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The Edinburgh No fears Bridge Club
The site where all the action happens!
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Live No fears pairs
Carlton
Director: Derek Sanders
St Thomas of Aquins
Online No fears pairs
BBO
Director: Derek Sanders
Boroughmuir Xmas pairs.
How to register for online No Fears BBO events

1) Login to BBO with your partner.

2) Go to competetive

3) Click all tournament

4) In search type stdomingo

5) Enter you partners name and click invite

6) Your partner will receive an invitation and accept

7) When the Tourney starts you will be automatically taken to a table.

8) Good luck and have fun!

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BBO Sunday evening pairs tournament and the live Friday evening pairs at the Carlton!

Hazel runs the Carlton BBO Sunday pairs tournament. Its great fun 24 boards, eight three board matches. Meanwhile Neil does the 'live Friday evening event' at the Carlton. No need to be a member, everybody is welcome for both! Not to mention the superb catering on Friday. So please come along!

Relaxed and friendly Bridge
No Fears Xmas fun schedule.

♣ Thursday 5th Xmas special tourney, Everybody wins a prize eventangel 6.45.

 Tuesday 10th BBO 7.00. Online, Bobby Allan 2024 my analysis on every dealcool.

 Thursday 12th Carlton Xmas party.

 Saturday 14th Scottish cup Final!  Watch Gints and me in actioncool Starts 11:00, on all day. Vugraph coverage BBO.

 Tuesday 17th BBO 7.00 Xmas Goulash pairsdevil

 Thursday 19th Club closed

 Tuesday 24th Christmas eve BBO pairs 7.00smiley.

 Thursday 26th Club closed

 Tuesday 31st Hogmonay Goulash 7.00surprise,

Thursday 2nd January Club closed

A senior world record!
A senior world record!

The Thursday live No fears pairs may well have broken a world record in playing the oldest table ever in Tournament Bridge. The sum of the four players was well over 350 and if you added the fractions (months) came to an astonishing 355 years. 

From left to right...Helen Palmer, Sandra Kerr, Michael Palmer, Peter Sanders.  Great stuff guys!

Please contact  me to play the online BBO No Fears or Live tourney! Everybody welcome!

Edinburgh No Fears Bridge club help line.

Phone 07930144819 or use the form belowsmiley.

The Live 6:45 Thursday No Fears!
The Live 6:45 Thursday No Fears!

The 'live' Thursday No Fears pairs is a relaxed 24 board tourney held in room 1, Carlton Bridge club. Jane Mawdsley provides excellent catering. Please note its a 6:45 start time. If you are running late, just phone and i will reserve a table. Everybody welcome, parking is right outside the card rooms, so super easy access. Let me know if you need a partner its, great fun!! 

Meanwhile if you fancy some online bridge, please login, its on BBO every Tuesday 7.00! See below for more details.

Guidelines and rules for the Edinburgh No Fears Bridge club Tuesday 7:00 BBO tourney.

This relaxed tourney is twenty-four boards of 8 three board matches with an estimated run time of about 2 hours and 30 minutes. Everybody who have attended council classes, private classes and all SBU Bronze players are welcome to join in the fun ($4:00 buy in). Please phone if you have trouble registering (i can fix itsmiley).

1) Please announce your system, for example '12-14 NT, five card spade suit, 3 weak 2's, rev attitude and standard count' is fine.

2) a) If you make a misclick in bidding or play no probs..its easily done and it is 'right and proper' to correct your bid or play. Just request an undo. Note: You are not allowed an undo if you change your mind about an action or lose concentration. When your opponents ask for an undo, you should generally accept. If you are not sure, please call mesmiley and i will give a ruling. It keeps everybody happy. 

b) If you feel an opponent is slow, please be patient. Should the clock start running down, just call me and request extra time.

3) Please alert and explain conventional bids. You explain your own bids, partner cannot see the explanation.  For example, transfers, the Landy convention and Stayman. 

4) Edinburgh No Fears bridge club system limitations: 

 a) The Multi 2D is not permitted.

 b) When you open 1C you must have at least 3 clubs. 

c) Apart from strong 2C and Benji Acol all two-level opening bids must be natural and single suited.

5) Please, as a courtesy to your opponents display your name on personal details. Its nice to know whom you are playing! 

6) The main thing is to have fun and be kind to your opponentssmiley

Note: Sometimes we get a half table so you will need to wait a minute or two. This allows me to substitute in No fears late comers, a player on standby or friends that fancy playing a few boards. Sorry if you start off against a pair of 'Pesky Robots' crying but it gives me flexibility to add players who would normally miss outsmiley

Also, if you get disconnected from BBO and can't get back for a while to keep things going i may ‘sub in a robot’. Anyway, if you are subbed by a robot, don't worry, just hang in there and on your return, you will be reseated to the table for the next dealwink.

This is not an SBU event, and Edinburgh No Fears bridge club rules apply.

Tuesday 3rd December BBO results summary!

Seven tables. Winners were Daphne and Anne , runners up Brydon and Fiona with 3rd spot going to Jim and Irene. A very well done themyes.

The Live No fears is on every Thursday 6:45 at the Carlton. Jane provides excellent catering and there is easy access parking right outside the card rooms. So just a ten yard walk from your car to the playing area!

Meanwhile anybody who does the double cool, that is... winning the Tuesday 'BBO' No Fears and then the Thursday 'live' No Fears in the same week will receive a No Fears winners crocodile 🐊 mug!

BBO master points are awarded to players who finish in top positions. A number appears beside your username, increasing as you accumulate more points.enlightened.

 

A tale of two singleton kings!

Board 21 was a competitive affair with E/W having a big spade fit and N/S the even bigger eleven card diamond fit.

In the illustrated auction the winners reached 5 and west lead their singleton K surprise despite north bidding the suit. Ann had no problem now, she drew trumps and discarded a losing spade on Daphne's winning hearts for twelve tricks. Without the lead she may well have taken the heart finesse to fail by a trick!

Meanwhile Alex also reached the five level but from the west hand in spades and he too was favoured with a singleton king lead but this was ♣K and made his doubled contract. To be fair he would have been forced to play for it anywayenlightened.

There is a general rule and that is ''dont lead a singleton king unless partner has bid the suit''wink.

The battle of Board 13 decides the winners!!

Board 13 was an exciting one with two auctions resulting in any number of different results. 

Both Anne and Irene opened the south hand 2NT with the excellent nineteen points which closed the auction. Nick was onlead and found the good K lead. See how if he continues the suit Tom can take his A switch to Q and scoop the first nine tricks. Sadly a diamond switch at trick two and it was Irene who enjoyed the next ten tricks. Less so for Anne, she got a spade lead but still eight tricks.

Elsewhere the remaining souths opened 1♣ and when Janet doubled with the west cards Carol clicked the 4♠ button. South doubled but only her ♠A♠K scored and that was a doubled overtrick for -990crying

Meanwhile the two actions I liked were by David and Edward in the illustrated auction. After the takeout double they made a weak pre-emptive raise to 4♣. Their partners Shaun and Jackie bid on to 5♣  but Countdown Andy (west) was not to be kept out and bid 5♦. Shaun doubled and lead his top spades. North signalled hi lo to indicate a doubleton but before giving the ruff Shaun tried to cash a club. Disaster this itself was ruffed, John P took the diamond finesse, drew trumps to land the doubled contract and +750. The swing on the board was enough to take first place and put their opponents in third. Exciting stuffyes

Calendar
10th Dec 2024
Online No fears pairs
BBO 7:00
Director: Derek Sanders
12th Dec 2024
Live No fears pairs
Carlton 6:45
Director: Derek Sanders
17th Dec 2024
Online No fears pairs
BBO 7:00
Director: Derek Sanders
19th Dec 2024
Live No fears pairs
Carlton 6:45
Director: Derek Sanders