Our ♣ sparkles like a ♦, has a big ♥ and ♠♠♠ of bonhomie, boosted by beverage, biscuits, and banter before bridge begins.

Sessions held every Thursday at 7.00pm at the Coombes Community Centre, Burns Road, Royston.

The club has electronic scoring and computer-dealt hands so results and deals are available straight away.

Visitors are always welcome but need to come with a partner. If you are new to the area, use Find a Partner (Public) and the club will make every effort to provide a suitable partner for you.

◄ For further details, see Information and Calendar.

◄ Do you want to learn to play bridge, or improve your play? See Learning Bridge.

◄ We also feature a few interesting hands played at the club recently, see Hand of the Month.

Congratulations to Malcolm & Ron who came first this week at Royston with a score of 60%.

The results of the SIMS are also available on the ECATS website (click on the Ecats Results tab in Latest Result for a quick link straight to last night's results, where you can dig down to your heart's content). Dave & Paul have edged ahead in the overall standings with a score of 61%, with club leaders Malcolm & Ron in second place. Both pairs are looking good for a finish within the top hundred, though the results have yet to be formally confirmed by ECATS, as "finalised".

Also well done to Pat & Nick who were the only Royston pair out of a select group of thirty pairs in the entire field who bid the only available slam of the night, on board 12.

The days of hard-copy commentary booklets for these SIMS events are long gone, alas, but electronic copies of the commentary files can all be downloaded from the ECATS results pages, and Thursday's commentary can be found under the Documents tab on the club website, for your convenience... enjoy!

Congratulations to the winners of the Mavis Drake Teams Trophy, Saroj & Alan and Andy & Dave, who came first with a score of +59 IMPs. They are pictured above, being presented the trophy by Mavis.

It  was very close at the top, with the second-placed team of Angela & Richard and Colin & Paul just 3 IMPs behind.

The dealing machine did us proud with plenty of big hands — ideal for a teams event scored with IMPs.  There were a number of slams bid and made (on boards 10, 12, 27 and 28) and a couple that got away... not to mention quite a number of penalty doubles, two of which resulted in very large penalties (on boards 7 and 22).

The biggest score on the night was 16 IMPs on board 26 (a double game swing) and there was another double game swing for a mere 14 IMPs on board 6.

This is Royston Bridge Club's official website, Dave Simmons is the current web administrator.

Please have a browse through the website. Some pages are only available to Members. To access these pages click on the link to Members Only on the top right of the Home page to login.

Any comments or suggestions for improving the website are welcome. Members can email me direct, and non-members via Contact Us under the Information tab.