THE BRIDGE EVENT OF THE YEAR

TRANSATLANTIC CHALLENGE MATCH-EUROPE V AMERICA
FOR THE WARREN BUFFETT CUP

12 of Europe’s top bridge players will be competing against a top 12 from North America for the Warren Buffett Cup from the 18th-21st September in Dublin just before Golf’s Ryder Cup. This event will be held bi-annually in the week of the Ryder Cup.

Head-to head matches starting with Pairs are followed by Teams and culminates with the Individual. Winners of each head-to-head match will collect points for their team.

Current world champions, the Italians Norberto Bocchi and Giorgio Duboin, will spearhead the formidable European challenge. The Americans will be led by Texan, Bob Hamman, undisputed World No1 for decades, until displaced by the Italians last October.

Warren Buffett, considered by most people as the World’s most famous Investment Guru, said: “ This competition is unique and I am delighted to support it”. The winners of the match will receive the “ Warren Buffett Cup”.

The matches will be shown live at the venue on viewgraph with Eric Kokish heading the commentary. Also Bridgebaseonline will be showing most, if not all of the matches as they occur. (Log into www.bridgebaseonline.com, which is a free service available to Windows operating systems). Brian Senior will write daily Bulletins with an Internet edition. We are also hoping for TV coverage.

The venue:

The County Bridge Association of Ireland headquarters, Templeogue, Dublin 6.

The Players:

Europe:
Sabine Auken-Daniella Von Arnim (Germany): Cesare Balicki-Adam Zmudminski (Poland): Norberto Bocchi-Giorgio Duboin (Italy): Jason and Justin Hackett (England):
Tom Hanlon- Hugh McGann (Ireland): Geir Helgemo-Tor Hellness (Norway).
Non-Playing Captain Paul Hackett (England).

North America:
David Berkowitz-Larry Cohen: Bob Hamman-Paul Soloway: Geoff Hampson- Fred Gittelman: Bobby Levin-Steve Weinstein: Jill Levin-Jill Meyers: Zia Mahmoud- Roy Welland.
Non-Playing Captain Donna Compton.

For more information please contact Paul Porteous (Paul@cbai.ie), Paul Hackett (paul.h@ukonline.co.uk) or Donna Compton (cdmra@mindspring.com).

The contact phone number is 0035314929666.