♣♦ Chairman's Message ♥♠ 

Dear members, students and visitors,

We are currently unable to welcome you to our lovely club house. Until we can, we hope to meet with you remotely at some of the wide range of club games, operating within the Bridge Base Online website. The club’s team of volunteers is working hard to expand the services we offer but we hope that you can find at least one session to suit you.

This is a new situation for all of us and we welcome any suggestions you might have. If you are a visitor and would like to receive our fortnightly newsletter please email me at chairman@cheltenhambridgeclub.com.

Take care of yourself and be alert, particularly at the bridge table! I hope to meet you all face to face before too long.

Ro Kaye, Chairman

♣♦ Covid-19 Help ♥♠

Click here if you need help e.g. to get food, supplies or medicines.
Click here if you are willing to help others.

♣♦ Newsflash ♥♠

Cheltenham Bridge Club is the largest and most successful club in Gloucestershire and now the 4th most popular in the country.

• Join Cheltenham Bridge Club
• Play as an Online Visitor
• How to Find Us
• Contact the club

♣♦ CBC Online Schedule ♥♠

Cheltenham Bridge Club runs regular online Bridge tournaments on Bridge Base Online (BBO) at the following times:

• Tuesday 10:00 - Learners Duplicate
• Tuesday 13:00 - Open
• Wednesday 18:45 - Open
• Thursday 10:00 - Gentle (for NGS 7 or below)
• Thursday 13:00 - Open
• Friday 13:00 - Open
• Saturday 10:00 - Open

Tournaments aim to play for approximately 2 hours, and Master Points and NGS updates apply to the Open and Gentle events. Full description of sessions here and upcoming events are listed in the Events Calendar.

Visitors are welcome:
Please complete the 'online visitor' application form

♣♦ Monthly Competitions ♥♠

Each month, there are competitions for the top individual players playing in CBC online tournaments. Check out the current Leaderboards!

• Open Leaderboard
• Gentle Bridge Leaderboard

♣♦ How do I play in CBC online tournaments? ♥♠

• You must be a CBC member, a CBC student member, or an Online Visitor.
• Create an account on the BBO site. Remember your username.
• Put some money into your BBO account.
• Check that you are on the list of eligible BBO players.
• If not, or to update. register your BBO user name.
• Register to play in the tournament.
• Follow the guidelines for how to play.
• Questions and Answers
• Tips and Tricks
• Common BBO Abbreviations

♣♦ Help! I want to play online but don't know how ♥♠

If you have a computer, laptop, iPad or tablet, and an internet connection, then you have all you need to play Bridge online!

But if you don't understand what to do, if you have questions, or are encountering difficulties, then please ask for help from one of our BBO Buddy volunteers (click here) who will be pleased to help and get you up and running in no time!

♣♦ Guides to Playing on Bridge Base Online ♥♠

Courtesy of Berwick Bridge Club:

• 👉 BBO registration
• BBO home screen
• Changing account settings
• Friends and chatting
• Join or create your own table
• 👉 Useful acronyms
• Bidding and alerting
• Creating a table for your friends
• 👉 Pairs tournament registration
• 👉 System cards
• PLUS even more guides here ...

EBU Guide

Useful guide to getting up and running on Bridge Base Online.

Guide to Playing Online

Pauline's guide to playing online

♣♦ Online Bridge Providers ♥♠

The club wants to encourage its members to play on-line - both to keep them stimulated and also to keep them in touch with each other. These are some of the providers available, please click on any of the following links to find out more.    

♣♦ CBC Club at Bridge Club Live ♥♠

Cheltenham Bridge Club is registered as an online club at BridgeClubLive (BCL).

(admin@cheltenhambridgeclub.com )