Senior Camrose 2013 Teltscher Trophy

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1 Senior Camrose 2013 Teltscher Trophy 17 th 19 th May 2013 Village Hotel & Leisure Club Coryton, Cardiff CF14 7EF 2

2 Senior Internationals and the Teltscher Trophy I was in Santiago for the 1993 Bermuda Bowl when news emerged that the World Bridge Federation was increasing the minimum age for Seniors from 50 to 55. I asked a member of the WBF Committee what had prompted the change. I am 56, came the humorous but perhaps revealingly honest reply. The more compelling reason was the major overlap between candidates for the Open and Senior national teams. Ten years later, the WBF decided to increase the age limit from 55 to 60, but the qualifying birth date remained the same for five years so those that were already eligible did not suddenly find themselves ineligible. The Zones and National Federations followed suit with the surprising exception of the ACBL where the age limit remains at 55. With Meckstroth winning National Senior events and World Open titles in the same year, might North America follow the rest of the world? Back in Britain I began the task of persuading the member nations to accept the idea of a Senior Home International. Bridge Great Britain had Home Internationals for all the categories at Zonal (European Championships) and World levels, with the notable exception of Seniors, a group which formed at least half the membership. Initially the proposals met strong resistance because of lack of volunteers to run the weekends and cost of fielding the teams. It was here that I was delighted to find a supporter in Bernard Teltscher, who offered to cover the hosting cost for the first five-year cycle. BGB invited him as Patron to field a sixth team so that three matches could be played simultaneously (with the same format as the Lady Milne). Bernard has always fielded players whom we are delighted to see at the event, and we collectively owe him a debt of gratitude in turning the idea into reality. Sandra Claridge of BGB nobly offered to run, in Oxford, any weekend where the Federation was reluctant to take up its obligations. Wales stepped aside the first year but has shouldered the burden this year, the first of the second cycle. Scotland generously offered to take two of the five years, in 2010 and Bernard s continued support here in Cardiff means the players benefit from not having to pay the cost of dinner on Sunday night, and the Federation receives much of the hosting cost. Patrick Jourdain, Editor & Match Manager 1

3 WINNERS OF THE TELTSCHER TROPHY 2008 Oxford England: P Hackett & R Harper, I Panto & A Waterlow, G Hallberg & J Holland, NPC J Williams 2009 Oxford Patron: B Teltscher & A Priday, V Silverstone & C Dixon, C Simpson & D Price Leading National Team: Scotland: E McGowan & M Ash, R Bennett & D Liggatt, D Gerrard & M Rae, NPC S Malkani 2010 Glasgow England: P Collins & M Lewis, J Holland & G Hallberg, P Hackett & R Harper 2011 Oxford Wales: R Penton & A Disley, MN Hirst & J Luck, L Sheridan & G Dew, NPC M Tedd 2012 Ayr Great Britain: B Teltscher & A Priday, G Hallberg & J Holland, A Waterlow & V Silverstone Leading National Team: Scotland: I Sime & J Murdoch, J Matheson & W Coyle, W Whyte & I Gordon, NPC M Ash 2013 Cardiff THE STAFF Match Manager (Pre-match) & brochure editor: Match Manager (during match) & website: Tournament Directors: Chairman of Appeals & BGB representative: Brochure Layout editor: BBO arrangements: Transport: BGB Secretary: WBU Chief Executive: Patrick Jourdain Mike Tedd Mike & Sarah Amos Tim Rees Laura Woodruff Simon Gottschalk Maggie Pierce Sandra Claridge Neville Richards This brochure is provided by the CARDIFF SCHOOL OF BRIDGE. Courses for Beginners and Improvers. Afternoon and evening classes. Tel

4 REGULATIONS FOR SPECTATORS It is the duty of the match manager to make spectators aware of their responsibilities. During play in the Open Room they must refrain from mannerisms or remarks, and must not converse with a player or display any reaction to bidding or play. Spectators are permitted to observe the cards of one player only. They should be seated behind that player and may not get up to walk round the table, or seek to look at the cards of any other player. Spectators may not draw attention to any irregularity or mistake, nor speak on any question except by request of the Director. Non-playing members of a team are not allowed to watch their team-mates playing at the tables. A player is responsible for the actions of any spectator associated with him (as distinct to a spectator casually attracted to the table by his presence there). The Director in Charge and/or the Match Manager is empowered to control the presence of spectators, individually or collectively. Closed Room Entry to the Closed Room is restricted to: VP Scale (14 boards) the Tournament Director the Match Manager participants assigned to play in the Closed Room personnel needed to ensure the smooth running of the match hotel staff for the provision of refreshments etc. a maximum of two accredited journalists. Smoking & Mobile Phone Regulations Smoking is not permitted in the hotel. Mobile phones, pagers or other electronic equipment may not be brought into the playing area. Any player or team official bringing such an item into these areas will result in his or her team s being fined 2VP. Alcohol is not permitted in the playing areas. Format IMPs VPs Each team will play two matches against each other team. Each match will be between teams of four over 14 boards with IMP scoring converted to VPs according to the WBF published scale. 3

5 Draw Team A: England Team B: Great Britain Team C: Republic of Ireland Team D: Scotland Team E: Wales Team F: Northern Ireland Schedule Friday Captains Meeting Dinner D v F C v E B v A A v C B v D F v E Saturday E v A F v B C v D B v C A v F E v D Lunch F v C E v B D v A F v D C v B A v E Dinner Sunday A v D B v E C v F F v A D v B E v C Lunch E v F A v B D v C C v A D v E B v F Drinks Reception Dinner 4

6 Great Britain THE TEAMS Bernard Teltscher (Playing Captain) & Tony Priday; Victor Silverstone & Derek Diamond; Willie Coyle & John Matheson The sixth team has been led by Bernard Teltscher for all six years of the Senior Home Internationals, under various names (Patron, England 2, and now Great Britain). The leading national team wins the trophy but the Teltscher team has recorded two wins in the event (2009 and 2012), on both occasions overtaking Scotland at the last gasp. Bernard Teltscher (Playing Captain) & Tony Priday Both members of this partnership have recently celebrated their 90th birthdays, so their ages not only sum to a score well known in another sport, but also set a record for international contest that is unlikely to be beaten by anyone other than themselves, next year. Bernard s company (Teltscher Brothers, sold to Bacardi Martini in 1991) was responsible for the first really successful mass importation of wine to Britain. That has not prevented Bernard from being involved in tournament bridge on a major scale. He plays in and captains the President s team in the Lederer Memorial Trophy, recording several wins (1995 and 1997 were the earliest). His family are all successful bridge-players though son Mark is now better known for backgammon and poker. Tony Priday was in the British team that won the 1961 European championships, then took silver in 1971 and bronze in two world championships. He represented England in 30 Camrose appearances covering six decades. He has had seven Gold Cup wins, including one with your Editor in Priday was bridge correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph for 36 years, from its launch in His first wife, the late Jane Juan, was a multiple world bridge champion. In the Second World War Tony rose to the rank of major. Waiting to embark on D-day he was hospitalised when a motor-cyclist on his own side lost control and ran into him. In 1947 he joined the family business of timber merchants retiring in 2011 as Managing Director. He now lives in Marbella with second wife, Vivian. 5

7 Victor Silverstone & Derek Diamond These two had partnered each other in the Maccabi Games but their first appearance for Scotland was in last year s Senior Europeans in Dublin. Scotland gained the bronze medal, its first medal in any European, thereby qualifying for the d Orsi Senior Bowl to be held in Bali this September. Victor s main international partner was Willie Coyle. In addition to several Camrose wins for Scotland (including one with your Editor in ) they played in the British team in the Europeans of 1969 and1973. In 1975 Victor moved to England, later representing England in the Camrose with Chris Dixon and in the Senior Europeans with Ross Harper. Victor still works as a part-time accountant living in Middlesex with Linda and four children. They have 4.3 grandchildren (one on the way). Derek Diamond played 12 Camrose weekends for Scotland. He was in the Scottish team that won gold in the 2010 Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship. He is a businessman who named one of his companies Diamond Holdings. He and wife Rhona live in Glasgow. Willie Coyle & John Matheson This is another pair from last year s Scottish Senior bronze medallists in Dublin. They have also partnered each other for Scotland s Camrose team. John suffers from Parkinson s Disease and will not be going to Bali but his bridge has not suffered, with wife Trish (44 years of happy marriage) to assist with mechanical problems. He is a retired GP and they live near Glasgow. Willie Coyle had 40 Camroses for Scotland. He is a retired school teacher who assisted schools with IT. He lives in Glasgow but spends half the year in London. 6

8 England Paul Hackett & David Mossop; John Holland & Gunnar Hallberg; Colin Simpson & David Price; NPC Simon Cocheme The England Senior team in Cardiff is one player different (David Mossop replacing Ross Harper) from the team that won the world title, the d Orsi Senior Bowl, in Sao Paulo in Paul Hackett, Gunnar Hallberg and John Holland added a further world senior title, the transnational Rand Cup, the following year in Philadelphia, with two Americans completing the team. The same three were on the team that won the inaugural Teltscher Trophy in 2008, and followed with a further win in Hallberg & Holland switched to the Teltscher team last year and overtook Scotland, the leading national team, in the final round to win the event if not the trophy. Colin Simpson partnered Gunnar Hallberg in the England team that reached the semi-finals of the World Olympiad in Maastricht, Paul Hackett & David Mossop The Hackett family from Manchester have a bridge column in a national newspaper and Paul is an England selector. Paul is a founder of the Buffett Cup match between Europe and the USA (run along the lines of golf s Ryder Cup) which was hosted near Cardiff in He also inaugurated the Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship in his home city ten years ago when Wales won the silver medal. The CNBC followed the Commonwealth Games to Melbourne and Delhi, and next year will be in Scotland. Paul is a full-time bridge professional. David Mossop has recently transferred his allegiance back from Switzerland to England. He won all the major Swiss titles and played for the Swiss Open team in three international championships. Before he moved to Switzerland he won the Gold Cup twice (partnering Wales s Tim Rees), Crockfords (twice), the Premier League (twice) and the Spring Fours. David is a frequent visitor to Cardiff for the Welsh Invitation Pairs, winning the first edition in 2002, in partnership with Tony Forrester. John Holland & Gunnar Hallberg John Holland is another Manchester player. He is the current holder of the Sunday Telegraph Salver for the most master points won in England in 2012, and was runner-up in the England gold 7

9 point rankings to David Gold. He is a full-time bridge professional. Gunnar Hallberg is originally from Sweden where he won the Swedish teams championship six times and the Nordic championship twice. He was a regular on the Swedish team in the 80s and won a silver medal in the European Pairs in He won the IBPA "Best Defended Hand" award in Gunnar was a star handball player in his youth, before bridge took over. Now he is a high-stakes rubber bridge player and another full-time bridge professional. His 12 year old daughter, Nisha, is the apple of his eye. David Price & Colin Simpson David and Colin have played together since 2004, representing England in both Open and Seniors. They are the first pair to play for the England Open and Senior teams in the same year and so, following England s success in the 2013 Camrose, will be going for a unique double. David Price retired from the commercial rat race a few years ago and now divides his time between professional bridge activities and investment research. He has won many national titles and first played for Great Britain in the 1983 European Championships. David has also captained Great Britain and England teams. Colin Simpson worked in the Metropolitan Police for over 30 years, mainly in counter-terrorism. Work commitments precluded much tournament bridge, but he always found time for his first love, high stakes rubber bridge. Partnerships in the 70s included Rixi Markus, Irving Rose and Martin Hoffman. Like David, Colin has won many national titles, and he was part of the All Stars team in their five-year Lederer winning streak. Simon Cochemé (NPC) Simon Cochemé is trying for third time lucky as NPC of the England Seniors. He is an enthusiastic but moderate player and is devoting his retirement years to other aspects of the game. He organised the Lederer for London for five years and is vice-chairman of the EBU Selection Committee. Simon had two books (co-authored with David Bird) published in the 90s, and writes an informative (he hopes) and entertaining (he says) column for English Bridge. 8

10 Scotland Liz McGowan & David Liggat; Irving Gordon & Danny Kane; Brian Short & Alan Goodman; NPC Anne Symons Scotland twice has its name on the Teltscher Trophy as the leading national team. On both occasions namely Oxford in 2009 and Ayr last year the Teltscher team overtook it at the last gasp, in Oxford on the very last deal. Alan Goodman & Brian Short Brian played bridge for Great Britain on 3 occasions with long-time partner Sandy Duncan, before Scotland got international autonomy. He has 38 Camrose caps for Scotland, with series wins on two occasions and one tie, and multiple European and Olympiad appearances for Scotland in both Open and Senior events. He won the Gold Cup in 2006 and has won every major Scottish event, including the premier teams competition (the Scottish Cup) on 9 occasions. He has also had the dubious honour of captaining the Scottish Lady Milne team for the last 9 years, although he claims to enjoy it! His other main interests are his family, hill-walking, and occasional (very bad) golf. Alan Goodman is a retired actuary, married with three grown-up daughters and one young grandson. His main interests other than bridge are playing golf, collecting art deco and watching the trials and tribulations at Newcastle United. Alan played for the Scotland Open team at the Europeans in Ostend, Senior Camrose in 2011 and has been NPC on numerous occasions. Irving Gordon & Danny Kane Irving Gordon won the 1998 World Senior Pairs in Lille partnering the late Boris Schapiro. Aged 89, Boris remains the oldest person to win a world title. Irving was a mere youngster of 58 at the time (the age limit was 55 then). He has also won the Gold Cup in 1975 and 1998, several Spring Foursomes, and was a runner-up in the Sunday Times Pairs. He has represented Britain at the European Championships (Open team) and Scotland at the European Championships at both Open and Senior. He won his latest gold medal with the Scottish team in the 2010 Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships held in India. Danny took up Bridge when he was a young Physics teacher in Glasgow, and was involved with running School Bridge for a number of years. Several of his pupils went on to play internationally at junior level. He played in the Camrose with Jimmie Arthur in the late 1980's. His Scottish bridge 9

11 achievements include four National Pairs wins in the 1990's. By 1996, he had started a golf business, and due mainly to heavy work commitments, stopped playing bridge for approximately 15 years. During that time, his only contact with the game was playing for a West of Scotland league team. However, his bridge interest has been thoroughly renewed over the past couple of years, and he is delighted to be partnering Irving in the Senior Camrose team this year. His main interests apart from bridge have always been sport of various different kinds. In his younger days, he fought at professional level at full contact karate Thai kickboxing and boxing all in the heavyweight division (Ed: he once silenced the late Victor Goldberg with a plausible threat to throw him through an imagined hole in the wall). Now, in his more mature years, Danny prefers golf, and plays as often as time and Scottish weather allows. Liz McGowan & David Liggat Liz McGowan has one world title, two European golds, two Olympiad silver medals, and numerous national titles. In the 1996 Olympiad the team lost in the quarter-finals and Liz and her partner Heather Dhondy went for consolation to the bar, where they found two Icelandic men just eliminated from the Open. They formed a team for the first World Transnational Mixed Teams and collected gold. Liz has played in a record 29 Lady Milnes including last year s win and in the Seniors for the 2009 win. Liz is a bridge teacher and journalist, and on the SBU council and BGB, organiser of the Home Internationals. She lives with Ian in Edinburgh and has recently become a grandmother, a role she enjoys enormously. David Liggat is a retired VAT inspector and Secretary of the Scottish Bridge Union, which position he is giving up at the end of this month after 10 years. He lives in Edinburgh. An experienced internationalist, he has represented Scotland in 10 Camroses and at European Senior level. This will be his 4th Senior Camrose. David considers his greatest bridge achievement occurred over 40 years ago when, in an interclub aggregate match, he got a penalty of 4700 (under the old scoring) 7DXX honours. Anne Symons (NPC) Anne has been a regular member of the Scottish Ladies team for a number of years, playing in Lady Milnes (including last year s win), Europeans and Olympiads. She has also been part of the only women s pair to play in the Camrose for Scotland. This is her first foray into captaincy, although she was an assistant once, which involved a lot of coffee-fetching, and nail-biting. She suspects full captaincy won t be much different, but is looking forward to the experience. Still working full-time as a Pharmacist, Anne is hoping to semi-retire in the not too distant future. 10

12 Ireland (Republic) David Jackson & Tom Gibson; Pat Liston & Pat Quinn; Michael MacDonagh & Pat McDevitt; NPC B.J. O Brien David Jackson & Tom Gibson David Jackson (pictured) has been non-playing captain of some of Ireland s leading teams including the all-ireland team that won the silver medal in the 2006 Europeans in Warsaw. Jackson is a former statistician and bridge author with his own point count for balanced hands, the Banzai, ( for AKQJ10) to his credit. He lives in Dublin. From being a sedate Dublin based Revenue inspector, many years ago Omar Sharif lookalike Tom let the dark side take over and became a poker player, moving eventually to Stoke (or did he suppress the dark side and let the poker player take over?). Ireland has seen very little of Tom in the flesh, but he has been playing lots of BBO and maintaining contact with our Camrose team by supporting them in all their mainland sorties. Pat Liston & Pat Quinn Based in Limerick, Pat Liston has been hiding his light under many bushels for years refusing to leave home base. Others have been happy to see this continuing, as his success rate on the few sallies made from Limerick has been phenomenal winning many national championships, and a number of these with Pat Q. All change 2013! Originally from Co. Clare, this is Pat Quinn s second qualification to play in this event, but his first appearance. He has played in many international events across the globe with such luminaries as Gay Keaveney and the late Paddy Walsh. Pat has won numerous National events in various partnerships but his natural charm has encouraged Pat eile (other) from his Limerick lair to international honours. Michael MacDonagh & Pat McDevitt Michael (pictured) has played on the Irish Senior Camrose team since its inception. He is a Grand Master, and since he started playing bridge in university in his home city of Galway, over the years he has won practically every National Pairs' competition in Ireland with various partners, and played on the Irish Open team in the Europeans in Tenerife. He lives in Mullingar with his 'life' partner, Liz, with whom he has played successfully in Mixed competitions. Liz usually travels with Michael to make sure he arrives. 11

13 Pat, originally from Donegal and now living in Boston, won the Senior Pairs for the Hiron Trophy at the World Series of Bridge in Philadelphia in 2010, playing with Rich De Martino from New England. He is a Life Grand Master in the ACBL with many North American Championships to his credit. Pat played for the Irish Senior Team with Rex Anderson in the World Mind Sports Olympiad in Shanghai in 2008, in the 2010 European Championships in Ostend with Michael and in the 2012 Dublin Europeans with Rory Timlin. This is Pat s third Senior Camrose appearance. B J O Brien (NPC) BJ, as everyone knows him, is a frequent visitor to Cardiff, for the Welsh Invitation Pairs and for any other tournament which offers an excuse. He has represented Ireland in both the European Championships (in Ostend it was after a life-saving kidney transplant) and the Camrose. This year he was in the B team. He was the main organiser of the inaugural Buffett Cup match in Dublin in As BJ does not drink alcohol he is used unmercifully by his Cardiff friends as a driver. Northern Ireland David Greenwood (Playing Captain) & Rex Anderson; Ian Lindsay & Robin Burns; Hastings Campbell & Greer Mackenzie The NI Trials are Team Trials and the winning team of four chooses a third pair to join it for the international. The Trials were won by Rex Anderson & David Greenwood with Ian Lindsay & Robin Burns and they chose Greer Mackenzie & Hastings Campbell to join them. Rex Anderson & David Greenwood (Playing Captain) Rex and David are annual visitors to Cardiff for the Welsh Invitation Pairs. They are the only pair to have won it more than once, with and have recorded three wins in the 11 years of the event. David s recovery from a severe stroke in 2011 allowed them to rejoin the Camrose where they have had 42 weekends. Northern Ireland had its best start to a Camrose this year and after 6 of the ten matches was only 3 VPs behind England. Rex has 102 Camrose weekends, substantially more than the second-placed player (from Wales). He recently retired as a solicitor in Coleraine. David 12

14 Greenwood first represented England in the 1980 Camrose with Phillip Alder (ex-wales & England, now USA). David and wife Diane live near Belfast. Ian Lindsay & Robin Burns Robin is a retired civil servant who specialised in IT. He has represented the NIBU on many occasions with three different partners. He has been Match Point secretary of the NIBU for many years. He is currently trying to master the French language. Ian has represented the NIBU with four different partners. He is a retired accountant who now acts as Treasurer for six charities connected with music, the visual arts, health and the disabled. He devotes a great deal of time to bridge administration and is a past Secretary, Chairman, Congress Organiser, and President of the NIBU, and a past President of the Irish Bridge Union. Hastings Campbell & Greer MacKenzie Hastings is a retired university lecturer who runs property companies in Belfast. He has represented Northern Ireland in 68 Camroses, with a number of different partners. Hastings takes his bridge very seriously so long as it doesn't interfere with his true passion, cricket. Greer has won more Camrose caps with more partners than he cares to remember. Greer's main responsibilites at the weekend will involve partnership's administrative duties, such as system sheets, scoring etc. This leaves Hastings free to concentrate on the finer things in life, wines, cigars and following cricket. Retired from his software company Greer has become a devotee of bridge on the internet. Wales Chris Rochelle & Liz Atkinson; Gary Jones & Patrick Jourdain; Geoff Evans & Philip Felman; NPC John Salisbury Chris Rochelle & Liz Atkinson Chris Rochelle & Liz Atkinson won the Senior Trial. This will be the first time Chris has represented Wales. He is a metallurgist in the aerospace and defence (by this politicians usually mean attack ) components industry. He 13

15 lives in Cardiff. Liz has often represented Wales in the Lady Milne. She is a retired school teacher and a good golfer also living in Cardiff. Geoff Evans & Philip Felman Geoff Evans has represented Wales in the Camrose but this is his first match for the Seniors. He is a farmer living in Caerphilly. He is a quiz expert who has appeared on television s Eggheads, eliminating the renowned Daphne in their head-to-head. This will be Philip Felman s first time representing Wales. He is an accountant living in Cardiff with his wife, Christine, and their three children. Philip has captained his golf club, home of the Welsh Invitation Pairs. Gary Jones & Patrick Jourdain Gary Jones is the one member of the team who represented Wales in the Camrose this year, partnering Tim Rees. His former partner and son, Dafydd, is taking a year off with a new baby, making Gary a proud grandfather of Geraint. Gary & Dafydd were on team Wales for the silver medal at the first Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship, and for Wales s historic Camrose win in Patrick Jourdain has represented Wales in an Open team for six consecutive decades, the latest being the CNBC in Delhi in In terms of Camrose weekends he is second only to Rex Anderson of Northern Ireland, and the only player to have recorded wins over all five countries, including his now home country, Wales, when on the Scottish team that won the Camrose in 1976/77. He has been bridge correspondent of the Daily Telegraph since 1992 and President of the International Bridge Press Association for ten years. He has run the Cardiff School of Bridge for 28 years and enjoys social golf and tennis. John Salisbury (NPC) John has played for Wales in Camrose with Robert Upton and, since his emergence from bridge retirement, with Mike Tedd. He has also played in the European Championships in the Open and Senior Teams. A retired social worker, John is now trying his hand at captaincy. 14

16 ROUND ROBIN 1 England England GB RoI Scotland Wales N. Ireland TOTAL Great Britain R. of Ireland Scotland Wales N. Ireland ROUND ROBIN 2 England England GB RoI Scotland Wales N. Ireland B/F TOTAL Great Britain R. of Ireland Scotland Wales N. Ireland Published for the Welsh Bridge Union, Meadow View, Llanddewi, Llandrindod Wells LD1 6SE Printed by Edson Print, Palmerston Workshops, Barry CF63 2YZ Cover photograph by Matthew Woodiwiss at Flickr.