Dennis Bilde (right) and Fred Nystrom from Zia’s team playing Tom Townsend (left) and Dror Padon from Team de Botton. Zia is leading after four matches.

Dennis Bilde (right) and Fred Nystrom from Zia’s team playing Tom Townsend (left) and Dror Padon from Team de Botton. Zia is leading after four matches.

It’s still Zia ahead but Gold Cup have moved into second with the Chairman’s Team now in third.
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Zia (second right) and Jan Jansma in the lead after three matches. Now playing Iceland’s Ragnar Magnusson (second left) and Omar Olgeirsson.

Zia takes the lead after a good win over Ireland. Chairman’s Team still up there only 5 VPs behind with de Botton now in third.
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Andrew Black (second from left) and Willie Whittaker from the Gold Cup team playing Erik Saelensminde (far left) and Simon Gillis from Team Gillis.

It’s a tie at the top with both Chairman’s Team and Gold Cup on 65 VPs (out of a possible 100 so far). Zia just one VP behind in third.
Butler and Hand Records Personal Scorecards



Alan Mould (second from left) and John Holland from the Chairman’s Team playing Dennis Bilde (far left) and Fred Nystrom from Zia’s team.

The Chairman’s Team takes an early lead with a big win over Allfrey.
Butler and Hand Records Personal Scorecards



We kick off on Saturday at 12 noon. Zia starts his defence of the title against the team from Israel. We’ll know the 2018 winner at about 5pm UK time on Sunday. Download the full draw.
The Lederer scoring is unusual. Matches are scored using a combination of IMPS and Point a Board methods. The results are separately converted into Victory Points then added together. 50 VPs total per match – 30 from the IMPs, 20 from the Point a Board.
So it requires some fine judgement from the players to know what to play for. Download the full scoring details.
ICELAND
Omar Olgeirsson; Ragnar Magnusson; Thorlakur Jonsson;Haukur Ingason
IRELAND
Tom Hanlon; Hugh McGann; John Carroll; Rory Boland; Tommy Garvey; Mark Moran
ISRAEL
Michael Barel; Migry Campanile; Ilan Bareket; Assaf Lengy
GILLIS
Boye Brogeland; Simon Gillis; Espen Lindqvist, Erik Saelensminde
de BOTTON
Peter Bertheau; Dror Padron; Janet de Botton; Artur Malinowski; Thor Erik Hoftaniska; Tom Townsend
ALLFREY
Tony Forrester; Andrew Robson; Alex Allfrey; David Gold
ZIA
Zia; Dennis Bilde; Jan Jansma; Kitty Teltscher; Fred Nystrom; (NPC Willie Coyle)
LONDON
David Burn; Heather Dhondy; Gillian Fawcett; Joe Fawcett; Frank To; Richard Granville
GOLD CUP
Philip King; Andrew McIntosh; Andrew Black; Gunnar Halberg; Willie Whittaker; Frederick Wrang
CHAIRMAN’S TEAM
John Holland; Alan Mould; Sally Brock; Barry Myers; Sarah Bell; Mike Bell