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The Edinburgh No fears Bridge Club
The site where all the action happens and Scottish Acol kicked off!
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Online No fears pairs
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Director: Derek Sanders
How to register for the Tuesday online No Fears BBO tourney. 7:00 start.

1) Login to BBO with your partner.

2) Go to competitive.

3) Click all tournaments.

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!

Carlton live events for No fears players!

Hazel, a No fears veteranwink runs the Carlton Wednesday afternoon Bronze pairs event. Its a fun and exciting 21 boards. There is also a novice tourney on Tuesday afternoon between 14 and 18 boards run by Elizabeth, great for those new to tournament bridge. Everybody welcome to both of them! Not to mention the superb catering provided. So please come along!

Release 2.19r
Relaxed and friendly Bridge
Greece V Scotland practice matches for the European championships

6th April: Greece 34 imps Scotland 43 imps

27th April: Greece 49 imps Scotland 78 imps

4th May: Greece 61 imps  Scotland 36 imps

In a close three match clash Scotland narrowly  came on top 144 - 157 imps.

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

Amalia and Gilian playing 'Standard American' battle it out against Kairen and Sian 'Scottish Acol' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 .

The Thursday No Fears pairs is a relaxed 24 board tourney held in room 1 at the 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.

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.

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.

BBO results Tuesday

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.💥

Cue bids...Arthurs seat 6th May

Well done this week winners Clive and Fiona with a great score of 32 stars yes

Board eleven was disappointing for the field, when most pairs reached the normal looking 3NT to receive a solitary star. In the illustrated auction, Stephen's 2♣ bid was ''range ask check back Stayman'' and everything else was natural.

At a cursory glance, 3NT looks OK until you notice the tenuous communications with the spade suit needing to be established with only the ♣K♣J as entries. Still with the west robot having made a take out double of our natural 1 the ♣A♣Q are high odds to be onside and ergo  K♣J are two likely entries. 

 Emanuel has informed me that the star calculations are done before the robots intervene.

Meanwhile the winners were on the precipice of disaster when Clive raised Fiona's 2 'transfer' to 4 after a strong NT openersurprise Fiona saved the day and rescued to 4♠ angel.  No communication problems with spades as trumps and three stars!

 

 

Cue bids...Arthurs seat trophy. 29th April

In a big field of thirty one pairs joint runners up Gillian and Sian were this weeks leading No fears pair with 32.5 stars! Great stuff guys yes.

Board eleven was a classic reverse auction on which many pairs failed to find the good 4 contract including us. In the illustrated auction, took the normal action opened 1 and reversed into diamonds after the 1 response, with a singleton in the unbid suit. Stephen rebid 2, forcing to 2NT. With slam a live prospect i 'bid out my shape' showing 1-3-4-5 distribution and raised to 3♥.  Sadly this concluded the auction crying

NOTE: A reverse is a a bid that forces partner to give preference at a higher level and therefore indicates extra values, typically 16 plus points. Most commonly the second suit is higher ranking than the opened suit. See the menu bar for more about reverses.

Meanwhile in a similar auction the joint runners up were not going to find out if 3 was forcing and simply raised to 4and three starsenlightened

 

Arthurs seat trophy starts every Thursday ends Wednesday 11.00 P.M. Twelve deals weekly.

Calendar
12th May 2026
Online No fears pairs
BBO 7:00
Director: Derek Sanders
12th May 2026
Online No fears pairs
BBO 7:00
Director: Derek Sanders
14th May 2026
No fears pairs
Carlton 6:45
19th May 2026
Online No fears pairs
BBO 7:00