The SCBA Grants committee has now made an offer of assistance to two clubs to help them with their restarting face to face bridge and teaching. This offer of assistance from the SCBA to Somerset clubs will continue until the end of the year. If your club would like to find out how to go about getting some assistance please do not hesitate to contact Richard Feetenby who chairs the Grants Committee.

The deadline for entries to the Championship Teams 2021/22 has been extended until the end of October in the hope that more teams will decide to enter.

In a change to previously published information our Championship Teams event will be played online using the Realbridge platform although matches may be played f2f or on BBO by agreement between the captains.

Matches will be played over 24 boards except for the final which will be played over 32 boards.

Entry costs £16 per team. Entries will now be taken until the end of October.

Please click here to enter a team.

The Michael Coda Cup 2022 will be played during the week beginning February 14th 2022. This will be played on the same basis as last year giving all clubs in Somerset the opportunity to take part. The chosen charity this time will be the Devon and Somerset Air Ambulance Charity.

The Somerset Barbarians Bridge Club has developed from a collaboration between Ilminster and Crewkerne Bridge Clubs who played online together throughout the pandemic. Although both clubs are now happily playing face to face again several members indicated a wish to continue playing togerther online hence the formation of this new online club which is aimed at the average and not the expert club player.

The Barbarians will play on Wednesday evenings at 7pm starting on October 6th using the BBO platform, 18 board games costing 3BB$, and all those who have played previously with Ilminster/Crewkerne or with Somerset Online are already registered to play. New players from Somerset wishing to play should contact Mike Dobson at jeanneandmikedobson@sky.com. 

The club has its own website at www.bridgewebs.com/somersetbarbarians which is where you will find the resuts and other information.

Winscombe bridge club are offering new courses  starting October 2021

Year 1 Beginning bridge 10 - 12.30 pm Wednesday 6th October  

year 2 Continuing bridge 10 - 12.30 pm Monday 4th October

Cost £60 per 10 lesson blocks

Improver lessons 10 - 12pm Tuesday 5th October 

Cost £5 per session - no need to book

CONTACT  Janet O'Brien 01934 253889 or obrien-jm@outlook.com 

Many of our members are showing caution with regard to attending live events and so we have decided to move the remaining SCBA events in 2021 online using the Realbridge platform. The events to which this refers are the Swiss Teams (Blue Pointed) on November 28th and the Men's and Ladies' Pairs on December 12th. In another change the Championship Teams of Four will again be played on line using either Realbridge or BBO but captains may choose to play f2f if they so agree.

Click here for the EBU's Club Management Focus, Summer 2021

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

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

Please complete this form to include your email address in future county email communications. If you are currently receiving emails from the county there is no need to fill out this form.