The topics for the upcoming lessons are as follows:-

Friday 16th April - Benjamised Acol 2C Bid

Friday 23rd April - Benjamised Acol 2D Bid

If you are interedted in attending but have not already registered your interest please email to

boltonbridgeclub@gmail.com

Please allow plenty of time to make sure everything is in place in time for the lesson.

Following on from a recent meeting of the BPS Steering Group, there are a number of issues that we need to draw to your attention:

• From Thursday 1 April, Undos for carding mis-clicks will be allowed.  These must only be for mechanical errors and not a change of mind.  If the mis-click request is not allowed by the opponents, then the TD should be called.  This policy will be reviewed after 3 months.
• Compliance with the online alerting requirements is patchy to say the least.  BPS will shortly publish some guidance on alerting and explaining but there are 3 overriding principles: 

1. At the start of a round please give an overview of your system.  Something like “Acol, 3 Wk2s, Weak NT, Standard leads, standard signals and discards (HELD), Weak jump overcalls”. You can keep this line in your paste buffer to use from round to round, if you don’t want to keep typing it in.
2. Every time you make a conventional bid you need to alert and explain it.  You also need to alert 1N and 2N opening ranges and when you open 2 of a suit.  Because your partner can’t see your explanation, you should err on the side of over-alerting online.
3. You can request an explanation of a bid by clicking on the bid.  If you don’t get an answer mail the opponent using Chat and ask him/her.  Don’t worry about asking one opponent for an explanation of a bid or a signal. As long as you send the message to the opponent who made the bid or play, only he/she will see it and there will be no danger of unauthorised information being passed.

• Restricted events – please respect the NGS guidelines for the Monday afternoon, Thursday evening and Friday afternoon sessions.

Our Annual General Meeting on Monday 29th March 2021 voted unanimously in favour of the following election of Officers and Directors of the Club:

President:       Heather Carr

Secretary:      Susan Squires

Treasurer:      Stephen Hazlitt

Directors:       Jay Cooper.  Ken Hardman,  Andy Hitchon,  Paul Vose

Directors continuing in office but not required to be re-elected this year:  Duncan Ault, Wendy Blyth, Paul Evans, Linda Hitchen, Vanessa Openshaw, Chris Quegan, June Timperley and Jeff Smith

♥ ♥  Thank you to everyone who played in our Charity Events on Tuesday. ♥ ♥ 

♥ ♦ ♥ With your support we have raised another £300 to help our chosen local healthcare and support charities ♥ ♦ ♥ 

BPS Hand Commentary Here

The new series of Lancashire BPS competition events starts in February. They are open to all registered BPS online players. The Open Championships will be held on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month over 6 sessions. The Mens, Ladies and Mixed competitions will be held on the 2nd Wednesday respectively of each month.

Mixed Pairs Championship Wednesday April 14th

Anybody can play on any of these dates but a prize will be given for the best pair in the category Open and Under 10 (average for the pair) In the relevant month. No pair can win more than one prize so if an Under 10 pair is the overall winner they will not count in the Under 10. Prizes will be given in the form of a free BPS session. Any disputes will be decided by the BPS committee whose decision is final. All winners appear on the Southport BPS Honors Board.