Bridge in April

During the month of April all Duplicate sessions on a Wednesday afternoon will be played on RealBridge and are FREE to members. The third session is on Wednesday 21st April commencing at 2pm. We do not need hosts for these events as RealBridge copes with half tables and there are no ROBOTS. You will still require a partner. Click on the link below - Wednesday21stApril - to log in to the session with your name and EBU number and try and be seated by 1.45pm.   

            Accessing Past Events

     To access past events and find out the bidding sequence for every board for every pair and how that board was played click on the date of that event, shown below, and log in as normal. Find and click on the 'Scores' Tab    and click on the Board No on the pop up screen. Now click on the Contract you wish to view, which is in the 3rd column from the left. The bidding is clearly shown and by clicking on '>' you can see how it was played. The links for the past events will be displayed below for 2 weeks following that event and subsequently in Members Only 

                                                            Wednesday14thApril

For newcomers to RealBridge or for further information on RealBridge click on the link below

                                                        A Players Guide to RealBridge

 Virtual Duplicate Bridge is played at Ashby Bridge Club on Monday and Thursday evenings at 7pm as well as every Wednesday at 2pm where we play a few less boards with slightly more playing time.To play on Mondays and Thursdays you need to be a Bridge Base Online member and have informed the club of your username - see below. If you have not signed up already see the details by clicking on the tab 'Bridge Base Online' on the left hand side of this page.  This will tell you how to register and other useful and important information. To play on Wednesday afternoons on RealBridge you only need to click the link in the article above, sign in, log in and sit down. BBO and RealBridge are the only ways you can play against other Club Members in an Ashby Bridge Club Duplicate session for the forseeable future. You will require a partner and if you find this difficult please contact Robert Killip on 07865 398468 who will endeavour to pair you with another member in a similar situation or use the Find a Partner system in Members Only

Once registered on Bridge Base Online email - robert.stokes1@ntlworld.com with your username

New for :

CHARLIE HALL INDIVIDUAL – THURSDAY 15^th APRIL : WINNER George Siwek and RUNNER UP Kay Darwin
The COTTAGE SHIELD – “SCRATCH PAIRS” WEDNESDAY 19^th MAY – entries will be required

Reminders/Updates for :

The KO Plate : THE FINALISTS …. Final to be complete by 18^th May

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CHARLIE HALL INDIVIDUAL – THURSDAY 15^th APRIL using BBO – TOP SPOT TO GEORGE S & 2ND PLACE TO KAY

Another “interesting” evening for our director, with suprising entrants, no shows, but “director Bob coped”, thanks Bob, and also a thank you to our standby participating host Margaret Shadrack.

ANYWAY …. our clear winner, miles ahead of the field was GEORGE SIWEK with over 70%, in second place with over 61% was KAY DARWIN, so both get a Charlie Hall trophy to show off in due course!

WELL DONE George and Kay

You can find your own results/placement on our website as follows, from our home page “click” on the “Competitions” tab on the left, then “click” on the “Charlie Hall Individual Trophy 15^th April 2021” tab for the details.

We cannot get these BBO individual results into Bridgewebs nor EBU results, so they will not count towards any trophies, or NGS ratings.
If you played, you can of course login to BBO to see the more detailed blow by blow bidding/play and comparative details for this tournament.

THE COTTAGE SHIELD – “SCRATCH PAIRS” WEDNESDAY 19^th MAY – PLAYED USING BBO - entries required

For our next event, you will receive a club email, yes another one!!, with more details.

The club email will detail what you need to do to enter, key dates, how pairs are made up and how it is organised.

In summary – your individual entry request will be required and sent to me, stuartrees01@tiscali.co.uk NO LATER THAN 14^th May please.

As with other similar events, you will receive an acknowledgement of your entry and once sorted the pairs arrangements.
Another good chance to play with a different partner, (probably), though this time for the duration of the afternoon and we will be using BBO and the ABC Basic Bidding System.

The KO TROPHY - (October - April) – THE FINAL – complete by 18^th May

All rounds except our final have now been completed and our semi final results are below
Mary/Alan N beat Belinda/Bob and are through to the final. with
Andrew W/Ian W overcoming Alison/Brian H as our other finalists.

As normal, the 1st listed pair to arrange.
The full draw schedule found via
From Home page click on “Competitions” then on “Knockout draw 2020/21 & Results”

Please take a look at the rules well ahead of playing please. 
Rules found via
From Home page click on “Competitions” then on “Knockout Rules 2020/21” and remember to score via the "Total points" scoring option, (not IMPS, nor Matchpoints), keep track of your scores via the printable score card provided there if you do not have one to hand.

Please note, for our pairs competitions we cannot orchestrate a single pair winner event via BBO and the results are determined by the highest scoring pairs.

                                March 2021 Promotions

                        There are five promotions this month

                        Advanced Master         Margaret Shadrack

                                                               Richard Shadrack

                       District Master               Robert Grimley

                       Club Master.                   Anne Gurd

                                                               George Siwek                                       
                      Full list of promotions can be found Click Here

Next virtual meeting  - To be advised

Minutes of all committee meetings can be found by going to Members Only and clicking on Member Notices. Select the Minutes you require