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)