| ROYSTON BRIDGE CLUB - Competitive yet Friendly |
Our ♣ sparkles like a ♦, has a big ♥ and ♠♠♠ of bonhomie, boosted by beverage, biscuits, and banter before bridge begins.
Sessions held every Thursday at 7.00pm at the Coombes Community Centre, Burns Road, Royston.
The club has electronic scoring and computer-dealt hands so results and deals are available straight away.
Visitors are always welcome but need to come with a partner. If you are new to the area, use Find a Partner (Public) and the club will make every effort to provide a suitable partner for you.
◄ For further details, see Information and Calendar.
◄ Do you want to learn to play bridge, or improve your play? See Learning Bridge.
◄ We also feature a few interesting hands played at the club recently, see Hand of the Month.
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| 16th July 2026 |
Patrick and Paul produced an excellent 64.24% to win Thursday’s pairs, ahead of Malcolm and Ron on 60.76%. Laszlo and Mavis completed the podium with 59.03%.
Board 20 supplied the evening’s best lesson in competitive bidding.
At most tables East-West played in 4♠️, usually making ten tricks for 620. That looked like a perfectly respectable result, until Patrick and Paul reached 5♥️ as North-South.
This might have appeared to be a sacrifice against the opponents’ spade game. It was nothing of the sort. Patrick brought home all eleven tricks for +650 and an outright top.
One other North-South pair also ventured to 5♥️, but went three down. Competitive auctions are rarely noted for their consistency.
The principle is simple: when both sides have a big fit, do not assume the opponents own the hand merely because they have bid game first. Distributional hands can produce a remarkable number of tricks for both sides.
As the old bridge saying nearly goes: the five-level belongs to the opponents, except when it makes.
Patrick and Paul judged correctly, bid once more, and collected all twelve matchpoints.
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| Mavis Drake Teams Challenge 9th July |
No photo finish this week!
Congratulations to the winning team of Paul & Colin and Therese & Norma, who won by a huge margin with a score of +96 IMPs.
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| Club Website |
This is Royston Bridge Club's official website, Will Huggins is the current web administrator.
Please have a browse through the website. Some pages are only available to Members. To access these pages click on the link to Members Only on the top right of the Home page to login.
Any comments or suggestions for improving the website are welcome. Members can email me direct, and non-members via Contact Us under the Information tab.
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