The committee feels that Monday evening  should allow beginners to duplicate and less experienced players the opportunity to ease their way into duplicate bridge without having to cope with the myriad of different systems that they might encounter on other occasions in the club.

Labelling these evenings as Level 2 or 3 has not proved satisfactory and not being too specific with conventions have allowed more latitude to the experienced players who do join in these sessions to bewilder others with complex systems to which they have no defence. Since all evening sessions allow the more experienced players such latitude, the committee has decided to label Monday   Evening as a 'limited system' session. The EBU Orange Book permits private clubs to administer their own rules and agreements on such sessions.

The committee has, therefore, produced a list of permitted agreements which can be used. Our aim is not to restrict members to Simple Acol but to specify what opening bids, responses, defences and conventions can be used and, by keeping these to a manageable number, allow the newcomer to duplicate to learn how to deal with them before having to face more complex systems. All players of all standards are welcome on these nights but the published list of permitted agreements must be adhered to. Members who play for example Jacoby should alert and if asked say a game force raise in the major. etc

The object of these restrictions is to minimise destructive (as opposed to competitive) bidding. Players are asked not to psyche (so please don't!) and calls for the Director should be kept to a minimum.

These rules will not apply on SIMS or competition nights.