David Kendrick and the England Seniors team won Silver Medals at the recent World Championships in China. A massive effort. Well done!  The Ladies Team achieved bronze and the Mixed Team, captained by Paul Barden (NPC), finished a very creditable 4th. The Open Team, with Chris Jagger playing, did well to reach the quarter final, but were defeated, after putting up a very good fight, by the very strong USA1.

We wish all the best to three members of CBC who are currently in Wuhan, China, participating in the 44th World Championships. Chris Jagger, partnering Jeffrey Allerton, is playing for the England Open Team in the Bermuda Bowl, David Kendrick is playing for the England Seniors Team, and our Chairman, Paul Barden is Non-playing Captain of the England Mixed Team. At time of writing all teams are doing extremely well. You can find our more here, http://championships.worldbridge.org/wuhanwt19, or you can follow the matches live on BridgeBase Online.

Many thanks to Jonathan Cooke for writing up the hands played on September 11th.

Well done, Jamie Fegarty! He was part of the under 16 team that took the Bronze Medal at the recent European Youth Championships held in Oslo, Norway

Many congratulations to CBC's current Chair and Vice-Chair!  Paul Barden and Jon Cooke recently won the Corwen Pairs Trophy. This national competition is for those pairs who have done well in their County's pairs championship.

At the club AGM on 24th April the new Club Committee was elected. Paul Barden is Hon. Chairman, Jon Cooke, Hon. Vice-Chair, Fred Langford, Hon. Treasurer, John Liebeschuetz Hon. Secretary and Graham Hazel, Club Captain. The Committee thanks retiring Chairman Roger Salmon and retiring Treasurer Michael Bond for their unstinting contributions to the Club.

Congratulations to Jenny Jacobsberg, Joanne Caldwell, Graham Dolan and Jon Bonsor-Matthews, Jake Dunn and Ben Tarlow, and Alan Shillitoe and John Liebeschuetz for coming second in the Regional Qualifier event despite languishing in 8th place at the half way point. Particular congratulations go to Jake and Ben for achieving second place in the Cross-imps. The team qualify for the Final which will be held in June.

Well done to the team of Carina Negreanu, Adam Bowden, Nadia Stelmashenko and Victor Milman who triumphed in the County Teams KO final. This was the first win in the competition for the first three members. The team qualify to represent the County in the Pachabo Cup in June.

A great result for Rod and Sue Oakford who came second in the National Pairs Final at the weekend, just in front of David Kendrick in third. Congratulations to all three. Also to be congratulated are Jon Cooke and Paul Barden who, nationally, won the Tuesday section of the British Spring Pairs with a staggering percentage of 73.9.