| 1111th BBO game |
Next week sees our 1111th game on BBO and to mark the occasion we are having a special Swiss Pairs event on Thursday 18th with great prizes available
1st place £25 each
2nd place £20 each
3rd place £15 each
11th Place £11 each
Best intermediate pair £5 each
All prizes will be credited to players on line accounts
Each player will be able to pay just £1.11 for their next visit in August at a face to face club duplicate session (Monday @ 7:15pm, Tuesday @ 1:30pm and Wednesday @ 7:15pm)
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| England U21 Team Qualifies for World Championships |
Congratulations to Michael Byrne who, as non-playing captain of the England under 21s, guided the team to qualifying for the World Championships next summer. They were playing at the recent European Junior Championships in Velhoven in the Netherlands.
The team got off to a poor start, being in bottom place at the end of day one. But things improved, and the second half of the tournament saw them really get going. They won their final 5 matches to qualify with ease.
We can't promise that Michael will have the same impact on your game, but why not come along to his popular teaching seminars at The Manchester Bridge Club. This month's topic covered 4th Suit Forcing, and was very well received by all those who attended ........ as was the gooey chocolate cake that Michael provided
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| Beginner's Course |
OUR NEXT BEGINNER'S BRIDGE COURSE WILL BEGIN ON WEDNESDAY 21st SEPTEMBER 2022 AT 1.30pm
This course will lasts for 12 weeks and will cover the basics of play and bidding . We teach the 5 card major, strong No Trump and short club system. We will cover basic defensive tactics. We will also demonstrate how to play bridge online mainly using RealBridge.
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 course will cost £72 payable in advance
TUTORS ARE: SUSAN TRIGGS & 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.
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| A Manchester Old Boy comes home |
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On the 7th July we welcomed Manchester Old Boy David Thompson to our 1.30pm F2F session. He has been living in Luxembourg for many years but was born and raised in Manchester and is an old boy of Manchester Grammar School. He contacted us to say he was visiting the UK for a few days and would like to come to the Club to play. He mentioned that he has partnered Kath Nelson on BBO so we asked Kath if she would like to join us and she was delighted to agree. David is on the foreground table looking at Jeff and Paul. The afternoon was very well supported and was keenly contested and, as luck ( and some skill ! ) would have it, David and Kath came out top, It was a great afternoon and we hope it might encourage more of you to come to our Thursday 1.30 sessions.
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| Hubert Phillips Plate |
Hackett team wins Hubert Phillips Plate
The Hubert Phillips Plate - the consolation event in the EBU's mixed pivot teams competition - has been won by the team of Barbara Hackett, Jason Hackett, Paul Hackett & Martin Taylor. A veritable list of stars all with a close association with our Bridge Club.
They beat Neil Crawford, Bob Holder, Joan Murphy, David Owen & Phil Thornton in the final.
Many Congratulations to the whole team.
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| Online Account for Online Games |
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Please be aware that the BridgeWebs attendance Module is not accurate at the moment. It reflects entry fees spent on online games but does not reflect money paid into your online account. This is due to our WebMaster, Dave Fernley being away on holiday. Unfortunately, despite trying we haven't been able to update the system without Dave's guidance. Please bear with us. This will be corrected and updated when Dave returns from holiday next week. If you need to know your balance, call Paul.
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.
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| New Weekly Schedule at the Club |
The Club has a new agreement with our landlord and can now expand our face-to-face sessions of Club Duplicates and Supervised Duplicate bridge.
Many members have expressed an interest in afternoon face to face bridge and our current afternoon sessions (Supervised Duplicate on Monday & monthly Michael Byrne seminars) are proving very popular.
We have therefore decided to trial Tuesday afternoon duplicates. These are proving to be popular and have the added attraction of home made cakes being provided by some members
The new weekly face-to-face schedule
Monday 1pm Supervised Duplicate - this session is targeted at Beginners to Improvers and is proving very popular. We regularly have 5-7 tables and it is a very social afternoon. The session comprises a short lesson on a particular topic followeed by supervised play hosted by Paul Murray
Monday 7:15pm Club Duplicate
Tuesday 1:30pm NEW!! Club Duplicate (every Tuesday afternoon except when there is a Michael Byrne seminar). Minimum 18 boards.
Tuesday 7pm NEW!! Supervised Duplicate - this session follows the same format as Monday afternoon but is targeted at Improvers to Intermediates
Wednesday 7:15pm Club Duplicate
Please come along and support one or more of these sessions - your bridge club needs you!!!
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| Slam Bidding Seminar |
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The club hosted a very successful seminar on Tuesday 26th April from teacher and world ranked player Michael Byrne.
The topic this month was Slam Bidding and with over 30 people attending our main room was almost full.
After the talk from Michael, attendees played a series of pre-prepared hands designed to put their learning into practice.
Slams were bid and made, not bid and made and bid but not made!
It's a lifelong learning journey and hopefully everyone went away a little wiser than when they arrived!
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| Changes to My EBU |
My EBU is where members can check their masterpoints and NGS records, book events, and modify account details and preferences for things like magazine and diary preferences.
The EBU will shortly be adding the ability to be automatically emailed when new results are submitted, where members opt in to this service. This news item will be updated when this feature is Live.
You can access your EBU account here using your EBU number. There is a Forgotten Password function that can be used to reset your password.
The Forgotten Password feature works by sending a password reset link to the email address that the EBU hold for you. This will not work if there is no email address registered, or if the registered address is for an email account that you no longer have access to. In this situation the club can, for many members, amend the email address held. Please contact us if this applies to you
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| EBU Promotions |
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EBU master point promotions
Karen Reissmann - Premier National Master
Tricia Blum - 1 Star Master
Anne Naylor - Master
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| Afternoon Improvers |
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MONDAY AFTERNOON LEARNERS & IMPROVERS GET TOGETHER
EVERY WEEK AT 1PM WITH PAUL MURRAY AT THE CLUB
EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
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| WEEKLY SCHEDULE |
 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
(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 (BBO) or in the Lobby (Real Bridge)
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 text/email/call you when your ‘pot’ reduces to approx £12 so you have time to top it up and stay in credit.
The Manchester Bridge Club Bank details are –
HSBC Sort Code 40-11-56 Account Number 90730807
Please put your Firstname and Surname as the payment reference
Thank you for supporting The Manchester Bridge Club
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| Thursday Swiss Pairs on BBO |
"HOP ALONG" TO OUR THURSDAY NIGHTS
It's a popular 18 board event, 6 x 3 boards on BBO in the usual fun format. We start at 7.15pm 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 at 7.10pm for 7.15pm start!!
Our BBO Swiss pairs regularly attracts 10-12 tables so a friendly, competitive evening is guaranteed!
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Would you like to learn to play bridge?
We are currently setting up our new courses for beginners. We will be running a course of 12 lessons starting on Wednesday 21st September starting each week at 1.30pm
If you are interested in joining this course or would like to learn at different time or day, please fill in the form below and we'll get in touch to make arrangements for you to start lessons to learn to play this fascinating game.
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