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Bridge Teaching
New Bridge for Beginners Course

We are pleased to announce a new weekly 'Bridge for Beginners' course starting in mid-October this year.

The course will be before our club sessions, starting at 4pm on Wednesdays from 14th October. For those who may find the day/time/venue inconvenient we will run a second session at a time/venue to suit everyone.

Anyone who would like to learn to play our fascinating game of bridge would be most welcome to come along and join us.

We will follow the English Bridge Union's course books (a copy will be provided for everyone) with a new topic each week and practical examples for bidding and playing.

Next year we will run a second year course continuing lessons on bidding, play, defence and slams.

After the course session you are welcome to stay to watch us play. Watching over someone's shoulder is an interesting way to follow the game (though any questions do have to wait until the last card has been played to avoid giving information away to the other three players).

For more details, and to express an interest, please contact Peter Rice.

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Bridge Lessons for Intermediate/Improving Players

Bridge Topics for Intermediate / Improving Players

We have reserved a slot on Wednesday afternoons from 4:30 before the club duplicate session starts. From October this will be for the new beginners course. Up to them, we can offer any of the following topics for club member and anyone else who is interested.

Please contact Peter Rice if you would like to learn more about any of these topics. Each topic will take from 1 to 3 weeks to cover.

Topic Sessions
Responding to a 1NT Opening 2
Overcalling a 1NT Opening 1
Overcalling in a suit 2
Competing after an overcall 2
Two suited overcalls 1
Opening leads (suit and NT contracts) 1
Leads in defence 1
Defensive signalling (attitude, count, suit preference) 2
Declarer play in a suit contract 1
Declarer play in a NT contract 1
Declarer play – an extra trick with squeezes and endplays 1
Slam bidding 1
Responder bidding to game 2
Inverted minors 1
Weak 2 openings  1
Competing against weak-2 and pre-empt openings 1
Strong 2 openings 1
Multi 2-diamond opening 1
Duplicate pairs tactics 1
Hand evaluation and the losing trick count 1
Fourth suit forcing 1
Five card majors 1

 

 

 

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