WELCOME TO RICHMOND BRIDGE CLUB |
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Welcome to Richmond Bridge Club, the most popular and successful EBU affiliated club in the country! A friendly and progressive club, we are housed in the old Bowling Club Pavilion in Cambridge Park, nestled between Richmond & Twickenham. Our Clubhouse has multiple playing rooms, teaching facilities and a fully licensed bar.
We offer a range of duplicate bridge sessions every day of the week for players of all abilities - our full schedule of regular events may be found here.
Our next championship events :
Ladies Pairs/Mens Pairs - Tuesday Afternoon Nov 12th
Westminster Cup - Monday Evening Nov 18th
Our Academy offers lessons for new players, beginners and improvers, and seminars for more experienced players. For more detail about the different sessions for novices and improvers, please click here.
If you are interested in learning, please register by clicking here.
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Monthly Wednesday Evening Teams |
Wednesday evening @ 19.30, Nov 13th, the club will organise its next monthly teams event.
These are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
A team is made up of 4 players playing together as 2 pairs. There are some differences to the scoring method, and therefore the best tactics - but if you are unfamiliar with the format don't worry, just play your usual game !
There is no obligation to play every month. Normal table money of £7 will apply for members, £10 for visitors.
The details of how things are organised on the night will depend on the number of teams taking part.
There is free street parking (so do not use the bowls club car park) and the bar will be open throughout.
I want to encourage less experienced players to have a go
so don't just ignore this because you're not sure what's involved !
For the moment my focus is on gathering names and helping arrange everyone into teams of four
To register an interest - as an individual, a pair, or a full team - please click HERE
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COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE - Thursday 19th Oct at 10:30 |
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RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - Upcoming Seminars for Improvers |
Richard is running aa series of seminars at the club every other week during the Autumn for Improvers – just click the links in blue to see the syllabus, and to register. Book indivdually or for all four. No partner required.
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Start Date
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Defence:
When to cover an honour ?
"Second hand plays low and third hand high" - what does it mean ??
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Thurs 24th Oct @ 14:00 |
More on transfers - how to develop the auction afterwards ? |
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Thurs 7th Nov @ 14:00 |
"Holding up" - how to break communications
(by declarer and by the defence)
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Thurs 21st Nov @ 14:00 |
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Rest In Peace |
Recently two long standing members have sadly passed away.
Bob Rowlands was a life member of the club and played a big part in the club's early days. Most recently he used to mentor a few students at home and played very occasionally at the club with Meena Samani. There is a extensive obituary on the EBU website - click HERE.
Trevor Hamlyn was a regular in many of our sessions, regularly playing with Jacqueline Taylor. His passing was very sudden and unexpected.
Our sincerest condolences to all of Bob's and Trevor's family and friends. We will add more information as soon as we can.
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BLUE POINTED SWISS PAIRS - Saturday 30th Nov at 12:00 |
Our next BLUE POINTED SWISS PAIRS will take place at 12:00 on Saturday 30th November in the CLUBHOUSE. Everyone welcome. The entry fee is £15 per player. Richard Banbury will be directing the 36-board event which will be played across two sessions.
There will be a break for complimentary scones, Devonshire clotted cream and speciality jams. A full bar service will also be available on the day.
PRIZES (*dependent on at least 15 tables):
£100 for the winners & £50 for the runners up
NGS<=9 - £50 for the highest placed eligible pair:
Click here to book your place
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ONLINE SUPERVISED PLAY |
Richmond Bridge Club is delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Wimbledon Bridge Club to offer joint online Supervised Play sessions!
Online Supervised Play sessions run every week on Wednesday mornings, 10:30am-12:30pm on RealBridge. There is no need to book, just click on the appropriate link below about 10 minutes before the start of play and you’ll be taken to the RealBridge login page. Enter your full name and EBU number to log in to the session. If you can get a table of three or four together, you’ll be guaranteed a game. You are welcome to come as a pair or single and we will try and make up tables, but we can’t guarantee you’ll get a game.
See above and to the right under "Realbridge Links" for the link to access this Supervised Play session
Cost is £6 per session which will be charged to your RBC member’s account.
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