Janet, the wife of Frank Travers our previous Chairman, passed away at home on Monday 9th November 2020.  Janet will be remembered by many members of our club.  A private cremation will take place on Thursday 19th November at 4:30pm. Family flowers only please, donations if desired to L.O.R.O.S and Motor Neurone Disease Association c/o E. C. Gilbert LTD, 33 Oaks Road, Great Glen, Leicester, LE8 9EF. Tel 0116 2712340 or online at www.ecgilbertltd.com

The Trustees of County Bridge Club are delighted to announce that
Ian Walkerdine has been awarded Honorary Life Membership
in recognition of the service he has given and
his substantial input to the club through his work as Chairman and Tournament Secretary over many years.
Congratulations Ian, this is well deserved

After the 2019 AGM a proposal was received from a member, Cynthia James, that Ian should be made an Honorary Life Member of the club. Stephen Ashley seconded the proposal. Cynthia’s proposal included the following:
In support of my proposal, I would like to re-iterate that although I have played no part in the most recent and finally successful effort to relocate the Club, I certainly have first-hand experience of the frustrations endured through the many previous attempts to find a suitable alternative venue. Endurance became a by word! Throughout this time Ian has shown both great patience and persistence and the fact that finally, he has managed to oversee the Club's successful relocation and enhance its own potential future viability, is an achievement which surely now deserves the Club's own formal recognition.
On 5th July 2019 the trustees agreed unanimously that Ian be awarded Honorary Life membership. It was planned to present Ian with a trophy commemorating this at our next AGM in June 2020.
Well you know what happened next. A pandemic. Our 2020 AGM had to be held remotely. We decided we would wait to present Ian with his trophy until we could do it face to face. We thought this might happen in September. But alas this was thwarted and now we are in a further lockdown. So, as the trophy is nearing its ‘sell by’ date of 2020, which is engraved on it, we have presented Ian with his trophy at a Trustee Zoom Meeting attended by the other Honorary Life members of the club.
However as soon as we can meet face to face there will be a formal presentation and a party to celebrate, a big party with bubbly, cake and proper speeches and lots of people.

All our sessions are open to non-members but you must register by filling in the form on the right hand side of the page.  You need do this only once but do it as soon as you can.  We create our 'allowed players' list from these submissions - usually several hours before the event.  This week we will run fouronline sessions on Monday and Friday afternoon and Thursday evening. On Thursday Evening players are welcome to play advanced conventions (Level 4), ther events are restricted to simpler systems (Level 2). 

The Wednesday morning session is for our less experienced players.  For those with an NGS grading, it should be 7 or below.  The director watches this event and sends comments later in the week to our players.

This is the view you get when you sign into BBO and enter the Competitive area followed by All Tournaments. You want the pending tab. Event start time is 13:15 but register well before that to allow time for any problems.

1. In the search bar (top right)  enter vEBU, this will list just those tournaments run by EBU virtual clubs.
2. The County Bridge Club host will always be vEBU207910.
3. To chat to the director (host) click on the gray box where you see vEBU207910.
4. To enter the tournament click the white area containing "County Bridge Club Fri .....".
5. One of the pair registers the pair, the other member of pair receives an invitation to accept. Know your partners BBO UserName and best to have you partner as a "Friend" in the People Tab..
6. The event will not appear as pending until 2 hours prior to the event, so will not show now for instance.

The EBU best advice is to bar the use of the UNDO button for mis-clicks, and all our duplicate sessions will follow that advice. The reason is that it removes all problems of whether the UNDO is for a mis-click or a change of mind as well as preventing a delay in the bidding or play. A mis-click is more likely to damage the pair mis-clicking than the opposition but in the event that it does damage the opposition there is regrettably no redress, the director will rule that you have to live with the apparent injustice. The mis-click must not be brought to the attention of the partner and there is no obligation to volunteer the mis-click to the opposition.

If you are prone to mis-clicks then we strongly recommend you change your Account tab > Settings > Confirm bids / Confirm cards to ON so that you have to confirm with bids with an OK button and click a card twice to play.