| Christmas American Supper |
 Saturday, 17th December
It has been suggested that an American Supper be held on Saturday December 17th. Would you like to come? There is a list on the notice board for members to indicate if they would like to attend and what they would like contribute.
The committee decided to support the club sessions parties by supplying some Christmas refreshments at all club sessions and lessons the week before Christmas. The committee hope that this will be agreeable to members.
Following a survey of Friday players Friday night Christmas "do" will be on Friday 16th December. If you would like to attend that event please contact Ann if you have not already done so.
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| County Events |
 MCC No Fears Pairs
5 members of SBC took part in the MCC no fear 9 high Swiss Pairs event on 26th November 2022. click here for results coming 5th, 7th and 8th. Overall SSCBA came 2nd out of the 5 competing counties. Date for your diary next 9 high Swiss Pairs event Saturday 28th January 2023
Blue pointed events on the Friday and Sunday Saturday event Green pointed. Click here for the brochure.
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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| The Shelley - Round 2 - 17th November |
 Combined Results after two rounds
The Shelley handicapped teams competition round 2 played on 17th November 2022. The results for round 2 before the handicap taken into account can be seen by clicking here and for round 1 here. The results with handicaps shown below, total (actual rnd 2, actual rnd 1, handicap) are yet to be confirmed.
Michael M 60 (84, 28, -26), Brian W 51 (8, -39, 41), Ivor 32 (8, 46, -11 ), Ann Sl 16 (-36,10, 21) , Eleanor -6 (-49, -17, 30), Geoff -35 (64, -7, -46), Richard -118 (-79. -21, -9),
Everything went like clockwork again with David in charge, no disagreements between tablets and Scorecard results, many thanks David.
Plan A! Robin's lesson on Dec 1st will go through some of the boards, watch this space to see if that remains the case nearer 1st December.
Next round December 15th.
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| Children in Need |
 Monday 7th November, Tuesday 8th and Friday11th November sessions all took part in the Children in Need (CiN) sim pairs events organised by ECATs. Steve is so pleased to report that he sent £580.86 to ECATs on 12/11/22 and a further £95 on 21/11/22 making a total of £675.86, being the amount donated by members through the club. Anna from ECATs responded to Steve: You can’t be as pleased as I am Steve – that is generous indeed and so much appreciated believe me. I hope you have a way to tell them all how much we thank them for their wonderful support and kindness ... we can’t get over how great bridge players are ! With best regards Anna
| Result Links as at 17:55 16/11/22 |
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Top ECATS |
ECATs Pos |
Top at SBC |
| Monday 7th |
ECATs |
SBC |
Garry & Sam |
460th out of 1850 pairs
playing at 114 clubs in 4 countries |
Rose & Pat M |
| Tuesday 8th |
ECATs |
SBC |
Garry & Robin |
49th out of 1243 pairs
playing at 86 clubs in 3 countries |
Garry & Robin |
| Friday 11th |
ECATs |
SBC |
Hilary & Mike |
43rd out of 579 pairs
playing at 39 clubs in 4 countries |
Robin & Ken
Beryl & Ann |
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| Thursday and Friday morning Lessons |
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Robin's Thursday morning popular lessons for intermediates run on Thursdays (please contact Robin if you would like to attend) as do Terry's Friday morning lessonsfor improvers (please contact Terry if you would like to attend). A hand from the lesson on 13th October 2022, Checkback Stayman is shown here click for the lesson.
Robin has produced plenty of material for the website, including one on Splinter bids, Gambling 3NT, CRO, Redoubles, Trial Bids, Jacoby and his all time most read page on McKenny signals and Discards. Summary of his lessons along with some of Steve and Jan's pictures can be seen here with links to the individual lessons.
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