Listed below are our short seminars for the remainder of 2016 and the first half of 2017.   They will be held  on Saturday morning, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm in the Garden Room at the Gerrards Cross Memorial Centre and the cost will be £15 per person payable on the day. All of our seminars include detailed notes, demonstration hands, exercises and of course, quality refreshments!  

These seminars are colour coded to show their suitability for players of differing experience. Basic (Green), Intermediate (Blue), Advanced (Red).

Although we will also advertise our monthly seminars nearer the date, we are now taking advance bookings by email to the appropriate tutor:

Rob Wilkinson on rob@bridgeschoolgx.co.uk

Tony Williams on tony@bridgeschoolgx.co.uk

Seminar Topics Explained

Train Your Brain! - memory tips for bridge players

The rules of bridge state that you are not allowed to write anything down. So you must depend upon your memory and many see this as their major problem! 

We will give you some clear thought processes to follow when you first assess your hand and subsequently play the cards.  Instead of trying to remember all of the cards that have been played we will also look at simple techniques based on patterns and shape to help you ‘train your brain’ and improve your play.

Coping With Interference

When your side opens the bidding, it would be delightful if the opponents would always pass throughout as you search for the best contract.  Dream on!  In real life they will interfere quite often, so it is important to know how to contend.

This seminar explains how to cope with an enemy suit overcall, a takeout double or a 1 NT overcall after your side opens the bidding with one of a suit.

Understanding Your Partner’s Leads!

Sometimes you think you are struggling to understand why your partner has led a particular suit and card and what it means.  We will look at assessing partner’s lead, visualising partner’s hand and developing better partnership understanding.

Slam Bidding After No Trump Openings

There are two important areas to consider when partner opens 1NT or 2NT: bidding game or slam in notrump (6NT or 7NT), and investigating a suit slam.  It is essential to have a firm understanding of the available tools and remember, 4NT is not always Blackwood!

We will look at quantitative bidding, showing slam interest in a suit and that much forgotten ace asking convention, Gerber!

How to Read Your Opponent’s Cards!

Sometimes an opponent will ask “What made you play East or West for the queen of spades”, or “Why did you finesse the diamonds instead of the clubs”?  The answer to these questions come from applying the logical rules of card placing or card locating.

This seminar is all about card play using lots of demonstration hands to highlight these rules and we will often replay them together to reinforce your learning.