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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
Book Int/Adv Declarer Play (ONLINE) - 17 Apr
Book Intermediate/Advanced Declarer Play (ONLINE) - 17 April
Book Intermediate/Advanced Declarer Play (ONLINE) - 17 April

You are booking for the Intermediate/Advanced Declarer Play course. The course will start at 14:00 on Monday, 17th April and will run at the same time for 8 weeks, excluding 1st May and 29th May. This is an online course and it will be led by Tim Chanter. The cost is £145 and an outline of the syllabus is below.

This course, of eight sessions, is suitable for Intermediate players who wish to develop and consolidate their declarer play.  

 

 

 

 

Topics covered through the course

  • The First Trick
  • Suit Combinations and Odds
  • Retaining a Finesse Position
  • Retaining an Intra-finesse position
  • Double Finesse positions (honours in same hands, split across the hands)
  • Making use of Honour-x
  • Counting Losers in a Trump Contract
  • Pitches / Discards, Timing and Risk
  • Establishing Pitches
  • Reading the Opposition Cards from the auction
  • Counting the Opposition points
  • Watching the Opposition signalling
  • The Show-up squeeze
  • Opportunity v control in NT
  • Communication between the hands
  • Delaying drawing trumps
  • Full Cross ruff
  • Trump control
  • When is it best to let the opposition lead a suit?
  • The principle of an endplay
  • The threat of ruff-and-discard in an endplay
  • Discarding pressure on the opponents
  • Squeeze terminology
  • Successful conditions for a squeeze
  • Executing a squeeze
  • Planning and replanning a hand