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

This will take place at Southgate Community Centre at 6.30pm   Subs of £10 will become due at the beginning of the new financial year on 1st June, applicable to all who play F2F.  This entitles members to play in Club competitions and teams.  Those who play on line, RealBridge on Wednesdays, will continue to play as guests.

On the last Thursday of each month, starting on 29th June, Bury Bridge Club will be hosting a new ‘handicap duplicate’ session.  The session will be preceded by nibbles and a free glass of wine.

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.  As well as free wine and nibbles, tea coffee and biscuits will be available on the night. 

Bury Bridge Club meet at 7pm at Southgate Community Centre. Please arrive from 6.30pm.  

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 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. 

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.

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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!

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'.

The Autumn Festival on September 11 at Elmswell, was very well attended and Bury provided winners in two of the five categories   

Caro Hunt and John Heath won the Veteran Pairs Prize and 

Pamela Pope and Patsi Barnes won the Ladies Pairs 

Pam was again successful, this time with Sekhar Pillai, in the Swiss Pairs 9-high element of the Suffolk Congress (ex-Felixstowe) on Sunday 2 October at Elmswell.

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

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!