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Welcome to Bude Bridge Club |
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Bude Bridge Club meets for Face-to-face Bridge on Tuesday evenings and Monday afternoons at the Parkhouse Centre.
Tuesday evenings - Duplicate Bridge with Masterpoints - please arrive at 6.45 for a 7 p.m. start.
Monday afternoons - relaxed Duplicate bridge without Masterpoints - please arrive by 1.45 for a 2 p.m. start.
A cup of tea and biscuits will be available,
HOWEVER, please note that visitors are asked to book in advance to avoid a half table.
Please contact Val Ridding if you need a partner for Tuesdays (see below for details)
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Children in Need 2024 |
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Bude Bridge Club played in the annual Ecats Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs in November.
On Monday, the leading pair in the Club were Chris and Robert, but were overtaken Nationally by Mary and Peter, 247th out of 1811 pairs.
Only Mary and Peter scored Masterpoints -545
On Tuesday, the leading pair in the Club were Chris and Steve, and nationally they were 37th out of 1297 pairs.
Several pairs won Masterpoints - Chris and Steve 723, Neil and Sarah 438, Bob and Robert 301 and Ann and Annie 82.
For our Club's results click on the Ecats website.
£250 raised so far for Children in Need. Thank you all!
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Members’ Breakfast at the Weir |
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All Club members are invited to meet for a chat in a sociable setting.
Do come and join us on the first Wednesday every month from 10 am at the Weir.
Join us for breakfast or just a coffee. Share your ideas about events and Club organisation.
The December ‘breakfast’ has been postponed as a mark of respect for Linda. However, all members are warmly invited to attend the Celebration of her life at 12.30 pm at the Falcon.
The next open breakfast meeting will be on Wednesday, January 8th @ 10 am.
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A Christmas Cracker Puzzle of the Month |
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A real Christmas Cracker! Don't peek at the answer until Christmas Day...
Spades are trumps and South is on lead.
Your goal is to win 6 of the last 7 tricks. A breeze if North is on lead....
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If North was on lead, this would just be a matter of drawing trumps; but South cannot do this.
If South leads winners, East and West will each win a trump trick.
There is only one solution - South must lose a trick to the singleton K♦ .
Cash the Ace ♣ , throwing the Q♥ from dummy.
Now lead the J♦ .
West must give North the lead, and South discards his top Diamonds on North's aces, leaving those tiny Diamonds as winners. |
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Interesting Hand of the Week |
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Only one pair managed to bid the laydown Grand Slam last Monday.
How would you and your partner bid?
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What do you open on this whopper?
21 HCP (High Card Points) but that singleton Diamond and both majors...
You must make your partner respond, so maybe a 2 Club opener. If you play Benji, that's the correct bid, showing 21-22 HCP on an unbalanced hand.
if you play Acol, it's a 'little white lie' to gather more information
East is going to respond 2 Spades.
West can feel a slam coming on, How are you going to show your singleton Diamond and also ask for Aces?
Those with an advanced bidding system may bid 4 Diamonds as a Splinter bid, agreeing Spades and showing a Singleton or void in Diamonds.
East, with a minimum hand, could just bid 4 Spades, but realises the potential slam.
They bid 4 No Trumps (Roman Key Card Blackwood) asking for the number of Key Cards (Aces and King of Trumps)
A response of 5 Diamonds shows 3 (or 0) of the Key Cards.
East needs to show their singleton Club, and so cue bids 5 Clubs.
West has no hesitation now in bidding 7 Spades. 7 No Trumps will rely on the finesse of the King of Clubs, and that's not a risk to take!
So how did Peter and Vicki bid the Grand Slam?
One (!) Spade from West, 4 Spades from East
4 No Trumps (RKCB) from West, 5 Spades from East
7 Spades from West.
Well done! |
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Book Review |
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‘The Cardturner’ by Louis Sachar
if you’re looking for a book for a young person that is interested in learning the basics of bridge in a novel about teen romance, this book is great.
It deals with a brilliant but grumpy bridge master who goes blind and has to rely on a teenager to play his cards for him. The bridge player has one last opportunity to be a National Champion.
Will he succeed?
The book deals with the very basics of bridge, through hand assessment, bidding, Best Behaviour at Bridge, some common Directing situations, imp scoring, some basic conventions, partner play etc.
There is a clever code that lets readers skip the technical bits and still follow the story.
Usually £7, but available cheaper from Amazon and also on Kindle.
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