Click here for the Tuesday Morning Gentle Pairs timetable for this month.

The monthly tournament is open to all but especially to learners and novices and there will be at least one standby so everyone is guaranteed a game.

Congratulations to Harry McDade/Ian Telford, Derek Pendrey/Mary Stein and Walter Gray/Iain MacGregor on winning the Club Master, Master and District Master sections of the 2016 West District Bronze Challenge.

Click here to see results.

The date of any team match MUST be confirmed with the House Convenor, Anne McGregor, at least 72 hours before the match. Team captains MUST NOT simply write up a date and assume that will be fine! Monday and Thursday evenings are very busy and extremely unsuitable times for team matches.

Lanarkshire League and West League matches will be charged at £3 per head for Hamilton Home teams but £4.50 per head for non-Hamilton BC teams using Hamilton for a home match.

LBA KO Cup ties will be charged at £3 per head for a Hamilton home team and £4.50 for a non-Hamilton home team but the all-in first round evening will be £2 per head for ALL teams (home and away).

There is now a Red Etiquette Summary Card available to all members. Please adhere to the points on it.

Remember to "Be Pleasant and Respectful to EVERYONE" - this is first and foremost a club of 250 equal members.

Do you appreciate having the hands dealt for you? Having them available on the website? Getting a paper copy of them with optimal contracts immediately at the end of the evening?

If so, do you realise how much time and effort this requires for 12 sets of 28 boards every week?

Are you willing to help? Even an hour every few weeks?

Please get in touch with Hamish Watson, Billy Ballantyne or Tom Aitchison if you want to do "your bit" for the club.

To allow for a fairer balance of "sitting out" when there is a half table, the Board have decided as follows (for standard Mitchell Movements):-

If there are 5 or 7 or 9 AND a HALF tables, then the half table will sit E/W;

If there are 4 or 6 or 8 AND a HALF tables, then the half table will sit N/S (and stay there for the whole evening).

Please politely remind the TD if he/she does not adhere to this.

On Monday Evenings there are around 100 people playing at the club, on Wednesday Mornings and Thursday Evenings there are around 70.

It is difficult to arrange three or more tournaments at the one time when members make life difficult for the organisers!

In one week recently, there were (several) instances of the following:-

Members sign in and their partner does not APPEAR;

Members of a Pair sign in to DIFFERENT rooms;

Members SIT in different rooms at the start of play!

Finally, for those who habitually like to "mump and moan", please desist or come and try to do the job yourself!

TDs will be encouraged to use this with an alarm after 9 minutes for 2 boards, 16 minutes for 3 boards and 23 minutes for 4 boards meaning that no further boards can be started.

The SBU guidelines are that play should be up to 7 minutes per board.

35 pairs entered the Club Championship this year, so two rooms of up to 9 tables were anticipated and prepared for. As it happened only 25 pairs turned up and, unfortunately, one pair registered in both rooms! By the time this was sorted out, the Robson Room with 7 tables had started.
Obviously this is to be regretted. Therefore, in future, there will be only one registration point for any event and, where possible (i.e. up to 14 tables), all pairs will play in the same tournament.

In addition, when there are multiple competitions, TDs will try to ensure ALL competitions are roughly the same length (i.e. 24/25 boards) to (hopefully) ensure a "common" finishing time and thus eliminate lengthy waits for those "stuck in the car park".

Click here to see details of this new SBU event and many other events for Bronze Players.

This was increased to £5 per person as from 1st May 2016

This facility is now "live" through the Member Area on the Hamilton BC website.

Anyone requesting a partner for a specific date/event generates the phrase (Partner?) on the Calendar Page of the website.

Click on this to obtain an option to email the person requesting a partner.

This is the SBU facility for electronic processing of Master Points and Hamilton Bridge Club has now committed fully to this process.  

Effectively, from and including 23^rd April 2014, the club will not issue any paper copies of Master Point (MP) certificates. 

All club events (except Sims) are now uploaded on to MEMPAD on a weekly basis.

Please CLICK HERE to see details of how to register and use MEMPAD - it DOES affect YOU!