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
Lesson 26 Play in defence- signalling
Lesson 27 Play in defence - discards
Lesson 30 Opening 2NT and responses (30 April)
Lesson 31 The 2C Opening Bid (7 May)
Lesson 32 Responding to the 2C opening bid (14 May)
Lesson 33 Slam bidding Pt1 (21 May)
Lesson 34 Slam bidding pt2 (28 May)
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