This Sunday, 24th November, Abingdon and Wallingford bridge clubs will play for the Len Salmon trophy.  This event commemorates Len and Ann Salmon.  Len was a founder and stalwart of Abingdon and Wallingford clubs and one of the instigators of this annual competition.  More details of Len's life can be found under Information/Len Salmon Trophy in the menu to the left.

The match is contested by three teams over 32 boards and this year will be held in Abingdon at the Community Support Centre with a 2pm start.   Please be there by 1.45pm so we can make a prompt start.

The Abingdon teams will be

The tenth leg of our teams competition will be played on Tuesday 26th November on Real Bridge.  Please be on-line by 6.50.   This will be the last session in this year's competition since the fourth Tuesday in December is Christmas Eve and I don't expect Santa Claus to be playing.

If any team member cannot play, please find a substitute or inform your captain who will try to do likewise.   We must have complete teams to play.

If anybody who is not currently a team member would like to form a team they will be very welcome and I may be able to help.

Players should book and pay as usual on Bookwhen which will send you the link.   The price is £3 as usual.

Go to https://bookwhen.com/abingdonbridgeclub   Detailed instructions can be found here

Alerting will be table f2f alerting.   Please load a system summary in the chat for each new pair.

Peter

Congratulations to the following club members for recently achieved master point promotions

Maureen Allison  Club Master
Von Ashworth  District Master
Patricia Lindsell  Local Master

Our relaxed F2F pairs will run as normal on Wednesday mornings.    Should you not have a partner for any session please contact Kay Hunneyball ( kayhunneyball@btopenworld.com ) who will try to find you one. 

Our joint RealBridge sessions with Central Yarnton Bridge Club are on Thursday mornings at 9.45am.  All club members are welcome,  please contact John Rowe ( john53rowe@gmail.com ) if you would like to play..

The OPEN and HANDICAP PAIRS will be played on the first Tuesday of the month.   Your score for the Open Pairs will be the average of your six best results between the 1st January and the 31st December   There is no need to enter, your score will be calculated auttomatically.

Your score for the Handical pairs will be your Open pairs score adjusted by your handicap which will be the average of your pair's NGS scores at the first session.   Your NGS score must be available on that date to take part.

The second Tuesday will be a normal pairs session

The club cup competitions will be played on the third Tuesday of the month.    The Spring cup will be on the third Tuesday in March.   The two session Simpson cup will be hald in August and September.  The Autumn cup will be on the third Tuesday in November.  Otherwise the session will be a normal pairs session.

On the fourth Tuesday we will play our teams competition.  You must register your team with Peter Litchfield who will also assist  you to make up a team if you need help.  Unfortunately you need to be in a registered team to play.

On the fifth Tuesdays we will play pairs with  Imp scoring

In our increasing complicated game it is only fair that your opponents should know the meaning of any of your unusual system bids.  To this end the EBU imposes a system of alerts and announcements that must be followed by players in our sessions.  This system was revised in August this year.   A table giving a complete summary of the system can be found at  https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/laws-and-ethics/convention-cards/announcements-table.pdf 
          Please follow this system.   I suggest printing it and keeping it by your side for a few weeks.

          If you are playing on-line it is important to provide a brief summary of your system and carding in the chat box at the beginning of each round, particularly covering the basic system and the opening round of bids.  Thus something like

"Acol, 4 card majors, 3 weak 2's, 12-14 NT, standard leads, HELD"

or

"SAYC, 5 card majors, 1C may be 2 cards, 15-17 NT, 3 weak 2's, standard leads, reverse attitude, McKenney discards"

will be sufficient.  I suggest typing these once then copy and paste for each session.

Thank you

Peter

Please read the instructions for using Bookwhen, our only method of paying for and obtaining the links to our on-line Real Bridge sessions here  To make a booking go to Bookwhen  The Real Bridge link will be sent to you by e-mail.   Please book and access the link at least 20 minutes before the start of the session.

There has been an occasional problem when people have cut and pasted the link from the Bookwhen e-mail, probably a feature of their browser.  Please just click on the link in the e-mail.

If you find you cannot play in a session you have booked please do not cancel your booking as we cannot refund your booking fee.   Instead please transfer your booking to another session as described in the instructions.

If you have played in a session but not paid you may make a late payment  here

Peter

As a Club we have a well-deserved reputation for being welcoming and friendly. However, the normally high standards of behaviour at the club can be undermined by occasional lapses. Can we remind members of the ways in which we can all help to make sure that bridge is an enjoyable game for everyone who comes to Abingdon:

• greeting others in a friendly manner prior to the start of play on each round
• being polite to opponents and partners
• giving credit when opponents make a good bid or play
• making your convention card readily available to your opponents and filling it out completely.

Please click here if you would like to see the EBU's guide to best behaviour at the bridge table.