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Status: Bridge (2025 - March)

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Rationale for this Project


General Status
  1. Statistics: by partner and club-category can be obtained by following these links – for the last quarter and to date.
  2. Results: Follow this link. Further information can be found from my Bridge Page5.
  3. Master Points:
    • 40,9066, bagged to date, including 1,298 Blue Points and 117.44 Green Points.
    • That makes me a Premier National Master. My next milestone7 will be to achieve Life Master status (60,000 LPs, including 150 GPs) – so quite a long way to go!
  4. EBU Grading:
    • The quarter was –unusually – mostly an upward climb, and I ended up a mid-AC rating having been a whisker away from AD (and third in Essex) at one point.
    • See EBU: NGS for full details of the scheme, and previous Status Reports and my Summary of Progress to Date8 for my detailed meanderings over time.
  5. Summary of Progress to Date: I’ve hived off the history to the above-mentioned Summary of Progress to Date9 document, which I now intend to update annually unless there’s an exciting development.
  6. Further Details: of time expenditure against task are given below, extracted from the relevant version of my Summary Task List10 (which is regularly updated between Quarterly Status Reports) and YTD here11..

Summary of Progress during January - March 2025
  1. I spent 214.75 hours in 25Q1 on this Project, or related work (336.75 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2024). That's 183% of the planned effort (136% YTD). Overall, 26.9% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 21.8% YTD) - as against 14.5% planned (15.3% YTD).
  2. I’d maintained my time allocation at 10 hours / week, and spent nearly double that amount of time, for reasons to be explained.
  3. In early January I had a bust-up with Grumpy at Mayflower, walked out and ‘gave up bridge’. In the cold light of day I realised this was a ludicrous over-reaction and would leave lots of people in the lurch, so un-resigned. In the short term this led to David P playing with Albert and me without a game, other than at Chelmsford, monthly, and a few ad hoc events. Since then, things have settled down and I’m playing regularly with David P and less so with Albert (and very occasionally with Colin).
  4. A turning point with Quarter was that I at last agreed to play on-line (RealBridge) which has enabled entry to National GP competitions. I still prefer F2F, but RealBridge is fine and saves excessive travelling and accommodation costs. .
  5. Highlights of the Quarter were:-
    • EBU National Pairs (Sunday 23rd March 2025, RealBridge): A real disappointment. Came 138 / 258 nationally. A disastrous morning (235th) but a much better afternoon (39th), for which we got 0.66GP. An NGS set-back, though.
    • ECBA Championship Pairs (Sunday 16th March 2025, Barleylands): With DP. OK but somewhat disappointing, though better than our NGS. 8 / 23. 0.71GP.
    • EBU Ranked Masters Pairs: National/Regional Masters Section (Sun/Mon 22-23rd February 2025, RealBridge): With DP. Did well enough, but not as well as we might have hoped, though better than our NGS. 4 / 14. 4.68GP.
    • ECBA Cornell Trophy (Sunday 9th February 2025, Barleylands): Teams, Mayflower A, with DP and Sandy+Jack. A triumph. We won the competition and David and I easily topped the X-IMPs. 567 LPs.
    • NICKO Plate Round 1 (Wednesday 5th February 2025, Loughton): With DP (and CS+PO). Beat Westbury A comfortably (81-22). 1GP.
  6. Otherwise, I played most weeks at Mayflower, three times at Chelmsford (twice on RealBridge) and twice at Mid Essex. Mostly OK.
  7. There were three social events: Two lunches with David P and John McC and DP’s bridge day. All very enjoyable. I missed out on Robert’s on account of the ‘bust up’ with Grumpy.
  8. Looking back, I probably still spend too much time enjoying myself reviewing the sessions after the event, important though this is.
  9. Further details follow:-
    Bridge (Total Hours = 214.75)
    1. Bridge - Reading / Writing
    2. Bridge - Admin (Total Hours = 58)
      • 24Q4 Status Reports: Bridge (1.5 hours)
        → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (1.5 hours)
      • Admin - Mayflower DBC - Lunch with DP & JMcC (5.5 hours)
      • Admin - Mayflower DBC - NICKO Organisation (7.5 hours)
      • "Admin - Mayflower DBC - Secretarial & Signatory Duties" (15.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Discussion with Chris C (0.25 hours)
      • Bridge - ECATS SIMS LPs Recalculation (2 hours)
      • Bridge - Emails / Calls to Albert (0.75 hours)
      • Bridge - Emails / Calls to David P (11.75 hours)
      • Bridge - Emails to Colin (2 hours)
      • Bridge - Emails to Grumpy (3 hours)
      • Bridge - Emails to Robert (0.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Entries to ECBA & EBU Competitions (0.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Planning EBU Sessions with David P (0.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Planning Tournament Entries (4.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Ranked Masters - Admin (0.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Set up Chelmsford BC as Payee (0.25 hours)
      • Conversation with Dave T (0.5 hours)
      • DP Bridge Party - Meal & Socialising (1 hour)
        → See "Admin - Bridge - Admin" (41 hours)
    3. Bridge - Play (Total Hours = 83)
      • Bridge - Chelmsford - RealBridge (Albert) (3 hours)
      • Bridge - Chelmsford - RealBridge (David P) (3.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Chelmsford (Albert) (7 hours)
      • Bridge - Cornell Trophy (David P) (6.75 hours)
      • Bridge - DP Bridge Party (7.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Jubilee (Colin) (3.25 hours)
      • Bridge - Mayflower (Albert) (14 hours)
      • Bridge - Mayflower (Colin) (3.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Mayflower (David P) (3.25 hours)
      • Bridge - Mid-Essex (Albert) (3.25 hours)
      • Bridge - NICKO - TW (David P) (3 hours)
      • Bridge - ECBA Championship Pairs (David P) (6.25 hours)
      • Bridge - National Pairs - RealBridge (David P) (6.75 hours)
      • Bridge - Ranked Masters - RealBridge (David P) (12 hours)
        → See "Admin - Bridge - Playing" (83 hours)
    4. Bridge - Study (Total Hours = 70)
      • Bridge - RealBridge Investigations & Training (2.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Session Reviews - Albert (8 hours)
      • Bridge - Session Reviews - Colin (2 hours)
      • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (4 hours)
      • Bridge - Session Reviews - David P (8.25 hours)
      • Bridge - Session Reviews - DP Bridge Party (0.25 hours)
      • Bridge - Systems Review - Albert (10.25 hours)
      • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (0.25 hours)
      • Bridge - Systems Review - Colin (1.75 hours)
      • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (30.5 hours)
      • Bridge - Systems Review - David P (0.75 hours)
      • Bridge - Systems Review - Robert (0.75 hours)
      • Bridge - Systems Reviews - DP Bridge Party (0.75 hours)
        → See "Admin - Bridge - Study" (70 hours)
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Table of the Previous 12 Versions of this Note: (of 87)

Date Length Title
01/02/2025 00:28:48 10581 Status: Bridge (2024 - December)
10/10/2024 00:47:31 11163 Status: Bridge (2024 - September)
11/07/2024 23:08:10 10007 Status: Bridge (2024 - June)
15/04/2024 00:34:34 9740 Status: Bridge (2024 - March)
01/04/2024 20:08:10 9365 Status: Bridge (2023 - December)
04/10/2023 21:59:02 11600 Status: Bridge (2023 - September)
06/07/2023 00:43:12 12832 Status: Bridge (2023 - June)
30/04/2023 01:06:14 11624 Status: Bridge (2023 - March)
10/01/2023 23:35:31 10068 Status: Bridge (2022 - December)
10/10/2022 22:32:10 9750 Status: Bridge (2022 - September)
03/07/2022 01:29:17 9863 Status: Bridge (2022 - June)
11/04/2022 00:01:26 9560 Status: Bridge (2022 - March)



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07/04/2025 00:15:50 784 (Status: Bridge (2025 - March)) Status: Summary (2025 - March)


Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Status: Bridge (Progress to Date: 2024 - September) Status: Summary Task List (2025: April - May) Status: Summary Task List (YTD: 24Q4 - 25Q2) Theo Todman's Bridge Background Theo Todman's Bridge Page

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Status: Priority Task List (2025 - May) Status: Summary (2025 - March), 2 Status: Summary Task List (2025: April - May) Status: Summary Task List (YTD: 24Q4 - 25Q2) Theo Todman's Bridge Page
Website - Progress to Date (2025 - May), 2 Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4      

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