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Farnham Bridge Club is regarded as one of the premier clubs in the area with members from other towns in the Waverley Borough, West Surrey and North East Hampshire. It is affiliated to the Surrey County Bridge Association (SCBA) and the English Bridge Union (EBU). Visitors and potential new members are always welcome. Email our secretary Mary Nolan (farnhambc@gmail.com) in advance for details.
Members can enjoy playing duplicate Contract Bridge in accordance with the EBU rules and EBU membership is now included.
Bridge is currently being played online using RealBridge for our main club sessions (see notice on the right for details). BCL can be used for those who wish to play individual pairs or club league games.
FARNHAM BRIDGE CLUB HAS CANCELLED ALL FACE TO FACE BRIDGE SESSIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
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| ECATS SIMS IN AID OF UNICEF WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY 23rd JANUARY ON REALBRIDGE |
ECATS SIMS IN AID OF UNICEF - MONDAY 23rd JANUARY ON REALBRIDGE
Farnham Bridge Club with support from the Bourne Club Farnham and Busbridge Club had 17 pairs turn out to compete in the ECATS SIMS to support UNICEF. More details will be posted as they come in.
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| SYLVIA ROSE TEAMS COMPETITION 2022/2023 |
The Farnham Bridge club Sylvia Rose teams competition has begun the final stretch with the 12 teams playing this year.
The finalised draw for the main final and plate and current state of results can be found on the following link. CLICK HERE FOR RESULTS TO DATE AND COMPETIONS DRAWS.
Finalists carry forward 100% of their scores against the other two qualifiers from their division, plus 50% of scores against the three teams qualifying for the plate. Plate teams carry forward 100% of all scores.
The dates for matches is mutually agreed between team captains. Teams will however be free to arrange to play matches online on a different platform, or face-to-face in a participant’s house if that is mutually acceptable to both teams. In the event of any disagreement about arrangements, team captains should consult Mike O'Donnell (Mike@lizandmike.co.uk).
For a list of full list of teams, full competition details click on the following link SR Teams and Dates for 22- 23.pdf. To access dates for this final section see link above.
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| FARNHAM BRIDGE CLUB SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN IN NEED |
A huge thank you to all who participated in our ECATS Children in Need heat on Wednesday 19th November and who made donations. Nationally, many thousands of bridge players participated in heats across well over 100 bridge clubs. Total donations so far are over £42,845. We had an excellent turn-out for our own heat, with 7.5 tables, with Farnham bridge club member donations of £307, making our club one of the larger contributors nationally. Congratulations to Igor Tseitlin and Borys Shusterman, who finished top in our heat and in the top 20% of the 1,350 pairs from 84 clubs who played nationally on Wednesday. Click to check your placement.
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| ERICA CURRIE AND RICHARD CURRIE CHARITY SWISS PAIRS 6th NOVEMBER 2022 REPORT |
Thank you to all who participated and/or contributed to the success of this charity pairs event. We hope that you all enjoyed the day, irrespective of where you finished. (Initial feedback has been very positive).
The full results have been submitted to the EBU and are on both the Farnham and the Bourne bridge clubs websites (www.bridgewebs.com/farnham and www.bridgewebs.com/bournefarnham)
In first place, leading from start to finish, with 86 VPs, James Bond & David Owen
In second place, with 80 VPs, Tim Rees & Simon Foale
In third place, also with 80 VPs Lindsay Stewart & John Amor
Congratulations to all three pairs.
We owe very special thanks to a significant number of people.
Brigitte Ebert and Liz O'Donnell did a fantastic job organising and serving the plated teas, plus doing a huge amount of tidying up.
Mick Green did an absolutely outstanding job of directing, with great skill and patience!
Jenny Garner did a huge amount of work tracking registrations and payments plus checking everyone in.
We are extremely grateful to all those who donated cakes (which everyone thought were excellent) and/or raffle prizes. This meant we kept costs to a minimum.
Graham Davison raised an exceptional sum from the raffle.
Thanks also to those who were unable to play but still made significant and much appreciated donations.
Not least, we also owe special thanks to the Spire church for renting the hall and kitchen to us at a very modest cost.
Overall, thanks to everyone's efforts, we raised very close to £800 for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, which is wonderful.
Mike O'Donnell & Mike Tettenborn, co-organisers of the event
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| FREE BRIDGE LESSONS - STAGE 3 STARTING JAN 17 2023 |
FOBC, with Des King an EBUTA qualified teacher, will be giving free bridge lessons to help encourage more players throughout the UK.
We have now reached the end of Stage 2 Lessons on card play and on Tuesday 17th January we be starting stage 3. All the players completing stage 2 will be automatically enrolled onto this next stage, however there is still a number of places available for any new participants
It is fair to regard the Stage 3 lessons as more of an intermediate standard and will only be suitable for players already playing and having a good understanding of the game or for those who are progressing from the previous stages.
Lessons will be every Tuesday on ZOOM as from 17th January and will start at 2pm and repeated again at 7.15pm on the same evening but will be limited to 100 places at each lesson. If anybody needs more information, or simply wants to enrol their place, email Des King (kraftykeawyead@hotmail.com). PLEASE NOTE HOWEVER: any new players enrolling need to be registered by Wednesday 4th January 2023.
As the content of the lessons are individually formatted, they are also suitable for those players who wish to cherry pick, any or all of the lessons they prefer to attend.
More information regarding, the course content and a poster explaining everything is attached and can also be found on the FOBC website by clicking on this link STAGE 3 LESSON.
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| ALL WELCOME THURSDAY F2F DUPLICATE EVENINGS WITH THE BOURNE CLUB |
Farnham Bridge club and the Bourne bridge club are increasing co-operation between our two clubs, with Farnham taking the lead on online Realbridge and the Bourne club taking the lead on return to face-to-face (F2F).
The F2F evenings are held in the hall of the Methodist Church, central Farnham. Start time is 7pm, with a view to finish by 10pm.
The venue can happily accommodate at least 15 tables, is light and airy, has excellent kitchen facilities for tea/coffee making, is just 50 yards or so walk from Sainsbury's central car park (part of the Spire church in South Street, Farnham, on the same side of the road as Sainsbury), and has good disabled access and toilet facilities.
Register with Shuna King (Shuna.bournebridge@yahoo.com) in advance. Cost is currently £2 per session. Payment preference is for a bank transfer -DETAILS: Farnham Bourne Bridge Club. Sort Code: 60 23 40 A/C No. 88393712. However cash is accepted if you prefer.
Farnham Bridge Members are encouraged to give it a try.
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