Scottish Schools Bridge 2026

 

Scottish Schools Bridge (Clyde Bridge Club)
Thursday 4^th June 2026

		1	2	3	4	5
1st	HSOG Seniors (Artem B & Eunice O, Niamh R & Rachel Y)	18	14	6	20	16	74/100 VPs
2nd	Hutchesons A (Andrew & Maoyan, Anya & Subir)	16	17	14	6	3	56 VPs
3rd	HSOG Dream Team (Shiva & Emmett, Eric & Jonny)	2	12	16	4	19	53 VPs
4th	Broughton High (Fiona & Rachel, Max & Zach)	9	3	14	15	4	45 VPs
5th	Hutchesons B (Jenna & Kai, Maekal & Shaazab)	11	8	4	0	17	40 VPs
6th	HSOG Juniors (Fraser & Zhou, Noah & Hanlin)	4	6	16	5	1	32 VPs

Three schools took part, with the key matchup being between HSOG Seniors and Hutchesons A in Round 3. Hutcheson’s won this 14-6 to take the halfway lead, but HSOG came back with big wins in the second half.

So Niamh-Rachel and Eunice retain their title, with Artem collecting his first win. Next year three of the winning team will be away, so there will be new champions…

Action photos (more to come)

      

The format of lots of short teams matches worked well, though next time I might give a bit more instruction for the kids in how to do the scoring (and make sure they don’t leave the table until they’ve agreed the score).

Thanks to the Clyde Bridge Club for hosting in their wonderful venue.

A couple of hands from the event:

Deal 13 From HSOG A vs Broughton

On both tables I watched North opened 3C.    
When South raised to 4C (well bid Eunice) the Broughton West was under pressure but found a 4S bid.

W	N	E	S
	3♣	-	4♣
4♠	-	-	-

On the other table 3C was passed to West. Rachel doubled, Niamh replied 3H, Rachel bid 3S, and Niamh raised to game.

W	N	E	S
	3♣	-	-
x	-	3♥	-
3♠	-	4♠	-
-	-

So West played 4S on both tables. North led a Club, and declarer later had to lose the Ace of trumps too. Declarer does not need a Diamond finesse as they have all those Heart winners. Well played both declarers, 4S+1.

Deal 4 From HSOG Dream Team vs Hutcheson’s A

After West opened a weak 2D the Hutchesons’s team got to 4H from East.

There are four top tricks for the defence (one Spade, one Diamond, two Clubs), but if they don’t take them declarer has a chance.

At the table South took her two Aces then played trumps. Declarer can now make it by discarding dummy’s losing Clubs on her winning Spades, but missed this opportunity and the defence got their four tricks for 4H-1.

At the other table East played 2H. Declarer drew trumps, then kept on playing trumps until there were none left in dummy. That meant he had to lose two Spade tricks, one Diamond and two Clubs, for 2H=.

The three HSOG teams