| About our club |
We are the largest bridge club in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK with over 660 members and circa 140 students learning bridge in our Academy.
If you know how to play bridge and are interested in joining our club then click on the Membership button above for more information and an application form.
Click HERE for a virtual tour of the club.
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| Our Weekly Bridge Schedule |
Face-to-Face Bridge (Open to members and visitors)
Monday and Wednesday afternoons at 12.45 pm.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 7.00 pm.
N.B. Tuesday evenings are primarily aimed at bronze players but all are welcome.
N.B. Pre-Booking is required by members for our Monday afternoon tournament by no later than 11 am, as Monday afternoons are very busy. Visitors are requested to book by phoning the club on: 0131 334 4467 if they wish to take part or by emailing the bridge operations manager, Andrew Harborow.
OnLine Bridge (Restricted to members only)
Monday and Thursday evenings at 7.00 pm on BBO
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| SBU Simultaneous Celtic Pairs |
SBU Simultaneous Celtic Pairs will be run by NMBC on:
- Monday 12th May, F2F at Pinkhill commencing 12:45 hrs.
- Thursday 15th May, BBO online commencing 19:00 hrs.
Members planning to attend the Monday afternoon session are reminded to book a tournament entry in the usual manner.
This event is coordinated by ECATS on behalf of the SBU. Full expert analysis of the hands will be available. Club results are available after 22:00hrs on that evening and then melded by ECATS with results across Scotland. As well as the usual club allocated black points, generous Red points are available for those that score strongly nationally.
These events are an opportunity for you to support fundraising for the SBU. NMBC will forward £1.75 to SBU for these tournaments. The cost on Monday is £5, The cost on Thursday is BBO$7
For any members looking for an alternative game on these dates, Monday evening F2F and Evening BBO will be running as normal, on Thursday evening F2F at the club will be running as normal
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| The Summer Accumulator |
This annual, summer long F2F evening competition, runs on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm until the end of August.
If you would like to play but do not have a partner for a particular night, you can use the Partner Matching Service; if a potential match is made, an email will be sent out to both parties.
Players of all standards and experience are welcome and a handicap, based upon SBU master point ranks, is applied.
The winner of the Accumulator is the player who gets the best six handicapped scores playing with a minimum of three different partners over the course of the summer; this is a great opportunity to play bridge with many different partners.
There will be cash prizes down to tenth place at the end of August as well as a trophy for the winner.
Scale of Handicaps
Novices & Club Masters have a handicap of +6%
Local Masters have a handicap of +4%
District Masters and Masters have a handicap of +2%
*Masters and Regional Masters have a zero handicap
Scottish, & National Masters have a handicap of -2%
Life Masters & Senior Life Masters have a handicap of -4%
Grand Masters have a handicap of -6%
The handicaps of each player is averaged with their partners
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This annual, summer long F2F evening competition, runs on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm until the end of August.
If you would like to play but do not have a partner for a particular night, you can use the Partner Matching Service; if a potential match is made, an email will be sent out to both parties. ..........
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| Learn to play Bridge at The New Melville |
Are you interested in learning how to play Bridge? If you are, we offer lessons at the best bridge academy in town with a team of dedicated teachers and excellent facilities.
Bridge is fun, sociable and good for your brain. For most people, playing around a card table is the most enjoyable format of the game but it can also be played on-line from the comfort of your home.
A new term of classes will start on Monday 21 April.
Click on our Academy button above for more details and an application form.
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| Bridge Sessions for Players New to the Game |
On Tuesday evenings at Pinkhill we hold an Improvers Pairs session at 7 pm. These sessions are aimed at people making the transition from student to club player. They will help to build confidence enabling new players to play hands in under 8 minutes - the club standard is a maximum of 7 minutes per board. Help and guidance will be given intermittently on aspects of bidding, play and table organisation. Players with, or without a partner are most welcome.
On Wednesday afternoons at Pinkhill we hold a Novices Pairs session aimed at players who have completed one or more years of lessons. Help with the bidding and play will be provided from an experienced player.
Table money for each of the above sessions is £3.50 payable by debit or credit card at the bar.
Written commentaries of the hands will also be available to take away after play has finished.
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On Tuesday evenings at Pinkhill we hold an Improvers Pairs session at 7 pm. These sessions are aimed at people making the transition from student to club player. They will help to build confidence enabling new players to play hands in under 8 minutes - the club standard is a maximum of 7 minutes per board. ..........
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| Pinkhill and Murrayfield Team Winners |
 Over three weeks the Pinkhill teams trophy for bronze players up to master level and the Murrayfield teams trophy for all other ranks below Gold has been hotly contested.
Congratulations to Katharine Bailey, Lindsay Herbert, Amanda Douglas, David Hamilton and Tom Robertson for a convincing win in the Murrayfield.
Congratulations to Evelyn Hogg, Ingrid Hooton, Ros Carnegie, Hamish Robertson, Tricia Campbell and Andrew Gray who won the Pinkhill by 1 Imp from team Grindley, Spence, Osbourne and Hill.
Played in great spirit throughout the three weeks, and for those that were surprised, yes your names will forever be engraved on the silverware !
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| Social Bridge |
Social Bridge
We offer weekly games of social bridge on the RealBridge platform for use by players making up their own tables of four. The charge is £4 for a table.
A new set of 24 hands is created on Mondays and these remain the same for seven days.
Players are requested to submit their payment after they have finished playing by using this Payment Link or the link above the lobby table view on RB.
One of the four players should login using this LINK That player can add a table IF the ones showing have been used, or partially used, by using the + late table button. That player can also start the round, if nobody else has, by clicking on the Start round 1 button.
Please DO NOT open the TD table, it serves no purpose for the purposes of social bridge.
The other players should login by clicking HERE
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Social Bridge
We offer weekly games of social bridge on the RealBridge platform for use by players making up their own tables of four. The charge is £4 for a table. ..........
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The New Melville Bridge Club is a company limited by guarantee with registration number SC 437291 and a charity with registration number SC 043594
Registered Office: 1 Pinkhill, Edinburgh EH12 7BA. Telephone: 0131 334 4467
The Club is affiliated to the Scottish Bridge Union and the SBU East District.
Email: bridge.manager@melvillebridge.club
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