| Tip of the Week - November 22 |
Practice your Bridge on BBO
BBO have two new useful exercises. If you click on Solitaire you can practice Declarer play.
If you click on Practice and Minibridge there are good hands for assessing tricks.
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| BRIDGE CLASSES UPDATE |
Paul and Anne Doyle have started improver classes in Portmarnock Community school on Weds at 1 30p.m These classes are ideal for returnees.
Anne Doyle also teaches in Malahide Community School on Tuesday evening at 7.30pm. This is a beginners class.
Les Geraghty runs a class on Tuesday mornings in the Parish Centre, Malahide at 10.30am. This is a beginners class.
The CBAI has a list of teachers in other areas.
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| CONGRATULATIONS |
Liz Butler and Sylvia Kennedy won the North Dublin Region Novice Pairs. Well done Sylvia and Liz.
Congratulations to Kay Roche and Gerard O’Gorman who finished 7th out of 705 players in the recent SIM tournament. Well done indeed to Kay and Gerard.
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| Tip of the Week - Week 2 November |
The OVERCALL in NT
The OVERCALL in NT promises a stop in the opponent's suit and more points than opening 1NT
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| Tip of the Week - Week 1 November |
WHAT TO OPEN?
If not opening INT, OPEN LONGEST suit. This ensures your rebid is correct
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| Tip of the Week - October 25 |
TOP OF THE SEQUENCE LEADS
Always lead the safest lead. Sequence may be interrupted.
For example - AKJx, KQ10x. Lead top honour.
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| Tip of the Week |
DO I HAVE TO BID ?
It is NOT essential that every Hand MUST be opened
Quite often the correct Final contract is Passed Out
Do not feel obliged to Bid 4th in Hand. PASS.
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| Tip of the Week - October 1 |
DO NOT LEAD an UNSUPPORTED HONOUR
WHAT is an UNSUPPORTED HONOUR ?
AN HONOUR where you do NOT have the HONOUR immediately
below it.
EXAMPLES : SUPPORTED HONOUR ♠ AK , ♥ KQ etc
UNSUPPORTED HONOUR ♦ Axxx ♥ Kxxx
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| Tip of the Week - October 19 |
If, as Declarer, you HAVE to lose a Trick in a Suit, do so as soon as you can
Example K73 opposite A6542 in a NT Contract - play 2 and 3 in the First Round.
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| Need a partner to play ? |
Log onto BBO
Select Competition - Broadmeadow Novices -CBAI 125655
Click on Partnership Desk
Insert your BBO Name
Once a partner becomes available they can select you to play
If you are NOT selected to play by a partner - then you have the option to play with the Robot which will be available 2 minutes before the competition starts
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| DNR Novices Competition |
DNR NOVICE COMPETITION on the Bank Holiday WEEKEND
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| Stayman Convention |
Stayman is a bidding convention in the card game contract bridge. It is used by a partnership to find a 4-4 or 5-3 trump fit in a major suit after making a one notrump (1NT) opening bid and it has been adapted for use after a 2NT opening, a 1NT overcall, and many other natural notrump bids.
The convention is named for Sam Stayman, who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner George Rapée in 1944.
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