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| Bude Bridge Club Online |
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We are now playing online Fridays as well as Face-to-Face.on Tuesday evenings.
These online sessions will use the RealBridge system.
our first session saw friends from Devon, Dorset and Worcestershire joining us.
To log in click the RealBridge link on the calendar on the right.
Please note that we welcome our friends from other Bridge Clubs to join us - please let our Secretary, Val Ridding, know in advance that you wish to play. 07760284097
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| STOP PRESS! New Director! |
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Many Congratulations to Robert Waterhouse, who has just passed his Club Director’s Course with Distinction.
Well done from all at the Club.
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| Latest Tuesday Result |
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Congratulations to Ian Curtis ,inaugural winner of the Linda Ashworth Trophy on December 16th
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| Children in Need 2025 |
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Bude Bridge Club played in the annual Ecats Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs on November 11th.
The leading pair in the Club were Chris and Steve, and nationally they were 54th out of 1,182 pairs in 84 Bridge Clubs in Britain..
They are top in the Southwest of England (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Doset)
The Club also Played online on Friday 14th.
Leading pair were Colin and Liz, 26th out of 653 pairs nationally. Well done!
Several pairs will have won Masterpoints -
For our Club's results click on the Ecats website.
£100 raised so far for Children in Need. Thank you all!
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| EBU Autumn Sim Pairs |
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Congratulations to Chris and Rob I, winners of our local heat of the EBU Autumn Pairs
However, Nationally it is Doug and Peter who are the leading pair in 60 th position, with Neil and Sarah closely behind.
For the latest position, see:
https://www.ebu.co.uk/sim-pairs
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| Forthcoming EBU and Club Competitions 2026 |
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The Linda Ashworth Trophy is a new Individual Championship to be held at the Christmas Party on December 16th
no partner needed, just turn up.
Future national events this year include:
PLEASE NOTE
These events are for a Bude Bridge Club Members ONLY
EBU Winter Pairs Tuesday, January 13th 2026
EBU Spring Pairs Tuesday, April 14th
EBU Summer Pairs Tuesday,July 21st
EBU Autumn Pairs Tuesday, September 8th
Save the dates!
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| A Christmas Cracker Puzzle of the Month |
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A real Christmas Cracker! Don't peek at the answer until Christmas Day...
Spades are trumps and South is on lead.
Your goal is to win 6 of the last 7 tricks. A breeze if North is on lead....
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If North was on lead, this would just be a matter of drawing trumps; but South cannot do this.
If South leads winners, East and West will each win a trump trick.
There is only one solution - South must lose a trick to the singleton K♦ .
Cash the Ace ♣ , throwing the Q♥ from dummy.
Now lead the J♦ .
West must give North the lead, and South discards his top Diamonds on North's aces, leaving those tiny Diamonds as winners. |
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| Interesting Hand of the Week |
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Hand 16 from our Online session on September 12th
Amazingly only two East/West pairs bid the small slam, but both were outbid by North/South bidding the Grand Slam.
With two Aces and 20 High Card Points against them, they were obviously Doubled - but 13 tricks rolled in!
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West opened 2 Diamonds, a ‘Multi’ bid, including showing a strong, unbalanced hand.
North’s clever 3 Club bid was both disruptive and informative .
East now bid their suit, not expecting a fit, and South has an easy 4 Heart call.
West can see 12 tricks, so jumps to the Small Slam and South can bid 7 Diamonds, knowing it could be a sacrifice.
West is obviously going to Double - or should they? Isn’t 7 Spades a temptation?
The other Pair to bid their Grand Slam went through the path of
1 Spade (?), Pass, 3 Spades, 4 Hearts
6 Spades, Pass, Pass, 7 Diamonds
Double, Pass, Pass, Pass |
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