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 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.

Our next Saturday Supper is at 18:00 on Saturday, 3rd May.

The food supplied by Noci, an Italian restaurant in Richmond   https://nocirestaurant.co.uk/

Menu Choices - 3 different pasta options

Brown butter cacio e pepe, ziti ("cacio e pepe" = cheese & pepper)

Strozzapreti, creamed courgettes, lemon, basil & toasted pine nuts

Amatriciana, ziti, Datterini tomatoes, crispy guanciale, pecorino  ("guanciale" = pork)

Followed by Chocolate Mousse

We will have (a) a duplicate for our more experienced members, and

(b) a separate supervised session for students.  

The price (incl bridge) is £25 per player for both members and visitors.

Please click HERE to book a place and select a menu option

On Saturday 7th June at 18.00,

we will also be organising a supper and bridge event

as part of the celebrations of Richmond's twinning with Konstanz and Fontainebleu

We expect to be joined by members of Twickenham Chess Club

Catering for 7th June will be provided by two restaurants

(Thai Upon Thames & Tangawizi)

to offer the best choice

We will have (a) a duplicate for our more experienced members, and

(b) a separate supervised session for students.  

Bookings are now open for our very popular Cafe Bridge on Tuesday, June 24. 

Arrive from 10.45 am at your initial venue (ie no central reservation point). There will be 3 rounds before lunch and another 3 after. 

This is a fund raising event for a local Charity INS (Integrated Neurological Services) 

which has been operating for 25 years, principally in Twickenham and Hounslow.

INS provides rehabilitation and support for those with long term neurological conditions (incl strokes, Parkinsons & MS).

INS volunteers will be joining us on the day organising a raffle. Lew Gray, one of the club's long standing members, is a Trustee of INS.

Janet Leffler is leading our cafe bridge team this year supported by Zita Crewe, Sally Durant, Jonathan Hird & Caroline Owens.  

They have provisionally agreed some of the restaurants taking part including

The Old Ship, The Britannia, Cote, Buenos Aires, Pizza Express, Angel & Crown, Rosa's Thai, Adesso, Noci & Watermans 

On the day we will be directed as always by the wonderful Victor Lesk and his team with scores entered electronically by players on their smartphones

using the BriAn app-based scoring system.

This allows us to announce a result very soon after the last board is played. If you have not come across BriAn before, you can find out more here.  

The cost per person is £40.00 (for bridge and food - drinks are excluded).

Bookings will be taken via credit/debit card or BACS transfer through the BriAnBridge website (i.e. not through your club member account). 

Detailed information about the event, your starting position and route will be sent out by email on June 23rd.

Please book by clicking here

We have been told by his family that Stewart Reuben passed away at the start of February 2025

while on a cruise around the Caribbean.

Stewart made a living as a professional poker playing before turning to bridge in his later years.

He was an active player at the club until 2019.

He will be sorely missed by the chess world - Stewart was the Chairman of the British Chess Federation in the 1990s

before taking a leading role within the international chess establishment. 

A Google search will turn up numerous accolades for Stewart including his own page on Wikipedia

Wednesday evening @ 19.00, May 14th, NB Earlier Start Time the club will organise its next monthly teams event.

These are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (ie the following one will be June 11th).

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

Following the success of the recently completed online course, we are running an online Intermediate Refreshers Course. 

This 5 week on-line course will be run online using Zoom and Realbridge and be led by Tim Chanter.  To give players maximum flexibility to attend, lessons will be repeated on Monday mornings @ 10.30am, and Tuesday evenings @ 19:00pm.  The first lesson will be Monday, April 28th, repeated on Tuesday, April 29th.  

Each session will be between 2 and 2.5 hours and comprise a mini-lesson on an intermediate topic, followed by discussion on a hand of the week, followed by play on 8 interesting boards.  The course fee is £90.  

Please click here to book or for further information.

Looking to learn or refresh your Bridge in a friendly and supportive environment?  Please find below our forthcoming Beginner's Courses.  

Our next BLUE POINTED SWISS PAIRS will take place at 12:00 on Saturday 28th June 2025 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.

NB: There will be no cash prizes.

Click here to book your place

Do you sometimes yearn to use the double card but aren't quite sure if you should?  If so, this is the course for you!

The 'Double Trouble' mini-course covers everything you need to know about take-out and penalty doubles, but were possibly too nervous to ask!  This face-to-face course will be led by Lyn Poole and be held in the clubhouse on Monday mornings at 10:30, starting on 12th May and running for 3 sessions.  The cost is £54 for all three sessions and the topics covered will be:

• Week 1 (12th May) - Recap on take out doubles and responses & Recap on penalty doubles and defence to 1NT doubled
• Week 2 (19th May) - Negative doubles
• Week 3 (2nd June) - Truscott & Power doubles

This course is most suitable for players who have completed the Beginner's Course, anyone attending supervised play, gentle duplicates or Richard's workshops.

Please click here to book.

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.