On Tuesday 10th September we were delighted to have 28 pairs playing in our Festival of Bridge event to raise money for Cancer Research UK (not to mention 4 rubber bridge players and our excellent non-playing TD David Sarabowski).

At the time of writing we will have raised £560 for this very worthy cause with some promised donations still to come from those unable to attend.  Many thanks to all of you.

The planning for the event was a tour de force by the Club team with not only a lot of furniture to be moved, refreshments to be set out in two rooms, last minute movements to be designed etc and the recruitment of a parking attendant.  Lots of people were needed to make all this happen but our bank of Committee and other volunteers pulled it off admirably.

Credits go to:

David Sarabowski and David Fernley - technical design

Jeff Morris and Susan Triggs - refreshments

Anne Naylor and Frances Nagel - cash management

Almost everyone else - cleaning up

Great team work.

In the actual bridge itself Frank and Maria Eade came top closely followed by Irene Davies and Karen Reissmann.  Well done to them but also well done to a band of less experienced players who acquitted themselves really well.  Thank you all for your support.

The next date in Michael Byrne’s popular seminar series will be at The Manchester Bridge Club on Friday September 20th  between 1:30pm and 4pm.

^{The topic will be: "Breaking the rules on defence ?"}

A look at situations where the time honoured maxims must be cast aside, and by thinking about the whole hand you defend in a way such that you beat the contract, no matter how hard declarer tries

Please help us to print the correct number of handouts by completing  the form below if you intend to come to this seminar.

Nicholas has now completed his very successful series of seminars over the summer - we had 20 plus people attending each seminar.

Nicholas will be doing 3 further monthly seminars for us on Friday mornings starting in October.  The likely dates are Friday 18th October and then the second Friday in each month, so Friday 8th November and Friday 13th December.  Attendees at the final session completed an evaluation form (produced by Anne Jerrold) and we will be using the responses to decide on the subjects for the next seminars.  The likely subjects are Opening Leads - more info on passive and active leads,  the difference between Trial Bids and Cue Bids and Surround Play (defence) and next year maybe Two over One - the basics.  Any other requests are still very welcome. We will also try to arrange some seminars on a Thursday evening or a Sunday afternoon to enable more of our members to benefit from Nicholas' expertise.

Beginners Bridge Taster Courses.

Our next Beginner's Bridge Courses will start in September.

We will be running both an evening and day time course.

Each course will last for 10 weeks and will start towards the end of September.  At the moment we plan to run one course on Monday evenings starting at 7.15pm on 23rd September and one during the day starting on Wednesday 25th September at 10.30am.

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.

Please be careful when you enter your email address. There have been a couple of incorrect email addresses entered so if you have not had a reply please try again.  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 

Interested?  Find out more by emailing Susan on grasan30@gmail.com or completing the online form below

We now have three IntoBridge sessions each week.  These are on a Monday and Friday afternoon at 2pm and on Thursday evening (Swiss Pairs) starting at 7.15pm.  All these sessions are well supported and will continue.  The Manchester Bridge Club Committee decided that we would have to cancel the Sunday afternoon session because there have been so few people playing on a Sunday in recent weeks.

We are delighted to announce that the following Member of the Club achieved an EBU Master Point ranking promotion in August 

Cob Culverwell Local Master 


Congratulations to Cob     

Click here to sign on to IntoBridge

Thursday evening online Swiss Pairs on Intobridge at 7:15pm

Come and join us every week!

Click on the links below to register your account on IntoBridge and come and join us to play on this new innovative online platform that offers much more than than BBO. 

If you haven't already, Click here to Register on the IntoBridge platform

The following youtube videos explain:

     The IntoBridge platform, how to register and available controls

     How to register for an IntoBridge game, how to join a game, and how to use the partnership desk

Registration is straightforward, but does involve receiving an email with a confirmation link to activate your account.

If you have any problems please contact Dave Fernley on 07388 398 919

Once you have registered you can invite your partner using his/her user name or join the Partnership Desk to signify you are looking for a partner.

An IntoBridge host will play with you cannot find one via the Partnership Desk

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

Monday afternoon at 1pm for Improvers with Paul Murray.

** NEW** Monday evening at 7:15pm for beginners

Tuesday evening at 7pm all levels.

Wednesday afternoon at 1pm for beginners with Paul Murray.

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