| Club Members Questionnaire April 2021 |
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| Message from the Chairman - AGM May 5th |
Update from your Committee
A meeting of the Bridge Club Committee was held via Zoom on Wednesday 27th January, at which a number of important decisions were made, please click here to read the report which includes information on the AGM on May 5th (correction to date made 11/3/21), to be held via Zoom, in addition to much other important information.
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| Typical Gambling 3NT hand - See Lessons Tab on left hand side |
Show Detail | Perfect hand for an opening 3NT bid, a solid minor.
How many of us have come across/use the ‘Gambling 3NT bid? What is it, and more importantly, how do you respond to it! A gambling 3NT is a pre-emptive bid made with a solid minor suit, seven cards headed by the AKQJ and little in the other suits.
Lesson hands are a work in progress. Let Robin know what topics you would get the most benefit from, Robin puts a huge amount to effort into producing his notes. Webmaster a novice at setting up the hands with the new features available, "could do better" often featured on her school reports, nothing new there! The more feed back Robin gets the more benefit to the members. Please also email webmaster@staffordbridgeclub.co.uk with comments on where the layout etc could be improved.
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| Regular Events while the club remains closed. |
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| Virtual on-line County Club |
Beware the brochure is slow to download, maybe even 10 seconds.
Green pointed Swiss pairs 24th and Swiss Teams 25th April both starting at 11 a.m. with a one hour break after 4 matches.
A 9 high event Swiss Teams competition took place on Saturday 27th March, with 54 teams from 11 counties playing on Realbridge Three teams from SSCBA, including one from SBC, entered. This followed the huge success (over 45 teams) of the Midland Counties No Fear "8 high" Swiss Teams competition also on Realbridge that was held on Saturday January 30th. These very enjoyable events are a new venture for the Midland Counties group. In the past the Dawes inter county matches have been the inter county competition which have involved travelling long distances. It is hoped that these popular online events will become a long term fixture on the calendar.
Championship Pairs played Sunday 7th March 2021
4 pairs from Stafford took part in the Championship Pairs plus another member whose partner from another SSCBA club. 18 pairs in total, best placed SCC pair John & Kath with Sean & Peter only just behind. Almost half the SBC players had attended Robin's lessons at one time or another. This competition was the qualifying event to select players to represent the County at the Corwen Trophy to be held on 5th & 6th June 2021. Chamionship Pairs results can be seen here.
SSCBA virtual BBO county on line group at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays
If you would like to be a member of this “Club” please email the Membership Secretary – John Withers on jwithersx@gmail.com, with your real name, your BBO user name (exactly as you print it), EBU number (if you have one), contact telephone number and email address. (This has to be done also by those players already registered with BBO.) Only those that have registered with John will be able to take part in the SSCBA Virtual Club Events, please give him a day or two to organise this prior to the event you wish to join and get some practice games on BBO. Click for information on BBO See also how to indicate your basic system to your oppo through the chat manager, Using Chat Manager in BBO - Bing video. Please also take time to read Paul's comments on Announcing and Alerting on BBO
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