Congratulations to Andrew Ashworth and Pauline Howard who have won the Autumn Cup

Also to everybody scoring over 50% who have qualified for the County Pairs

Our normal on-line pairs sessions continue on Tuesday evenings at 7pm on Real Bridge.   To play you must book and pay using the Bookwhen system.  Go to https://bookwhen.com/abingdonbridgeclub   Detailed instructions can be found here

Please alert as in face-to-face bridge..   It is a requirement that each pair posts a brief description of their system and carding arrangements at the start of each round.
 

Our relaxed F2F pairs will run as normal on Wednesday mornings.    Should you not have a partner for any session please contact Kay Hunneyball ( kayhunneyball@btopenworld.com ) who will try to find you one. 

Our joint RealBridge sessions with Central Yarnton Bridge Club are on Thursday mornings at 9.45am.  All club members are welcome,  please contact John Rowe ( john53rowe@gmail.com ) if you would like to play..

In our increasing complicated game it is only fair that your opponents should know the meaning of any of your unusual system bids.  To this end the EBU imposes a system of alerts and announcements that must be followed by players in our sessions.  This system was revised in August this year.   A table giving a complete summary of the system can be found at  https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/convention-cards/announcements-table.pdf 
          Please follow this system.   I suggest printing it and keeping it by your side for a few weeks.

          If you are playing on-line it is important to provide a brief summary of your system and carding in the chat box at the beginning of each round, particularly covering the basic system and the opening round of bids.  Thus something like

"Acol, 4 card majors, 3 weak 2's, 12-14 NT, standard leads, HELD"

or

"SAYC, 5 card majors, 1C may be 2 cards, 15-17 NT, 3 weak 2's, standard leads, reverse attitude, McKenney discards"

will be sufficient.  I suggest typing these once then copy and paste for each session.

Thank you

Peter

Our club competitions fell into abeyance during covid but your committee recently decided to restart as many as possible.

The OPEN and HANDICAP PAIRS will be played on the first Tuesday of the month starting on Tuesday 6th June.   Your score for the Open Pairs will be the average of your six best results between the 1st April and the 30th March   There is no need to enter, your score will be calculated auttomatically.   Because of the late start, his year there will be just ten sessions played

Your score for the Handical pairs will be your Open pairs score adjusted by your handicap which will be the average of your pair's NGS scores on the 6th June.   Your NGS score must be available on that date to take part.

The club cup competitions will be played on the third Tuesday of the month.    A belated Spring cup will be on Tuesday 20th June.   The two session Simpson cup will be hald on August 15th and September 19th .  The Autumn cup will be on November 21st.

On fifth Tuesdays we will play pairs with  Imp scoring.  The first will be on May 30th.  For those unfamiliar with Imp scoring there will be some instruction prior to the session.

Before covid we also ran an Individual competition and a Teams competition which could now run on the second and fourth Tuesdays.  However it is not clear whether we would have sufficient numbers to run them.  We will soon canvas opinion on whether these would be viable.

Please read the instructions for using Bookwhen, our only method of paying for and obtaining the links to our on-line Real Bridge sessions here  To make a booking go to Bookwhen  The Real Bridge link will be sent to you by e-mail.   Please book and access the link at least 20 minutes before the start of the session.

There has been an occasional problem when people have cut and pasted the link from the Bookwhen e-mail, probably a feature of their browser.  Please just click on the link in the e-mail.

If you find you cannot play in a session you have booked please do not cancel your booking as we cannot refund your booking fee.   Instead please transfer your booking to another session as described in the instructions.

If you have played in a session but not paid you may make a late payment  here

Peter

As a Club we have a well-deserved reputation for being welcoming and friendly. However, the normally high standards of behaviour at the club can be undermined by occasional lapses. Can we remind members of the ways in which we can all help to make sure that bridge is an enjoyable game for everyone who comes to Abingdon:

• greeting others in a friendly manner prior to the start of play on each round
• being polite to opponents and partners
• giving credit when opponents make a good bid or play
• making your convention card readily available to your opponents and filling it out completely.

Please click here if you would like to see the EBU's guide to best behaviour at the bridge table.