HAPPY HOLIDAYS!. As another year comes to an end, your CBF Board of Directors would like to wish you Happy Holidays and all the best for 2025!
As part of our mission, the CBF Board of Directors have been busy working hard throughout the year to reengage our members, promote bridge in Canada and provide the competitive forum required to choose the best of the best to represent Canada on the world stage. It has been a challenge, but we are listening and will continue to work tirelessly to improve and evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of our members in the post-pandemic bridge world.
The Board intends to provide periodic updates to keep you informed of various items of interest to the members. Continue reading for the latest update.
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Get to know Bridge Canada, the online magazine of the CBF. You can access the magazine through the top menu or the red tab on the left side of this page.
In this issue, read articles on the state of bridge, featuring news of interest to all bridge players. Also, reports on interesting hands at the World Games and the latest CBCs, and much more.
As West, you hold: ♠32 ♥AQ2 ♦AKQ2 ♣J752. Both vul, the bidding starts off Pass by North, 1♠ by partner, Pass by South. What do you bid as West? To read more go to page 21 of this new issue.
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Four panelists scored perfect 50s in the last Great Canadian Bidding Contest: Keith Balcombe, Ray Hornby, David Grainger and Zygmunt Marcinski! Ashot Harutyunyan was the reader with the top score, closely followed by Sheldon Spier.
Continue reading to see the new set of problems. Play along and email your answers to the June problems by May 11^th to Neil Kimelman (editor@cbf.ca). Have fun!
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The 2025 Junior Trials will be held December 28 – 30.
The Trials will be played online (on RealBridge) to cater to out-of-Ontario players. Players in the Greater Toronto Area are to bring a device (such as a laptop or iPad – not a phone) and meet at the Mississauga-Oakville Bridge Center. The $10 registration fee covers three days of bridge play. Times will be determined at a later date. Lunch, drinks and snacks will be provided.
Deadline to register for the Trials: December 1, 2024. Link to register.
The CBF is planning to send two teams to the 2025 World Championships next summer. If you have any questions please email Andy Stark at juniors@cbf.ca.
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