Spring Foursomes, Crockfords and the Life and Grand Masters. Paul works for EDF Energy in an IT support role and has represented Wales in Sarah works for EY as a chartered accountant. Sarah has featured many times many Camrose and European events over the years together with Adrian in the finals of all the major UK titles and she has won many national events in Thomas and Patrick Shields. England, Scotland and Wales as well as the Lady Milne. She has represented Richard is a recently retired investment manager who returned to bridge a Yorkshire in the Tollemache for 22 years in succession. Internationally she has couple of years ago having been a winner in 1988. Since his return won medals in Womens’ pairs and teams events and also Mixed events. Sarah's interests outside bridge are books, theatre, travel and walking her dog. 4 9

The Home Pairs Richard and Sarah are married and they have two children, one of whom has recently been selected to play in the England Under 15 team. Gary Jones & Tim Rees (Wales) Gary and Tim have been playing together since 2012 and both are former Norman Selway & Kay Preddy (England) winners of the Welsh Invitation Pairs, Tim in 2008 with Filip Kurbalija and Gary Norman learnt bridge at the age of 14. He played mostly high stake rubber in 2009 with his son Dafydd. Gary and Dafydd had 16 Camrose weekends for bridge with the likes of John Collings, an ailing Jonathan Cansino, a young Zia Wales including the historic win. Gary, who lives in London, has retired as Mahmood, Paul Hackett and Geoffrey Breskal, amongst many others! It didn’t Director of a public company. He is a keen follower of cricket and rugby, and a do much for Norman’s bidding in that company, but his card play became very modest golfer. sound – it had to be! Tim Rees led the England Gold Point rankings for several years, winning the Kay played for the British Womens’ team several times before the UK was Gold Cup twice on the Mossop team. He had 22 Camrose weekends partnering devolved (bridge-wise) with Welsh player Jill Reitz (Casey). The birth of her Filip Kurbalija and played in the Europeans in Pau. He lives in Berkshire daughter, now 21, forced a break and she is now gradually getting back to full working in Transport Research and referees hockey matches. Tim is current time competition with her husband Norman. Chair of the EBU Laws and Ethics Committee. Davd Kendrick & Jon Cooke Filip Kurbalija & Diane Kurbalija (Wales) David was born and brought up in London and learnt the rules of bridge at Fil and Diane have won all the major Welsh titles countless times. Filip has also school, but it was during his time at Southampton University that he began to played many Camrose matches and is a former winner of this event, play too much. partnering Tim Rees. He is an accountant for the Welsh European Funding David has completed a rare 'trifecta' (along with Tony Forrester), having won Office as part of the Welsh Assembly. He is a supporter of Nottingham Forest the Junior Camrose (in 1972 and 1974), Camrose (in 1999) and Senior Football Club, but rugby was his game of choice in his youth, when he played Camrose - the Teltscher Trophy (in 2017). for the Welsh Rugby Sevens. He has also won numerous competitions including the NICKO, Tollemache and Diane has played in many Lady Milnes over the years with several partners, Pachabo but especially enjoys travelling to play his bridge. He is a recent and also in the Camrose, Senior Camrose and various European events. Since holder of the main teams championships in Portugal, Madeira and Iceland. taking early retirement from her career in education, she has enjoyed many David is married with children and grandchildren. exotic holidays and spends her time helping to run a local Allotment Society. Jon’s parents taught him to play when he was about 11. He played with a Diane is also a keen mountaineer. Fil and Diane are married and live in Cardiff. school friend at their local club in the nuclear bunker of the local Council and they went on to win the Schools’ Pairs. At university, he learned to play Mike Tedd & John Salisbury (Wales) properly - Tom Townsend bought him a book on bidding and issued rollickings Mike has retired from Aberystwyth University where he was Professor of every time time he made a stupid until he stopped doing it. Computer Science and, for a period, Vice-Principal and John has retired from Cambridge University had a strong team and they won the silver medal in the local government in Social Services statistics. 1994 European Universities Championships. John and Mike each had many bridge successes when they were 'young', Jon played very little bridge between 1994 and 2002, then started playing playing in numerous Camrose matches, with different partners. They then more events again. He has won Crockfords, the Spring Fours, Hubert Phillips, stayed away from top level bridge for a number of years when their jobs and Pachabo, Nicko, Corwen and the Brighton Pairs all with different partners. He the demands of growing families took over. With retirement looming, John and has also played for England in the Champions Cup and Camrose. Mike returned to the serious game in partnership. They have had 17 Camrose weekends together, and have played in the Welsh Open or Senior teams in six Pat Quinn & Cian Holland (Republic of Ireland) European Championships. They have played together five times in the Seniors’ Pat and Cian have been a regular team, tournament and international trial Camrose. In 2014 they were part of the Welsh team that earned the gold partnership since 2008. Pat has represented Ireland at Senior level, is a medals in the Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship. multiple national titleholder and has played in several European, Transnational and World Bridge Championships. Pat’s interest in cards came at an early age Bob Pitts & Barry Jones (Wales) and stems from his parents requirements for a fourth to play solo. When Bob and Barry have been a regular partnership for the best part of six years. required to play, Pat used to be given the following words of parental wisdom They made their Camrose debuts together during the first weekend in Dublin ‘sit down there and don't make a mistake’. Cian is a multiple national title- for the WBU team in 2016. Bob is a member of the International Bridge Press holder and has played in several European and transnational bridge championships. Both are playing in the Welsh Invitation Pairs for the first time. 5 8

WELSH INVITATION PAIRS 2017 SCORE CARD

Punch Pottage Kendrick Denning Selway Tedd Anderson Kurbalija Goodman Rees Quinn Pitts Winter Clench Lamford Roderick TOTAL Peterkin Richards Cooke Plackett Preddy Salibury Barry Kurbalija O’Brien Jones Holland Jones Teshome Birt Gidwani Richards

1 Punch Peterkin

2 Pottage Richards

3 Kendrick Cooke

4 Denning Plackett

5 Selway Preddy

6 Tedd Salisbury

7 Anderson Barry

8 Kurbalija Kurbalija

9 Goodman O’Brien

10 Rees Jones

11 Quinn Holland

12 Pitts Jones

13 Windter Teshome

14 Clench Birt

15 Lamford Gidwani

16 Roderick Richards

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