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Welcome to Dorking Bridge Club
Tuesday Face to Face Bridge
Tuesday Face to Face Bridge

Welcome to our bridge club in Dorking, Surrey. We're a small group with about 30 members. We play face to face bridge on Tuesday evenings, at 7:30pm, with a ‘Gentle Duplicate’ session when numbers allow. The next Gentle Duplicate is on 16th September.

Gentle Duplicate Bridge is ideal for people who have some knowledge of bridge and who would like to transition to club bridge or just have fun! The duplicate will be at a leisurely pace. The cost is £10 in total for four sessions

We are EBU registered and a copy of the hands is available afterwards on the website, but all our games are played in a very friendly atmosphere.

We play at the Christian Centre, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1DW. Typically, we play about 20 boards to avoid a late finish.

Partnering is flexible: we can  facilitate those without a partner for any one game via a WhatsApp group and the contact below.

Newcomers are most welcome.

Contact – for both newcomers and for partners: Steve on 07590689211.

Mini Bridge

Perhaps starting with 'Pre-minibridge' card games

For those wishing to introduce card games to children there is a series of articles, written by Liz Dale for English Bridge magazine. These articles help introduce games which can help them to handle a pack of cards, learn how to recognise the different cards and their ranks, and gain confidence, and enjoyment, from playing cards games. These are ideal games to play before they move on to Minibridge.

Liz also has the following book available which can be used to introduce bridge to a young audience:

Then proceed to these steps.

https://www.ebu.co.uk/information-resources/how-play-minibridge

EBU National Grading Scheme

 If you want to know more about NGS, please see  

https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/miscellaneous/ngs/very-brief-intro.pdf

and https://www.ebu.co.uk/ngs-changes-2018

 

Interesting Hand from Last Thursday

Classic duplicate battle between both sides. ♠ s versus  s and how high to bid.

Hs or Ss 3, 4 or double?

Diffcult hand to bid from last Tuesday

A hand of rules and how to interpret them combined with difficult difficult decisions!

Bd1 21st November

Difficult Interesting Hand From Last Tuesday

Not just difficult bidding, but what to lead?

Board 2 before you have warmed up!!

Interesting Hand from Last Thursday

Can you or did you get to slam over a disruptive unusual NT bid and a raise to 5♣ ?

Some pairs did! Bd 1Thursday 24th August

Interesting Hand from Last Tuesday

An interesting slam.

Have you agreed with your partner how to respond to RKCB (1430) with a void?

Bd 10 - 22nd August

Interesting Hand from Last Tuesday

To bid 3♣ with only 6 cards?

Over a double by partner do you bid 3 or 4 of the major?

Different bids and results!

Bd18 - 15th August

Another interesting board from last Tuesday.

First bid 3 choices!

Opposition has 3 choices of what to bid.

Have you agreed with your partners what  after an opening 1 bid what does a jump bid mean - strong or weak HCPs with 6+ cards?

Board 4 11th July

UPDATE - Interesting Slam Hand!

Suggested risky alternative bidding! Can you get to a slam and if so could you bid 7 s?

Board 3 from 29th June

Another Interesting Hand!

Potential aggeresive bid, the use of invitational bids, Roman Keycard Blackwood with a void and interesting play with restricted choice.

Board 7 from Tuesday 15th June

Interesting Hand

Hand 8 from Thursday 8th June

Different bidding on all hands!!

Double of 1NT followed by exit transfers.

Hand 8 from Thursday 8th June

Analyse Your Bridge Hands.

Reviewing your hands is a useful training aid and can be done on website.

This is part 1 that shows the actual hands and results.

Part 2 will show you how you can play the hands to make the maximum number of tricks and where you might have gone wrong!

 

For the booklet with useful training ideas.

So frustrating to learn how you could have bid or made the best contract!

https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3534

Calendar
18th November 2025
Duplicate
Dorking Christian Centre 19:30
25th November 2025
Duplicate
Dorking Christian Centre 19:30
2nd December 2025
Duplicate
Dorking Christian Centre 19:30
9th December 2025
Duplicate
Dorking Christian Centre 19:30
16th December 2025
Duplicate
Dorking Christian Centre 19:30
23rd December 2025
Duplicate
Dorking Christian Centre 19:30
30th December 2025
Duplicate
Dorking Christian Centre 19:30