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