By Neil Bonnell, Warwick Bridge Club
The Annual General Meeting of the Bridge Club will be held in the clubhouse at 11.30am on Monday 14 March and will followed by lunch.
Nominations have been received for all committee positions.
Last Friday Beverly Bonnell made a spectacular return to bridge after some weeks off.
She helped partner to a win in the North/South section with a score of 70 per cent.
One of her several top scores was made on Board 25 (above).
Beverly, (sitting South) opened 1C (Precision) showing at least 16 high points; West overcalled 1S and North found a bid of 2C, which showed 5-8 points (only a small fib), which gave Beverly an indication that game could be made.
East/West countered by competing with their spades, bidding as high as 4S over Beverly’s 4H. North had remained quiet after that first daring bid.
To jolt North into action, Beverly then bid 5D forcing North to make a choice. North put her back into hearts. 5H finally kept East/West quiet.
West won the first trick with the King of spades, but dummy made the choice of continuation difficult.
Finally a club hit the table, which was won by South’s Ace.
Beverly then made two key plays: the first was to play the Ace of hearts immediately, which felled the King and the second was to ruff the nine of spades in dummy.
It was then just a matter of drawing East’s remaining trumps and cashing five diamond winners. Twelve tricks were made and a top result scored on this board.
Results: Monday, 28/02/22 (6 & ½-table Mitchell): N/S N. Collins D. Moran (70.3) 1; J. Mobbs S. Goddard (54.0) 2; L. James S. Head (52.1) 3. E/W J. Rose P. Campbell (63.9) 1; T. Hinde N. Bonnell (57.3) 2; C. Duggan M. Johnston (51.9) 3. Friday, 04/03/22 (5-table Mitchell) N/S N. Bonnell B. Bonnell (70.4) 1; N. Collins J. Nankervis (56.1) 2. E/W D. Moran J. Rose (63.2) 1; S. Goddard N. McGinness (60.1) 2.
