Spring Term's  6 Workshops

start on Friday March 1st 

The Harford Community Centre Hall Road Norwich NR4 6ET

9:15am to 12:15pm.

Cost either £27 each or £150 for six . Tea and coffee provided.

email: suegill@btinternet.com to book and pay

Handling Weak Trump Suits

• Playing 4-3 and 5-2 fits
• Managing trumps and bad breaks
• Countering forcing defences

Slam Bidding Part 1

• Assessing likelihood of slams
• Losing Trick Count plus adjustments
• Quantitative raises, RKCB and Exclusion Blackwood

Slam Bidding Part 2

• Jacoby 2NT and fourth suit slam tries
• Splinters
• Cue bids

Defence to high level contracts (slams)

• Opening leads
• When to signal (and when not to!)
• Discarding correctly to avoid being pseudo-squeezed

What to do when they bid over our 1NT

• Weak escapes
• Lebensohl
• Doubling and balancing

Playing partscores at pairs

• Assessing what is a good score to aim for
• Taking risks or playing safe
• Playing for maximum equity

♥ Congratulations to

        Imogen La Chappelle ♥ 

Our warmest Congratulations to Imogen La Chappelle who has been picked to represent England as part of the Under21 team of 6 in the Peegy Bayer Trophy against Northern Ireland on February16/17th. Her partner is Oscar Selby. Some of the matches may be shown on BBO.

Imogen has been coached by Matt Millson and her father Adrian La Chapelle and also the National coaches for the England under 21 squad.

So proud of you Imogen

Good Luck for the big match. ♥ ♣ ♠ ♦ 

Message from Karen Read, Congress Secretary, Norfolk County Bridge Association

The NCBA has two events coming up specifically designed for bridge players with little or no experience at competitions and we very much hope that players may be tempted to have a go.

The first is on Sunday 24th February at Wymondham Abbey Hall at 2pm. There will be two competitions run simultaneously: the Barbara Dick Cleland trophy is for players with less than 500 EBU masterpoints. Entry is free and it is open to non EBU members. The Buxton trophy is for players with less than 40000 masterpoints (and less than 10 green points).

The second event is the Really Easy Congress (part of the Norfolk Congress) on Friday 15th March at 1.30pm at the Wensum Valley Hotel, Taverham.

This is open to players with less than 1000 EBU masterpoints and there is no need to be an EBU member.

The cost is £5 including tea/coffee and biscuits (half price for under 25s) 

Pre-registration is required for all events by sending an email to karenread61@yahoo.co.uk. If any individual players would like to enter please contact me and we can try and find a partner

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Watch a hand from the World Youth Championships 2016 with David Bakhshi.

Always plan your play and replan on new information

Great advice

https://youtu.be/SpegTa9G-tU

Plan, Count, Plan by David Bakhshi
YOUTUBE.COM