The Government has produced a roadmap for easing out of lockdown and we present a few points of information from it here, to be supplemented once matters develop or become clearer.

• Community Centres and similar venues might be allowed to re-open from April 12th;
• However, as this does not allow any mixing of households indoors it will not be possible to meet as a Bridge Club at that point;
• The current expectation is that it will be June 21 (at the soonest) before all legal limits on indoor mixing will be lifted;
• The Government ‘roadmap’ indicates that there might be a ‘new normal’ even in the summer which will require some risk mitigations;
• The detail of any such necessary mitigations will be dictated by Government restrictions and recommendations, all yet to be made public, and local conditions;
• Being realistic, Bridge Clubs are unlikely to be able to restart face-to-face games of the sort they ran until a year ago, before the summer of 2021;
• The EBU are planning not to start running our face-to-face EBU tournaments until the Summer Meeting at Eastbourne in August, after which they will be working to return to their regular programme of face-to-face events as much as possible, although some competitions may well continue to be online.

Please click here to read the report and conclusions following the recent SCBA players' survey.

You are invited to a BLUE POINTED SWISS PAIRS played on REALBRIDGE

on SUNDAY APRIL 25th 6 x 7 board matches starting at 1pm

Entry £5 per player - Registration here

The EBU has announced that EBUConventionCards@gmail.com will be their repository for convention cards. Please email your convention cards to EBUConventionCards@gmail.com to receive an online link that you can provide to your opponents at the table. Please make sure your email contains in the subject which event you would like this card to be used for.

What's on offer:

RELAXED 9 HIGH TOURNAMENTS on BBO at 11am and 7.30 pm dailty. To register for the games, log on to Bridge Base Online -> Competitive -> All Tournaments and put “EBU” in the search box. You will be able to select the appropriate game from the list from about two hours before it starts.

RELAXED DUPLICATE SESSIONS within a supported environment. https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents//education-and-teaching/pdfs/EBED-relaxed-duplicate.pdf

 In order to provide a regular game for less-experienced players who work or are otherwise busy during the day-time, starting on Monday 14th September we will offer a new “Relaxed 9-high Tournament” daily on BBO at 7.30pm. It will have the same format as our popular 11am game: $1.50 for 12 boards, 8 minutes per board, no robots, aimed at novice-intermediate players with an NGS of 9 or less.

To register for the games, log on to Bridge Base Online -> Competitive -> All Tournaments and put “EBU” in the search box. You will be able to select the appropriate game from the list from about two hours before it starts.

There is a series of videos here giving the full low down on how to enjoy Bridge Base Online. Thanks to Paul Gipson for these.

If you need help using EBU score then our county scorer, Andy Ridgers, is available to help. He may be contacted at andyridgers@gmail.com

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