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Club Opening Hours & Contacts
Club Opening Hours & Contacts

Welcome to

THE

MANCHESTER BRIDGE CLUB

81 WELLINGTON ROAD, FALLOWFIELD,

MANCHESTER

M14 6BN

 

manchesterbridgeclub@hotmail.com

 

The Club’s regular opening and closing times are:

Monday - 12.30 to 16:30

Monday evening- 19:00 - 22:00

Tuesday - 13.00 -16.30

Tuesday evening - 18:45 - 22.00

Wednesday - 10.00 -16.30

Wednesday evening - 19.00 - 22.30

Thursday am - 10:00 -13:30

Note: Our opening times may differ when we host special events such as Halloween, Special Duplicates, Santa Claus Pairs and for Michael Byrne's seminars. Please check the Calendar on our website for the updated details. 

Closing times can only be extended by prior arrangement and need to conform with the Club’s obligations to our landlord and building security protocols.

Please ensure that you arrive at all our scheduled events at least 10 minutes before the start time as shown on the calendar so that we can start play at the scheduled time. If you are coming but are delayed please let the TD or event organiser know.  

Ring/Text Paul Murray on 07393 579962 for any clarification

or email paul.murraysafc@gmail.com

5 Card Majors
5 Card Majors

For all our members who have already switched or are considering moving to 5 Card Majors and 2 over 1 Game Forcing, this book by Neil Rosen is perhaps the closest to the systems taught at Manchester Bridge Club.

It is easy to read, structured and offers many quizzes and examples to test your understanding. Highly recommended!!
If you would like a copy the ISBN is 978 108 915 4877

RECEIVING OUR E-MAILS?
RECEIVING OUR E-MAILS?

Are you receiving e-mails from the bridge club? If not, here are a number of possible reasons:

 1) Your email address has been blocked from receiving emails from Bridgewebs. Check the status of your email address, and resubscribe if it is blocked or suspended

2) We do not have your correct email address registered. You can check this via attempting to set/reset password in the Members Only login screen

3) If we do not have your correct email address, please let us know via the Contact Form or speak to any committee member

 

Welcome to The Manchester Bridge Club
Geoff Nuttall Winner
Geoff Nuttall Winner

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 

Juggler's Club Seminars
Juggler's Club Seminars

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.

Membership Promotions
Membership Promotions

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 

Swiss Pairs on IntoBridge
Swiss Pairs on IntoBridge

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.

Beginner's Course

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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?

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.

Supervised Sessions
Supervised Sessions

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

Online Account for Online Games
Online Account for Online Games

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.

Weekly Schedule

Download our latest interactive activity schedule - BBC Tiny Happy PeopleSee 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

Unexpected Emails

One of our members recently received an email purporting to be from the late Sam Herman and inviting them to open the attached file (..... do you remember the people in the attached photo....)

So this is a reminder to not open links or attachments in unexpected or unsolicited emails

The club will not send emails with links or attachments, instead we will invite you to go to the home page of the club's website where the relevant information will be available 

Tom Dessain’s new arrival

Tom and Helen are pleased to announce the safe arrival of their first child Hannah Marie on September 9th.

Save The Dates

 

Friday September 29th 2023 - MB Seminar, Forcing defence, stealing trump control

Friday October 28th 2023 - MB Seminar, Protective bidding

Friday November 17th 2023 - MB Seminar, Deductions as declarer

Sunday December 3rd 2023 - The Ben Franks Trophy

Friday December 8th 2023 - MB Seminar, Swedish Jacoby

Sunday December 17th 2023 - Santa Claus Pairs

Sunday February 25th 2024 - The Cantor Cup

Club Bank Account Change

Please note that the Club's bank account has changed from HSBC to NatWest

Please transfer funds into your Club account via the new NatWest account with immediate effect

The Manchester Bridge Club

Bank : NatWest

Sort Code 01-02-02

Account Number 21867577

Transfers made in error to the HSBC account will be credited as normal until the HSBC account is closed. Thereafter, they will automatically be transferred to our NatWest account by HSBC. 

If you have any questions, please call Paul Murray or Dave Fernley

 

Return Of Monday Evening Bridge

Starting on Monday July 3rd at 7.15pm competitive Monday evening bridge returns to the Club.

The first competition will be the Geoff Nuttall Memorial Trophy, which will run for 13 consecutive weeks, from Monday 3rd July to 25th September. 

It is an individual contest, so you can play with different partners on each Monday you play. 

Each competitor's best 7 scores during the quarter will be averaged to determine the winner. Minimum number of games to qualify is 7 .

Cheese & crackers as well as the usual tea, coffee and biscuits will be available

Please come along and support the Club and enjoy a pleasant summer evening of bridge

Attendance on Monday evenings is slowly improving with 4 tables on Monday Sept 11th. Please come along and support the Club!

Bridge and Cakes

Our cake makers on September 12th  will be Ann Morris and Frank Eade  

  Many thanks to all of our cake providers for their delicious and generous contributions. Shop bought cakes are equally welcome as are those provided by “Rubber” players or a very friendly cleaner!!😉
Please contact Ann Wood if you would like to provide a bake for any Tuesday session and join the bustling queue for a place in this popular cake rota!

 All abilities are welcome to play bridge and kindly remember that to enable us to make a prompt start and timely finish we endeavour to be seated by 1.25pm. Hosts are generally available but not guaranteed.

We play a very relaxed 18-21 boards over the session and look forward to welcoming both new visitors and much missed old friends.

IntoBridge Board Analysis
IntoBridge Board Analysis

Our friends at IntoBridge will be sending feedback and hand analysis for selected boards played in this Friday afternoon's game.

This promises to be a useful and educational addition to their service, and depending upon feedback may become a regular feature of our games

So why not join us on Friday 21th at 2pm and see if you find this an interesting and beneficial extra

Results
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
Paul's Improver Class
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
IntoBridge Swiss Pairs
Beginners Supervised Duplicate
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
Club Evening Duplicate F2F
Club Afternoon Duplicate
Paul's Improver Class
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
Club Competition Evening F2F
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
Calendar
Mon 2nd Oct 2023
Club Competition Evening F2F
7:15pm
Tue 3rd Oct 2023
Club Afternoon Duplicate
1:30pm
Tue 3rd Oct 2023
Supervised Duplicate, all abilities
7:00pm
Wed 4th Oct 2023
Beginners Supervised Duplicate
1:00pm
Wed 4th Oct 2023
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
2:00pm
Wed 4th Oct 2023
Club Evening Duplicate F2F
7:15pm
Thu 5th Oct 2023
Beginners Supervised Play
No class this week - back next week!
Thu 5th Oct 2023
IntoBridge Swiss Pairs
7:15pm
Fri 6th Oct 2023
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
2:00pm
Sun 8th Oct 2023
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
2:00pm
Mon 9th Oct 2023
Paul's Improver Class
1:00pm
Mon 9th Oct 2023
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
2:00pm
Mon 9th Oct 2023
Club Competition Evening F2F
7:15pm
Tue 10th Oct 2023
Club Afternoon Duplicate
1:30pm
Tue 10th Oct 2023
Supervised Duplicate, all abilities
7:00pm