Hugh's News

XG Handicapping

The following email was sent to all members on Sunday 23rd November:

"At the 18 November Committee meeting, after careful consideration and robust discussion, the Committee accepted the recommendation of the Bridge Advisory Group (BAG) to adopt the XG system for handicapping.

This will be implemented on 1 January 2026.

Information on the new system will be available in the next newsletter, on the website and on the noticeboard.

Additionally, Hugh Wolfensohn will be joined by Pryor Rowland (the author of the BAG report) and Maureen Pratchett at the Monday sessions on 1st and 8th December to discuss the system and to answer members' questions."

Resources:

A summary version of the BAG report is available here.

A previous post regarding XG handicapping may be found here.

Christmas Function

Christmas is coming!

Photographs and Privacy

At its meeting on 18th November the Committee formally endorsed a new Annex to the Privacy Bylaw which deals with the issue of photography.

The updated Bylaw - including the Annex - can be found here. If you have any questions please contact the Club's Privacy Officer, Nicky Bradley, in the first instance: she will be happy to assist.

CPR Workshop

Please come along if you can - what you will learn might save a life!

National Congress 2025

Results

All Congress results are available here.

Congress Matchpoint Swiss Pairs

Junior

Many congratulations to Murray Lobb and Viv Gray,
winners by a substantial margin.

NZ Pairs

Intermediate

Many congratulations to Chris Farrow and James Winskill, 2nd in a field of 89.

Junior

Well done (again) to Murray Lobb and Craig Jackson (the latter on his birthday) - 4th in a field of 20.

Congress Teams

Well done to our Juniors (Murray Lobb, Craig Jackson, Viv Gray and Jo Anson), winners of the Congress Junior Teams event.

Congratulations also to Pryor Rowland and Anthea Black on their team's 2nd place in the Congress Open Restricted Teams event.

Pryor's team also finished in 10th place in the NZ Restricted Teams event.

NZ Swiss Pairs

Congratulations to Murray Lobb and Craig Jackson, who won the NZ Junior Swiss Pairs with a 7-0-2 record.

Pryor Rowland and his partner finished in 12th place (in a field of 78) in the NZ Restricted Swiss Pairs.

Chris Farrow and James Winskill were 18th (in a field of 76) in the NZ Intermediate Swiss Pairs.

Novice Event Guest Speakers

Bulletins

Bulletin No.1 (featuring Kevin Walker)

Melbourne Cup Day

Lots of great outfits for our Melbourne Cup event. Well done and thank you to all who took part.

The "Dressing Up Day" winners were:

Best Dressed Lady - Pat Stuart
Best Dressed Gentleman - James Jones
Best Hat - Bev Jackson

(photos courtesy of Chris Farrow)

"In Brief"

Neighbours

The above message from Richard Solomon was recently published on the NZBridge website's "All News" page.

Thank you Paraparam - your appreciation is appreciated!!

Speaking of neighbours, this article from "Stuff" about the housing development behind our clubrooms may also be of interest.

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