The annual dinner of the MCC Bridge Society will be held in the Committee Dining Room at Lord’s on Thursday 7 November 2024. The dinner is open to all Members and Candidates and those wishing to attend may each bring up to three guests. Dress will be lounge suits.

Our guest speaker will be Simon Cochemé, a writer for the EBU Magazine and previous vice-chair of the EBU Selection Committee.

The cost of the Dinner will be £68 per person. Tickets will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis and early application is therefore advisable. Click on ADD to add to your basket.

Applications close: 24 October 2024. Click here to buy tickets

The committee have had many representations as to the format of the master point trophy. At present the best scores up to a maximum of 6 are taken for any pairing. This allows pairs to keep playing until they have had 6 maximum scores. From the 1^st October 2024 we are going to tweak this a bit. For the 2024/25 season, only the first six scores with any other member/candidate will count. This hopefully means that there will be many more different pairings and make the competition a bit more exciting.

The annual MCC Mixed Swiss Teams competition will take place in the Long Room on Sunday 13 October. 

Play will start promptly at 11.00 BST and the aim is to finish by 18.00. There will be a break for lunch of an hour. The teams will play 6 x seven-board matches in two sessions and the event will be in Swiss format, which means that teams with similar scores will always be matched against each other after every round. 

Each team of four must comprise at least one MCC Member or Candidate, at least one gentleman and at least one lady. The event is designed for amateur club players, not international experts and those who play at the very highest levels. The organisers reserve the right to challenge the composition of teams with players who do not meet these criteria.

The entrance fee will be £160 per team, and this includes lunch followed by dessert along with tea and coffee throughout the day. Other drinks will be available to purchase in the Long Room Bar. For those who would like to take part, a tour of the Ground is also included, and this will start at 09.15.

The 2024 Rubber Bridge competition is into the knockout phase and defending champions David Alterman & Miles Golding are the first pair to reach the semi-finals of the competition. They were also the most successful pair in the pool stage, winning all three matches with the highest net aggregate score. Will they be lifting the Brian Silverstone Trophy once again? The top two pairs in each league are in the quarter finals of the main event, while the bottom two pairs from each pool will be competing in the their own knock-out "plate" event. You can see the results of all the matches, the league standings, and progress in the knock-out rounds here. 

The MCC team secured a resounding victory in the 2024 Centenary Cup competition held at the RAC in Pall Mall on 20th May. MCC ran out clear winners with a score of +112 IMPs, with runners-up RAC Woodcote Park at +64 IMPs.

Full results of the event are available here. 

The MCC team of eight, pictured L-R with the trophy: Richard Cumming-Bruce, Lester Pereira, Gary Diamond, Russell Tenzer (Captain), John Pemberton, Mike Alsford, Pralab Barua, and Nigel Clayton.

MCC Members or Candidates for membership can sign up to receive emails about Bridge Society activities from the Club and from committee members organising events. You can access the form here

For those of you who enjoy playing Bridge on line Dominic Flint is keen to reach out to those interested in representing the club. Currently he is on the hunt for opposition near and far with games against Hurlingham, the North of England and on the other side of the Atlantic. To register your interest complete the form