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AT A GLANCE - WHAT'S NEXT
AT A GLANCE - WHAT'S NEXT

 

Saturday Supper & Bridge - 26 July
Richmond Bridge Club AGM - 30 July
Rotary Club - Swiss Teams - 23 Aug
Club Student Open Day - 13 Sept
Surrey GP Multiple Teams - 20 Sept
Surrey GP Swiss Pairs - 21 Sept
Middlesex GP Weekend - 15 & 16 Nov
Andrew Robson Seminar Day - 17 Nov

 

Calendar of Events - Jun to Aug 25

CONTACT DETAILS

If you need general information
please
E-mail: 

manager@richmondbridgeclub.com or

admin@richmondbridgeclub.com

Alternatively call: 020 8892 2170

 or

Richard - 07753 239 830

Cerith - 07307 977 044

            

Results
CLUBHOUSE - Friday Gentle
Director: Paul Hildersley
CLUBHOUSE - Friday PM
Director: Richard Banbury
CLUBHOUSE - Afternoon Duplicate
13:30
Host: Stephen Fordred
BBO - Morning Gentle Duplicate
10:00
RBC Supervised Play 5-30pm July 10th
Director: Richard Banbury
CLUBHOUSE Wed Gentle
Director: Phill Tait
Weds PM Learning Duplicate
Director: Margaret Page
RealBridge - Supervised Play
10:30
Host: Wanted
Calendar
13th Jul 2025
CLUBHOUSE - Coffee & Cake Duplicate
14.15
Host: Wanted
14th Jul 2025
CLUBHOUSE - Afternoon Duplicate
13:30
Host: Wanted
14th Jul 2025
CLUBHOUSE - Evening Duplicate
19:30
Host: Wanted
14th Jul 2025
CLUBHOUSE - Bidding and Play Workshop
19:30
14th Jul 2025
BBO - Monday Gentle Duplicate
10:00
14th Jul 2025
RealBridge - Swiss Pairs
17:30-18:30
15th Jul 2025
CLUBHOUSE - Gentle Duplicate
10:00
Host: Wanted
15th Jul 2025
CLUBHOUSE - Assisted Duplicate
10.00
Director: Lyn Poole
Welcome to Richmond Bridge Club - England's largest affiliated club
WELCOME TO RICHMOND BRIDGE CLUB
WELCOME TO RICHMOND BRIDGE CLUB

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.

Don't forget our AGM, with free bridge after, on July 30th 7pm

 

SUMMER SCHOOL FOR BEGINNERS

Every Thursday from 2.30pm and every Wednesday from 7pm

Julia Davies will be running a summer school for absolute beginners. These are drop-in sessions so no need to come every week - just come as and when you can for a fun, relaxed time. No need to be a member or to have a partner. Feel free to bring a friend to come along and try things out ! Cost £10 per session. The focus will be:

  • Minibridge
  • Card Play
  • Scoring

 

There will be no teaching about "how to bid" in these sessions - that will be covered in our formal courses starting in September. To register an interest in this or any of our beginners courses, please click HERE

PRACTICE SESSIONS

Regular practice is the key to developing your bridge skills and confidence. We run lots of these throughout the week. Guests always welcome. No need to have a partner

 

Monday 7.30pm (Richard) - Workshop/Supervised Play  - 12 boards on a bidding/play theme, with commentary

 

Tuesday 10am (Lyn & Glen) - Assisted Duplicate - 12 boards, practice with all the help you need

 

Wednesday 10am (Richard) - Workshop - 12 board duplicate on a bidding/play theme, with commentary

 

Wednesday 10am (Tim) - online supervised practice online if you can't make it into the club

 

Wednesday 7pm (Margaret) - Learning Duplicate or Supervised Play

 

Thursday 7pm (Richard) - Supervised Play

 

Friday Morning 10am (Lyn & Glen) - Supervised Play 

 

Free Play vouchers can be used at any of these sessions

For advice on any of these sessions, please speak to any of the teachers or contact Richard/Cerith in the office.

On Saturday 26th July at 18.00,

we will also be organising our next supper and bridge event

 

 

This will be a summer buffet prepared by Sophie Hart, a professional caterer and one of our members. 

 

 

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.

 

Booking now open - Please click HERE to book a place and select a menu option

 

Intermediate Online Seminars

Following the success of the recently completed online course, we are running some online Intermediate Seminars during the summer. 

 

These seminars will be run online using Zoom and Realbridge.  To give players maximum flexibility to attend, each seminar will be repeated on Monday mornings @ 10.30am, and Tuesday evenings @ 19:00pm. 

 

The first seminar - on the topic of "Using the Losing Trick Count" -  will be held on Monday, July 14th (this session is now sold out), repeated on Tuesday, July 15th.  

'The Losing Trick Count' is an alternative to using point count as a method to value your hand. 

 

 

The second seminar - on the topic of "Checkback Stayman" -  will be held on Tuesday, August 12th, repeated on Monday, August 18th.  

'Checkback Stayman' is a useful convention, used by responder to enquire about opener's hand after a NT rebid.

 

 

Each seminar will be between 2 and 2.5 hours and will be led by Tim Chanter and Helen Wildsmith and the fee for each seminar will be £19.

 

Please click here to book or for further information.

RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - Courses

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

 

Course 

Teacher 

Start Date 

Beginner’s Course – Term 4

10 lessons 

Cerith

(Clubhouse) 

Cerith Lewis

Thurs 3 July @ 10:30

Introduction to Transfers

3 sessions 

Lyn & Glen

(Clubhouse

Lyn Poole & Glen Kirton

Tues 15, 22 & 29 July @ 19:00

 

ONLINE SUPERVISED PLAY
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.

On behalf of EBED ("English Bridge Education & Development") Richard will be running a training course for anyone who would like to find out more about being a director. The course is spread over 4 dates (all Sundays) and can be booked via your personal "MyEBU" link. 

For info about the course structure and content, please speak to Richard or click HERE

These are open to Members and Non-Members. The club is willing to pay for the fees for this course for suitable members in return for their commitment to take on a role within the club directing rota. The course dates are 

  • Day 0 Directing Essentials Sept 14th
  • Day 1 Book Rulings Sept 28th
  • Day 2 Book & Judgement Rulings Oct 5th
  • Day 3 Assessment Oct 26th 

 

CAR PARKING

Parking in the bowls club car park is available on Monday & Thursday afternoon, and on Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday morning and afternoon

You must vacate the car park by 5pm.  Parking outside the permitted days/times will result in the bowls club issuing a parking fine which will be passed on to you.

Street parking is free after 4.30pm and at weekends.

For full details of parking either in the bowls car park or on the street, please click here

Winners Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to the winning NS & EW pairs in our open or gentle F2F sessions, excluding Sunday cake session. Prize sessions must have at least 6 tables and only members will be eligible to receive a prize voucher for £7 which will be credited to the member’s account at the end of the week. For Mini Swiss and single movement events, prize vouchers will be awarded to the top two pairs. Any ties will be split.

Swiss Pairs - Congratulations to our winners !
Swiss Pairs - Congratulations to our winners !

Congratulations to Simon Cocheme and David Wing, the winners of our June Blue Pointed Swiss Pairs, who were undefeated across all 6 matches and finished well clear at the top. There were 30 pairs taking part - roughly 50/50 between RBC members and visitors. 

Nicko Plate - Congratulations ! Both our Teams through to the Quarter Finals
Nicko Plate - Congratulations ! Both our Teams through to the Quarter Finals

 

Congratulations to both Richmond teams which have made it through to the last 8 (qtr finals) of the EBU NICKO (National Inter-Club Knock Out) plate competition

Pictured are our A team (David Wing, Cathy Barley, Simon Cocheme & Peter Breakell plus (not pictured) Elisabeth Bingham and John Osmond) - having beaten teams representing Wimbledon, Amersham and most recently Upminster & Cranham.

At the same time our B team (Chris Brewin, Brian Kelly, Mumun Kilic and Gianfranco Celani) also stay in the competition with big wins over Billericay and most recently Thakeham.

For full details about the NICKO Plate results please click HERE 

CONGRATULATIONS - MASTER POINT PROMOTIONS

Well done to our members promoted to a new master point ranking during June, especially to Susie & Gill taking their first steps on the masterpoint ladder!

Premier Master Victoria Haines
3 Star Master Fred Smith
1 Star Master Alix Payne
Advanced Master Gerrard Raven
Master Hannah Bale
County Master David Birch
County Master Judith Allsop
District Master Jane Scott
District Master Elaine Hartley
District Master David Rodgers
Area Master Ian Frey
Club Master Zofia McIlhone
Local Master Susie Marshall
Local Master Gill Whitelegg

SOCIAL MEDIA
SOCIAL MEDIA

Like, Share, Save!  Our online presence is growing and we want you to be a part of it! We are active on Facebook and Instagram where we post information about upcoming events, tutorials, courses, social sessions and personal interest stories. Like our club, our online community is a welcoming and friendly space for members and non-members alike, and a great way for us to advertise one of Southwest London’s premier social clubs. Join us online, and like, share, save!

PRIVATE MATCHES
PRIVATE MATCHES

The club is available for private matches day & most evenings. The cost includes a great tea and a set of boards. Please email manager@richmondbridgeclub for availability.

UNDO POLICY
UNDO POLICY

The club allows undo requests for genuine bidding mistakes made as a result of a mechanical error, not a lapse of concentration or forgetfulness, and only when the request is made prior to their partner's bid at the latest.  We do not allow undos for playing.

Any awkward exchanges should be referred to the director. 

Members are reminded that you can change your settings to ensure you double click to make a bid.