Stone Bridge Club, Stone, Staffs

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Emergency Contact Number

During Club Sessions Only.

07593 653278

Partner Required

Either log in and use the Member's Area or contact Muriel Kenny on

01785 812015

or murielkenny@live.co.uk

Announcing & Alerting

Please make sure you are aware of these requirements. They apply to everyone!

Note:Some action must be taken after every opening 2 level bid. Also the 1C bid, if it does not guarantee 3 clubs, must be properly described. Saying 'variable' or similar is not acceptable. All bids under 3NT that do not show the suit bid must be alterted.

General Information

The guidance document for Club players has been amended. Click here for more details.

Director's Flowcharts

Want to know what happens after an insufficient bid or a pass out of rotation? Click here for the latest EBU guidance.

Incidentally these have been slightly modified under the new (2017) rules. If you pass out of turn you may now bid, when it is your turn to do so, as long as the bid could not have been an opening bid (e.g. 1H 2H or 1H 1NT are acceptable but 1H 1S is not.)

Site Info

A couple of tips.

If you want to know what has changed without having to trawl through all of it, the pages with any recent updates are listed in a box on the left of the Home Page.
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Welcome to Stone Bridge Club

We offer the following attractions:

Stone Bridge Club is an active friendly club with membership of around 120.
We are currently not affiliated to the EBU as we disagreed with the pay-to-play proposal.
Duplicate bridge on Monday and Wednesday evenings (in your seats by 7.15 please, play commences by 7.20).
Additional no-fears and improvers sessions are held. See the information page for current details.
Each session normally has 7 to 13 tables..
One large room with kitchen off is on the first floor accessible by stairs and chairlift. A smaller room, generally used for competitions, is on the second floor accessible by stairs only. Gents' toilets are on the ground floor with ladies' room and disabled toilet on the first floor.
Good (free) car parking facilities.
Cost per night - £3.00 each (money refunded if you win) - visitors £3.50.
Small membership charge of £10 per annum.
Tea, coffee or squash and biscuits provided free of charge during a short interval.
Up to date large size tables with bidding boxes.
Real time scoring using new model kindly funded by a donation from
Fully random hands dealt using the Duplimate dealing machine.
Analysis of hands with optimum contracts available when session finished.
Computerised board and competition results available on this site within 24 hours.
Several trophies to play for throughout the winter and separately for the summer.
Men's, ladies' and mixed pairs competitions.
Participation in non EBU simultaneous pairs competitions.
Information available within the club about other bridge activities.
Library of bridge reference books available - free on loan.
Christmas party - fun supper with progressive bridge - lots of prizes.
An annual dinner is held mid to late April at attractive venues.
Group tuition available by arrangement (See Bridge Classes Page for further details).

Last updated : 29th Oct 2018 12:12 GMT

Improver's Bridge Session

Tuesday - Social Duplicate Bridge Evening

Come and practice those new conventions, advice on bidding and play always available.

Please be seated by 7:15.

No partner required.

Price - £3 members £3.50 visitors inclusive of tea and biscuits.

For further details contact Geoff Losh (07989 405023) or Ian Peace (01889 882332)

or e-mail geoff.losh@btopenworld.com

Last updated : 6th Jan 2019 11:50 GMT

Friday Afternoon Bridge

Friday - Casual Duplicate Bridge Afternoon

Stone Bridge Club runs casual duplicate bridge in conjunction with the U3A.

Every Friday afternoon at the club - 13:40 for 13:45 start.

All U3A (Cost £1) or Club members welcome -(Cost £2). Non-members £3.50.

No Partner Needed. All Standards Welcome.

Beginners, returners, improvers, all welcome to the Beginner's corner running alongside the regular session on Friday afternoons starting 13th April.

Enquiries to :Mike Beach Tel: 01785 603766

Click here to email:

Please park behind the club either alongside the railway on Whitebridge Way or in the adjoining car park.

Last updated : 3rd Apr 2018 08:10 BST

Beginners Corner

Beginners, returners, improvers, all welcome to the Beginner's corner running alongside the regular session on Friday afternoons starting 13th April. Click here for more information.

Last updated : 26th Apr 2018 19:24 BST

New EBU Bidding rules

As from the 1st August, the EBU have reduced and simplified, ha, ha, the minimum requirements for opening Strong 2 bids. For further information, click here. There are a number of other changes (e.g. affecting insufficient and alertable one level bids) which may need the assistance of a Director to resolve.

Last updated : 26th Apr 2018 19:22 BST

Player Seating

If you look at the bottom of the ranking page for all of the results, you will see your personal performance in the different positions for that session. You can see these in graphical format if you click on Personal Analysis in the Results Section. However for these results to be accurate you need to do the following:-

For Mitchell movements, where there are one or more arrow switches - sit in your normal positions and rotate the board clockwise. This will mean that N becomes W, S becomes E, E becomes N and W becomes S.

For Howell movements you should either sit N and E or S and W. This rule also applies when we occasionally play that odd Hesitation Mitchell!

Last updated : 16th Feb 2016 15:55 GMT

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Extraordinary General Meeting

As agreed at the AGM we are holding an Extraordinary General Meeting of the club solely for the consideration of the proposed new constitution which is attached. This will be held on Monday 28th October at 7pm. Bridge that evening should be unaffected.

For ease and simplicity of seeing where the changes are proposed to take place a colour code has been used as follows:-

Black - is the old constitution as it stands today
Blue - it is proposed that this be removed
Red - is the proposed addition
Purple - change with explanation - (not really a change)

A simple show of hands on the night is all that is required. If anyone has any issue with this please could they contact Kath Adams on 01785 748941 at the earliest.

There will be some hard copies at the club for those not on email (Or click here).

Committee News

♠ Latest Committee News Click here. ♠

If you wish to raise an item, see one of the committee members.

3rd Oct 2019 Minutes and suggested Constitution Reforms

Andrew Robson

Andrew Robson will be conducting another in his series of excellent seminars at the Stone House Hotel on the morning and afternoon of Thursday 31st October - see notice in Foyer.

Morning session 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. After 1 No Trump – Stayman, Transfers, Landy; Bidding bad hands – when a bad hand becomes very useful.
Afternoon Session 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Listening to the opponents bidding – to find some well-reasoned opening leads; Fourth Suit Forcing – a great convention which is so much more than a stopper-ask.

Videos for Loan

The club has aquired a number of training DVDs by Bernard Magee (paid for by a donation to the club) which, in my 'umble opinion, are worth watching no matter how good you think you are!

They are free to borrow for up to 3 weeks, but you need to sign for them and leave a £10 refundable deposit.

Bidding


Have a look at Mike Beach's website for his study of everything to do with Acol bidding.

Play It Again Sam

There is now a new option to analyse the best line of play on any hand. 'Just' go to the hand in question - click on the 'Play it Again' tab and read the guide

Wish I was born with 20/20 hindsight.

Handicaps


If you want to know what your approximate handicap is, click here and take the difference from 50%. (It will open in a new window). Partnerships are calculated as the average of the two handicaps.