SANTA CLAUS PAIRS

SUNDAY 17th DECEMBER

1.30pm for a prompt 2pm start (6-7pm finish)

This is a two session pairs event with prizes for the best pairs (and the less fortunate!)

NOW ALSO FEATURING THE CHESHIRE A CAPPELLA CHOIR

see below

The undoubted highlight between sessions is

TMBC'S SPECIAL CHRISTMAS BUFFET with Festive drink

Free coffee and tea available throughout

Entry fee £15 for members and £20 for non members

Numbers for this event are limited and all entries must be pre-registered.

Closing date Friday December 15th.

Please register early using this form to secure your place

This will also assist our volunteer catering team, who are making and preparing the buffet, and ensure minimal waste. Thank you.

Members came in on Saturday morning to get the club decorated for the festive season

As the picture shows, it now looks very jolly as we prepare to host the Ben Franks event on Sunday, Santa Claus Pairs on the 17th, and our normal full schedule of events up to 21st December when we close for our Christmas break

Many thanks to Ron Butler, Dave Fernley, Paul Murray and Vera Lowson

We are delighted to announce that singing for us at Santa Claus pairs will be The Cheshire A Cappella Choir. They will be singing for around 30 minutes immediately prior to the start of the Duplicate so please all come by 1.15 pm if you want to enjoy their performance.  One of Susan Trigg's beginners group, Sara, is a member of the Group so please come and show your support for this amazing group of singers. If you could come ready to make a donation to their charity that would be much appreciated.       

Cheshire A Cappella is a group of women of all ages and walks of life with one thing in common - they love to sing! They are strictly an amateur chorus; most of them have never had singing lessons and many of them can't read music, but they work together in a supportive environment to achieve the best they can and have loads of fun along the way. . 

They will also be singing at Lyme Park on December 2nd  John Lewis on December 8th and 13th at 6pm. so we are privileged they have found time to include us in their schedule.  

Manchester bridge club once more was host to a junior training weekend for the England U25 squad run by squad leader Michael Byrne. 12 players made the journey to Manchester, including Gideon Harvey who plays regularly at the club.

Last March many of the squad were in Manchester for the Junior Camrose trophy, which members may have watched live in Altrincham or on bridge base online. 

The team were training for the upcoming "Channel Trophy" which is being held over the weekend of Dec 15^th - 17^th in Utrecht in Netherlands.  

Manchester Bridge Club has a long history of supporting youth bridge and has hosted training weekends for the last twenty years, attended by many club members past and present. 

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

Andy Brocklehurst    Advanced Master 

Congratulations Andy      

Click here to sign on to IntoBridge

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

9 tables for popular online MBC game on Dec 8th with 15 players playing on IntoBridge for the first time!

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

For the time being, there are no robots on IntoBridge.

Beginners Bridge Courses started in September 2023.

We are running 2 courses, an evening course starting Tuesday 26th September at 7:15pm and a daytime course starting Wednesday 27th September at 10:30am.  Our Tuesday evening class is full but we will have spaces on Wednesday morning class.  If you are interested in the Wednesday morning class, still get in touch and we will help you catch up on the lesson or two you have missed.

Each course lasts for 12 weeks and covers 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 and also demonstrate how to play bridge online mainly using BridgeBase Online (BBO) and No Fear Bridge.

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.

The course will cost £72 payable in advance 

Tutors are Susan Triggs and Anne Naylor

Interested?  Find out more by emailing Susan on grasan30@gmail.com

Our current Tuesday evening group of beginners , all 28 of them,  are seen here enjoying lesson 4 in their 12 week course. There are other groups  on Wednesday and Thursday mornings  .  

Would you like to learn to play bridge?

We are currently setting up our new courses for beginners.

If you are interested in joining the above course or would like to learn at a 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.

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

Monday afternoon at 1pm for Improvers with Paul Murray.

** NEW** Tuesday evening at 7pm all levels.

Wednesday afternoon at 1pm for beginners with Paul Murray.

**NEW** 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