Congratulations to the following on their promotions:

Iain Mackie  -  1 star master

Simon Burgess -  County master

Charlotte Bruce-Foulds  -  Club master

♠ ♥  Tuesday Evening Hybrid Sessions ♦ ♣ 

Face to Face and on RealBridge

Join at 7:00 pm wherever you prefer. See schedule for price. RealBridge Link below.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO PAUL MURRAY AND ANDREW WOODCOCK

UPON WINNING THE GREAT NORTHERN PAIRS ON 2ND/3RD OCTOBER 

HYBRID  TUESDAYS AT  7.15 - ONLINE OR AT THE CLUB !!!

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MONDAY AFTERNOON LEARNERS STARTED BACK 4TH OCTOBER AT 1pm with David - all welcome

NOTE THAT  BBO ONLINE DUPLICATE WILL STILL CONTINUE ON MONDAYS AT 2PM  FOR OTHER MEMBERS 

OUR NEW BEGINNER'S BRIDGE COURSE WILL CONTINUE FROM  WEDNESDAY 20TH OCTOBER 2021 AT 1.45PM

This initial course will last for 5 weeks and will cover the basics of playing bridge and will also cover how to play bridge online and using zoom/WhatsApp for future lessons on bridge.  The initial course is likely to have 4 face to face lessons based at Manchester Bridge Club with one lesson online (to help every-one feel comfortable with learning to play bridge online).

For those who wish to continue, there will be a follow up course of 15 lessons (partly at the club and also online) which will cover the basics of bridge in more detail with emphasis on how to defend effectively with your partner, declarer play and bidding (following the 5-card major/strong NT/short club system).

The most important thing though is that 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.

The initial course of 5 lessons will cost £30 pp.

TUTORS ARE: SUSAN TRIGGS assisted by ANNE NAYLOR

Interested?  Find out more by emailing Susan on grasan30@gmail.com  If this time/day does not suit you please still get in touch as we may be able to run a second course.

Face to Face tables fees for Duplicates are 

£6 for fully paid-up MBC members & £8 for Guests

(includes tea/coffee & biscuits

but no sandwiches/supper will be served)

* For fully paid up members

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A pre-arranged partner is preferable.

However, partners can be found via the BBO Partnership Desk

or in the RealBridge lobby when you access our tournaments,

With 4 tables (16 players) minimum (excluding Robots) there's a Free Game for the winners. …
 

You cannot enter these games unless you have pre-paid.

Each game costs *£3.50 to enter.

(*Reduced to £3.25 when your Annual Membership Subscription is paid)

Please deposit entry fee (or more) into the MBC bank account (see below).

We will reduce your balance after each session played. 

MBC will text/email/call you when your ‘pot’ reduces to approx £12 so you have time to top it up and stay in credit.

Manchester Bridge Club Bank details are –

HSBC   Sort Code 40-11-56   Account Number  90730807

Thank you for supporting Manchester Bridge Club

DON'T FORGET OUR HYBRID GAME ON TUESDAYS - either on Realbridge with Sam or with David at the club !!!♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 

Returning to Face to Face Bridge has been a great success - but we'd like more participants!

Thank you to our members/guests for joining in and we look forward to having everyone else back soon to enjoy a relaxing evening's bridge.

Face to Face bridge is currently being held every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening starting at 7.15pm.

WHY NOT COME ALONG AND JOIN US?

"HOP ALONG" TO OUR THURSDAY NIGHTS 

SWISS PAIRS on BBO starting at 7.15pm! 

It's an 18 board event, 6 x 3 boards, in the usual fun format so we should be finished by 9.30pm.

It's been organised so that those of you who are working during the day have an evening session to join in with so please, everyone, continue to support this.

See you on Thursday nights!! 

.....good to see more of you playing in this Swiss Pairs now - thanks and keep it up!!!

NOW EVERY SUNDAY MORNING!

IMPROVERS ON-LINE DUPLICATE AT 11am!

By popular demand we hold a weekly BBO Online Session specifically for anyone who wants to  improve their bridge. Like our well established, daily online Club duplicates, these sessions will be £3.50 each to enter (with concessions for students – see Dave). Please lodge (say) £21 into the MBC bank account. We will let you know when your ‘kitty’ runs out so you can replenish it in good time to continue playing.

If you would like to join in please contact Dave Debbage by email / text to inform him of your BBO User Name and email address.

email: daviddebbage@hotmail.co.uk           text: 07717 252114  

To join the ‘Improvers duplicate’ you need to: 

♥ Register with BBO to obtain a BBO User name

♥  Inform Manchester Bridge Club of your User name & email address (we control entry to these games via this data) 

When you’ve done this and you want to enter the session: 

♥ Log on to BBO and click "Play Bridge"           

♥ Click "Competitive"          ♥ Click "All Tournaments"         

♥ Click "MAN" into the Search box at the top right of the screen. 

♥ Click on the Manchester BC tournament           

♥ Enter your Partner’s BBO User name

( If you don’t have a Partner, join the Partnership Desk and wait ......we can see you there and will get in touch and/or arrange a Partner )

HOW ABOUT SOME ON-LINE LESSONS

or some

PRIVATE LESSONS ON BBO?

What a great way to keep up with your bridge!

Give Dave Debbage a ring and sort things out.

Tel: 07717 252114

CONGRATULATIONS TO CLUB MEMBERS ANDREW WOODCOCK CATHERINE DRAPER JEFF MORRIS JOHN HASSETT AND JOHN HOLLAND  UPON WINNING THE PACHABO CUP REPRESENTING MANCHESTER!