Harlow Knights Bridge Club meets to play duplicate bridge online every Friday evening at 7.30 pm. We play pairs on BBO in joint sessions with Watford Bridge Club, and we play teams on Realbridge on 2nd Fridays. Please register (BBO) or log in (Realbridge) by 7.20 pm.

Founded in the 1970s, the club was originally known as ‘Harlow Non-Smokers’ but we changed our name to Harlow Knights when smoking became less of an issue and to honour Ray Knight, one of the founders of the club. We welcome all players hoping to improve their game and wishing to join a club where they will be encouraged in a friendly atmosphere. We would like to inspire all our members to improve their standard, and we support them to go on and play in County and National events.  

We are affiliated to both the EBU and the Hertfordshire Bridge Association.

Ian Kemp, Chairman

We have merged our BBO matchpoint pairs sessions on 1st/3rd/4th/5th Fridays with Watford and Bushey Bridge Club since October 2023 to get larger numbers of tables, after consultation with members.  On BBO, look for "Watford and Harlow Knights" as the session name to join. 

Payment for the joint sessions is BBO$3 through the standard online BBO account and payment method. The Harlow club account will still be used to pay for our Realbridge teams sessions which will continue on 2nd Fridays. Please note that for the teams sessions, you need to be part of a prearranged team, and any new teams need to contact the club in advance. New pairs or individuals are also welcome, to fill in any gaps as required.

Thanks to Watford who are organising the sessions and providing Richard Banbury as director. In case of any problems he can be messaged on BBO at vEBU201600 on the night. Gary Conrad will continue to direct our Realbridge teams on 2nd Fridays. Harlow players who prefer not to play teams or on Realbridge can also join the Watford BBO sessions on those nights, but please be aware that the number of tables may be significantly less than on other Fridays. For any BBO session, a pair of robots may be used to complete a table, and the scores against robots are included in the final scoring. 

The "Results" tab shows the results for the combined field, which are used for EBU masterpoints and NGS, but only Harlow members are eligible for our various competitions such as the Winter/Summer Pairs, Parkinson/Seaman Trophy and Club Championship. Members' scores for these may be found under the Competitions tab.

Harlow Knights is an online-only bridge club. We encourage our members to support and join other local clubs if they wish, including Hatfield Heath (Wednesday evenings) and Herts and Essex (Tuesday afternoons) which play face-to-face, and Broxbourne which has both online and f2f sessions. The Friendly Friday afternoon club play online on Realbridge.

New Hertford Bridge Club are meeting face to face on Tuesday evenings in Hertford (change of venue spring 2025), and welcome visitors. Visitors play free for two sessions. Full details are available at https://www.bridgewebs.com/newhertford/

We do not offer a hosting service but if you need a partner for a particular evening we will try to find one for you. Please contact us on harlowknightsbridgeclub@gmail.com - preferably by Weds - and we will email around to other members to ask if anyone is available. You must be willing to give your contact details (either a phone number or an email) so that people may contact you direct.

The results section of our web site has lots of additional information on your own individual performance. To help you get the most from this results service please click Accessing personal performance information.pdf to open the instructions on how to access this extra information.

Teams sessions on Realbridge are paid for through your personal club account as a member. Members pay money direct into the club’s bank account, and we will take the table money out of your internal balance and send you a statement at the end of each month. You will be able to play even if you have no credit, but we will ask you to top it up afterwards. Details of how to pay and how to login to play can be found on the How to pay and play online tab on the left menu.

Visitors are welcome to our friendly online club. From July 2023, so that you can try us out, we now do not charge for your first 3 sessions on Realbridge, although you do need to email us in advance so that you can be registered and access the game. As before, we expect visitors to join the club after three games as a visitor. The joint BBO games with Watford are charged at the normal rate of $3, and you need to contact us in advance so that we can add your BBO username as these are not open access sessions.