In our club's first post-Covid quarterly competition, and in a fiercely contested tournament, Dave Fernley scraped home to win the Geoff Nuttall Memorial Trophy.

In the post event press conference, Dave thanked the 8 different partners that he played with in the competition saying 'It shows that you can win and be successful even while playing as a Host, and should encourage anyone wanting their 30 seconds of fame and glory to come along on Monday evenings. You never know, the hand of fate might be on your shoulder'

The John Bird Memorial Cup competition starts on Monday 2nd October, so come along and play. Cheese and biscuits will be available 

Eddie Thornton-Chan is offering to host some seminars on the Juggler’s Club system:

The success of the recent Ben Beever Jugglers’ Club competition, with the winning pair using the Jugglers’ Club (JC) System, has made me wonder if there are any players out there who would like to know more about the system.

Why would anyone want to learn the system?  Well, mainly because it is great fun to play!  (and the basic system is not difficult!)

JC has a wide array of weak opening bids and overcalls.  This means you can open/compete on 80% to 90% of hands, which is a lot of fun.  These weak bids can also cause the opponents to have genuine dilemmas – I told you it was fun.

Playing JC makes every hand potentially interesting: apart from competing on weak and moderate hands, there are ways to make slam enquiries safely below game level, when the bridge gods (eventually) give you better cards!

JC has a reputation for being complicated.  This is at least partly because its practitioners are compelled by the Laws of Bridge to flourish an alert card whenever a bid does not strictly accord with its meaning under mainstream systems.  Like most systems, however, JC can be played at a basic level, with any number of gadgets added on to taste.  The important bit is that both partners are using the same add-ons!

So, if you want to spend less of the auction putting PASS cards on the table, and more of it brandishing an ALERT card, just text Eddie on 07976 271360. Or email him via ewctc@yahoo.co.uk

When I know who may be interested, I’ll let you know the next arrangements.

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

 Paul Murray  Premier National Master
Julia Faulkner  Club Master
Chris Lam  Club Master
Tammy Lam  Club Master
 

Congratulations to all of you 

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

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