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We are delighted to announce that Andrew Robson will be giving a Masterclass on Friday 6th February 2026, 10:30 am - 4 pm in Lavenham Village Hall. He will be covering the following topics:

Four Key Shapes
How Many Cards
Four Key Acronyms

Cost: £40.00 per head, to include a delicious lunch.

To enter, please sign up on the website.

The Clare Bridge Club championship pairs heat will be held on the 16th February 2026. 

All players who achieve 50% or more in a club heat will be eligible to take part in the Championship Pairs final at Elmswell on Sunday 19 April 2026. 

Players may only attempt qualification once - players will be asked whether they wish to attempt qualification before play starts.

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, which will take place F2F in Nottingham, on 30/31 May 2026. 

NGS 2-9 players can attempt qualification in the main competition as well as playing in the 9 High qualifier on 29 March 2026. If successful in both they can choose which final to play in.  The 9 High final will be online on 30 May 2026.

Entry details can be given HERE

Entry details can be given HERE

Clare Bridge Club runs 3 sessions every week

On Monday evenings you can play face-to-face at the Old School Hall in Clare, at 6:45 for 7:00
or online on BBO with Swindon Bridge Club: see below.

To join us in person at Clare just turn up with your partner! You can be sure of a warm welcome.
If you don't have a partner please contact a member of the committee beforehand

To play online please register by clicking on the "Register for Clare Online" button at the top right

On Friday afternoons you can play "Gentle Duplicate" at Lavenham Village Hall
at 1:45 (please be prompt!) for a 2pm start, finishing by 5pm

These relaxed bridge sessions are an opportunity for players who have never experienced duplicate bridge or for club members who would like to play face-to-face in a relaxed environment.
You are most welcome to come either with or without a partner.

Clare and Swindon Bridge Club have now joined forces for online bridge on Monday nights.

The face-to-face sessions at Clare are unaffected and continue as normal.

Registering to play

If you haven't previously played online with Clare, please register using this form.

Registering for a session

This is a change from Clare practice: it will NOT be possible to join on the day. Instead you MUST register in advance every week, before 6pm on the preceding Sunday (ideally the preceding Saturday).

You do this on the Swindon Bridge Club website (click here): scroll down to find the event and enter your name and BBO ID, and your partner's name and BBO ID.

Joining the session

Log in to BBO as usual, and search for "Swindon" under "Competitive" / "All Tournaments".

It's as easy as that!

The EBU announcing and alerting rules have been amended. Click here to see the EBU ‘Announcing and Alerting Summary’ which describes all the announcing and alerting rules including the changes.

The first group of changes expands what to do over a transfer.

The second group of changes adds responses to one of a suit.

• If your suit responses to one of a suit are natural you do nothing.
• If your responses to one of a suit has another meaning, such as another suit or denies a four card major, you ‘alert’ or ‘announce’ as shown in the ‘Announcing and Alerting Summary’
• If your 1NT response to one of a suit is the normal one showing up to 10 points you do nothing.
• If your 1NT response to one of a suit is different, such as more than 10 points or is forcing, you ‘alert’ or ‘announce’ as shown in the ‘Announcing and Alerting Summary’

The link in the 'Playing Bridge at Clare' document to help on cut and paste on BBO is not working.

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