| WELCOME TO RICHMOND BRIDGE CLUB |
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Welcome to Richmond Bridge Club, the most popular and successful EBU affiliated club in the country! A friendly and progressive club, we are housed in the old Bowling Club Pavilion in Cambridge Park, nestled between Richmond & Twickenham. Our Clubhouse has multiple playing rooms, teaching facilities and a fully licensed bar.
We offer a range of duplicate bridge sessions every day of the week for players of all abilities - our full schedule of regular events may be found here.
As a courtesy to other members, we would ask you to refrain from coming to the club if you are suffering from any kind of typical winter respiratory infection - regardless of COVID, we would all prefer not to contend with too much coughing and sneezing! Hand sanitisers are available throughout the club - please use them!
Our Academy offers lessons for new players, beginners and improvers, and seminars for more experienced players. For more detail about the different sessions for novices and improvers, please click here.
If you are interested in learning, please register by clicking here.
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| Book now for Richmond Cafe Bridge - June 18, 2024 |
We have now opened bookings for our very popular Cafe Bridge which is on Tuesday, June 18. Arrive from 10.45 am at your initial venue. There will be 3 rounds before lunch and another 3 after.
This is a fund raising event for the Princess Alice Hospice in Esher - click HERE for their website.
Janet Leffler is leading our cafe bridge team this year supported by Zita Crewe, Sally Durant, Jonathan Hird & Caroline Owens. They have provisionally agreed some of the restaurants taking part this year including Cote, Buenos Aires, Pizza Express, Angel & Crown, The Old Ship, Richmond Vault, Piccolo Vicolo, Tapas Brindisa & Watermans and we hope there may be more to come !
On the day we will be directed as always by the wonderful Victor Lesk and his team with scores entered electronically by players on their smartphones using the BriAn app-based scoring system. This allows us to announce a result very soon after the last board is played. If you have not come across BriAn before, you can find out more here.
The cost per person is £40.00 (bridge and food - drinks are excluded).
Bookings will be taken via credit/debit card or BACS transfer through the BriAnBridge website (i.e. not through your club member account).
Detailed information about the event, your starting position and route will be sent out by email just before the day. There is no central registration point.
Please book by clicking here
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| RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - Upcoming Mini Courses for Improvers |
At Richmond Bridge Academy, we help players learn to play Bridge in a friendly and supportive environment. Please find our latest programme of Improvers Mini Courses below – just click the links in blue to see the course syllabus, and to register. All the courses will be run by Richard.
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| RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - Beginner's Courses |
At Richmond Bridge Academy, we help players learn to play Bridge in a friendly and supportive environment. Please find below our latest Beginner's Courses - both run by Margaret.
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| 'WELL, I DO DECLARE' - Thursday, 18th Apr |
This Thursday, Tim Chanter will continue reviewing three boards from Declarer's perspective via Zoom and screenshare. Please click here in advance to review the quiz for the session.
If you wish to attend, simply click this Zoom link from 10.20 for a 10.30 kick off (no pre booking is required). https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86037429431
If you cannot make it, but wish to be copied in on the recording and the commentaries then please let Tim know to add you to the distribution list.
The session will take about 1 hour and costs £5. There will be a follow up of answers to the quiz.
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| SATURDAY SUPPER - 27th April |
Our next Saturday Supper is at 18:00 on Saturday, 27th April - with Laura Talamoni as our chef.
We will have separate sections with (a) a duplicate for our more experienced members and (b) a supervised session or mini duplicate for our students.
Menu
Chicken curry with cream and spices
Coconut vegetable medley curry (veg option)
Accompanied with Chickpea and spinach curry, lemon rice, roti, raita
NB all curries will be "medium" spiced - if you prefer mild, please put this in the comments on the booking form
Followed by a dessert of Mango kulfi (Indian semifreddo)
Please click here to book.
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| Rest In Peace |
Carolyn Caughey, a regular participant in our Friday morning gentle sessions until May 2023, has passed away on March 11th at the Chiswick Nursing Center in Ravenscourt Park. Carolyn’s funeral will be on Friday 19 April 2024 at 2pm at St Michael and All Angels Church, Turnham Green, Bath Road London W4 1TX ( just by Turnham Green Tube Station). If you are not able to come, the service is being live streamed and will be available to watch afterwards as well. Let Richard know if you’d like the live link. No flowers but donations to Cancer Research.
We have learnt today that Mike Scoltock, one of the club's most long standing members and a 4* Grand Master has passed away today (21st March) after a long illness. Mike had won the Club's Teams Championship on several occasions in recent years.
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| ONLINE SUPERVISED PLAY |
Richmond Bridge Club is delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Wimbledon Bridge Club to offer joint online Supervised Play sessions!
Online Supervised Play sessions run every week on Wednesday mornings, 10:30am-12:30pm on RealBridge. There is no need to book, just click on the appropriate link below about 10 minutes before the start of play and you’ll be taken to the RealBridge login page. Enter your full name and EBU number to log in to the session. If you can get a table of three or four together, you’ll be guaranteed a game. You are welcome to come as a pair or single and we will try and make up tables, but we can’t guarantee you’ll get a game.
See above and to the right under "Realbridge Links" for the link to access this Supervised Play session
Cost is £6 per session which will be charged to your RBC member’s account.
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