Click on the link above to read about the BridgeSolverUpdate.pdf. If you find you use this feature please share your discoveries with Ken.

Please make use of the Find a Partner feature on our web site. Once you have established a login to the site you will notice a number of additional features.Only members can see these requests. This means you are not making your contact details public, thus inviting SPAM. 

Find a Partner guide
Set up your login guide

New information distributed on Wednesday 1 June 2022

See the RealBridge site

Contacting RealBridge for help

RealBridge are very happy to help with technical problems relating to RealBridge.
If you would like help with any issue related to RealBridge, please contact them:

    Email: support@realbridge.online
    Telephone (UK): 0794 232 2209 or 0772 692 0784
    Telephone (non-UK): +44 794 232 2209 or +44 772 692 0784

Telephone support is available 07:00 – 23:00 UK time (06:00 – 22:00 UTC).
If you need technical help during a session, please ring RealBridge at the time. This applies both to players and to directors.

You are also welcome to ring them at other times for technical advice.

The link you were sent for the RealBridge game also archives the event. If you need to find this link again try these two methods. Once you open an archive you can replay the hands.

See the Calendar on the front page. Find tonights game.pdf.

iPad Users - RealBridge have issued this advice

If you are able to see and talk to other players, but the bidding box and play of the cards is not responding as usual, this is what you need to do:

1. Tap on SETTINGS (cog wheel)
2. On the left, scroll all the way down, at the bottom, tap on APPS
3. On the right, tap SAFARI
4. On the right, scroll all the way down, tap ADVANCED 
5. On the right, near the top, tap WEBSITE DATA 
6. See a list (each person will see a different list, based on which sites they visit)
7. Using the Search Box magnifying glass, look for RealBridge 
8. When the row shows up, swipe left, to delete. Either tap the red delete button, or just keep swiping left until the whole line disappears.
9. In the top right, tap the blue CANCEL 
10. Completely Restart your iPad. Using the power on/off button, on the side, completely restart your device.  You must completely restart it, not just press to the soft button on the front.

In response to requests we have added some videos to help players get the best from our Bridgewebs website. There are two videos so far and more are planned. Please take a look at this video series and let us have your feedback.
Getting the best from Bridgewebs

A/C Name: Hadley Wood Bridge Club
S/C No: 40-20-23
A/C No: 32307804

Table money for RealBridge is £1.50 per session for members and £3 per session for non-members. Table money for face-to-face bridge is £2.50 per session for members and £4 per session for non-members.  We encourage members to set up a standing order to cover this.

Announcing and alerting bids is an essential part of the game. However, the rules are complex. Instead of trying to memorise all of them, you may find knowing the framework serves you better at the table.

• If a bid has a meaning assigned by the partnership (i.e., a convention), you must alert it
• Alert or announce all conventions during the first round, on subsequent rounds any bid above 3NT doesn’t need to be alerted
• Alert penalty doubles (except double of 1NT), and negative doubles but not takeout doubles
• Announce NT opening range (e.g., 12-14pts), Stayman, weak twos, short suit (less than 3) and red suit transfers (as hearts or spades)

Once you have learned the above framework, the EBU Announcing Rules will lose their terror, and you will find it easier to fill in the various pieces of the jigsaw. A printable version of this table is available here.

At the end of an auction, if there were misunderstandings, declarer should clarify bidding, but NOT the defenders (to avoid passing on unauthorised information).

Please remember, alerts and announcements are for the benefit of the opposition, partner should ignore them! 

Shangara Singh

We welcome players ‘claiming’ but please remember to select the number of tricks when you claim.

From the Player Guide https://realbridge.online/player-guide.html

Either declarer or a defender can claim some or all of the remaining tricks. Click the Claim button, then select the number of tricks that you are claiming. Just as in face-to-face bridge, you should state your line of play at the same time as your claim.

After you have claimed as declarer, both defenders are prompted to accept or reject your claim. If they both accept, the result is recorded and the deal ends. If either defender rejects the claim, the platform displays a message saying that the claim has been rejected. After a rejection, you should call the director to adjudicate the claim, or claim again (perhaps for a different number of tricks), or if everyone agrees you can also play on.

If a defender claims, both declarer and the other defender are prompted to accept or reject the claim. (This is because a defender is allowed under Law 68B2 to object to his partner's claim.)

If play continues after a claim, the non-claiming side can see all four hands.

Click on the title above Share your System Card to load the guide. For a more detailed guide use this wiki article.

To navigate the site use the tabs on the left. There is an overview WebsiteGuide.pdf.