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The Cashless club

Many moons ago, in the era before covid, Frank Travers and Anthea Byrne were trying to persuade me that the County Bridge Club should become a cashless club.  I did not think this was a viable proposition.  I am now eating my words.

Anthea has set up account with izettle (an offshoot of Paypal) that will enable us to collect monies at the club just as you do in a shop by using your credit or debit card for a cashless transaction.  In addition, Bridgewebs has added an attendance module whereby we can record fees payable by individuals who play bridge either at the premises or online. 

The County Bridge Club has had access to this system for several weeks before release to the wider Bridgewebs community.  We have been testing it.  The system uses uploaded results to determine what players owe.  We have set the fee for BBO sessions to zero (players have already paid via BBO) and the RealBridge sessions to £2.50 for each session from February onwards.  Meanwhile Frank has been keeping and record of attendances on RealBridge.  The figures we have obtained from the attendance module match exactly with the figures produced by Frank.  With little manual intervention we are now able to invoice members for their attendance either at the club or online.

We will send out our first set of invoices from bridgewebs after the end of March.  The invoices will show either the exact amount owed or the amount individuals are in credit.  The invoice includes a link to their Bridgewebs statement.  For security reasons, this link is live for just 2 days.  So, how will people pay?

Our preferred method of payment is by bank transfers.  An alternative method will be for our members to set up a standing order.  A third option is to send a cheque.  The final option is to pay cash at the club but we would prefer not to handle cash.

Members will be able to see their account at any time by signing into their account on the website.  Non-members can request an account statement at any time.   if you have any questions about this system please email your questions to ianwalkerdine@gmail.com.  I will publish a more detailed explanation of the system after I receive your questions.

Ian Walkerdine   

THURSDAY DUPLICATE PAIRS on REALBRIDGE 2.00PM start doors open 1-30.  There will be a HOST

If you have a partner sit anywhere. If you have not got a partner sit at table 15

THIS SESSION is NOT FREE. You will be invoiced monthly in arrears for £2-50 per session until we have a new payment system set up hopefully by next week.

We will play 18 BOARDS at 15 minutes per 2 board round. Soon we will move to 20 boards at 14 minutes/round.

PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE AT LEAST SOUND WORKING and for the enjoyment of others if you have SERIOUS TECHNOLOGY PROBLEMS you may be excluded.

Enter first and last name with 1 capital letter for each name ie John Smith. Make sure the spelling is correct. IN ID BOX put EBU No. If no number put in eight eights [88888888]

NB By playing in this game you promise to pay County Bridge Club £2-50 per session attended.

ANY PROBLEMS CONTACT RICHARD BELL 07821 287 654 OR 0116 2590172

We have set up an additional website for our on-line teaching program.  This program was aimed at last year's Y1 and Y2 students.  The lessons have now started.  

If you wish to consider joining our next teaching program which may start in the autumn, please register by clicking on the 'Student Registration' menu item on the CBCT website.

Enter www.bridgewebs.com/cbct  into your browser.

  Fill in the form and press 'Send'.  

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.  The events list is shown on the calendar (top right).  Monday PM, Wednesday AM and Friday PM are level2 sessions with Wednesday is for players with an NGS level of 7 or under.

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.