We are sad to report that Nigel Guthrie passed away on 29th August. He was a Scottish International player and a long-standing member of Reading Bridge Club and played regularly at the club until he retired and moved back to Scotland in about 2010. He played for the Reading A team in the Berks and Bucks League of 8 and in the B&BCBA Tollemache team. He won many of the club’s Cup competitions over the years, some of them several times, and his name appears in many places on the Honours boards at the club. He also won many B&BCBA competitions about half of which were in partnership with David Barnes.

His funeral will be at 9.30am on Friday 16 September at St Joseph's Church, Tollcross, Glasgow. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you'd like to send flowers they should go to Co-op Funeralcare, 1336-1342 Shettleston Road, Shettleston, G32 7YS.

His family would love to hear your memories of Nigel. Please share them on his website which also has more information about his funeral and ways to watch online, visit his memorial website:

https://nigelguthrie.muchloved.com

Congratulations to the winners of the 6-monthly competitions for the period March 2022 to August 2022.

The Brown Cup was won by Roger Donato with the average of his best 8 scores being 63.03% with John Greenhalgh in second place with an average score of 62.13%.

The Boucher Cup, for players with an NGS grade of less than 55% at the start of the competition, was won by Iain MacKenzie with an average of his best 8 scores being 59.52%. Mel Thomas was second with an average of 57.66%.

The Bilbey Handicap Cup was won by Dianne Browne with Roger Burkeman in second place.

Full results can be seen in the Competitions section of the website.

Following the recent survey of members, RBC are pleased to announce that the club have restarted Face-to-Face (F2F) sessions on Thursdays at 7:15pm at Jesse Terrace. The online sessions have been moved to Tuesdays at 7pm on BBO.

If you intend playing in any of the sessions, whether F2F or online, please sign up as early as possible by clicking 'Attending' on the relevant calendar entry.

Find a Partner

There is an option on the website to enable members to let others know that they are looking for a partner.

Please click here for a guide to how to use the option.

This is a reminder that when playing in online sessions on BBO that players must self-alert bids that would be announced or alerted when playing face-to-face. Please provide a short system summary to new opponents but remember that the point range of all NT opening bids and rebids must be stated when making the bid, including them in the system summary is not sufficient. All opening 2 bids and all conventional bids must also be self-alerted with an explanation of the bid. 

Doing this avoids confusion and saves time in not having follow up questions. Please remember to self-alert and help to make our sessions run more smoothly.