While David Charlton is on holiday, I shall be taking two lessons on Monday 31st October and Monday 7th November. The theme for the two weeks will be Improving Your Card Play Technique. Whilst these will be targeted at the Improvers Plus group, who normally meet on Monday evenings, they may also be of more general interest in the club. All are welcome.

The lessons will start at 7 p.m. each week and will be finished by 10 p.m. at the latest. The cost is the normal lesson price of £3 plus tea/coffee. There will be lesson notes, hand commentaries and a workbook.

Denis Murphy

The funeral of Joe Kowalski was held on Wednesday, Oct 19.

It was sad to see his rapid decline in recent months at the club, but still remarkable that he was performing well at Bridge up until a few weeks before his death at the age of 96.

Les Brown has written an obituary, which can be accessed by clicking on the heading.

The next Saturday social Bridge is scheduled for November 19th.

There is a notice on the Club board for anyone interested to register their name.

And it's only £5!

This is now a regular weekly feature but is not very well supported.

There is now a notice on the board asking for anyone interested to register.

More information can be obtained by emailing denis.murphy101@gmail.com

or by contacting him on 07802 804408

This was completed on Wednesday Oct 12th

With 10 teams competing

the top five teams qualify for the Yorkshire Cup

to be held in Leeds on April 9th 2017.

Entry information will be emailed directly to the winners

Three Pairs from Huddersfield took part in the Great Northern Swiss Pairs in Leeds this weekend , and came home with a Trophy!

But it's not quite what you think! (our pairs' performance was, shall we say, "moderate"!)

The Trophy is the original YCBA Waddington Shield dated 1936!

The Waddington Shield is the YCBA Premier Knock-out Teams of four competition.

It was only presented once and in that year, we believe to team from Dewsbury, and some of our older members may recognise some of the names.

It then disappeared to be be replaced eventually by the present trophy.

It was found in an attic, and was passed on to Graham Jepson, who has passsed it on to Huddersfield Bridge Club for safe keeping ( Dewsbury Bridge Club having closed, and some of that 1936 team must have played also at Huddersfield)

Once it has been cleaned up, it will be put on display in the bar area.

A great piece of HBC memorabilia.

... find us on Facebook by searching for Huddersfield Bridge Club.

The lesson schedule for 2016-7 will be as follows:

Level                     Timing                                 

Beginners              Thursday evenings         

Improvers              Wednesday mornings   

Improvers +           Monday evenings           

All lessons begin in the week beginning 12^th September. Here is a short description of each level:

Beginners – we start with MiniBridge, which gets you playing cards almost immediately, and progress onto bidding after a few weeks. The course is based on the EBU red book Beginning Bridge.

Improvers – for those who know the materials covered in the red book. This course follows the EBU green book Continuing Bridge.

Improvers + - for those who have finished the first two years – both the red and green books – and want to consolidate their learning.

To enquire further, please contact Denis Murphy on denis.murphy101@gmail.com or 07802 804408.

New events have been added to the Club calendar to include Club, YCBA and EBU events.

Further details of YCBA and EBU events may be found on the respective websites.

Please note that Club events are open to all members with the exception of the Wimpenny Trophy.

This is a qualifying competition for the YCBA Yorkshire Cup Final and as such is fully defined as follows:

This is a teams-of-four event for players below the rank of Regional Master (as on 1st September 2016.)
Affiliated clubs may organise a qualifying competition which shall consist of a multiple teams event.
However, if only two teams enter they will play a head-to-head match to determine the qualifier. If only
one team enters, then that team qualifies for the final. Teams will qualify for the final on the following scale:

As you will probably be aware, we have decided to enter one less team this coming season, and to rename them.

Thus the A team will be in Division 2, B team in Div.3, C team in Div 8, D and E teams in Div.9

The reasons for the decision are that we struggled all season to get settled teams in the C, D, E and F Teams and only about 20 pairs have put their names on the list on the Club Notice board.

Patrick has taken over the Chairmanship of the Team Captains Meetings,

and further information will be made available soon.

Plese note that the new fixture list is now available under League Results

In addition to winning the national Portland Pairs  -  full story available by clicking on the link above  - 

Pearl and Denis Murphy teamed up with Heather Hobson and Roy Garthwaite

to win the YCBA Waddington Shield in the final on Friday, April 22nd.

The Club Pairs Championship was duly completed on Sunday, April 3rd with 21 pairs competing on an all-plays-all basis over two sessions.

The results for each session are available on this website, together with the combined result, which shows that a consistent second place in both sessions was enough to make Pearl & Denis Murphy the Club Pairs champions, so congratulations on this latest success.

As advertised, the event was a double-header with the Pat Towned Trophy awarded to the highest placed pair having less than 10,000 Master Points.

Congratulations, therefore, to Susan Clegg & Neville Wimpenny, who came 9th out of the 21 pairs.

Participants are encouraged to give their feedback to a committee member in advance of this Wednesday's meeting, particularly with regard to the number of boards played.

Please click on the heading to open this file, written by Denis Murphy

A new Health & Safety policy document has been produced, thanks to Vivien Aizlewood.

Please click on the heading to open the document.

Any comments should be passed on to a committee member.

The Committee, in consultation with the Tournament Directors, have agreed that evening sessions will continue to start promptly at 19.00 and, as far as possible, will end by 22.30. Based on the number of pairs, the TDs will choose a movement to allow this 22.30 finish and will manage the movement accordingly, including reducing the length of the break if need be.

The TD may also remove a board if a table has fallen behind. Persistently slow pairs will be warned in the first instance and may then be subject to a procedural penalty.

To help the TD to achieve this, pairs are asked to be at the table and ready to play by 18.55 at the latest. All pairs are expected to stay until the end of the session (unless sitting out the last round)

Any queries or comments please speak to a member of the Committee

Effective from 1^st January 2016

Following an extensive period of consultation the Committee have decided that ALL Thursday evening duplicate bridge sessions will be limited to players of 10,000 Master Points or below.

Players with more than 10,000 Master Points are welcome to play provided their partner does meet the criteria and in this case the pair will play ‘without standing’. In this case this means their results will be counted but if they do win they will not be eligible for the usual winner’s voucher :  this will go to the next eligible pair instead.

Other players are of course welcome to use the club on a Thursday evening either for rubber bridge or to run their own duplicate event, subject to paying the usual table money.

We appreciate that not all players are in favour of this arrangement but the overwhelming majority support it, and the current decline in numbers on all Thursday evenings except the first make it inevitable.

As a corollary of this, the Wednesday evening Improvers session will no longer be supervised. Players who usually play on a Wednesday evening are encouraged to come on a Thursday evening instead if possible. Otherwise they are welcome to continue to run their own duplicate  session on a Wednesday evening, subject to paying the usual table money.

If you have any queries about these new arrangements please speak to a member of the Committee

Pearl, on behalf of The Committee

4^th December 2015

As you will be aware we have been selling second hand books to help raise some funds for the club. This has been quite successful and we are keen for it to continue.

So if you have any books you’d like to contribute please bring them in and add them to the collection.  And feel free to browse through the ones that are already there to see if there are any you would like to buy

The club has a strict No Smoking policy within the premises.

An area is available outside the front door for smokers. Please can all smokers ensure that they use the receptacle provided there.

e-cigarettes can be smoked within the club premises, but not at the bridge table

Agreed by the Committee, 21^st October 2015

A Maintenance Book has been placed on the Noticeboard in the hallway of number  4. When any work on the Bridge Club property is required please make a note of the job in the book and add your name so the Maintenance Group can come back to you with any queries.

There is an email form on the Contact Us section under Information but the club can also be contacted directly by emailing huddsbc@gmail.com

Alternatively, please feel free to contact repepper.rep@gmail.com