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Framlingham BC is a small friendly and relaxed Duplicate Bridge Club established in 1977. The club is affiliated to the Suffolk Contract Bridge Association (SCBA) and to the English Bridge Union (EBU) and membership of the club automatically enrolls you as a member of the two higher parent organisations. The annual club membership of £5.00 covers membership of the other two. Please see 'Information' in the menu panel for further details times etc.
Monday afternoons. This session is intended for experienced players but don't let the word 'experienced' put you off. The average standard of Monday players is NGS 7or 8 and our two highest rated players are a modest NGS 10. So long as you can play a solid no frills game you'll be winning trophies here in no time.
Wednesday afternoons This is a duplicate session with fewer (usually 18) boards played than on Monday afternoons. EBU master points are not awarded because we take a more relaxed view of the laws of the game and there is a less competitive atmosphere in order to help and encourage less experienced players who wish to improve or to provide a gentle reintroduction to the game for those who may not have played for a while. It's also there for members who seek no more than an social afternoon of bridge. There is no obligation to move up to play on Mondays although we hope this will happen naturally as Wednesday players become more experienced. Some Monday players also play on Wednesdays but do so in the relaxed ethos of the session. We do not at present offer teaching at any level so you must be able to play at least a basic game in order to take part. Feel free to drop in on your own to watch a bit of play and get a feel for the club, existing club members have done just that before deciding to join us.
All visitors are welcome but you will need to come with a partner or please contact Richard Goble on 07765910637 or Glyn Button 01728 831647 and they will try to find you a partner via the Club's WhatsApp group because we almost always have a club member who is in need of one.
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| Wednesday Winners |
 Rob obviously likes being here because he's won the right to stay put having topped the averages with 71-and-a-bit% score last week. Last week he managed 78+% so he was coasting a bit today. Well done also to Steve Waldmeyer who sadly has continued to elude the club paparazzi and is therefore unable to be with us tonight to share the spotlight with Rob who doesn't look a bit disappointed about it. Steve has only recently joined the club and is showing himself to be a man of mystery and extremes: four sessions with two tops and a bottom. Email the Webmaster one of your publicity shots Steve and you can take your deserved place on the podium. The club has meanwhile bought in a ringer to cover for you to make sure Rob doesn't hog all the celebrity sofa.
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Rob obviously likes being here because he's won the right to stay put having topped the averages with 71-and-a-bit% score last week. Last week he managed 78+% so he was coasting a bit today. Well do ..........
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| Club Youth Initiative |
Bridge has an image problem and Framlingham BC is no exception. Participation in the game is heavily skewed towards the over 60s and notable for the lack of the under 30s. Fortunately the Club Committee have hit upon a cunning plan that has the potential to turn this around within weeks. Every journey begins with a step and this is where you Dear Reader come in: do you know of a young person who lives with you possibly tucked away in a drawer and not seen for years who could be encouraged to sit next to you on these pages. Please let the Webmaster have a photograph either by hand or by email to accompany the new wannabe's application for membership. He or she might eventually be persuaded to sit in for you when your results are posted and thereby play their part in projecting a more youthful image of the game, images like this one:
The Webmaster's slightly questioning look was possibly prompted by his mother's rather ill-advised opening bid of a gambling 3NT. This was surprising because: 1. His mother was not the sort of woman who gambled on anything, and; 2. She never played bridge in her life and thought it was strictly for posh people. Her son taking up bridge simply convinced her that he had ideas above his station and wanted to rub shoulders with the rich and famous; he so should have brought her along to the club. He could also be looking that way because he felt it was high time for a change of underwear. It was a long time ago and he doesn't really remember which if either of those explanations is correct.
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Bridge has an image problem and Framlingham BC is no exception. Participation in the game is heavily skewed towards the over 60s and notable for the lack of the under 30s. Fortunately the Club Commi ..........
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| Bridge at War |
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In March 1941 HMS Walker sank U-99 captained by U-boat ace Otto Kretchmeyer who survived the sinking along with nearly all of his crew. The previous day U-99 had sunk a freighter the J. B. White and Walker had picked up the survivors of that sinking which included two of its officers. They, Kretchmeyer, and the Walker's chief engineer somehow established among themselves that they were all keen bridge players and thereafter spent as much of their time together as possible playing bridge. The Walker's chief engineer subsequently declared it was 'the only time in the war that I got a decent game.'
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