Welcome to Rugby Village Bridge Club, an English Bridge Union affiliated duplicate bridge club serving Rugby and surrounding areas. You can learn bridge with us. We offer a range of courses of lessons from absolute beginners to advanced. You can practice/improve your bridge at one or both morning themed practice sessions. You can play at a short session on Monday Afternoon popular with newcomers and social players. Our Tuesday and Thursday Afternoons are full sessions and a little more competivie. Our strongest players also appear on Monday Evenings when we have a blue-pointed championship pairs competition. Just about all levels of players enjoy our relaxed montly First Friday teams of four.

Since April 2010 we have grown to 180 members offering four competitive sessions and three supervised play sessions every week of the year, and adding more supervised play and/or lessons per week in the teaching terms starting January and September. We offer a range from nuture for the novice right through to opportunities to play for the club for more ambitious players. Up to 220 players take lessons, come to practice or take part in competitions every week.

We don't mind whether you have a high National Grade, no National Grade, or you don't know what that is! ♥ 

We pride ourselves on the friendly and supportive atmosphere at all our lessons, practice and competitive sessions; the excellence of our coffee, tea and biscuits; and our clean, well lit, comfortable venue with 70 off street, well lit parking places.

Beginners are always welcome, contact us to find out how we can introduce you to our wonderful game. 

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  2019 05 15 cham winner cg
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  2019 05 23 cham winner ps

The November to April Individual Handicap competition was won by Christine Greenaway and by Pauline Smith.

Our summer handicapped pairs starts on the first Tuesday afternoon in May and runs until the last Tuesday Afternoon in October. That's just over twenty sessions. If you and your partner are both members of Rugby Village BC, and you both have EBU National Grades, you will automatically be entered into this competition when you play on a Tuesday Afternoon. Your pair needs to play at least ten times to have a qualifying result. Each time you play, your result will be adjusted using your average current EBU National Grade. Your best ten results will count. If you play an eleventh time and your result is worse than all you have already recorded, the current session result is discarded. If your result is an improvement on the worst result you already have, the new result is included and the old worst one is discarded. So each time you play you can improve your current standing. The pair with the best ten results over the summer will have their names engraved on the trophy. So come along and start scoring.

Please fill in the form below if you would like to play on July 5th.

Seven Teams booked in for June 7th 

T​he Thursday Afternoon session has been extremely popular, filling the Club Room at times. We have now booked the Sports Lounge so that we can space out across the two rooms giving much more space and quiet for the field. It was already booked on a handful of dates, but otherwise it's ours till the end of the year.

Our strongest pairs competition, played for twice a month throughout the year was won by Peter and Vera Iredale.

For club stationery, equipment and publications A L Fleming. For example offering (without the errors and correction slips): 

NewWorld Bridge Federation 2017 Laws of Duplicate Bridge

• World Bridge Federation 2017 Laws of Duplicate Bridge NEW EDITION 
• More convenient Ring-Bound volume with acetate covers front and rear.

For luxury items and gifts and a weekly newsletter with learning hands for beginners and intermediate players there is Simon Lucas.

For equipment and a wide range publications there is the Chess and Bridge Shop.

For an excellent free on line magazine, a really enjoyable paper version on subscription, bridge club insurance, some gift items, oh and holidays and cruises, there is Mr Bridge.

For bridge equipment, stationery, some publications, no longer offering discounts to members or teachers but promising to match rivals' prices there is the Bridge Warehouse, formerly the EBU Bridge Shop.