I am delighted to announce that both Crewkerne and Ilminster Bridge Clubs have decided to accept the EBU's offer of a year's free membership of the EBU. As Chew Valley and Coxley Bridge Clubs had already decided to accept the trial we now have four new affiliated clubs in Somerset. It is my very great pleasure to welcome all four to the EBU.

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.

Andrew Robson will be with us again on Wednesday January 19th to present a day of bridge at the Crispin Hall in Street. The topics will be:

(1) 10.30 am- 12.30 pm  Six interesting shapes - the importance of showing shape in the bidding

(2) 1.30 pm - 3.30 pm     Quacks - the importance of where you have your queens and jacks when evaluating a hand. Lots of instructive declarer-play hands. And also some interesting deals on the quick defence - when to adopt a quick defence and how to do it .

For more information and to reserve a place for yourself, a pair or a table please click here.

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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 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.

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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