Following your great support for our recent trial of F2F Swiss Pairs we are going to run another session on  Thursday May 29th at 7.15. If we get the same support as last time our intention is to make this a bi-monthly event on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month. So if all goes well there would be sessions on  the 12th and 26th June .....and so on.

Please complete the boxes below if you are coming and include the name of your partner if you have one. If left blank we will do our best to find you a partner before the event itself. 

It will the usual table money for this event ( £4 for members and £6 for non members ) and normal refreshments.

Please arrive before 7.10 so that we can make a prompt start.

By popular request, the Monday Afternoon Duplicate will now take place on Bank Holiday Monday 26 May, usual 1pm start.  Please put this session back into your diary!

Mutton Madras won Division One of the Manchester County Bridge Association League by the tightest of margins at our club.

After a very close battle with St Titus, the Manchester Bridge Club based, Mutton Madras team won the Manchester Teams League by only 0.5 VPs by winning their last game by 14.6 to 5.4 VPs against Grasshoppers at the Club on Wednesday May 14^th. 

Congratulations to MBC members Justin Hackett, Jason Hackett, Barbara Hackett, Martin Taylor, Paul Hackett and Adrian Kenworthy

Nicholas' next seminar is on Discarding on Friday 13th June at 10.30

Nicholas will look at which card you should discard.  Which card will give your partner the most information about your hand?  Or is it more important to keep your winners and discard a loser (which is much easier to say than always achieve).

The start time for each seminar is 10.30am and will finish at approximately 12.30pm.  As usual there will be notes of the seminar and copies of the 8 example hands.  This topic is suitable for both improvers and intermediates and for more experienced players who want to improve their success when defending.  You do not need a partner to attend this seminar.  The cost if £8 for members and £10 for non-members.

If you will be attending this seminar please either add your name to the list below or email me via grasan30@gmail.com.

Thanks to Anne Jerrold for all her work on helping to arrange these seminars.

There will be no seminar in July but we will be holding a seminar in August.  Please email grasan30@gmail.com with any suggestions for topics for future seminars.

For Information the  2025 AGM of MCBA ( note this is not Manchester Bridge Club it is  the Manchester County AGM ) will be a hybrid meeting (ie both F2F and on Zoom) to be held on:

Date: Wednesday 11th June 2025

Time: 7:00pm

Venue: Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Bridge Centre and online via Zoom

The papers will be circulated closer to the date.

Any agenda items to Alan Mould online@manchesterbridge.org.uk  by  Wednesday 21st May please.

Any motions, duly proposed and seconded to Alan Mould also by Wednesday 21st May please.

Last year, the Executive received some criticism for making decisions which it had to do given that the AGM was inquorate at certain points. If you feel strongly about an item (for example the format of the league) then I would urge you to propose a motion before the AGM, turn up and speak to it and vote for it. Any motions carried at the AGM will be binding for that season. 

Nominations for officers, duly proposed and seconded to Alan Mould at any point please (nominations will also be accepted on the day).

A quorum for the AGM is 25 members present.

Posted on behalf of Manchester County Bridge Association 

Beginners Bridge Taster Courses.

If you are interested in joining one of our future courses please fill in the form below and we will keep you updated about our plans for our next courses.

Our next beginners' courses will start towards the end of September 2025

Please be careful when you enter your email address. You will always receive a personal response in 24 hours. 

Each course will last 10 weeks and covers the basics of play and bidding. We teach the 5 card major, strong No Trump and short club system.  We will also cover basic defensive tactics.

Most importantly, the classes will be friendly and sociable. Bridge can be a complicated game and will stretch your mind, but we aim to make bridge fun to learn and hope you will quickly come to love the game as much as we do.  Once your course is finished we have a wide range of supported, follow on sessions for you to join to continue to learn this wonderful game.

The course will cost £80 payable in advance which will include membership of our club until the end of December 25

Interested?  Find out more by emailing Jan on jelancaster021@gmail.com or completing the online form below

We currently have two IntoBridge sessions each week.  These are on a Monday and Friday afternoon at 2pm.  All these sessions are well supported and will continue. We are no longer running the online Swiss Pairs on a Thursday evening.

We now have supervised sessions for beginners, learners & improvers at the club:

Monday afternoon at 1pm for Improvers with Paul Murray.

 Monday evening at 7:15pm for beginners with Frank/Chris

Tuesday evening at 7pm all levels with Nicholas

Wednesday morning at 10:30 for beginners with Susan Triggs

Thursday morning at 10:30 for beginners with Susan Triggs.

Members £6 & Visitors £8

Everyone is welcome

Please be aware that the BridgeWebs attendance Module is not a real time system. It reflects entry fees spent on online and face-to-face games but does not reflect money paid into your online account until it is manually updated from the Club's bank statement. Our 'WebMaster', Dave Fernley performs these updates periodically- usually weekly. If you need to know your balance between updates, call Paul or Dave.

The new Bridgewebs Attendance Module for tracking payment money for online games is now live.

It provides you with a real-time view of the games you have played, the current balance of your account and payments made and received by your account. 

To see this information you will need to log on to the Members Only area of the website and then select thePayments Account tab.
Detailed instructions logging onto this area are available here

A detailed description of the Online Account, how it works, etc, is also available here within the Members Only Area (log-on needed).

Account statements will also be sent out periodically by email. This ensures that people who choose not to actively monitor their account balance are still aware of it. The statement provides a regular update to non-members who play in our online games who do not have access the member's area and therefore the real time benefits of this system.

See Calendar on the right of this home page for our Weekly Schedule

Face to Face table fees for Duplicates at the Club are £4 for fully paid-up MBC members & £6 for Guests

Supervised Face to Face table fees at the Club are £6 for fully paid-up MBC members & £8 for Guests

(includes free tea/coffee & biscuits and occasional treats! However, sandwiches/supper will not be served)

Online bridge entry is £3.75 for members & £4.50 for non-members

For Online games a pre-arranged partner is preferable. However, if possible, partners can be found after you log on to our tournaments. Just wait on Partnership Desk on IntoBridge. 

Please transfer entry fee (or more for convenience / multiple games) into the MBC bank account (see below).

MBC will reduce your balance after each session played and email you with a regular statement to help you stay in credit.

The Manchester Bridge Club Bank details are –

Natwest Sort Code 01-02-02   Account Number  21867577

Please put your First Name and Surname as the payment reference

Thank you for supporting The Manchester Bridge Club