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.

This year's AGM will take place on Thursday 30^th April. Note the earlier start time of 6.45pm to enable bridge to start as usual at about 7pm.

The draft minutes of last year's AGM, the Treasurer's draft report and club accounts as at April 2026 can all be found under Documents on the club website, so members can inspect them in advance of the meeting. As usual, Malcolm will be happy to answer any queries on the accounts beforehand.

The nomination form for committee members can also be found there. Please ensure any nominations are sent to the Club Secretary a week in advance of the AGM. The same applies to any items for Any Other Business on the Agenda.

Dave Simmons
Club Secretary

Congratulations to Alan & Saroj who came first this week with a score of 63%, pipping Dave & Andy by just 1 match point!

A reminder that it's the AGM next week, with an early start time of 6.45pm.

Jules & Brian competed in the EBU's National Pairs Final recently -- an event played online over a full weekend -- and finished a creditable 25th in a strong field of 48 pairs who had reached the final via Regional heats played a month earlier (sorry, I missed that one).

Jules even managed to get his name mentioned in Tom Townsend's online bridge column in the Telegraph last Thursday (well spotted, Mavis). For those who are interested in the Royston pair's exploits, here are some relevant links:

1. Tom Townsend's bridge column -- Link1
2. Results of National Pairs Final -- Link2
3. Results of National Pairs Eastern Regional heat -- Link3

The board described by Tom in his article is actually board 98 on the EBU's results page for the Final [rotated for editorial reasons]. It's especially worth tracking down the bidding on the original board as played at Jules' table, which is notable for one of the lightest overcalls I've ever want to see at the bridge table, perpetrated by Arni Anidjar-Romain, another Herts player (perhaps one to avoid, if I ever play at Welwyn again)?

Jules earned his honourable mention by making a 6♥ slam on the lead of ♠A, unlike two other declarers who really should have done better. But as Tom noted, "the general level of play, to put it charitably, was uneven". Well played, though the column concentrates rather more on how several declarers managed to make the 6NT slam, which is not the best spot and is unmakeable on best defence.

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.