The Night of the Stars charity Bridge Pro Am will take place in London on Thursday 25 February 2016.
Our generous Stars will be auctioned by Paul Mendelson later this month and in order to reduce the length of the auction, I accept offers on some Stars before the auction.
More information including our fantastic line up of Stars and our charities can be found on our website
Stars will be sold via this website and at Paul Mendelson’s entertaining auction of Stars during the Charity/Auction Pairs on Sunday 29, November at Richmond Bridge Club.
The Stars of 2016
Boye Brogeland, from Denmark: Dennis Bilde, from Israel: Dror Padon, from Ireland: John Carroll and our wonderful UK Stars: Andrew Robson, Andrew Kambites, Ben Green, Bob Rowlands, Brian Senior, Colin Simpson, David Burn, David Price, Ed Scerri, Espen Erichsen, Frances Hinden, Gad Chadha, Gary Jones, Graham Osborne, Gunnar Hallberg, Heather Dhondy, Ian Pagan, Janet de Botton, Jeffrey Allerton, Kieran Dyke, Lee Rosenthal, Liz McGowan, Martin Garvey, Martin Hoffman, Michael Byrne, Mike Bell, Nevena Senior, Nick Sandqvist, Nicola Smith, Norman Selway, Patrick Jourdain, Peter Crouch, Peter Lee, Phil King, Rob Cliffe, Sally Brock, Simon Cope, Stelio Dibello, Thor Erik Hoftaniska, Tommy Garvey, Tom Townsend, Victor Silverstone and Willie Coyle…
This is Phillip Alder’s article from  
MARCH 6, 2015
One of the most successful bridge charity events is the Night of the Stars. This year’s edition, the eighth, was played on Feb. 26 at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, southwest London. This pro-am raised more than 50,500 pounds (about $76,760) for four charities.
There were 112 pairs in Putney, and the same deals were also played in 11 bridge clubs around England.
Most top British players and some European stars took part. Fulvio Fantoni, the world’s top-ranked player, flew in from Monaco. Boye Brogeland from Norway and Dror Padon from Israel were playing that weekend in the Lederer Memorial Trophy in London, so they came in early to participate.
The winners were Willie Coyle and Kitty Teltscher. They finished a whisker ahead of Jeffrey Allerton and Dudley Leigh.
In the diagramed deal, Teltscher (South), after opening two clubs, chose not to rebid in no-trump, because of her weak clubs. She preferred to show her spade suit. Three natural bids followed, resulting in the final contract of six no-trump.
Declarer had 12 top tricks. But the overtrick would be worth several matchpoints.
South won the diamond lead in her hand; cashed her other high diamond, three top hearts and club jack; then crossed to dummy with a club. After taking the last two club winners, everyone was down to four cards. Dummy had two low spades and the queen-eight of diamonds. Declarer held A-K-7-5 of spades. But what could West retain? He could not keep three spades and two diamonds. It was a textbook simple squeeze.
Plus 1,020 scored 88 matchpoints out of 110. (Plus 990 would have been worth only 56 matchpoints, which would have dropped Teltscher and Coyle to third.)
Four pairs reached seven no-trump and two (David Burn-Kath Stynes and Victor Silverstone-Claire Robinson) made it. The shortest auction of the night on this board occurred when Stynes opened the North hand with one diamond. Burn thought for a while, then responded seven no-trump!
Afterward, everyone received a booklet containing the deals with analysis by players from around the world. This board was discussed by Marion Michielsen, a world champion from the Netherlands now in Sweden. She mentioned that seven no-trump is called a dead slam in the Netherlands, because it cannot be defeated when played correctly. She added that in England it is called a cold slam, but in Sweden a cold slam is one that cannot be made.
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