Charity Events

HWBC will be offering the following events

These events are organised by ECats Bridge. Commentaries will be available after each event.

• These events will be charged as normal Club events, £2 for members and £3 for guests.
• The Club will make a separate donation and you are welcome to add your own.

Groups that organise events

• EBU Events
• Hertfordshire events

I have mentioned the New Tricks website before. They continue to develop the site and a recent item caught my attention. They have developed a Battle of the Partners series of videos and the one between Andrew Robson and Zia Mahmoud fascinated me. It was instructive to watch how they had such different approaches to the same hand, and cathartic to see how they struggle with the robots (as I do). You can find it on YouTube here. If you have any bridge videos to suggest post them here.

Results for 2024

Results for 2023

Results for 2022

Competitions Explained …

Annual Club Competition 

Runs from Nov for 12 months
Best 20 results in the year count
Can be any session and with any partner

Tuesday Competition

Runs from Nov for 12 months
Tuesday every 4 weeks
Best 10 results count
Can be with any partner

Tuesday Handicap Competition

Runs from Nov for 12 months
Tuesday every 4 weeks
Best 10 results count
Can be with any partner
Handicap based on latest NGS ranking (+/- 2 for each rank above or below average)

Friday Competition

Runs from Nov for 12 months
Friday every 4 weeks
Best 10 results count
Can be with any partner

Friday Handicap Competition

Runs from Nov for 12 months
Friday every 4 weeks
Best 10 results count
Can be with any partner
Handicap based on latest NGS ranking (+/- 2 for each rank above or below average)

Bridgewebs will automatically show the up to date position on all 5 competitions. 
The same results can apply to any competition.

BridgeMore-Front-Premium-Dealer-850-850.pdf

Members that play face-to-face  on Fridays will be familiar with our BridgeMates at the table and probably aware that we use a Dealing Machine to prepare the boards. What they may not have seen - yet - is a machine that does all this (and more) at each table.

Watch this YouTube video  from Pete Holland and then take a look at this website. Bridge+More may be the way many of us play bridge in the near future. It has already been adopted in over 40 countries.

The system takes over the function of many devices we currently use for face-to-face games. It is a dealing machine, it replaces the tournament computer and administers games, it runs tournaments and teaching events.

It completely replaces our dealing machines and BridgeMates. We still have playing cards and sit around a table. We keep the social, but the hard work of administering the game is reduced. Unlike the current face-to-face games it is trivial to keep track of the cards as they are played and review them after the event. Of course, as it is new technology, the price is relatively high currently. I imagine that over time, and as this approach is adopted, prices will reduce.

What do you think?

Our second Teams event will be held on Tuesday 17 June. Our Summer Social will be on Friday 4 July.

Double Dummy is a 54 minute documentary film featuring a team of Americans playing in the junior world championships of bridge. The project was produced by John McAllister who tirelessly seeks to promote bridge. He runs an interesting podcast, The Setting Trick, in which he talks with key figures from the bridge world.