Thursday Evening Duplicate Sessions

After lengthy consideration, we have decided to reinstate the Thursday Evening Duplicate as an explicitly Gentle Duplicate session. So, in future the number of boards played on Thursday evenings will be reduced to an expected 18, so as to give more time for players for each round. The sessions will be scored as usual and will feature on Pianola and will count for EBU masterpoints, but will not count towards NGS rankings.

Gitte has kindly offered to spend 15 minutes or so after each session to answer questions players may have.

Strong players choosing to play in this gentle session are requested to play with a weaker partner in order to keep the right ambience for a gentle session.

Housekeeping

We want to keep the Bridge Room as tidy as possible. Could players kindly remember that after their sessions are finished, they should put used glasses on to the trolley provided, remove any waste paper and put boards and bidding boxes etc back to where they belong. Staff do a good job, but they can’t be forever tidying up behind us and in any case, they will not be involved in putting the Bridge materials back where they belong. Let’s all aim to set a high standard please. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.