Tomas Brenning
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Tomas Brenning (Born 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden) is the creator of the bridge scoring software used by several Bridge Federations in Europe and for scoring the World Championships of Bridge.
[edit] Bridge Software for Duplicate Bridge
Magic Contest [1]
The development of Magic Contest was started in 1996 and was successfully finished in 2001 thanks to the support of the Swedish Bridge Federation during the final stage of the development. In 2006 the software is being used to score Bridge events by federations in Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Italy and France.
Magic Team [2]
Magic Team is a program for managing teams tournaments. The program has been used by the WBF (World Bridge Federation) [3] to score the World Championships in Estoril Portugal in 2005 and will be used for the scoring of the World Championships in Shanghai, China in 2007.
Magic Contest and Magic Team were used for scoring the Open World Championships in Verona, Italy in 2006 and the Open European Championships in Tenerife 2005.
Tomas Brenning is also involved in programming projects with the WBF (World Bridge Federation) [4] and the EBL (European Bridge League) [5]
Brenning Data website http://www.brenning.se/
[edit] Technical Record EBL & WBF
Source: EBL [6] and WBF [7] people listing
| Year | Event | Categories / Positions |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 47th EUROPEAN TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Malmo 2004 |
Information Technology
Assistant |
| 2004 | 47th EUROPEAN TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Malmo 2004 |
Scoring
Staff |
| 2004 | 3rd EUROPEAN BRIDGE CHAMPIONS' CUP
Barcelona 2004 |
Organizing Committee
Member |
| 2004 | 3rd EUROPEAN BRIDGE CHAMPIONS' CUP
Barcelona 2004 |
VuGraph
Technological Services |
| 2005 | 2nd EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Tenerife 2005 |
Organizing Committee
Member |
| 2005 | 2nd EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Tenerife 2005 |
Tournament Committee
Member |
| 2005 | 4th EUROPEAN BRIDGE CHAMPIONS' CUP
Brussels 2005 |
Organizing Committee
Member |
| 2005 | 4th EUROPEAN BRIDGE CHAMPIONS' CUP
Brussels 2005 |
VuGraph
IT Manager |
| 2005 | 37th WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Estoril 2005 |
Scoring
Staff |
| 2006 | 12th WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Verona 2006 |
Scoring
Chief |
| 2006 | 48th EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Warsaw 2006 |
Scoring
EBL Liaison |
| 2007 | 4th EBL NBO Administrators' Seminar
Rome 2007 |
Seminar Administration
Workgroup Officer |
[edit] Bridge
Tomas Brenning is an expert bridge player and in 1994 achieved Bronze Medal in the 9th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Albuquerque, NM
Playing Record (Team Events)
Source: EBL [8] and WBF [9] people listing
| Year | Event | Rank | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 13th EUROPEAN YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Paris 1992 - Junior Teams |
5 | SWEDEN
Junior team |
| 1994 | 9th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Albuquerque, NM 1994 - Open Teams |
3 | AUBY
Open team |
| 1998 | 10th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Lille 1998 - Open Teams |
9 | MAGIC
Open team |
| 2002 | 11th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Montreal 2002 - Zonal Teams |
1 | MORATH
Zonal team |
| 2002 | 11th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Montreal 2002 - Open Teams |
65 | MORATH
Open team |
| 2002 | 1st EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Menton 2003 - Open Teams |
38 | MORATH
Open team |
Playing Record (Pairs or Individual Events)
Source: EBL [10] and WBF [11] people listing
| Year | Event | Rank | Partner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1st EUROPEAN JUNIOR PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP
Fiesch 1991 - Junior Pairs |
7 | Mans SJOQVIST |
| 1994 | 9th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Albuquerque, NM 1994 - Open Pairs |
53 | Daniel AUBY |
| 2002 | 11th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Montreal 2002 - Open Pairs - Semifinal |
114
(42) |
Sven-Olov FLODQVIST |
