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.

Congratulations to Saroj & Alan who were convincing winners this week with a score of 65%.

Three pairs bid the 6♠ slam on board 9 and two pairs bid a slam on board 19, the 6NT slam outscoring 6♦ on the traveller.

Congratulations to Colin & Paul who came first this week in the ECATS Charity Challenge SIMS with a "local" score of 61%. Four Royston pairs bid a slam on board 2, three of them making all 13 tricks. It was one of those occasions where cashing your ace on lead against a making slam scores well at Match Points.

On a set of often wild and challenging deals, the overall SIMS results were surprisingly close to the Royston scores. With almost all the results uploaded to ECATS by now, Colin & Paul are also the highest placed Royston pair in 36th place out of a field of over 350 pairs, with Faraj & Colin outscoring the visitors Ken & Jill for second spot.

To view your overall result, visit the ECATS website or, even simpler, click on the Ecats Results tab on Latest Results. Be aware that the scores for board 16 had to be dropped from the Royston submission to ECATS, as the board had been "fouled" (the East and West hands transposed after it had been played at the first table) making subsequent comparisons to the rest of the field invalid.

The commentary file for the SIMS is also available for download on the ECATS website, and has been copied to the club website under the Documents tab... enjoy.

This is Royston Bridge Club's official website, Dave Simmons 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.