The Annual General Meeting of the NSWBA was held on Wednesday December 11. The makeup of the new council is posted here.
The 
2013 Annual Report is now available for viewing online.
There will be a change to the way the Grand National Open Teams (GNOT) will be run in 2014. All regions in NSW will be administered by the NSWBA.
The final of the State Open Teams was won by NEILL (Bruce Neill - Richard
Jedrychowski - Andrew Peake - Orlando Wu) defeating CROMPTON (Susan Crompton -
Michael Wilkinson - Berenice Folkard - David Weston) (180-91).
The
Country Teams playoff was won by BROWN (Janet Brown - Eric Hurley - Marjorie
Askew - William Powell) defeating HURLEY (Stephen Hurley - Liz Hurley - Ian
Porter - David Christian - Timothy Marchant) (177-92).
Following the review conducted in October, the NSWBA has now developed a strategic statement for the period 2013-2017. It contains a statement of our vision, our mission, the values we intend to operate under, and the key challenges we have identified.
A new procedure for reporting a Psyche has been implemented at the NSWBA. Either the psycher or the person psyched against can report it.
Canterbury Park Racecourse
October 23-31
Winners of the Open Teams were Michael Wilkinson, Griff Ware, Pauline Gumby and Warren Lazer and the winners of the Dick Cummings Open Pairs were David Beauchamp and Ian Thomson.
The Linda Stern Women's Teams was won by Paula McLeish, Jan Cormack, Lynn Kalmin, Lorna Ichilcik and the Bobby Evans Seniors' Teams by Ron Klinger, Bill Haughie, Robert Krochmalik, Paul Lavings Paul Wyer, Robbie Van Riel.
Sally and Richard Lazar won the Hallowe'en Pairs.
For all of the results and eBulletins please visit the Championship website
The State Open Pairs Championship was held at the NSWBA on October 19-20.
Winners were Sydney players Maurits Van Der Vlugt and Sartaj Hans.
The inaugural Country Open Pairs Championship was won by
The Spring Swiss Pairs was won by Marlene Watts and Michael Prescott.
On Monday October 7 a new event, the Metro South InterClub Teams was held. Southside were the trophy winners coming first in both the Open & Novice divisions.
The September/October 2013 bulletin is available for viewing online.
As part of Stroke Awareness Week the NSWBA held a fund raising game of duplicate bridge on Thursday September 12.
Winners were Toni and Bill Zorn.
The president of the ABF has written a letter about the Workers Compensation Insurance requirements for all clubs who have paid employees. The letter can be found on the ABF website on the Insurances page.
The ABF has entered into an agreement with TBIB to purchase Voluntary Workers Insurance for all State associations and bridge clubs. read more...
A Teacher Training Programme Workshop was held at the Kiama and District Bridge Club on August 10-11.
This was a free workshop for teachers or those who are interested in becoming teachers.
20 players played in the 2013 State Individual held at the NSWBA on Saturday August 3. Tying for 1st place were Warren Lazer and Margaret Foster.
Marion Rice, a regular player at the NSWBA, celebrated her 104th
birthday on August 4.
Congratulations Marion and best wishes for a very happy birthday.
As of August 1st 2013 there will be a significant change to the current alerting procedures which will have an impact on all players. read more...
At the recent meeting of regional representatives of affiliated clubs, it was decided to introduce two new events for country players: the Country Open Pairs Championship (from October 2013) and the Country Mixed Pairs Championship (from May 2014). More details can be found in the letter recently distributed to all clubs.
Country Open and Mixed Pairs Letter to Clubs.
For the results go to www.abfevents.com.au/events/anc/2013/ .
The July/August 2013 bulletin is available for viewing online.
The BROWN team has won the Northern Divisional Final of the Country Teams Championship. Contratulations to Janet Brown, Eric Hurley, William Powell and Marjorie Askew . Northern Divisonal Final Results.
The Outer
Metropolitan Divisional Final was won by the JOHNSON team Christo
Moskovski, Helen Johnson, Pam Robinson & Peter Peterson.
The Southern Divisional Final was won by the HURLEY team - Stephen Hurley, Liz Hurley, Ian Porter, David Christian
The mostly Sydney based team of Avi Kanetkar, Chris Hughes (Melbourne), Paul Lavings, Robert Krochmalik, George Bilski and Terry Brown with John McIlrath as NPC won the 2013 PABF Senior Cup convincingly at the APBF Championships in Hong Kong.
They followed this achievement by also winning the Zone 7 Seniors Playoff defeating NZ who conceded after the third quarter.
All results, photos and captains reports can be found via the ABF website.
Frances Cufar was the winner of the 2013 NSW State Singles
which concluded last Tuesday June 11.
30 June 1950 - 7 June 2013
Bobby Richman passed away in his hotel room on Friday morning on the first day of the APBF championships where he was preparing to play as a member of the Australia Klinger seniors team.
Our thoughts are with all of his family, his many friends, partners and team mates.
A Facebook tribute page has been set up to remember him. Go to
www.facebook.com/groups/430061497101250/
Bobby's funeral service was on Monday 17th June at the Chevra Kadisha Woollahra followed by a celebration of Bobby's life at the Grand Slam Bridge Club.
The Teams of Three congress held on Sunday June 2 at the NSWBA attracted 48
teams from around the state. The winners were the Tony Nunn team:
Tony Nunn (C), Patricia Lacey, Carmel Bourke, Elaine Dignan.
The Regional Representatives Meeting was held at the NSWBA on Saturday June 1. After the meeting some of the participants relaxed at the Lynn Shanghai for dinner. Gallery.
The State Mixed Pairs Championship was held on the weekend of May 25-26 at the NSWBA.
Winners were:
Jennifer Rothwell and Bijan Assaee
The Autumn Swiss Pairs Congress on Sunday May 26 was won by Patricia Lacey - Carmel Bourke and William Zhang - Michael Wu (equal 1st).
The Seniors Interstate Teams Selection was held on the weekend of May 18-19 at the NSWBA. The winning team was the BLOOM team - Martin Bloom, George Bilski, Dennis Zines, Tom Moss.
The top 3 pairs in the Youth Interstate Team Trials held on Sunday May 19 at the NSWBA were James Ferguson - Edward Burrowes, Alan Stoneham - Stephen Guo, Natasha Jacobs - Tomer Libman.
Julian Foster has been elected as the ABF Councillor to represent NSW for the next two years. (March 2013)
The finals of the Open and Women's Interstate Teams Selection to select the teams to represent NSW at the ANC in Adelaide in July were completed on the weekend. Subject to council ratification the teams are:
Open: Orlando Wu - Andrew Peake, Robert Sebesfi - Andrew Markovics, Bob Richman - Jane Dawson
Women: Lorna Ichilcik - Lynn Kalmin, Cathryn Herden - Anita Curtis, Frances Lyons - Heather Cusworth
Full results at:
Open and Women's ITS Results.
Kim Morrison playing with Simon Hinge has won the both the Roger Penny Senior Swiss Pairs and the Australian Swiss Pairs in Hobart. Full results at www.bridgeunlimited.com.
The March/April edition of the NSWBA Newsletter is available for viewing online.
Ian Lisle will conduct a series of Improvers Lessons for Intermediate players commencing Friday April 12.
Lillian Hughes, a regular player at the North Shore Bridge Club has celebrated her 100th birthday.
Our thanks go to Peter Jamieson who has retired after writing and producing the NSWBA Newsletter for Affiliated Clubs for many years.
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