The funeral of Olivia Hackett will take place on Tuesday 6th June at 2.00 at Southern Cemetery. It will be followed by a wake at the Great Kathmandu 140 Burton Road ,from 4.00 until about 7.00,  where a welcoming drink and a buffet will be served. Friends and acquaintances of Olivia and the family are invited  to attend the funeral and/or the wake.  

The final of the county knock out competition was held on Thursday 11th May at Manchester Bridge Club. 

Congratulations to John Hassett's team (Jeff Morris, Catherine Draper, Andrew Woodcock) who beat Michael Byrne's team (John Holland, Alan Mould, Gary Hyett, Rodney Lighton). 

The Hassett team led by 38imps going into the last eight boards and were comfortably placed until Mould and Holland shot a thin grand slam using a sophisticated slam bidding method (exclusion blackwood). Despite losing 17imps on that hand the Hassett team hung on to win by 10imps and they thus qualify to represent Manchester in the Pachabo Cup in June.

By winning the Gazette Cup in February, Manchester Bridge Club qualified to represent Manchester County in the National Teams of 8 Garden Cities competition.

The Garden Cities Regional qualifiers took place on Saturday May 13th at Bradford Bridge Club with six 8-player teams from the North East (Darlington BC), Lancashire (Preston BC), Nottinghamshire (Notts BC), Merseyside/Cheshire, (Deva BC), Yorkshire (Leeds BC) and Manchester (Manchester Bridge Club) competing for two places in the national final to be held at Coventry BC on Saturday June 17th.

Manchester Bridge Club finished second to Leeds BC and have therefore qualified for the final for the second year in succession.

Congratulations to our Team of 8 -

Andrew Woodcock & Catherine Draper and John Hassett & Rhona Goldenfield

David Sarabowski & Tom Dessain and Paul Murray & Paul Hackett

John & Rhona finished top of the X-IMPs with Catherine & Andrew coming third.

Hopefully, we can go one step better and win the trophy on June 17th. Good luck!!

On Wednesday and Thursday  Susan Triggs laid on a sumptuous spread to celebrate the end of the beginners' courses for our last intake. A number of the Club's regular players also came along to help with the celebrations and to sit in and support the beginners as they played a number of hands of Bridge. To top off the occasion Susan provided prizes for the best performers and we were delighted that John Holland came along to present the prizes on Wednesday with  Paul Murray doing the same on Thursday. We wish all of our beginners all the very best and hope they will continue to enjoy playing Bridge at the Club for many years to come. A few are already considering stepping up to our supervised class on Monday afternoon so please welcome them. Good luck to you all.     

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The Club is delighted to announce that from April 30th, Supervised play for Beginners and Improvers will return on BBO every Sunday morning at 11am

Josh Clarke will manage and run the session which will be open to all members and non-members. Josh will also be inviting his clients from around the country to ensure a healthy attendance once the session gets up to speed

The session will appear as MBC Supervised on BBO.

The cost will be £6 for TMBC members and £8 for non-members. Please transfer your entry fee to the MBC bank account prior to the event. 

The Manchester Bridge Club bank account is 

Bank : NatWest

Sort Code 01-02-02

Account Number 21867577

Finally, please let Josh and I know your BBO Username via email so we can make sure that you are allowed entry to the session.

Any questions, please email Paul Murray on paul.murraysafc@gmail.com

or Josh at joshuadanielclarke@hotmail.com

Congratulations to long standing Club members Eve Lighthill & David Sarabowski on qualifying for the National Pairs Final

Eve and David came second of 47 pairs with a score of 62.47% in the Northern Regional Qualifiers held on Sunday March 26th on Real Bridge.

The National Final was held over the weekend of April 15/16th. David & Eve finished down the field but should be proud that they qualified for the final so convincingly.  

The Manchester Bridge Club is supporting the charity duplicate jointly organised by Manchester County Bridge Association and Larkhill Bridge Club.  The event is a social duplicate and any-one can enter.  You don't have to be a member of the EBU.  The duplicate will take place on Sunday 11th June and will start at 2pm.  There will be a break for cake and refreshments at half time and a prize for the winning pair.  The duplicate will take place at the Larkhill Centre, on Thorley Lane, Timperley WA15 7A.  The entry fee is £10 and all profits will go to the Trussell Trust - the largest food bank provider in the UK.  We hope to be able to donate £5 per player if sufficient people enter.  There will also be a raffle for a prize which is being donated by Manchester County Bridge Association.  There is a public car park close to the venue.  If you would like to enter please go to https://www.bridgewebs.com/manchesterevents/ or email Susan Triggs via grasan30@gmail.com

We are delighted to announce that the following Member of the Club achieved a promotion in April

Fly Leung   District Master

Congratulations 

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.

Our Chairman, Paul Murray and fellow TMBC member, Andrew Woodcock enjoyed a convincing win in the Bedfordshire Green Point Swiss Pairs event recently.A huge field of 82 pairs entered the competition, which was played on the RealBridge platform and also coincided with Paul's birthday!  Well done Paul and Andrew!

Why not come along to Paul’s supervised duplicate sessions for Beginners and Improvers on Monday at 1pm and Tuesday evening at 7pm and Wednesday morning at 10.30am? A short lesson and discussion on a key bridge topic is followed by supervised play at the table.

Meanwhile, TMBC members figured prominently at the recent Great Northern Swiss Pairs, which was held on 1st-2nd October at Leeds. All TMBC participants finished in the top half of the 37 pair field.

Congratulations to Michael Byrne and Alec Smalley who won in a very tight finish.  Rodney Lighton and Tom Dessain were 3rd, Justin Hackett & Martin Taylor 5th, Rhona Goldenfield & Tracy Sherman 7th and Jackie Pye & John Holland 8th. Jeff Morris & David Sarabowski finished joint 16th. 

Michael becomes the first person to have won the event with four different partners - Alex Morris, Andrew Woodcock and Kieran Dyke.  John Holland has also won the event four times previously with three different partners.

OUR NEXT BEGINNER'S BRIDGE COURSE WILL START IN SEPTEMBER 2023

This 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 and No Fear Bridge.

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 and Anne Naylor

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

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.

WE NOW HAVE SUPERVISED AFTERNOON SESSIONS FOR BEGINNERS, LEARNERS & IMPROVERS AT THE CLUB

MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 1PM FOR IMPROVERS WITH PAUL MURRAY

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30PM FOR BEGINNERS WITH PAUL MURRAY

**NEW** THURSDAY MORNING AT 10:30 AM FOR BEGINNERS WITH SUSAN TRIGGS

MEMBERS £6 & VISITORS £8

EVERYONE IS WELCOME.

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 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 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 –

Natwest Sort Code 01-02-02   Account Number  21867577

Please put your Firstname and Surname as the payment reference

Thank you for supporting The Manchester Bridge Club

"HOP ALONG" TO OUR THURSDAY NIGHTS 

It's a popular 18 board event, 6 x 3 boards on IntoBridge 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 a 7.15pm start!! 

Our IntoBridge Swiss pairs is a true Swiss movement and guaranteed to be a friendly and competitive evening!

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 Spring 2023 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.