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The Manchester Bridge Club AGM was held on the 19th March 2025 with almost 50 members attending. Paul Murray gave a comprehensive review of the Club's activities in 2024 including;
- Finances
- Membership levels
- Progress against the 2024 Objectives
- Range of our F2F sessions with almost 6000 people coming to play in 2024
- Challenges for 2025
Paul, Mike and Dave were all re-elected to their current Committee roles but Anne Naylor has chosen to stand back from her role as Bridge Officer. She was given a warm vote of thanks for her efforts over the past year. Part of Anne's role will be taken over by Sarah O'Neill and the Committee will be looking for volunteers to take over the balance of that role and to fill the other 3 vacancies of Operations/Logistics, IT and Officer without Portfolio
The evening concluded with 13 and half tables playing Bridge and enjoying an extensive cheese selection .
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| Michael Byrne's Next Seminar Friday 1.30pm 28th March |
Michael Byrne's next seminar will be on Friday 28th March at 1.30 pm . £10 for members and £12 for non members
"The seminar will be on "Jump Raises in Competition"
"A look at the competitive auction, where both sides are bidding and you might hold hands that can raise partner in a variety of ways. Stretch raises, good raises and fit jumps will all be covered, as well as knowing the times when it is right to raise partner and the times it is right to pass"
As usual Michael will be bringing along a tasty treat
If you are coming please add your name in the box below
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| Nicholas Greer's Seminars Winter/Spring 2025 |
Nicholas' seminar is on Surround Play on Friday 11th April
The start time for each seminar is 10.30am and will finish at approximately 12.30pm. As usual there will be notes of the seminar and copies of the 8 example hands. This topic is suitable for both improvers and intermediates and for more experienced players who want to improver their declarer play. You do not need a partner to attend this seminar. The cost if £8 for members and £10 for non-members.
If you will be attending this seminar please either add your name to the list below or email me via grasan30@gmail.com.
Below is a list of all the seminars we have arranged with Nicholas for the winter/spring 2025 period. We have tried to provide topics which reflect the feedback we have received so these next seminars are mainly on defence and declarer play.
Any further ideas for topics please email me. Finally - thanks to Anne Jerrold for all her work on helping to arrange these seminars.
Friday 11th April - Surround Play
Friday 9th May - Improve your defence in a NT contract
There will be a further seminar on Friday 13th June - please email grasan30@gmail.com with any suggestions for topics
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| Membership Promotions |
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We are delighted to announce that the following Member of the Club achieved an EBU Master Point ranking promotion in February
Usha Murugan Club Master
Chris Lam County Master
Tammy Lam County Master
Kevin Boles Club Master
Congratulations to all of you
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| Beginner's Course |
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Beginners Bridge Taster Courses.
If you are interested in joining one of our future courses please fill in the form below and we will keep you updated about our plans for our next courses.
Our next beginner's course will start on Wednesday 26th March at 2pm
Please be careful when you enter your email address. You will always receive a personal response in 24 hours.
Each course will last 10 weeks and covers the basics of play and bidding. We teach the 5 card major, strong No Trump and short club system. We will also cover basic defensive tactics.
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. Once your course is finished we have a wide range of supported, follow on sessions for you to join to continue to learn this wonderful game.
The course will cost £80 payable in advance
Interested? Find out more by emailing Susan on grasan30@gmail.com or completing the online form below
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| New IntoBridge Schedule |
 We currently have three IntoBridge sessions each week. These are on a Monday and Friday afternoon at 2pm and on Thursday evening (Swiss Pairs) starting at 7.15pm. All these sessions are well supported and will continue.
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| Supervised Sessions |
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We now have supervised sessions for beginners, learners & improvers at the club:
Monday afternoon at 1pm for Improvers with Paul Murray.
Monday evening at 7:15pm for beginners with Frank/Chris
Tuesday evening at 7pm all levels with Nicholas
Wednesday morning at 10:30 for beginners with Susan Triggs
Thursday morning at 10:30 for beginners with Susan Triggs.
Members £6 & Visitors £8
Everyone is welcome
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| Online Account for Online Games |
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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.
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| Weekly Schedule |
 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
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