| 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.
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.
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| Come and Join us for Assisted Duplicate |
Do you fancy playing in one of our Gentle Sessions, but aren't quite sure how they run? If so, our Assisted Duplicate sessions are ideal for you!
Assisted Duplicate sessions are run along the same lines as Gentle Sessions - gently competitive with a generous 8 minutes per board. You learn how to use a Bridgemate, which table you move to for the next round, and if/when you should call the Director. Not only all this, but Lyn & Glen are also on-hand to answer any queries you may have.
These sessions are ideal both for improvers who have been attending Supervised Play, and students who have recently completed the Beginners Course.
These will be run on Tuesday mornings (10am start), usually by Lyn & Glen - please see the Calendar for full details. There is no need to book and you don't need a partner - just come along and have fun!
This is in addition to the Learning Duplicate run as part of the Monday Evening Workshop (by Richard) and the Wednesday Evening Supervised Play (with Margaret).
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| COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE - Thursday 17th Apr at 10:30 |
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| Book now for Richmond Cafe Bridge - June 24, 2025 |
Bookings are now open for our very popular Cafe Bridge on Tuesday, June 24.
Arrive from 10.45 am at your initial venue (ie no central reservation point). There will be 3 rounds before lunch and another 3 after.
This is a fund raising event for a local Charity INS (Integrated Neurological Services)
which has been operating for 25 years, principally in Twickenham and Hounslow.
INS provides rehabilitation and support for those with long term neurological conditions (incl strokes, Parkinsons & MS).
INS volunteers will be joining us on the day organising a raffle. Lew Gray, one of the club's long standing members, is a Trustee of INS.
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 including
The Old Ship, The Britannia, Cote, Buenos Aires, Pizza Express, Angel & Crown, Rosa's Thai, Efes Donor Plus & Watermans
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 (for 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 on June 23rd.
Please book by clicking here
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| Rest In Peace |
We have been told by his family that Stewart Reuben passed away at the start of February 2025
while on a cruise around the Caribbean.
Stewart made a living as a professional poker playing before turning to bridge in his later years.
He was an active player at the club until 2019.
He will be sorely missed by the chess world - Stewart was the Chairman of the British Chess Federation in the 1990s
before taking a leading role within the international chess establishment.
A Google search will turn up numerous accolades for Stewart including his own page on Wikipedia
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| Monthly Wednesday Evening Teams |
Wednesday evening @ 19.00, May 14th, NB Earlier Start Time the club will organise its next monthly teams event.
These are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (ie the following one will be June 11th).
A team is made up of 4 players playing together as 2 pairs. There are some differences to the scoring method, and therefore the best tactics - but if you are unfamiliar with the format don't worry, just play your usual game !
There is no obligation to play every month. Normal table money of £7 will apply for members, £10 for visitors.
The details of how things are organised on the night will depend on the number of teams taking part.
There is free street parking (so do not use the bowls club car park) and the bar will be open throughout.
I want to encourage less experienced players to have a go
so don't just ignore this because you're not sure what's involved !
For the moment my focus is on gathering names and helping arrange everyone into teams of four
To register an interest - as an individual, a pair, or a full team - please click HERE
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| Intermediate Online Refreshers Course |
Following the success of the recently completed online course, we are running an online Intermediate Refreshers Course.
This 5 week on-line course will be run online using Zoom and Realbridge and be led by Tim Chanter. To give players maximum flexibility to attend, lessons will be repeated on Monday mornings @ 10.30am, and Tuesday evenings @ 19:00pm. The first lesson will be Monday, April 28th, repeated on Tuesday, April 29th.
Each session will be between 2 and 2.5 hours and comprise a mini-lesson on an intermediate topic, followed by discussion on a hand of the week, followed by play on 8 interesting boards. The course fee is £90.
Please click here to book or for further information.
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| SATURDAY SUPPER EVENTS - 3rd May and 7th June |
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| RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - Beginner's Courses |
Looking to learn or refresh your Bridge in a friendly and supportive environment? Please find below our forthcoming Beginner's Courses.
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| BLUE POINTED SWISS PAIRS - Saturday 28th June 2025 at 12:00 |
Our next BLUE POINTED SWISS PAIRS will take place at 12:00 on Saturday 28th June 2025 in the CLUBHOUSE. Everyone welcome. The entry fee is £15 per player. Richard Banbury will be directing the 36-board event which will be played across two sessions.
There will be a break for complimentary scones, Devonshire clotted cream and speciality jams. A full bar service will also be available on the day.
NB: There will be no cash prizes.
Click here to book your place
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| RICHMOND BRIDGE ACADEMY - 'Double Trouble' Mini Course |
Do you sometimes yearn to use the double card but aren't quite sure if you should? If so, this is the course for you!
The 'Double Trouble' mini-course covers everything you need to know about take-out and penalty doubles, but were possibly too nervous to ask! This face-to-face course will be led by Lyn Poole and be held in the clubhouse on Monday mornings at 10:30, starting on 12th May and running for 3 sessions. The cost is £54 for all three sessions and the topics covered will be:
- Week 1 (12th May) - Recap on take out doubles and responses & Recap on penalty doubles and defence to 1NT doubled
- Week 2 (19th May) - Negative doubles
- Week 3 (2nd June) - Truscott & Power doubles
This course is most suitable for players who have completed the Beginner's Course, anyone attending supervised play, gentle duplicates or Richard's workshops.
Please click here to book.
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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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