Congratulations to Steve Raine, Willie Crook, Dave Flack and Shirley Ashtari on winning the Midlands County Bowl.

Results

Congratulations to Steve Raine and Pravin Tailor on winning the Leicestershire Swiss Pairs

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Green Point Swiss Pairs Event
20 September 2026
Start time 12pm

East Midlands Bridge Academy,
The Old School, 
Chapel Street,
Spondon,
Derby DE21 7JR

The cost is £21 per person.
(Full NCBA members £20 each)

Please pay, in advance, via BACs.
Nottinghamshire Contract Bridge Association (it's a business account)

56-00-61

89407474

Further enquires to the event co-ordinator Clare Batten cpbatten@yahoo.com 07715 561889

Congratulations to Stan Zygadlo and Lloyd Eagling

on winning the 2026 Corwen Trophy.

Results

Congratulations to all of the Nottinghamshire pairs that did well in this competition.

Results

A reminder from the EBU, please check your club membership databases on My EBU are correct, as anyone who is not listed in the club’s My EBU record by 9th July will not be able to represent their club in the National Inter Club Knock Out NICKO (or Garden Cities Trophy) in the forthcoming year.

At the EBU AGM, the Shareholder agreed for the forthcoming year, Universal Membership fees will increase by 2p to 48p from 1st April 2026. The Club Annual Subscription will increase to £32 from 1st April 2026. County fees will be confirmed in February 2026.

National Grading Scheme Grades

The NGS calculates a current grade and a grade band for each EBU member, based on the most recent 2000 boards, which is updated whenever new results for that player are received.

The value of your current grade is the scheme’s estimate of the percentage score that you would achieve on average if partnering another player with the same current grade at Match Pointed Pairs in a field of nationally average strength.

An average strength player therefore has a grade of about 50%, but there are no limits to the values of grades. The strongest players have current grades of over 60% and the weakest under 40%. The spread of grade values has a bell-shaped distribution. (For the statisticians, it’s approximately Normal with a standard deviation of around 5 to 6%.)

EBU grades have been divided into 13 playing card bands, ranging from ‘Ace’ at the top to ‘Two’ at the beginners’ end. Each band covers a 2% range of grade values, with ‘Eight’ having a range of 49-51%.

9 High competitions are limited to EBU members that have a maximum Grade of 9.

If you would like information on how and where to learn Bridge, if you have played social bridge but would like an introduction to playing duplicate in our clubs, or want to improve your game, please contact Jane Hall, Clare Batten or Sue Wright, and we will help you with the best way to proceed. Contact details can be found here.

This link will take you to Courses being run locally.

This link will take you to the National list of EBU registered teachers

When you log into RealBridge, please enter full name and EBU number.

Convention Card

Save your convention card as a pdf

Log into MyEBU

Utilities 

System cards

Upload

You can then copy the link and paste it into the relevant field once you are logged into RealBridge.  The link will be there for the entire match.

It's also helpful to enter a brief description of your system in the chat field at the start of each round.

There is a Partner Request facility available in the Membership area of the web site

To access this for the 1^st time, you will need to click on the “membership” tab from the menu on the website then click on “member area”. 

If you are using it for the 1^st time, when it asks for your username and password, just click “set/reset password” and follow the instructions from there. 

Players can use this area to advertise or look for partners for sessions so do please try this out and see if it works! 

You will need to opt in if you wish for your contact number and email address to be displayed.

ANNOUNCING AND ALERTING SUMMARY updated 1^st September 2022

The EBU run regular Green Point events on RealBridge

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