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Improvers Timetable
Improvers Classes

Improvers Timetable

Autumn 2016 Thursdays at 9.30am

Date

Activity

Topics

22 September

 

Lesson 1

Principles of bidding balanced hands, weak and medium, including Stayman and Transfers, 5/4 in Majors

29 September

Lesson 2

Bidding Strong Balanced hands (Benji system)

 

6 October

Lesson 3

Bidding Strong Unbalanced hands (Benji system)

 

13 October

 

Lesson 4

Weak Twos and responses (OGUST)

 

20 October 

 

Lesson 5

Defence to Weak Twos

27 October

 

Lesson 6

Revision of whole Benji System

3 November

 

 

Half Term

10 November

 

Lesson 7

Defence including leads, signals, discards and count

17 November

 

Lesson 8

Declarer play including finessing and setting up tricks

24 November

 

Lesson 9

Fourth Suit Forcing

 

1 December

 

Lesson 10

Special Request Session

8 December

Extra Session

Duplicate Bridge in Teams at Chippenham

 

 

 

 

Bridge for All Improvers Timetable

Spring 2017 Thursdays @ 9.30am

 

Date

Activity

Topics

12 January

Lesson 1

Competitive Auction; single suit overcalls, unassuming cue bids and WJOs

19 January

Lesson 2

Competitive Auction; doubling with various strength hands

26 January

Lesson 3

Competitive Auction; overcalls with strong hands and defence to 1NT

2 February

Lesson 4

Pre-emptive bidding including overcalls and defence to pre-empts

9 February

Lesson 5

Defending a contract, including leads, signals discards, count and suit preference signals

16 February

Half Term

 

23 February

Lesson 6

Declarer play including making Extra Tricks and Finessing

2 March

 Lesson 7

Revision of Competitive Auction on all types of hands

9 March

Lesson 8

Slam bidding; Roman Key Card Blackwood
                          Roman Blackwood and Quantitative

16 March

Lesson 9

Slam bidding; Cue bids and Splinter bids

23 March

Lesson 10

 Session covering all Types of Hands