Captain Terry with help from Secretary Carol and others has set up an on line league on Bridge Club Live (BCL) with 9 teams that started on 18th May.  Each team plays one "home"  and one "away" match against each of the other 8 teams over an 18 week  period.  If you would like to give Bridge Club Live a try click here for the basic instructions.  The SSCBA is setting up a County wide BBO session on June 10th.

Message from your webmaster:  (updated most days with the latest news sent by members etc) For the Bridge Club Live basic information.for new converts to on line bridge click here. 

Warnings:

• Did you join BCL with the 50 day trial membership early on in the lock down?  You might need to renew your membership soon. Check on the BCL home page, hover over the members tab and click on "Membership Summary".  Don't wait until your league match day to find out that your BCL membership has run out! 
• Has your EBU membership been validated on BCL?  Are you getting a message Please phone the EBU and ask for your Membership to be validated on the BCL home page under your alias?  If you are please phone Karen who will sort it for you immediately to ensure your master points etc etc etc. are recorded.

SBC Teams League:

First four matches played 18th May - 23rd May.  The results so far:

All those taking part should have received timetable and rules direct, if not please contact Terry. The timetable spreadsheet as sent  by Terry 10/05/20 (with team member change and available times as amended 14/05/20) has been copied to this site, any more recent info direct from Terry is the information to take as gospel.

Friday night

Real world friendly group meeting on-line but all are welcome here including old friends who have moved away from the Stafford area.  Experimentation so far with mixed success!  As it goes on in the Teams room a multiple of 8 players are needed each week and a special seating plan has to be followed!  Ann has yet to devise a good way of explaining the seating plan!  A  certain amount of chaos follows, all good fun allowing for extra chat at the table or just plain stressful?  Plan A is 16 boards, 4 boards against each of 4 other pairs, starting at 7 p.m. on a Friday night.  Please let Ann know if you are interested in coming by the Wednesday so that she has time to organise the numbers to be a multiple of 8 by Friday.

Robin's Quiz: 

Robin has put a lot of effort into producing a quiz to keep our brains active at this time, please email him with your answers and reward the hard work he has given to this.  An example question, how would you bid this hand?  Robin is willing to prepare a second one. Example question from the first quiz of 3rd April:

General Information

BCL runs many competitions, watch their home page. Euro-Afternoon Pairs League starts Tuesday 2nd June, entries by 26th May.

If you lose your connection to BCL mid game for any reason (could be an internet connection your end, their end or somewhere between) click on “Enter” when the system lets you.

Message from a club member:  Both Andrew Robson and Bernard Magee have online Bridge lessons. The first BM took place on 30.03.20.  Andrew Robson has a link with BBO for on-line tuition.

For members who log in to the SBC site there should be an extra column on the membership tab for BCLalias where you can add your BCL alias for all members to see.  To add it to your details you have to scroll quite far down the list but to see the alias for others it appears to the left of their EBU number (webmaster had a headache trying to achieve this change!).

Other sources of information are:  bridge base on line (BBO has a number of existing members from SBC) the County will be setting up a virtual SSCBA group shortly.  Watch over the shoulder of the experts, youtube videos, pick and possibly question, your expert in real time with Zoom.  EBU, EBU Webinar 16/5/2020, Andrew Robson BridgeCast and Bernard Magee.   All ideas/messages for members etc to webmaster@staffordbridgeclub.co.uk. In the real world please look out for one another, check your regular partners on the phone for example.

SSCBA is about to launch a virtual county club on BBO. Planned start date Wednesday10th June, probably in the evening.  Watch this space for news, put the date in your diary for the moment and get some practice games on BBO.  There are some differences in the play as compared with BCL, most importantly the way "Alerts" are shown.