Our new offering as a club is Online Practice Play. A group of players can get together at any time and play a set of commentated deals on RealBridge, with full audio and video for discussion purposes, hints and tips on the bidding and play which will appear automatically after each board, and a set of pre-loaded results to compare yourselves to other people who have played the boards before. This is a great way to get some more practice with some feedback on how you did and what you could do differently.

There will be a new set of deals available each week, so groups can meet on a weekly basis if they wish to and get a new set of hands to work with, or meet less regularly whenever you have time.

The charge for this is £20 per playing table - so if you have a group of 4 of you it costs the same as Supervised Play used to, but if you can have a group of more than 4 you can swap in and out after each hand, all those not playing are still able to watch the hand and participate in the discussion as well, and it will cost less per person. Groups of 8 or more can choose whether they wish to have 2 playing tables and all play all the time or just 1 and pay less per person.

If you would like to give this a go, please e-mail david.emerson@englishbridgeschool.org letting him know when you would like to play and he will set up the session and provide the RealBridge link you need, plus full instructions on how to make the session work and find all the information you need to get the most out of the discussion.