♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Online Pairs Competition♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

 Come and play in our very first Online Bridge pairs competition for students and social bridge players  

Norwich Bridge School has set  up a gentle duplicate bridge competition online  on BBO bridgebaseonline.com

This will be a weekly fixture

I expect that you are all probably missing face to face competition with your friends and this is a way of keeping in touch and brushing up your bridge. 
It will start at 11am Tuesday 19th May

To take part you will need to register on BBO (its free)
Then send me your BBO username,email and phone number so that we have a tourney list
 
If you copy and paste the link this  u-tube video  will walk you through how to set up on BBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrY6ZqVGvX8&list=PL9lOXJf9R9em-kAdxhUGxQniqZJm1PpCl&index=1
 

HOW TO ENTER THE TOURNAMENT
Log in to BBO
Click on Competitive Tournaments
Next click on All Tournaments
Under the pending list find
#3554 Pairs Norwich Bridge School Gentle duplicate(Tues 19th 11am)
 
Click to enter and follow instructions. You will need to have BBO $ in your account. Cost  to play is  $5
If you don’t have a partner you can play with a robot for 25 cents or register at the partnership desk
 
How to buy BBO $.
This page allows you to buy BBO dollars. They are needed to pay entry fees for pay tournaments on the site.

If you wish to play games for the Norwich Bridge School that issue masterpoints, you will need BB$ to pay the entry fee.
https://www.bridgebase.com/purchase/pay.php
 
See you there! 

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ENJOY♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

ONLINE BRIDGE GAMES

In the current circumstances with bridge clubs closed and events cancelled, many of our members will be thinking of playing online bridge. Some will already be familiar with the options below (there may be more providers, which could be added to this list if we are informed of them) but here is some information to help those who do not play online, to point them in the right direction to investigate the various options. We will be adding to this as things progress.

Bridge Club Live is a UK based online bridge provider, which runs a variety of individual and partnership games for which EBU master Points are awarded to members as well as a social room for casual play. There is a free Guest room for players to try it out and a range of membership types to suit those playing more seriously. Most of its members are British so whilst Acol is prevalent, all systems are catered for and members from all over the world keep the bridge going 24/7. They have just issued a press release detailing enhancements made to help accommodate the increasing demand for online bridge from F2F Club players.

Funbridge hosts our regular daily online robot games, which give EBU master points. Information about them is available on our webpage.

Bridge Base Online (BBO) is the largest international online bridge provider. Signing up and playing in many of the games is free, though they do have some tournaments that are paid for. Since it is an American company payment is in dollars and the most common bidding systems are Standard American type (sayc or 2/1).

For students who would like to practice their bridge, please register for free with No Fear Bridge via this link, free for the first three months.

We are currently in the process of organising our own EBU games on BBO which will start on Tue 17th Mar with a 12-board game at 7.30pm and another at 9pm. Assuming there is enough demand, we intend to expand soon after by having afternoon games as well. Each game will cost $1 and you will need to buy some BBO$ in advance.

Our advice to players who are interested in playing in them is first to sign up for a free login to BBO and play in some free games to familiarise themselves with how the game works, so that they are ready to take part as soon as our games are running.