Join us every Monday in Wetherspoons Blairgowrie for coffee and 12 hands of bridge. 
Free, open and welcoming. 
10.30 is the start of playtime

BriAn is an electronic scoring system for the game of contract bridge. Using Android smartphones and iPhones, BriAn can support duplicates, tournaments and café bridge. BriAn can also function as a personal scoresheet for a tournament, or as a record for social game of rubber or Chicago bridge. 

Other than players' phones, no equipment is required to run a duplicate using BriAn: no club laptop, no PC, no transponder box. The app which players use to enter scores is available on iPhone and iPad as well as Android phones and tablets. The app is free for players to download.

Brian runs on high-resolution, touch-sensitive colour displays, which are much easier to use. BriAn supports a much wider range of activities than simply entering scores, and presents a much wider range of information; for instance BriAn displays hand diagrams for played boards, and gives movement instructions at the end of each round, obviating the need for movement cards. 

The BriAn duplicate scoring system is also much cheaper for club directors, since they need to purchase fewer, if any, scoring terminals, and the unit cost of those terminals is lower, and there is no software license fee. Brian can be used to support games which are spread out over multiple venues, such as ‘Café bridge’ events. Finally, BriAn comes with various non-internet modes of use including a personal scoresheet and a rubber/Chicago bridge scorer.

Top pair Alison Young and David Shore received the Hamish Smith trophy from Spoons Catherine Robertson with the tournament director Victor Lesk behind. 
They also were gifted afternoon tea for two at Dunkeld House Hotel.

Runners up Sarah Gunn and Marina Evans received medals and a voucher for a private sauna session at The Taybank 

Third place went to Alan Roberts and James Paterson. They received afternoon tea for 2 at the Royal Hotel. 
 

The Dunkeld and Birnam CaféBridge day  on Tuesday 22nd October was in aid of Scottish Charity Air Ambulance.
With 5 venues and 6 transfers, the hundred players could walk over 12,000 paces, or cycle or drive or take a CWA trishaw!
The sun shone and 
the path from Dunkeld to  the  lovely Dunkeld House Hotel was particularly enjoyable!  Plus our old favourites, the Taybank, BirnamArts  and the Corbenic Cafe were all included.
The winning pair, from London, David Shore and Alison Young received the Hamish Smith Memorial Salver.