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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 IS CURRENTLY PLAYING F2F ONLINE RB on MON and WED. We expect to schedule monthly F2F sessions in the Spring of 2026.
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| SYLVIA ROSE 2025/2026 |
SYLVIA ROSE 2025/2026
The Sylvia Rose is Farnham Bridge club's premier teams’ event. This year the Club will be holding it in Mike O’Donnell’s memory. He was our longstanding and excellent Match Secretary and sadly passed away earlier this year.
We currently have 9 teams and Captains will have received details about the timetable of the matches. If you have a last minute team entry, please email Simon it would be welcome to even up the numbers. If you have any questions about the competition please email John Clayton (longbarrow.clayton@yahoo.co.uk and Simon Foale (simonjohnfoale@gmail.com).
DATES: October 15 and 29, November 12 and 26, December 10, January 14 and 28, February 11 and 25, March 11 and 25th if needed
CLICK HERE FOR CURRENT RESULTS
Matches will be on RealBridge and can be over 20 or 24 boards, with auto-switch at half time. The maximum time for 12 boards is 80 minutes, for 10 boards is 70 minutes. Penalties may be applied if one team is very slow exceeding the 70 or 80-minute time limits. Simon will sne the team captain's the RB links closer to the dates.
The charge will be £32 per team.
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| ERICA CURRIE & RICHARD CURRIE CANCELLED |
It is with regret that we have decided to cancel the Erica Currie & Richard Currie Swiss pairs event. We did not reach the 16 pairs we required to make the competition viable.
We thank everyone who signed up and hope to provide an event with a different format in the future.
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| PRESIDENT'S SALVER TEAMS KNOCKOUT STATUS |
Use THIS LINK if you are interested in viewing the current status of FBC's President's Salver Teams knockout competition.
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| FARNHAM BRIDGE CLUB TROPHY WINNERS - 2024/2025 |
Farnham Bridge Club would like to congratulate the winners of our 2024/2025 trophies.
- President’s Salver - Alan Cadge, Ben Cadge, Tim Warren & Mark Davies
- Delft Cup – James Bond
- Phil Garner – Charlie Palmer and Peter Langford
- Sylvia Rose Trophy – Mike Kinsey, Mike Fithyan, Stuart Burnett, Owen Leigh, Yves Lebrec and Phillip Mitchell
- Sylvia Rose Plate – Peter Langford, Charlie Palmer, Tony Haley, Andy Mathew, Ian Fraser and John McKimmie
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| BRIDGE DIARY - OPT IN |
Bridge Diary "Opt In"
If you would like to get an EBU Bridge diary in September, EBU Members must OPT IN by either logging in to My EBU or calling the EBU on 01296 317200.
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| RealBridge IMPORTANT INFORMATION |
1. If you LOSE YOUR LINK or you have to switch device during the session, You MUST login with the SAME "FULL NAME", this includes capital letters i.e "jane" or even "jane Doe" instead of "Jane Doe" will not let you back in.
2. If you LOSE YOUR LINK permanently in the first half of the match, your scores are all removed from the session and you will not appear in the final ranking lists.
3. If you LOSE YOUR LINK permanently in the second half of the match, you retain your scores on the played boards but you will score just 40% on all the boards you miss, your opponents will score 60%.
4. UNDOs. NOT permitted during play. UNDO's permitted during bidding for misclicks or late alerts & not for change of mind or inattention."
5. RB matches on Mondays that have 12 or more tables will have both North/South and East West winners and will have a random start. Wednesday matches will continue to have only 1 winner and will not have a random start.
6. As a courtesy to others, at the beginning of each round, please PASTE your basic system in the chatbox. First Copy (ctrl/C) and then Paste (ctrl/V) everytime a new pair appears at your table.
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| FBC MEMBERS WELCOMED at BOURNE BRIDGE CLUB FARNHAM |
Farnham Bridge club members are invited to play bridge with The Bourne Bridge Club Farnham F2F on Thursday evenings.
Details for Bourne Bridge Club Farnham: 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, using the following details:
Bourne Bridge Club Farnham, Sort Code: 30-99-50, A/C No. 24288063.
However cash is accepted if you prefer.
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