The Teltscher Trophy

Edinburgh 20 - 22 May 2016

Participating Players PARTICIPATING TEAMS

Team A

Team B Scotland

Team C England

Team D

Team E Patron’s Team

Team F Republic of Ireland Rex Anderson is a retired solicitor living in Coleraine NORTHERN and is currently writing a history of the NIBU. His Cam- rose career commenced in the 60’s when he played with IRELAND his father. Rex holds the record for Camrose caps hav- ing played just over 100 times. In 2015 he played on the Irish Senior Team which reached the quarter finals in the D’Orsi Bowl in Chennai.

David Greenwood is a retired Financial Adviser. He has represented Ireland on a number of occasions, and has played in 5 Camrose matches with his wife Diane. His partnership with Rex has been the bedrock of the N Ireland Camrose team for many years. He is the only member of the team to have won the Camrose (albeit playing for England at the time!) Rex David Anderson Greenwood Ian Lindsay has represented the NIBU with five dif- ferent partners. He is a retired chartered accountant who now acts as Treasurer for six charities connected with music, the visual arts, health and the disabled. He devotes a great deal of time to bridge administration and is a past Secretary, Chairman, Congress Organiser, and President of the NIBU, and a past President of the Irish Bridge Union.

Michael O’Kane is a retired solicitor from Downpat- rick with a keen interest in horseracing. He says he is a past everything in the NIBU, but has now opted for an easier life. He has played in the Camrose on a number of occasions. His partnership with Ian Lindsay is new. Ian Michael Lindsay O’Kane Hastings Campbell is an Estate Agent specialising in PC Student accommodation in Belfast. He has represented Northern Ireland more than 60 times with a number of different partners. Hastings takes his bridge very seri- ously as long as it doesn’t interfere with his true pas- sion, cricket. Sporting Index are reputed to be laying a spread on the number of sets Hastings sits out if a Test Match and a Camrose match were on at the same time.

Ian Hamilton aka The Mad Doc, is a retired GP and Occupational Physician based in Belfast. Though he plays a role in Instonians Rugby Cub his main other interest is cricket, having followed England round the world, usually to see them lose. He still manages to turn Dr. Hastings Ian out for his old boy’s 20:20 team. He is a regular member Campbell Hamilton of the N Ireland Camrose team. Brian Short played for Great Britain on 3 occasions before Scotland got international autonomy, with long- time partner Sandy Duncan. He has over 40 Camrose SCOTLAND caps for Scotland, with series wins on two occasions and two ties, and multiple European and Olympiad ap- pearances for in both Open and Senior events. He won the in 2006 and has won every major Scot- tish event, including the premier teams competition (the Scottish Cup) on 12 occasions. His other main interests are his family (they like him to call with his DIY skills) Brian hill-walking, and occasional (very bad) golf. Short Alan Goodman has played Camrose, European and Olympiad for Scotland’s Open and Senior teams, and captained a number of different Scottish teams over the last 8 years. Having retired, he is now busier than ever as Chairman of a Scottish charity and captain of his lo- cal golf club. He is married with three grown up daugh- ters and a 4 year old grandson.

Perhaps best known during his partnership with , Irving Gordon’s list of achievements in- Alan cludes winning the World Senior Pairs, several Gold Goodman Cups and Spring Foursomes, a Silver medal in the Sunday Times plus other titles in the UK and abroad. He has represented Britain at the European Champion- ships (Open team) and Scotland at the European Cham- pionships at both Open and Senior levels. He won his latest gold medal with the Scottish team in the Com- monwealth Nation Championships 2010 held in India. This is his third appearance with Danny in the Teltscher Trophy, having been on the winning team three years Irving ago, and runners-up last year. Gordon Danny Kane took up bridge when he was a young Physics teacher in Glasgow and went on to run a school bridge club which produced several junior international players. He then partnered the late Jimmie Arthur in his first Camrose in 1989 and around that time achieved four wins in the Scottish National Pairs. In the mid 1990’s he gave up bridge for many years when he started his own golf business. However, since retiring, his interest in bridge has been renewed. This is his third Danny senior Camrose with partner Irving Gordon, with whom Kane he also played in the recent Camrose series in Wales. Aside from bridge, he is keen on sports. In his more ma- ture years, golfing has become the replacement for his professional sports of boxing, Thai kickboxing and full contact karate. Other hobbies are cooking (and eating)! SCOTLAND

Anne Symons has been a regular member of the Scot- tish Ladies team for a number of years, playing in Lady Milnes, Europeans and Olympiads. She has also been part of the only women’s pair to play in the Camrose for Scotland. This is her fourth year captaining the Senior team and she is also now involved in Junior coaching and captaincy, thoroughly enjoying her roles at either end of the age spectrum.

This weekend Gerald Haase represents Scotland for the first time in the Senior Camrose. This will complete a full set of junior, open, and senior Camrose appearances for Scotland.

Anne Symons Gerald is a native of Glasgow and qualified as a doctor (NPC) in 1973. For the last 32 years, he has lived and worked as a pharmaceutical physician in London. Gerald began playing bridge at Glasgow University and was a member of the team that won the British Universities Congress in 1970. Before moving south, he had several success- ful partnerships, in particular with Michael Rosenberg and George Cuthbertson. In 2013, he was a member Gerald of the Scottish senior team that finished 5th in the 2013 World Championship in Bali. He has won many na- Haase tional events including three Scottish Cups, and, the Blue Riband of UK Bridge, the Gold Cup, twice. Gerald and his partner John Murdoch were members of the team that won the recent senior trials, and, in addition to this weekend, they look forward to playing for the Scottish senior team at the European Championships being held during the second half of June in Budapest.

John Murdoch is a retired librarian and trade union- ist. He started playing bridge at 11, reached his peak at 12, declined thereafter and is now reduced to playing in John senior events. He has won all of Scotland’s major events Murdoch including a triumph in the 2015 Benjamin individual when he thought he was last. To avoid a crisis of con- science he did not check the scores. has had considerable International success in the past. She makes her living partly by typesetting travel guides, and partly by professional bridge of one sort or another: writing (columnist for the Sunday Times), play- ing and teaching online. In recent years she has formed a partnership, both at and away from the bridge table, with Barry Myers, a long-time friend who has recently ENGLAND returned to bridge after a long absence.

Sally has recently added to her international successes. In the with the England Women’s team she won a silver medal in 2013 in Bali and a bronze medal in 2015 in Chennai. She also won silver with the England Women’s team at the European Championships in 2014. In 2014 she was part of the team which won the Women’s Sally Team competition at the World Series in Sanya, China. Brock Sally is also leader of the Women’s Under 25 squad.

Barry Myers played in the Camrose with Robert Shee- han in 1986 and again in 2015 with Sally setting, he thinks, the record of the longest gap between first and second caps. This pales into insignificance beside the gap between winning his first and second national competi- tions: 1974-2010. However he says that in his defence that he gave up the game for a number of years when he read for the Bar - still being a practicing criminal barris- ter. Now that he is in partnership with Sally, he believes Barry that further success is only just around the corner (!?) Myers has won just about everything there is to win at the game. At world level she has won the Ven- ice Cup twice (1981 and 1985) and the World Women’s Individual once (1994) as well as silver medals (1976 and 2013) and a bronze medal (2015) in the Venice Cup . At European level, she has won the European Women’s Teams seven times (1975, 1979, 1981, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2012) as well as a host of other European competitions and has a clutch of silver and bronze medals at European women’s level as well.

She has played in the last ten Olympiads, now renamed the World winning the Gold Nicola Medal in Beijing in 2008 and in Lille in 2012. In 2014 she was part of the team which won the Women’s Team Smith competition at the World Series in Sanya, China and also won gold in the individual event. Domestically she has won all the major competitions including the Gold Cup, Crockfords and the Spring Foursomes. In 1995, Nicola’s contribution to the game of bridge was honoured at national level when she was awarded the M.B.E.by the Queen. She was an inaugural recipient of the EBU’s Diamond Award in 2015 Robert Sheehan was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1939 and his multifaceted personality led him to deal with all sorts of things - animal physiologist, compu- ter systems analyst, bookmaker and, of course, bridge champion. He won the Mixed Pairs Gold in the Olympics in 2000, was 3 times silver medallist at the European Champion- ENGLAND ships (1971, 81, 87), was second in the in Ocho Rios in 1987, won bronze in the Olympics in Monaco in 1976. He was one of the best English players of the last part of last century and has many times been part of the national team.

Norman Selway learnt bridge at the age of 14 and was taught mainly by a player called Paul Gordon, whose better half Fritzi was half of the best women’s pair of all time. He played mostly high stake with Robert the likes of John Collings, an ailing Jonathan Cansino, Sheehan an embryonic Zia Mahmood, Paul Hackett and Geof- frey Breskal, amongst many others! It didn’t do much for Norman’s bidding in that company, but his card play became very sound – it had to be!

When he converted to duplicate he won all the major competitions more than once, with the exception of the Gold Cup, which he is hoping to add very soon.

Chris Dixon has been NPC of British and English teams 8 times (2 X Women’s team, 1 X Open team, 1 X Sen- ior team and 4 X U25 team) and also several Camrose captaincies.

Norman His association with top level bridge continues to the present day. He has been chairman of the English Bridge Selway Union selection committee with the responsibility of se- lecting English international teams. He was also a member of the EBU and has been the captain of many English teams in European and World Championships.

Most recently he represented England in the European Championships in Pau, in June 2008 and in the inaugural Olympic in Bei- jing in October 2008 (Quarter finalist). He successfully represented England in the 2010 Home Internationals (Camrose) following his success in the 2009 interna- Chris tional trials. Dixon (PC) Since 2010 Chris has been engaged by the and the as a member of the Appeals Committee for European and World Championships. Locally, Chris is a regular player at Bath Bridge Club and in Wiltshire County bridge events. WALES

Diane and Filip Kurbalija have been life partners for over 40 years. They have played bridge together on and off for almost as long. Their other achievements in- clude numerous Welsh event wins together. Both have Diane represented Wales many times in Home and European Kurbalija Championships.

Diane retired two years ago from a career in education and now enjoys her allotment and the Grow Your Own Association, which she runs. She spends a lot of time in the kitchen, cooking for family and friends. Filip still works as an accountant in the Welsh Assembly Govern- ment and likes to claim that Diane won’t let him retire.

They have wonderful holidays together having visited far-flung places such as South Africa, Vietnam and Cali- Filip fornia in the last few years; they are looking forward to Kurbalija their next trip, which is to Peru.

Philip Felman and Tony Disley started playing together less than a year ago. They owe their selection to fin- ishing 3rd in the Trials and also 3rd in the prestigious Welsh Invitation Pairs. They have each played in the Telscher Trophy on two previous occasions: Philip with Geoff Evans and the legendary Mike Hirst; Tony with Philip Roger Penton including in the victorious Welsh team in 2011. Felman Philip is semi-retired and is the senior partner of char- tered accountants practising in Cardiff. This leaves him plenty of time to play a mean game of golf off a com- petitive handicap and to indulge in his nine grandchil- dren. When this becomes too much for him he escapes to a Majorcan holiday home.

Tony is fully retired from being an Investment Manager Tony and living in Bridgend plays golf at Royal Porthcawl. However his deteriorating golf form frustrates him Disley intensely and he now spends more time administrating and refereeing the game. He has refereed in four Open Championships and many European Tour and major Amateur Events. WALES

John Salisbury and Mike Tedd each had many bridge successes when they were ‘young’, playing in numerous Camrose matches, with different partners. They then stayed away from top level bridge for a number of years Mike when their jobs and the demands of growing families Tedd took over. (PC) With retirement looming, John and Mike returned to the serious game in partnership. They have had seventeen Camrose weekends together, and have played in the Welsh Open or Seniors teams in five European Cham- pionships. They have played together three times in the Teltscher Trophy (Seniors Camrose) and each has acted as NPC for a number of Welsh teams.

Mike Tedd has retired from Aberystwyth University John where he was Professor of Computer Science and, for Salisbury a period, Vice-Principal. John Salisbury has retired from local government in Social Services statistics; his first international experience was in the Junior Camrose quite a few years ago. Bernard Teltscher is President of the LMBA and a two-times winner of the Teltscher , in 2009 and 2012. He came to the UK in 1938 and gained degrees in Engineering, from University College, Lon- don, and in Economics from Trinity College Cambridge, where he restarted the Bridge Club in 1946 and became its first President, playing victoriously in the first post- PATRON’S war Oxford match. TEAM After University, he entered the family wine-importing business. Bernard has played bridge for 85 years and has won almost all English competitions, with the nota- ble exception of the Gold Cup. He was also the sponsor of the Lederer, which he has won four times. In 2015 he received the first Award for Outstanding Bernard Contribution to Bridge. Teltscher Kitty Teltscher was Women’s European Champion- ships: 2004, Venice Cup: 2005, Women’s World Olym- piad: 2004, Lady Milne selections: 2002 and 2004

Kitty has been writing a popular column in Bridge Plus for the past 6 or 7 years, called “Bridge with Panache”

Victor Silverstone is a six-times Lederer winner. He has represented Great Britain in two European champi- onships, has won three Gold Cups and played for Scot- land in over two dozen Camrose matches. Victor has won the English Senior knock-out trophy four times. Despite all this he lists his greatest achievement as get- ting 79.5% at the , playing with his wife.

Major International Appearances: Kitty Teltscher Senior European Championships: 2002 and 2008 (NPC) Senior World Olympiad: 2008

Camrose Trophy Selections (for England): 2001 and 2010

Teltscher Trophy Selections (for GB/Patron’s Team): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014

Gold Cup Winner: 1969, 1973 and 1985

Victor Brighton Four Stars Teams Winner: Silverstone 1981 and 1984

Autumn Congress Two Stars Pairs Winner: 2001 The Bowl Winner: 1989 Tollemache Cup winner: 1978, 1994, 2000, 2010, 2015 PATRON’S TEAM

Willie Coyle has represented Scotland and Great Britain Willie on numerous occasions, mainly with Victor Silverstone. Coyle He has won the Gold Cup many times. His day job was schools’ education.

Gunnar Hallberg and John Holland have been part- ners in Senior team events since 2008, winning World Championships in 2009 and 2010.They were part of the John English team that won the Senior European Champion- ships in Croatia in 2014 and also part of the winning Holland team that won the NEC Cup in Japan in 2015.

John played in the winning 2015 Gold Cup team. He is a full-time bridge professional living in Manchester. Gunnar is originally from Sweden where he won the Swedish teams championship six times and the Nordic championship twice. He was a regular on the Swedish team in the 80’s and won a silver medal in the European pairs in 1980. He won the IBPA ‘Best Defended Hand’ award in 1997. Earlier this year he played on the team that came second in the Winter games in Mo- Gunnar naco. Hallman Gunnar was a star handball player in his youth before bridge took over. Now he is a high-stakes rubber bridge player and another full-time bridge professional. His 16 year old daughter, Nisha, is the apple of his eye.