"Lessons will be offered through the 2016/2017 season on several Saturday mornings - schedule to follow."

Cost is $5.00 per lesson which goes to support the Maple Leaf Duplicate Bridge Club.

Here is a series of very good lessons on basic Bridge Defense courtesy of Ralph Welton of bridgebears.com. Most of our learning is focused on Bidding and Playing the hand - defense, which is half of the play, tends to get neglected when learning the finer points of bridge. Click the lesson you want to take:

Opening Leads

Third Hand Play

Placing the Honours

Second Hand Play

Declarers Plan

Defensive Signals

Discarding

ALERTS (bids are in red on the convention card)
Alerts are meant to inform the OPPONENTS that a bid’s meaning, by your partner, is not what would customarily be assumed. Who says ALERT? The person making the alert knows what he means by the bid, so the partner must inform the opponents by only saying ALERT. DO NOT volunteer information unless asked. I repeat, only when the opponent at their turn asks, do you explain.

How do I ask about an alert? Explain please, what is your agreement?

ANNOUNCEMENTS (bids are in blue on the convention card)
Announcements are also informing the opponents about your partners’ bid.

We must announce our NT range (15-17, 12-14, 16-18 etc), When partner makes a transfer bid, we announce it. When you play 1NT forcing/semi-forcing,  you announce it. When partner opens  1C and does not promise at least 3 clubs, you announce that it could be short as ? .

Standard Maple Leaf GCC bidding System

Here are a some tables on Bridge Scoring.

User guide for BridgePad scoring.