April Bridge Letter 2009
www.BridgeEvening.com
Well not much news except about our month in Lanzarote with Bridgeoverseas.
www.bridgeoverseas.co.uk
We had a splendid month, good weather and good company.
Diana Panniers aided by Wendy Williams made the whole holiday very enjoyable.
The bridge winners were notably
Anne and Michael Saunders who managed to come top most evenings, closely followed by
Jan and Robin Sharp who turned up for the second half to give them a run for their money.
Terry and I managed to win the teams event with David and Ann Ellis but otherwise did not distinguish ourselves, too much sun and vino perhaps?
Two couples had been last year,
James Degning and Agnes Kerr, Bert Gearing and Barbara Huxstep
It was nice to renew our acquaintance and we are all looking forward to next year…..nothing like forward planning!
www.sandsbeach.eu
Diana Panniers reminded us that the weekend of June 12, 13and 14th is the date of the Swansea Charity Pairs so we are hoping to get down to South Wales for this event.
www.swanseabridgeclub.org.uk
Great news from SkyArts/2 there is to be a series Bridge Celebrity Grand Slam.
The prize is £20,000 and Sue Lawley, Mike Gatting and Susan Hampshire are among the famous celebrities competing.
It is being broadcast everyday at 7pm from Monday 20th April.
H ope it takes off like ballroom dancing did
a few years ago.
www.skyarts.co.uk
Bridge Glossary
Qualifying
(1) (of a tournament session) from which the highest scorers proceed to the next round;
(2) (of a tournament) including one or more qualifying sessions or stages.
Quantitative
(of a bid) asking partner to determine the strength of his band by the total values (usually high-card values) held rather than by the presence or absence of any specific cards.
Queen-ask
in key-card Blackwood, Blackwood bidder's cheapest bid outside the agreed suit to ask partner about possession of the queen of trump
s.
Quick trick
a high-card holding likely to take a trick on an early round of a suit. [Typical quick-trick values: ace-king = 2; ace-queen = 1.5; ace or king-queen = 1; king = 0.5.].
Quitted trick
a trick that has been gathered and turned face down.
Quotient
the ratio of points won to the sum of points won and lost, sometimes used as part of a tie-breaking procedure.
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