| News Season - News and Reminders |
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We hope you had a great summer and to those who joined us during the summer we hope you enjoyed the games and that you will consider continuing with us in the coming season.
Subscriptions
All will have received the email from Marese asking for subs to be paid, and we would appreciate if people could pay as early as possible, as affiliation fees are due to CBAI.
Launch Competition
We are kicking off our season with a pairs competition on Monday, October 19th so please make sure you are paid up by then so you are eligible for prizes 💰
Upcoming Events
The CBAI and the DNR calendars for events are now available and you can access from the ‘Useful Links’ on the website.
With the season starting it is opportune to remind people of the ethics and playing rules for our competitions on BBO.
Playing on BBO
There is full information on our website and guidance on use of BBO to include alerting bids. The most important thing to remember is that once the competition starts the only interaction with other players including your partner should be by means of the chat function in BBO.
A reminder that our standard playing system for competition is ACOL playing 4 card Majors and weak No Trump. Week twos in three suits and transfers along with standard Blackwood and Gerber are also standard. If playing anything different or additional to this, you must enter a message at the start of each round in the chat function so that your opposition are aware.
Have a pal who’d like to join?
Please also remember our drive for new members and if you know anyone playing at B standard that you feel would enjoy playing in our club please pass them this email and they can access the membership form via the Information tab on the website at and return to Gay Connolly when completed.
Members Area
Finally from a data privacy viewpoint, we have decided to move a number of items including results to the ‘Members Only’ area on the website so they can only be accessed with your username and password.
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| Player of the Year and Summer Bridge. |
Player of the Year
Sincere congratulations to Mary Ryan who has amassed the highest number of Master Points playing in our club during the ‘Bridge Season’. Mary is one of the club’s best supporters rarely missing a Monday and we are delighted she has won this prize. We will present at the earliest opportunity.
Summer Bridge - New Members drive.
With the main bridge season coming to a close, and some bridge clubs wind down for the summer, we want to remind you that we intend to keep sessions running throughout the summer.
This is of course dependent on having sufficient numbers playing, which brings us to the second part of our plan!
As we did last year, we are asking all members to put their thinking caps on, and see if they can identify (at least) one new person who might like to join us for a session or more.
We are offering the same arrangement as last year, where a person can play without having to pay any membership up to October, so a great opportunity to give it a go!
If you have someone in mind please forward this mail to them, and they can access the Membership Form we have completed so we have all necessary information to set the individual up to play our competition on BBO.
Once the form is completed it can be returned by email to Gay Connolly at connollygay@gmail.com and he will be happy to bring the player through the (straightforward) process.
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| Results and Commentary for Celtic SIMs Pairs Monday 11th May |
Available at this link
https://www.simpairs.com/files/003226%20Celtic%20Pairs%202026%20Monday%20Commentary.pdf
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| Simultaneous Pairs Competition - Monday 3rd November Results |
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Thanks to all members who played in the tournament and well done to Mary Ryan and Gay Connolly who placed 42nd out of 1100 pairs nationally.
The commentary on the boards is now available by clicking the tab CBAI Sim Pairs Commentary in the left hand menu.
The overall results are available on www.ecatsbridge.com.
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| BBO and Bridgewebs Hints and Tips |
Links to YouTube videos to help with getting the most from your play in BBO, and information on the learning that can be derived from the competition results stored on our website.
You can access these from the new tab added to the left hand menu.
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| Reviewing the play! |
There is huge benefit to reviewing our games, both in terms of our bidding and playing.
Because we use pre dealt hands, and the Bridgewebs platform there is significant capability to review, and even replay hands.
Click on the Duplicate Hand Records tab in the left hand menu for an introductory article on this, we can provide more links if members find this useful.
Enjoy!
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| Broadmeadows WhatsApp Group |
For newer members who may not be aware we have a club WhatsApp group which is great for finding partners. If you want to join please send a text message or WhatsApp to Gay Connolly on 0868367838. We have been advised to remind everyone on the WhatsApp group that it is only to be used for finding partners and that all chat must stop once the competition starts at 7.30pm. The chat on BBO can be used instead.
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| Competitions |
COMPETITIONS
Competitions will continue to run on Mondays on BBO.
You can log in from 6pm and the competition will start at 7.30.
PARTNER WhatsApp GROUP
A reminder that if you don’t have a partner you can put a message into the WhatsApp group - if you are not in the group you can send a text message or WhatsApp to Gay Connolly at 0868367838 and you will be added.
BBO Partnership Desk
Also, you can put your name in the partnership desk on BBO where members can check for anyone looking for a partner - and our friendly robots are also always available !
Hoping to see you all ‘at the club’ during the year.
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| New information added to ‘Masterpoints’ tab |
New reports have been added to the Masterpoints tab in the left hand menu providing information on the singles and pairs rankings in the current season.
A CBAI guide to Grades and Masterpoints can be accessed at this link.
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| CBAI and DNR Upcoming Competitions |
Lots of information on upcoming CBAI competitions available at this link ♥ .
Dublin North Region also has information on its website. Link to website in ‘Useful Links’ tab in left menu.
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| TIP How to use chat on BBO |
HOW to set up CHAT for use during COMPETITIONS on BBO
1. LOGON to BBO
2. Click Mouse in BLANK Space above the CHAT line
3. You get 3 choices : a) Smaller chat font
b) Bigger chat font
c) Chat Manager .
4. Click on c) Chat Manager - you will then get a box which allows you to enter a Message. Set up the message and EXIT.
5. Click on Chat Manager again and your message is there for you .
6. Click on the Message and you get another box labelled Chat .
7. Click on the BLUE tab Chat and your message goes to wherever you have designated . Normally Table.
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| TIP HOW to ALERT |
ALERTing on BBO.
This is different to ALERTing at the TABLE.
At the TABLE your Partner ALERTs your BID.
ON BBO you ALERT your own BID by clicking on the ALERT Button (below the actual BIDs) and then making the BID.
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