♠ ♥ RealBridge Link ♦ ♣
Next Session: Tuesday 27th October 2pm
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| St Albans Teams of 4 match on October 27th |
♠ ♥ St Albans Teams of 4 Match on October 27th at 7pm ♦ ♣
♥ ♠ Via a friend of Ray Ashleigh, we have arranged a friendly Teams of 4 Match ♠ ♥
with St Albans Bridge Club
at 7pm on Tuesday October 27th
Please fill in the form below if you would like to play
Teams will be ranked (roughly) by average NGS
So you will be playing against teams of a similar standard as far as possible.
This event is fully booked, adding your name to the list will put you on a waiting list.
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| RealBridge Help Sessions |
♠ ♥ RealBridge Set Up - 1 to 1 Sessions ♣ ♦
If you are not able to join in on Manchester Bridge Club's RealBridge matches due to technical reasons, MBC can help!
For a small £5 fee (deducted from your MBC online account), we can remotely access your device and check these issues for you. The service will assess your device’s configuration, browser version & compatibility, camera & microphone functionality and internet connection so we can confirm if your device can support the software. If it can, we will leave you with a simple link to access RealBridge when you want to play in our games.
If it can’t, you may have to consider purchasing a new device – but at least you’ll know. Given that we believe RealBridge WILL be the future and that online bridge is here to stay, then at some point soon, you will therefore need a new device to play (online) bridge.
If you would like to have us assess your device remotely, then please fill in the form below. The check will be carried out by Sam Knox, an MBC member studying for a PhD at Manchester University. Once you’ve filled in the form, Sam will be in touch to arrange an appointment. It will probably take 30-45 minutes. None of your data will be accessed and you can watch the session as he does it from the comfort of your own home.
Priority of this service will be given to members who intend to play in the MBC RealBridge matches.
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| MCB Bridge Video: Short Club Convention - 1♣ Opener |
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| MBC BRIDGE VIDEO #3 with Sam Knox and Dave Debbage |
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RealBridge at MBC
On TUESDAY & THURSDAY AFTERNOONS our online games will now take place on RealBridge and not BBO
and we have now added a 3rd RealBridge game to our regular weekly schedule.
This will take place on WEDNESDAY EVENINGS at 7.15pm
If you want to play in our RealBridge sessions
then please action the following –
LINK 1 is to test the camera and microphone on your device (even if you participated in the trials, please re-test your device). Do not press log-in.
LINK 2 is to log-on to play in our games (no ID is needed, just your real name).
The entry fee for the first two RB games will be only £2 per player.
For both LINKS and more information about RealBridge
click on the yellow 'RealBridge at MBC' tab at the top left of this page
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**REVISED WEEKLY SCHEDULE**
(from Tuesday 6th October 2020)
MBC ‘Pay to Play’ Online Games
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MONDAY
►BBO Afternoon duplicate at 2.00pm
TUESDAY
►RealBridge Afternoon duplicate at 2.00pm
►BBO Evening duplicate at 7.15pm (Intermediate)
WEDNESDAY
►BBO Afternoon duplicate at 2.00pm
(NEW) ►RealBridge Evening Duplicate at 7.15pm
THURSDAY
►RealBridge Afternoon duplicate at 2.00pm
►BBO Evening Swiss Pairs at 7.15pm
FRIDAY
►BBO Afternoon duplicate at 2.00pm
SATURDAY
►BBO Afternoon duplicate at 2.00pm
SUNDAY
►BBO Morning duplicate at 11am (Improvers)
►BBO Afternoon duplicate at 2.00pm
THE BBO PLAYER INDEX (the alphabetical list of Real Names and BBO User Names) is now under the yellow tab third one down, top left of this page. - Updated July 2020
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,
Subject to 4 tables minimum, a Free Game is awarded to the winners.
Every player earns a Free Game for each 8th game played.
You cannot enter these games unless you have pre-paid.
Each game costs £3.50 to enter. Please deposit £20 (or more) into the MBC bank account (details below).
We will reduce your balance after each session played.
MBC will email 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
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NOW EVERY SUNDAY MORNING!
IMPROVERS ON-LINE DUPLICATE ON SUNDAYS AT 11am!
By popular demand we have arranged a weekly BBO Online Session specifically for Beginners and Improvers.
These sessions are for players who would normally have played on Monday afternoons, Tuesday evenings or the Wednesday evening supervised session.
These new Improver Sessions are INVITATION ONLY and will be held every Sunday Morning at 11am.
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) £20 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
In due course and subject to demand, we will add another Improvers Session to our Monday-Friday schedule.
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 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 )
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TUESDAY NIGHTS AT 7.15 PM ARE FOR INTERMEDIATE PLAYERS
... so a good standard but no experts and a really nice friendly atmosphere.
COME AND JOIN US!
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THURSDAY NIGHTS are SWISS PAIRS starting at 7.15pm!
Many of you asked us to run evening games and Swiss Pairs was a popular choice.
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.
We've noticed that numbers have dropped off recently and so we need you all to start playing on Thursday nights again.
See you on Thursday nights!!
.....good to see more of you playing on Thursday nights now - thanks and keep it up!!!
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What a treat to be able to have the chance to continue playing bridge.,,,and thankyou again to all the people "behind the scenes" who work so hard to make it all happen.
Please don't forget that the rules for table etiquette still apply - more especially in these unusual times.
......and HAVE FUN!
Dave Debbage.
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ONLINE BRIDGE FOR MEMBERS
Duplicate pairs sessions for club members are available online.
These are currently a mixture of BBO games and RealBridge format
Please be online on BBO at least 15 minutes before the start.
(See below for full instructions)
You must have registered with Bridge Base On-line (www.bridgebase.com) and have a UserName & Password. Then send us your name and BBO UserName so we can add it to the list of players for that Tournament. New members wanting to sign on with Manchester BC should send an Email with their BBO UserName to Paul Murray at paul.murraysafc@gmail.com
There is a help page at https://berwickbridgeclub.co.uk/bbo
To play in a duplicate, please login to BBO a 15 minutes before the start. Click on "Competitive" under "Play or Watch Bridge". Then Click "All Tournaments" and, in the search box above the list which appears, type "MAN" or "Manchester BC". The tournament will appear and you can click on it to register. Your partner will need to be online at the time you register and you need to enter their BBO name. There will normally be a £3.50 charge for the session which will be collected using your pre-paid contribution into the Manchester Bridge Club account.
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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
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| OFFER OF HELP IN THE FALLOWFIELD AREA |
One of our Tuesday night students Sam Knox has offered to go shopping or run errands for any of our members who live in the Fallowfield, Withington or surrounding areas if they would be glad of some support.
His telephone number is 07494863444
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| RAY'S "JOG" FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS |
RAY ASHLEIGH'S AMAZING RETIREMENT "JOG"
https://exrayraylejog.home.blog
"I wanted to do some walking after I retired and, in what may turn out to be a mad moment, I thought it would be a good idea to walk from Lands End to John O’Groats (LeJog). This is a well known charity walk, often done on roads (e.g. by Ian Botham). There are a number of books and blogs that describe the walk cross country which increases the distance from 874 miles to 1100 or more depending on the route. The route can be done, of course, from South to North or North to South (becoming JogLe!). The advantages of LeJog include walking with the prevailing wind and (rain!) coming from behind the walker, hopefully I will be fitter by the time I get to the Pennine Way and the Highlands and a new walking route between Inverness and John O’Groats should be complete in 2020 (currently most walkers use the A9)."
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