Two BCL Virtual Club Sessions are running every week 

• Monday afternoons, 22 boards, door opens 1:20 p.m. for 1:30 p.m. start of play (room STAFRD 1-B-2)  (see Carol's notes)

• Friday Evenings, 18 boards, door opens 6:30 for 7 p.m. start of play (room STAFRD 5-B-3)

and an

online Handicapped League 'Winter Teams of Four' Started Tuesday November 10th and finishes mid March 2021

Click here for more information on these.

EBU National Pairs Heats Sunday 21st March

All participants are invited to make a donation to Charity as BridgeClubLive and 3 Counties Bridge Club are providing all services for free - and good luck to all who enter! Full info and Registration (https://www.bridgewebs.com/3counties/).

Profile Pictures

You now have a choice of showing Profile Pics on table or not. When in the club, use MENU: "Settings->Playing Area->Turn Player Photos ON or OFF".  It would be good if you all added a picture to your profile to remind everyone who you are!  It is surprising how many cannot match a name to a face after all this time of lockdown!

A work in progress.  Please "click here" to see Robin's notes and make use of the new Bridgewebs features to play the hand through.  Would this feature be useful?.  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.  In the linked item you will see Robin's suggestions for the defence of this hand by clicking the "show answer" button. (Answer button not shown on this screen, read Robin's notes first where you will find the "show answer" button at the bottom of the screen below the notes!) . Click here for another experimental page from Doug's class notes.

Message from your webmaster:  (this page is 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.  

Loss of Connection: 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.  Please report any cases where you find play not in the same place as you left it to the club Captain.

Reminder about mis-clicked calls:  can be corrected provided that your partner has not yet called see rule 9 in league rules. BCL procedure states that to rectify immediately “Leave table” and straight away return to your seat and explain that you Mis-clicked your call. The players need to click “Ready” again and the auction should re-start as per the original auction up to the point of the mis-clicked call.  If partner has already called not only can you not correct your call but also mustn’t give unauthorised information by revealing that you had made an error.

BCL Membership: Keep an eye on when your BCL membership runs out, sad to miss a game because you have forgotten to renew. Hover over Members tab on BCL home page and click on "Membership summary" at the top of the drop down list of options.  You will also get an email reminder when the date is close.

Retrospective Charges

Charges are made for the league for the full number of matches over the season.  There is a 50p and the virtual club sessions, see 2020 and 2021 records.

Other sources of information are:  

bridge base on line (BBO has a number of existing members from SBC) the County has up a virtual SSCBA group.  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.

Contact Numbers: 

• 01785 600260 (Chairman),
• 01785 665020 (Secretary),
• 01889 801996 (Captain),
• 01785 246611 (Club, during bridge sessions).

Stafford Bridge Club is located at the back of the Grandstand on the County Showground, ST18 0BD (Ordnance Survey ref:  SJ 958 053).  This "Staffs & Shrops" EBU affiliated club meets regularly throughout the year except during the County Show etc on Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings (7:00 for 7:15 p.m.) and Monday & Wednesday afternoons (1:15 for 1:30 p.m.).  In addition the club also holds American Suppers on Saturday evenings usually on the 3rd or 4th Saturday of the winter months (6:45 for 7:00 p.m.), see 'Club Sessions and Times', 'SBC dates' and 'Calendar'.