Clare Bridge Club is delighted to invite you to their summer party!

It will be held in Lavenham Village Hall, on Saturday 28th June.

Members to arrive at 1:45 for a 2pm start, going until 4:30pm, with a champagne tea to follow!

Please complete the form if you would like to come!

Clare Bridge Club runs 3 sessions every week

On Monday evenings you can play face-to-face at the Old School Hall in Clare, at 6:45 for 7:00
or online on BBO with Swindon Bridge Club: see below.

To join us in person at Clare just turn up! You can be sure of a warm welcome
To play online please register by clicking on the "Register for Clare Online" button at the top right

On Friday afternoons you can play "Gentle Duplicate" at Lavenham Village Hall
at 1:45 (please be prompt!) for a 2pm start, finishing by 5pm

These relaxed bridge sessions are an opportunity for players who have never experienced duplicate bridge or for club members who would like to play face-to-face in a relaxed environment.
You are most welcome to come either with or without a partner.

Clare and Swindon Bridge Club have now joined forces for online bridge on Monday nights.

The face-to-face sessions at Clare are unaffected and continue as normal.

Registering to play

If you haven't previously played online with Clare, please register using this form.

Registering for a session

This is a change from Clare practice: it will NOT be possible to join on the day. Instead you MUST register in advance every week, before 6pm on the preceding Sunday (ideally the preceding Saturday).

You do this on the Swindon Bridge Club website (click here): scroll down to find the event and enter your name and BBO ID, and your partner's name and BBO ID.

Joining the session

Log in to BBO as usual, and search for "Swindon" under "Competitive" / "All Tournaments".

It's as easy as that!

Thank you to everyone who attended the Hospice Bridge Tea afternoon on Friday the 23rd May. This year it raised £2230 which is the highest amount ever.

Thank you to everyone who supported the event and to those who donated money and gifts for the wonderful hampers.

There were 15 hampers in all. The next Hospice Bridge Tea will be on Friday the 3rd October.

The EBU announcing and alerting rules have been amended. Click here to see the EBU ‘Announcing and Alerting Summary’ which describes all the announcing and alerting rules including the changes.

The first group of changes expands what to do over a transfer.

The second group of changes adds responses to one of a suit.

• If your suit responses to one of a suit are natural you do nothing.
• If your responses to one of a suit has another meaning, such as another suit or denies a four card major, you ‘alert’ or ‘announce’ as shown in the ‘Announcing and Alerting Summary’
• If your 1NT response to one of a suit is the normal one showing up to 10 points you do nothing.
• If your 1NT response to one of a suit is different, such as more than 10 points or is forcing, you ‘alert’ or ‘announce’ as shown in the ‘Announcing and Alerting Summary’

The link in the 'Playing Bridge at Clare' document to help on cut and paste on BBO is not working.

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