Congratulations to Brett Glass and Gary Foidl, runners up in the National Swiss Pairs 15A event held in Auckland at the weekend.
Brett - Silver Grandmaster
The event marked a special milestone for Brett Glass who became a Silver Grandmaster. An outstanding achievement - well done Brett!

Jenny Gold Grandmaster
At Wednesday night bridge President Mark Thomson presented Jenny Millington with her official Gold Grandmaster Certificate together with a bottle of champagne and a card signed by us all to mark this significant and outstanding achievement. Cheers from all of us Jenny!

Congratulations to Jeffery Chang and his family on becoming New Zealand citizens.
Kiwi Celebration
Jeffery, his wife Sisi and son Xiang became New Zealand citizens last week and went out to dinner to celebrate. Joining them were his main bridge partners Malcolm Smith and Mark Thomson and their wives Alyson and Karen and Jeffrey's staff member Shirley. Kia Ora Jeffery!

Yuzhong and Ian on winning form
At the InterProvincial trials at the weekend in Tauranga two Hamilton players were on form securing a place in the Waikato Bays InterProvincial team to represent the region in November this year in Dunedin. Hamilton's Yuzhong Chen and partner Hank Peng did not look back from Round 1, holding their winning position over the other 17 competing pairs the whole weekend and taking out first place by some margin. They will represent the region in the Open team. Hamilton's Ian Clayton, playing with Alan Turner, came 4th overall securing them the second pairing in the Open Team. We wish them good luck in November.

Many congratulations to Alan Parkes and Graham Stern who won the 5A Open title at Taupo over the weekend.
Graham and Alan
The event is played over three sessions across the weekend. They cleared 60% in their first session on Saturday afternoon and followed this up with an outstanding performance in the evening recording 71.91%. A 53.74% on Sunday morning was enough for them to take the title ahead of Hamilton's Ian Clayton playing with Alan Turner.
Melinda Wang and Catherine Cameron played well at the Matamata Junior tournament last weekend. They are currently studying the Nesting Pairs course and deployed some of their new bidding techniques to finish in 4th spot in a field of 28 pairs. Congratulations to them!
(Photo supplied by Lucie Armstong, clearly shaking with excitement at the pairs' achievement)