| Monday Mornings at The Fair o’ Blair in Blairgowrie |
Join us every Monday at 10.30 in Wetherspoons Blairgowrie for coffee and 12 hands of bridge.
Free, open and welcoming.
One hundred and thirty five players in total have joined in our Monday morning sessions since we began! Not all at once…
Read the “Show your Hand” page, in the menu on the left, to get to know some of our Spoons players better!
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| A 3 day/ 2 night bridge event in Dumfries! Sounds good….. |
All welcome to the
Southern District Meet & Play
Friendly Social Bridge Event
4th, 5th & 6th April 2025
Dumfries Holiday Inn, Crichton, DG1 4UQ
Meet & Play will be a friendly, social bridge event. The organisers are particularly keen to encourage those who are relatively new to the game to experience the pleasures of a Meet & Play event.
Sam Punch, Professor at Stirling University, leads the research project - Bridge: A MindSport for All. Her experience playing both nationally and internationally is extensive and she recently published a new book, ‘The Art of Becoming a Top Bridge Player’ something we can all aspire to!! Sam will be leading 2 sessions including some analysis of hands played at the event.
Further details and application form.
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| We use BriAn to score |
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.
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