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CONTACT DETAILS

If you need general information
please
E-mail: 

manager@richmondbridgeclub.com or

admin@richmondbridgeclub.com

Alternatively call: 020 8892 2170

 or

Richard - 07753 239 830

Cerith - 07307 977 044

            

Results
CLUBHOUSE - Monday Afternoon
Director: Alan Mawdsley
CLUBHOUSE - Monday Evening
Director: Pip Smitham
BBO - Monday Gentle Duplicate
10:00
RealBridge - Swiss Pairs
17:30-18:30
Sunday Coffee and Cake
Director: Annabel Burrows
CLUBHOUSE - Club Teams Championship
11:00
Director: Richard Banbury
RealBridge - Supervised Play
10:30
CLUBHOUSE - Friday Morning Gentle
Director: Vic Martin
Calendar
18th Mar 2024
CLUBHOUSE - Afternoon Duplicate
13:30
Host: Nick Elmslie
  (Partner?)
18th Mar 2024
CLUBHOUSE - Evening Duplicate
19:30
Host: Wanted
18th Mar 2024
CLUBHOUSE - Bidding and Play Workshop
19:30
19th Mar 2024
CLUBHOUSE - Gentle Duplicate
10:00
Host: Terri Wright
19th Mar 2024
CLUBHOUSE - Ploughmans & Mini Swiss Pairs
13:30
Host: Wanted
19th Mar 2024
RealBridge - Refresh & Practise
10:30
19th Mar 2024
RealBridge - Teams
17:45
20th Mar 2024
CLUBHOUSE - Bidding and Play Workshop
10:00
Welcome to Richmond Bridge Club - England's largest affiliated club
WELCOME TO RICHMOND BRIDGE CLUB
WELCOME TO RICHMOND BRIDGE CLUB

Welcome to Richmond Bridge Club, the most popular and successful EBU affiliated club in the country!  A friendly and progressive club, we are housed in the old Bowling Club Pavilion in Cambridge Park, nestled between Richmond & Twickenham.  Our Clubhouse has multiple playing rooms, teaching facilities and a fully licensed bar.

We offer a range of duplicate bridge sessions every day of the week for players of all abilities - our full schedule of regular events may be found here.

As a courtesy to other members, we would ask you to refrain from coming to the club if you are suffering from any kind of typical winter respiratory infection - regardless of COVID, we would all prefer not to contend with too much coughing and sneezing! Hand sanitisers are available throughout the club - please use them!

Our Academy offers lessons for new players, beginners and improvers, and seminars for more experienced players. For more detail about the different sessions for novices and improvers, please click here

 

If you are interested in learning, please register by clicking here.  

RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - Upcoming Mini Courses for Improvers

At Richmond Bridge Academy, we help players learn to play Bridge in a friendly and supportive environment.  Please find our latest programme of Improvers Mini Courses below – just click the links in blue to see the course syllabus, and to register. All the courses will be run by Richard.  

Course 

Start Date 

Beginners Term 2 and Term 3 courses with Margaret, Lyn and James (Face to Face) Booking via the main menu (Click on "Learn Bridge & Book Lessons")

The Contested Auction (Face to Face) with Richard Banbury

4 lessons 

Starting Thursday 14th March @ 14:00 (book whole course or individual sessions)

Intermediate 2 (Online) with Tim Chanter

9 Lessons

Starting Monday 8th April @ 10:30

Rest In Peace

 

 Carolyn Caughey, a regular participant in our Friday morning gentle sessions until May 2023, has passed away on March 11th at the Chiswick Nursing Center in Ravenscourt Park.  Carolyn’s funeral will be on Friday 19 April 2024 at 2pm at St Michael and All Angels Church, Turnham Green, Bath Road London W4 1TX ( just by Turnham Green Tube Station). If you are not able to come,  the service is being live streamed and will be available to watch afterwards as well.  Let Richard know if you’d like the live link. No flowers but donations to Cancer Research.

 

 

  

 

Club Teams Championship Winners !
Club Teams Championship Winners !

Congratulations to the winners of the club's Teams Championship Trophy. 

Over the course of 36 boards, the team of Kirsty Platts, Marianne Tudor-Craig, Steve Mai and Cuneyt Sazer took a commanding lead. Click HERE for the full results.

COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE - Thursday 21st Mar at 10:30

This Thursday, Tim Chanter continues his popular review of three boards via Zoom and screenshare.  This week, Tim will be Counselling on Defence and the quiz to review in advance is here: please click here in advance to review the quiz for the session.

To attend, simply click this Zoom link from 10.20 for a 10.30 kick off (no pre-booking required).  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86037429431

The session will take about 1 hour and costs £5.  There will be a follow up of answers to the quiz.

Princess Alice Hospice Supper & Bridge 23rd March

On 23rd March we will be hosting a supper and bridge event to raise funds

for the Princess Alice Hospice in Esher (https://www.pah.org.uk)

FLYER

 

Last year we had 20 tables playing in the duplicate as well as 2 tables representing our students from the beginners' courses, raising more than £2,700 for the hospice.

The winners were

NS  Simon Douglas Lane and Julia Davies

EW Claire Smith and Elaine Howard

Please click here to book

We have now opened bookings for our very popular Cafe Bridge which is on Tuesday, June 18. Arrive from 10.45 am at your initial venue. There will be 3 rounds before lunch and another 3 after. 

 

This is a fund raising event for the Princess Alice Hospice in Esher - click HERE for their website.

 

Janet Leffler is leading our cafe bridge team this year supported by Zita Crewe, Sally Durant, Jonathan Hird & Caroline Owens.  They have provisionally agreed some of the restaurants taking part this year including Cote, Buenos Aires, Pizza Express, Angel & Crown, The Old Ship, Richmond Vault, Piccolo Vicolo, Tapas Brindisa & Watermans and we hope there may be more to come !

On the day we will be directed as always by the wonderful Victor Lesk and his team with scores entered electronically by players on their smartphones using the BriAn app-based scoring system. This allows us to announce a result very soon after the last board is played. If you have not come across BriAn before, you can find out more here.  

The cost per person is £40.00 (bridge and food - drinks are excluded).

Bookings will be taken via credit/debit card or BACS transfer through the BriAnBridge website (i.e. not through your club member account). 

Detailed information about the event, your starting position and route will be sent out by email just before the day. There is no central registration point.

 

Please book by clicking here

RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - Beginner's Courses

At Richmond Bridge Academy, we help players learn to play Bridge in a friendly and supportive environment.  Please find below our latest Beginner's Courses - both run by Margaret.  

Course 

Teacher 

Start Date 

Beginner’s Course – Term 2

10 lessons 

Margaret

(Clubhouse) 

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Thurs 4 Apr @ 10:30

Beginner’s Course – Term 3

10 lessons 

Margaret

(Clubhouse) 

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Tues 9 Apr @ 19:00

Beginner’s Course – Term 3

10 lessons 

Lyn & Glen

(Clubhouse) 

Tues 23 Apr @ 10:30

Togetherness Concert - Richmond in Europe

The Richmond in Europe Association requests the pleasure of your company at a 

                                                                              Togetherness Concert 

                                                                     at St. Mary's Church, Twickenham

                                                                       on Sunday 7th April at 5.30 p.m.

The international ensemble of musicians from the Royal Academy of Music will perform European songs and arias reflecting the power of music to bring communities together.

Admission is £15 for adults. Those under 18 are free. All profits will go to our Patron, the Mayor of Richmond's, charities.

In order to reserve your ticket & for further information about the concert please click on the following link & scroll down the page a little.

https://richmondineurope.com/events/

We look forward to welcoming you to a wonderful international event.

In the meantime, those who read French and have an interest in art might be interested in the attached article about Turner's House, which was recently published in "Le Monde." I have already sent it to our many members in Fontainebleau.  (It is small, but can be enlarged)

Our next BLUE POINTED SWISS PAIRS will take place at 12:00 on Saturday, 6th April in the CLUBHOUSE. Everyone welcomeThe entry fee is £15 per player. Richard Banbury will be directing the 36-board event which will be played across two sessions.

There will be a break for complimentary scones, Devonshire clotted cream and speciality jams. A full bar service will also be available on the day.

PRIZES (*dependent on at least 15 tables):

£100 for the winners & £50 for the runners up

NGS<=9 - £50 for the highest placed eligible pair:

Click here to book your place

Konstanz Pub Bridge - April 14th

Richmond is twinned with Konstanz, on the edge of Lake Constance in Germany (we are also twinned with Fontainebleu in France!). During lockdown we played regular events on Realbridge together with, and against, the members of Konstanz Bridge Club.

We have maintained that relationship and they have now invited us to take part in their Pub Bridge event on Sunday April 14th. This is very similar in concept to our own cafe bridge event - playing 6 rounds at 6 different venues. Konstanz Bridge Club also plays on Monday and Wednesday evenings (from 19:00) and players would be welcome to join those sessions too.

 

For more info and to register an interest - click HERE

ONLINE SUPERVISED PLAY
ONLINE SUPERVISED PLAY

Richmond Bridge Club is delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Wimbledon Bridge Club to offer joint online Supervised Play sessions!

Online Supervised Play sessions run every week on Wednesday mornings, 10:30am-12:30pm on RealBridge.  There is no need to book, just click on the appropriate link below about 10 minutes before the start of play and you’ll be taken to the RealBridge login page.  Enter your full name and EBU number to log in to the session.  If you can get a table of three or four together, you’ll be guaranteed a game.  You are welcome to come as a pair or single and we will try and make up tables, but we can’t guarantee you’ll get a game.

 

Click here for Wednesday 20th March 10:30am supervised play

Cost is £6 per session which will be charged to your RBC member’s account.

CAR PARKING

Parking in the bowls club car park is available on Monday & Thursday afternoon, and on Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday morning and afternoon

You must vacate the car park by 5pm.  Parking outside the permitted days/times will result in the bowls club issuing a parking fine which will be passed on to you.

Street parking is free after 4.30pm and at weekends.  NB there is a new format for street parking vouchers.

AT A GLANCE - WHAT'S NEXT
AT A GLANCE - WHAT'S NEXT
Congratulations - 2023 Club Masterpoint Leaders

Congratulations to Bob Tyler who led the league table for the most master points (3420) won at the club for 2023 - notably with the third highest total across the country (beaten by players from Stratford-upon-Avon and Mid Essex Bridge clubs).

 

The other top five players at Richmond were Angela McCready, Kathy Gee, David Wing and Richard Banbury - more info can be found HERE on the EBU website

Swiss Pairs Winners - Congratulations !
Swiss Pairs Winners - Congratulations !

Congratulations to the winners of our first Blue Pointed Swiss Pairs of 2024 - Cuneyt Sazer and Anil Bhandari

Swiss Pairs - Highest placed Non-Experts - congratulations !
Swiss Pairs - Highest placed Non-Experts - congratulations !

Congratulations to Daniela Carden and Nuru Bhatia as well as Jonathan Hird and Marie Bedin who almost tied as the highest ranked nonexpert players (NGS 9 or below). In the end Daniela and Nuru took the prize after a last minute score change at table 1 left them just a single VP ahead.  

CONGRATULATIONS - MASTER POINT PROMOTIONS

Well done to our members promoted to a new master point ranking during Feb - especially for those gaining their first rank as a Local Master!

Alick Fraser 1* Regional Master
Mary Anne St Clair-Ford Regional Master
Sarah Jackson  4* Premier Master
Gianfranco Celani Premier Master
Pam Hall Advanced Master
Mick Hoffman Master
Will Barnes  District Master
James Battersby  District Master
Leila Gedeon  District Master
Jonathan Hird District Master
David Woodall   Area Master
Judy Lambourne Club Master
Charles Atkins Club Master
Melanie Neill Local Master
Yvonne Bond Local Master
SOCIAL MEDIA
SOCIAL MEDIA

Like, Share, Save!  Our online presence is growing and we want you to be a part of it! We are active on Facebook and Instagram where we post information about upcoming events, tutorials, courses, social sessions and personal interest stories. Like our club, our online community is a welcoming and friendly space for members and non-members alike, and a great way for us to advertise one of Southwest London’s premier social clubs. Join us online, and like, share, save!

PRIVATE MATCHES
PRIVATE MATCHES

The club is available for private matches day & most evenings. The cost includes a great tea and a set of boards. Please email manager@richmondbridgeclub for availability.

UNDO POLICY
UNDO POLICY

The club allows undo requests for genuine bidding mistakes made as a result of a mechanical error, not a lapse of concentration or forgetfulness, and only when the request is made prior to their partner's bid at the latest.  We do not allow undos for playing.

Any awkward exchanges should be referred to the director. 

Members are reminded that you can change your settings to ensure you double click to make a bid.