Scarborough and District Contract Bridge Club

Scarborough Bridge Club is a friendly bridge club with over 100 active members ranging in experience from beginners through to experienced masters of the game. We run weekly sessions designed to meet the full range of our members needs from those looking for introductory lessons, or maybe a relaxed sociable game or those wanting to play in a serious competitive environment.

We have our own premises dedicated to the needs of the membership where we play face-to-face duplicate bridge five times a week. We also run online SBC bespoke tournaments on Bridge Base Online (BBO) for those who prefer the convenience of online play. We play every weekday, with sessions held throughout the day - mornings, afternoons, and evenings to suit all.

The Club has a Hosting System in place for all the sessions at the Club, so any member or visitor arriving without an arranged partner is guaranteed to find one. 

We offer a range of support services for new members, and those new to bridge, including beginners courses, bridge lessons to improve players skills, and special "tutored” sessions for inexperienced players and improvers, where participants can ask for advice during play. They can then move on to our Next Steps events where they can play more competitive bridge unaided.

The Club has an extensive library of bridge books available to members and the more experienced players are always on hand to provide advice and guidance for anyone needing help.

We welcome new members whatever their experience and non-members/visitors are welcome to join in the face-to-face sessions held at the Club premises.

Feel free to have a tour of our website and then contact us to find out more about us, or come along to the club and introduce yourself.

Congratulations to the Winners of the first 2026/27 Series (May-August)

(Full results and placings are available on the Previous Winners pages)

Our "Class of 26" bridge beginners and returners graduated this week. Twenty students graduated and some then undertook their first gruelling assisted-tournament against existing members, experiencing duplicate scoring and bridge movements for the first time. They all performed creditably and the results can be found on the Club website or here.

The tournament was won by Carol Fisher-Bailey and Judy Locking - congratulations to them.

We hope that they now feel confident to apply for full membership and begin to enjoy our assited Wednesday morning Improvers sessions.

The Club also wishes to thank all of the existing members that contributed to the 30 week course, particularly David Lewis and Sue Wagstaffe.

Improve Your Bridge

For our beginners and improvers, there are various tools you can use to analyses and improve your play.

You can watch these video here if you maximise them to fullscreen, or head over to the Club Youtube Channel to view them there.
Maximising the videos will also make them much easier to read.

Pause the videos and/or rewind, if you need more time to digest something.

Club Play

If you've played at the Club, you can:

i) view your tournament results

ii) compare them with other pairs, and

iii) play the hands again at your leisure, whilst the solver will show you what contracts could be made and the optimum line of play.

Play on BBO

BBO is a free bridge site where you can practice your bridge, analyse your play and join club competitions.
Unfortunately, BBO is based in America, so their robots, along with most players on BBO, do not play Acol as we do at the Club.
This video will show you how to:

i) Practice your bidding and play daily against 3 Acol robots
ii) Analyse your play in an on-line Club tournament
iii) Find the Acol Club in BBO, where you might find other Acol players to play against.

Members can login to the club website from the Members Area tab. 

Some Detailed Instructions on the workings of your members account and the Partnership Desk are also available.