Welcome to our Intermediate Course for 2025/26, start date 11 September 2025.
Here is the syllabus: Intermediate Course syllabus 2025-26
Each week, notes for the coming lesson will be posted below, in plenty of time for you to have a read through if you want.
Lesson 1 How the scoring works
Lesson 2 Refresher- opening the bidding
Lesson 3 Basic principles of bidding
Lesson 4 Opening at the 1 level - 1NT and 1 of a suit
Lesson 5 Opening 1 of a suit; choice of suit; reversing and the barrier
Lesson 6 Responding to partner's 1 of a suit opening bid
Lesson 7 Openers rebids after opening 1 of a suit
Lesson 8 Transfers
Lesson 9 Stayman
Lesson 10 Resume of Lessons 4-9
Lesson 11 Declarer Play in NT Contracts
Lesson 12 Declarer Play in Suit Contracts
Lessons 11&12 supplement: Think before playing to trick 1
Lesson 13 More on Declarer Play in Suit Contracts - Drawing Trumps
Lesson 14 Declarer Play- establishing long suits
Lesson 15 Weak Twos and Responses
Lesson 16 Hand Evaluation
Lesson 17 Losing Trick Count
Lesson 18 Doubling pt1
Lesson 19 Doubling Pt 2 - the cheat seat
Lesson 20 Competing in the Bidding Pt1
Lesson 21 Competing in the Bidding pt 2- responding to partners suit overcall
Lesson 22 Competing when opposition open 1NT
Lesson 23 the 1NT overcall
Lesson 24 Resume of Competitive Bidding
Lesson 25 Opening leads
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