We will be holding our Swiss Pairs on Sunday 4th February at Elmswell at 10.30.  The cost will be £10.  We ask you to bring your own lunch and there will be hot and cold drinks available all day.

To enter, click on BURY SWISS

 click on LINK to play RealBridge on Wednesday  evening from 6.30 to 6.55pm for a 7pm start.

On Thursday 14th December (this is a change of date from 21st) we will be holding our Annual Christmas Party, starting at 6.30. This will be combined with the Handicap Pairs session for December.  Come and join us for wine and canapés before play starts.  
 

there will be no Bridge the week between Christmas and New Year either on RealBridge on Wednesday 27th or F2F at Southgate on 28th. There is however the county Bah Humbug competition at Elmswell on 29th. See separate notice for this and entry form in on Suffolk website. 
 

With Christmas and New Year often playing havoc with club calendars, the Bah Humbug Pairs aims to fill a festive gap in our bridge lives.

In keeping with the season of goodwill, this event would not claim to be the most serious bridge occasion of the year...which is probably one reason why it has proved popular.

Bah Humbug takes place this year on Friday 29 December at Blackbourne community centre, Blackbourne Road, Elmswell (IP30 9UH) starting at 11am. Depending on numbers, about 26 boards will be played.

To enter, please the visit the SCBA website and click on BAH HUMBUG  Please bring your own lunch.

There is a second chance to qualify for this on line on RealBridge on Wednesday 3rd January 2024

1. Heats to be held in clubs during October/November - the heats will be F2F. There will be an online open heat, for anyone who has missed their club heat, in January 2024.  The final will be F2F

2. All players who achieve 50% or more in a heat will be eligible to take part in the final at Elmswell on Sunday 21st April  2024.

3. Players may only attempt qualification once - please ask players whether they wish to attempt qualification before play starts.

4. Any out of county players who achieve more than 50% in a heat will not be eligible to play in the final, since the top three pairs in the final will be invited to represent Suffolk in the Corwen Trophy.  

 On 29 June we held the first of  a new ‘handicap duplicate’ session.  It was a big success and attracted 9 tables.  The first winners were Denis Carter & Peter Warren.   These sessions will continue on the last Thursday of each month for the foreseeable future   

The handicap system will be based on the NGS of each player giving each pair a + or – depending upon their ranking. Players on a low NGS will have the advantage over more highly rated players.  A handicap may benefit the less experienced player by giving him or her a better chance, but it also benefits the better player by producing more of a challenge.

All club members and newcomers welcome, the usual table money of £2.50 per person applies.  Bury Bridge Club play at 7pm at Southgate Community Centre. Please arrive from 6.30pm.  

Since January 4th 2023 we have permanently switched from BBO to RealBridge 

The charge for this is £2 per session   You will be billed, by Joan our Treasurer, who will send you an email every two months. 

see more information below….

REALBRIDGE.

A link will be shown on our website, simply click on that and you will be able to join

Once on the home page you will need to fill in your name and EBU membership number in the ID box and then join a table, opposite your partner, if they are already there. If they are not there just click on an empty space. It’s as easy as that!

Three more points to take note of:-

1. Use Chrome rather than Edge as your browser – RealBridge works much better on Chrome
2. If you lose connection – Refresh or log back in again
3. If necessary you can control the volume when playing by clicking on the mic symbol to the right of a person’s name.

Some people have found circular blue & white icons appearing in front of their bidding cards if they are using Edge - they appear as    image001.png    and    image002.png  

It is caused by a feature of Edge called "Visual Search".  This feature should be disabled for the RealBridge site.  To do that, hover over the icon (or the upper of the two icons), so that you can see the lower icon with three dots in it.  Click on the three dots, and a submenu will appear, like this:    image003.png

Then do "hide for this site" (if you want to disable this feature for all websites you can instead do "hide always")

If you need a partner please contact Joan 01284 787286 and she will send an email round to members.

Paul May & Tony Hines pictured here with Anne.  Anne presented this new trophy shortly before lockdown, this is the fourth time it has been played. 
The Club was pleased to give Anne lifetime membership for all her work and contribution to the Club over the years. 

A comprehensive list of County events is to be found on the Suffolk (SCBA) website.   Left hand column, under Malcolm Pryor's picture, 'Competitions Calendar'.

A good turn out at Clare’s Swiss Pairs, held in Lavenham resulted in Bury players taking four of the top 8 positions.   Well done to Helen & David, Mike & Guy, Pam & Tim and Jo & Dennis. 

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  2nd Place 2023
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  3rd Place 2023
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  Ascenders 2023
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  Winners 2023

We had a great turn out of 18 tables at Elmswell for our Swiss Pairs on January 29th. It seems people really like playing F2F again.  Well done to the winners Andre Gray and David Willson. In second are Barry and Bob and third are Catherine and Paul. Ascenders went to Rosa and Rob!

An article on the Suffolk website gives insight about information you can access on EBU (English Bridge Union) website.  From news to competitions and checking up on your masterpoints its your way to keep in touch with all that's going on.  All you need to access your own details is your EBU number and, oh yes, decide on a password!

Pam Pope successful with Sekhar Pillai in the Swiss Pairs 9-high element of the Suffolk Congress (ex-Felixstowe) on Sunday 2 October 2022 at Elmswell.

in the Thornaway Cup at Elmswell on 5 March 2023 one of our Bury teams came second.   Well done to Jo Harpur, Tim Evans, Chris Park and Denis Valtisiaris