Hitchin BC visit from Students

Members of the Hitchin club go every Thursday lunchtime to teach Year 5 and 6 children at Samuel Lucas JMI School how to play Bridge. Recently the club ran a session where the students came along to observe and play some games with the members. See the Hitchin website for more details.

Marjorie Lukyn Charity for 2023-24 Season
Marjorie Lukyn Charity for 2023-24 Season

The HBA charity for the 2023-24 season is Open Door St Albans. Their aim is to support people who have experienced homelessness or are at risk of sleeping rough.  The Charity funds improvements to the Open Door shelter, as well as covering the costs of outreach services and the volunteer coordinator.

Master Point Promotions

Congratulations to all those recently achieving new master point promotions.   
Click here.. to see the full March list.

HBA Committee Meeting

Key points from the Committee Meeting of April 5th are available here..

Latest from the EBU

For all the latest news articles from the English Bridge Union, click here.. 

Release 2.19r
Desmond Flockhart Trophy

2023-2024 winners: Welwyn Garden City BC (Mike Rawlins & Naomi Gibbs, Jacqui & David Collier, Chris Mooney & Ivan Leung, Jonathan Osgood & David Goldberg)

This is an inter-club competition for teams of eight.  All competitors must be bona fide members of the club that they represent and the composition of the teams is entirely the concern of the clubs.  There is no direct limit upon the number of teams that a club may enter. 

The HBA will invite the winning team to represent Hertfordshire in the Garden Cities Trophy where the rules for eligibility may not necessarily be the same as the Desmond Flockhart.

When: 2pm on Sunday 3rd December 2023
Where: RealBridge
Cost: FREE for all players whose primary county affiliation is to Hertfordshire, otherwise £4 per person.
Eligibility: All competitors must be bona fide members of the club that they represent.
Format: One round-robin session with a break half way through.

The competition is played in two sections with the same multiple-teams movement and the same hands in each section.  Each team of eight has a foursome in each section.  The same line-up is kept throughout the competition The net score of each encounter between two teams of four is converted to IMPs before the two IMP scores are added and converted to Victory Points.

RealBridge
Sign-in details:
You will not be able to sign in until the director has opened the session approximately 45 minutes before the start time.

The session key is:    

https://play.realbridge.online/dt.html?p=231203127193&q=PlayDesFlockhart

or click here

Please enter your name exactly as per your entry e.g. John Doe and then put your EBU Number in the ID field. 
The password field will be pre-set and should not be changed. 

When you log in, please sit at your team table in the position assigned by your captain

Entries: Pre-entry by clubs no later than Saturday 2nd December please. No entries on the day.

 

Click here to enter

 

For more information contact the Tournament Secretary at hbatournamentsec@gmail.com