Welwyn Garden City Bridge Club
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Membership Liaison Officer

Members can contact Janet Wren, the Club’s Membership Liaison Officer directly by emailing wgcbcliaison@gmail.com or phoning 07768 441022 and leaving a message.

Janet can help with any query or comments and will bring any relevant and important matters to the committee’s attention.

Committee Minutes November 2024

The Committee Minutes for November 2024 can be found in the Members' Area.

 

Strong opening bids

A summary of legal strong opening bids can be found under left hand hand tab - Club Information.

Welcome to Welwyn Garden City Bridge Club
Brickendon Grange Wed 5th February

We won’t be holding our usual duplicate game at KGV on Wednesday 5th February; instead we will have a Level 4 game at Brickendon Grange.

This is followed by a two-course lunch (same choices as Andrew Robson) £38 including table money and Charity Donation  

The lunch list is now closed, but feel free to sign up for just the game!

To sign up click here 

SPRING SIMS

Booklets for the Spring SIMS will appear below, the day after play.

To see how you compare to the rest of the (bridge) world click here and select relevant day.

Please note that all results are provisional for a week or so to allow for TD rulings etc.

Mon13Jan.pdf

Tue14Jan.pdf

Wed15Jan.pdf

Thur16Jan.pdf

Andrew Robson Day: 05 February
Andrew Robson Day: 05 February

Andrew Robson Day is on Wednesday 05 February at Brickendon Grange.

Full details are in the Bulletin 54 Special Issue November 2024.

To sign up for the day, please click here.

This is now FULL, feel free to sign up as a reserve!

Lifelong Learning @ Bridge

For members of the club, we have the following sessions this week:

Helen’s Improver lesson

Tuesday 14 January, 3-5pm & 7:30-9:30pm @ KGV

Responder's rebids

Please email improverwgcbc@gmail.com, cost £13

Steve’s Intermediate lesson

Wednesday 15 January, 2:30-4:30pm @ KGV & 7:30-9:30pm online

Opener's rebids

Please email intermediatewgcbc@gmail.com, cost £13

Peter’s Session

Friday 17 January, 10am – 12:30 pm @ KGV 

PMPs - advice on bidding/playing 

Just turn up, cost £5

The payment of all of the above will be deducted from your cashless bridge account.

Sign-up sheets
Sign-up sheets

           King George V Playing Fields, Beehive Lane, WGC AL7 4BP

Visitors are always welcome but need a Club ID. Please use the application on our home page – Membership & Visitors – and you will be contacted.

Members bringing a visitor are asked to ensure this is done at least 24 hours before the session.

Wednesday AM Pairs (L4), 10am @ KGV

 

Please sign up here

Thursday AM Pairs (L2), 10am @ KGV

 

     Please sign up here

Randall Cup

Friday 24 January, 7:30pm @ RealBridge

Please sign up here

New Competition - Randall Cup

The Randall Cup is a Competition not played since way before lockdown. 

This is a knockout teams-of-four championship. All club members are welcome to form a team and enter, regardless of standard.

Starting as a multiple teams-of-4 qualifying competition. This will reduce the number of teams in the knockout part to a suitable number, probably 4 or 8 teams depending on the initial entry.

Then followed by head-to-head rounds (24-board matches) to produce a final.

These matches will be arranged by the teams concerned but will be on RealBridge (set up by the club) unless both teams agree otherwise.

The date of the qualifying competition will be Friday January 24th RealBridge 7.30 pm. Sign up sheet here

HBA competitions
HBA competitions

Eccles Cup Sunday 16th February on RealBridge, 2pm

A Level 2 Event. Three separate Pairs competitions in one with the winning team being decided by aggregating the finishing positions of the pairs in each of the three separate events (lowest aggregate wins). Each team will be three pairs of club members. The three separate Pairs events comprise one for a pair of players whose individual NGS is no higher than Jack, one for players whose NGS is no higher than 9 and one for players whose NGS is no higher than 7 - with a team entering one pair in each event. Note, this is a different format to previous Eccles Cup Competitions.

For more details click here

To enter please contact wgcbctournament@gmail.com

Free for players whose primary county affiliation is Hertfordshire.

Results
Thursday AM Pairs and SIMS
Gentle Duplicate
Wednesday AM Pairs and SIMS
Competitive Pairs
Tranquil Tuesday and Sims
Club Duplicate and Sims.
Gentle Duplicate
Thursday AM Pairs
Gentle Duplicate
Wednesday AM Pairs
Swiss Pairs
Tranquil Tuesday
Club Duplicate
Competitive Pairs
Xmas Club Duplicate
Calendar
Fri 17th Jan 2025
Post Mortem Pairs
KGV 10.00
£5 per member or visitor. No partner needed, no sign up, just turn up!
Sat 18th Jan 2025
Supervised Play
KGV 10.30
Sun 19th Jan 2025
HBA Event
RealBridge 2pm
 More Info
Mon 20th Jan 2025
Club Duplicate and Marjorie Lukyn Qualifier
RealBridge 10:00
20 Brds. Level 4 MP & NGS Single winner movement £2 extra charge for visitors only. Total for visitors is £3.50 + £2 = £5.50
 RealBridge Login
Tue 21st Jan 2025
Tranquil Tuesday
RealBridge 19:00
18 Brds Level 2 MP & NGS
 RealBridge Login
Wed 22nd Jan 2025
Wednesday AM Pairs
KGV 10:00
24 Brds Level 4 MP & NGS
Wed 22nd Jan 2025
Competitive Pairs
RealBridge 19.30
21/22 Brds Level 4 NGS & MP
 RealBridge Login
Thu 23rd Jan 2025
Thursday AM Pairs
KGV 10:00
24 Brds Level 2 MP & NGS
Thu 23rd Jan 2025
Gentle Duplicate
RealBridge 16.30
16 Brds Level 2 Non NGS No MP
 RealBridge Login
Fri 24th Jan 2025
Peter's Workshop - Discovery play
KGV 10.00
£5 per member or visitor. No partner needed, no sign up, just turn up!
Scoring errors

If you notice a scoring error within 48 hours of the start of the session, please email welwynbridge@gmail.com with full details.

WGCBC Session Fees

Our sessions are open to all adults aged 18 and over.

If you are a visitor, you and your partner are very welcome to play, please email: wgcbcmembership@gmail.com

Session fees (both online and face-to-face): 

Members £2.50      Visitors £3.50   

Payable via Cashless Bridge

Trying to find a long term bridge partner?

In addition to the Partnership Desks, we are trialling a sign up sheet - please click here

(If you are looking for ad hoc partner: f2f - sign up asking for a partner, online - use the partner request facility)

Coughs and Sneezes
Coughs and Sneezes



If you have a cough or cold, please stay away until you are better!