| Dorking Bridge Club Closed Until Further Notice. |
We have closed the club for playing bridge and training until the situation becomes clearer.
PLAYING ONLINE
Without our normal games, I thought it would be useful to help anyone who would like to play online.
EBU article on playing bridge online. https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3736
There are two main choices - BBO and Bridge Club Live (UK based so more ACOL). There are also free possibilities and obviously more options with the paying services.
There is an English Bridge Union EBU tournament most evenings including tonight at 19:30 and 21:00 on BBO. These consist of 12 boards each.
I will add the usernames of Dorking Bridge members who have BBO and BCL accounts and woud like them shared. I am SteveJH
Other Dorking members playing on BBO are johnxxxx (John Kimpton), janeh1 (Jane Handley), matt1997 (Matt Piper), mptinsley (Mike Tinsley), asetch (Alan Setchell)
As well as the EBU tournaments at 14:00, 15:30, 19:30 and 21:00, there is also a Sunday Acol tourney (12 boards). Check out this site: http://www.acolatbbo.org.uk/
Support information / videos.
Register on BBO https://youtu.be/FgcJinlNbVw
Logon and general info about BBO https://youtu.be/hLxOd87efH8
Playing with BBO robots https://youtu.be/-bU_6rcKimI
If you do not have a partner, you can play with a robot. The robots play a system called GIB which is a simple 2/1 strong NT 5 card major system. Strong 2C and 3 weak 2s.
Reviewing your play. https://youtu.be/z7CklIShnVI This also shows how you did in your tournaments.
BBO is not as good as the bridgewebs hand reviews.
Accessing convention cards. https://youtu.be/dZyd-RAvGeU
Please let me know if you need further clarification.
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We are a small friendly club with currently approximately 85 members and have been granted charitable status.
We play duplicate bridge every Tuesday and Thursday evenings (7.15 pm for 7.30 pm, finishing at about 10.30 pm).
We usually have up to 9 tables each evening, and EBU Masterpoints are awarded to the highest placed players.
We play with computer dealt boards and use Bridgemate scoring equipment.
Visitors are always welcome and we have a spare partner on most evenings so if you want to come without a partner you can usually be assured of being able to play.
However, we recommend that you contact us in advance (01306 884242) so that we know to expect you.
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| Coronavirus |
To minimise the risk of Coronavirus to our members, we will:
- Maximise distances between tables
- Everyone to take their bidding box and use it for the whole evening. For those who have one at home, please bring it in, use it and then take it home at the end of the evening. Some members have spare ones and will bring them in for a long term loan until this situation resolves itself.
- We encourage players to bring their own hand sanitisers in and use them frequently.
We would also like to remind you to follow Public Health England advice to:
- Always carry tissues with you and use them to catch your cough or sneeze. Then bin the tissue and wash your hands or use a sanitiser gel.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after using public transport. Use a sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
- Avoid close contact with people who are unwell.
In addition, though obvious, if an individual has a high temperature or fever or has a new, continuous cough, they should self-isolate. Players who are in doubt as to whether they are a high risk should use the government screening tool https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19. Any person who is advised through that tool or by a medical practitioner to isolate themselves should not play at a bridge club.
With the lower attendance over the last week, we would like to thank members who are being sensible and careful about whether to attend or not.
All the above builds on the recent advice from the English Bridge Union (EBU) Chairman https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3696.
Please let the committee know if you have any questions or further improvements which we can put in place.
On behalf of the committee
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| Promoting Dorking Bridge Club |
Please help promote the club.
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| Christmas Party |
We hope everyone had a lovely evening.
Thanks go to all those who helped by bringing food etc and Sheena, Sue, Sue, Val, Graham, David and Sandra who were instrumental in having a lovely evening.
Seasonal Greetings to everyone.
Other photos are on our Facebook Page Xmas Party Photos (If you have not liked, please Like the post or page).
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| More Information |
Information on our location and table money charges is available here.
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| Competition Change |
The committee has decided to introduce a new competition aimed at widening the number of members who can win an annual prize.
This competition will be aimed at non-expert players and will generate 4 prize winners each year.
It will consist of a Spring event running from 1 April to 31 July and an Autumn event running from 1 August to 30 November. It will be open to all members not considered to qualify as experts. Each event will have 2 sections (Blue and Red) of equal numbers. The sections will be decided by ability as measured by their NGS rating at the beginning of the event.
The winner of each section will qualify for a prize to be awarded at the end of the year. The four sections will be called as follows:-
Spring Blue, Spring Red, Autumn Blue, Autumn Red.
Experts are defined as players who have an NGS rating of Jack or above (ie. An NGS rating of 55.00 or higher). At 1 April 2019 Dorking Bridge Club had 15 members with this rating. Therefore each section will consist of 35 members for the first Spring event.
The competition will be an individual event.
The winners will be the members who achieve the highest average percentage of all pairs events (including both Tuesdays and Thursdays) played during the period of the competition irrelevant of who their partners were.
To qualify for inclusion a member must have played at 5 times during the qualifying period.
If a player wins one of the Spring events they are disqualified from the Autumn event of that year. This is to ensure that we always get 4 different winners (plus ties).
Results achieved before a player becomes a member do not count.
On behalf of the Committee.
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