| 2025 Annual General Meeting |
This year the AGM will be held on Thursday, May 8th at the Kings Sutton Memorial Hall at 8:30 pm
(during the break in the pairs session)
Club members not playing in the session are welcome to come for the AGM (and the free tea/coffee/biscuits)
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| Wednesday Morning Seminar |
The current topic in the series of Wednesday morning seminars is on Playing Your Contract.
Its last session originally planned for April 23rd has had to be postponed. A new date will be arranged in due course
Applications have now closed, but you can join a waiting list by sending an email to ksbcsecretary@gmail.com
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| Seminar - 'Develop your Defence: Every card counts' |
Julian Masters has kindly offered to run the next Wednesday morning seminar (May 7th and again on May 14th).
It will follow the same general approach as previously (talk, then practice hands) and will cover Defence, including:
Before you start, Opening leads, 3rd Hand Play, 2nd Hand Play, and Signalling
There is still 1 place available on May 14th
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| Annual Subscriptions |
Please note that your subscriptions for 2025-26 (£10) are due from the beginning of April
Please make payment along with your table money next time you play
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| Wednesday Mornings |
In 2025, there will be Supervised Bridge every Wednesday (unless notified otherwise),
with Duplicate as well every two or three weeks.
The next Duplicate is scheduled for April 30th, when the session may go on until around 12:30
Support is available during play to people in both sessions
For Duplicate, please be seated by 9:50 as 10 minutes are needed to set up the movement
People arriving after this time may not be allowed to play in the Duplicate session
(unless they have phoned and spoken to someone to say they will be late)
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| EBU Masterpoint Promotions - March 2025 |
Congratulations to Joey McMillan, who was promoted to District Master in March
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| EBU News "Updates from Aylesbury" - Apr 2025. Click here to view |
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| FastTrack 2025 |
 The content of this course is similar to the successful one last year
It will take place on Tuesday evenings over two terms, from 7 to 9pm.
Term 1: May 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th, June 3rd and 10th
Term 2: July 22nd and 29th, August 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th
Between the two terms participants have the opportunity to attend additional practice sessions on Tuesday evenings - these will be on June 17th and 24th, July 1st, 9th and 15th
Posters have been put up in local meeting places and adverts in newsletters
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| Wessex Daytime League |
Unfortunately the remaining results in Division 2 did not help Kings Sutton A, who will be relegated to Division 3 for next season
Kings Sutton B are in Division 3
Click here to view the League Tables and Results
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| Hand Analysis from Thursday, February 20th 2025 |
An analysis of board 9 from Thursday, February 20th has been posted in the Information section
on the left of this page
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| EBU Upcoming Events - click here to view |
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| Seminars and Training Courses |
The slides for the Slam Bidding, Stayman and Transfers talks can be viewed/downloaded from the Information menu
on the left of this page
Kings Sutton plans to continue offering seminars on Wednesday mornings.
The last session of Playing Your Contract has had to be postponed (date TBA)
The next one is on Defence (May 7th and 14th) - see above for details.
For those who cannot attend Wednesday mornings and/or want to learn other topics,
the Stratford and Oxford Bridge Clubs also run courses. For details see:
Stratford: https://www.bridgewebs.com/stratford/ Oxford: https://www.bridgewebs.com/obc/
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| Our New Facebook Page |
This is the link to the new Kings Sutton Bridge Club Facebook page
This one has been set up as a public page so that we can promote and grow the club more easily
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| People changes |
Jeremy Coke-Smyth has taken on the role of Secretary, and has been co-opted on to the committee
Mark Robotham is now the Admin person for the club Facebook page
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| Duplicate Scoring |
After a pairs session, do you sometimes wonder how your ranking was worked out?
This document (Duplicate Scoring) might help.
You will also find the standard scoring table in the Information section
(Nofearbridge Duplicate Scoring Table)
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| Club Library |
KSBC owns a number of educational publications which can be borrowed.
"Continuing Bridge Book 2" has now been added.
See on the left under Information -> Club Library
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| Free Taster Sessions |
Do you play Bridge? Ever thought about playing in a club?
For more information email: ksbcsecretary@gmail.com, or use the Contact Us option under the Information tab
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| Supervised bridge - Every Wednesday morning |
Play bridge in a casual environment
with help available if you need it
Every Wednesday morning in the Memorial Hall 9.30 tea and coffee, 10.00 start bridge
Every three weeks or so we also run a Duplicate session - see Calendar for dates
From time to time we also run seminars on bridge topics with some advice and practice hands to add to your skills
Please arrive by 9:45 to give the organisers time to finalise the number of tables
and to lay out the equipment.
If you're coming for the first time (or can't get there by 9:45) please let Steve know on 07760 320 216
New: You can find the print of the hands under the Information section on this page (but only after the session!)
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| Kings Sutton Club Nights - Thursday evening |
Bridge every Thursday evening
6.45 for a 7.00 pm start in the Memorial Hall
Feedback quote: “…a good balance of wanting to do well at bridge and social interaction”
Our players have a wide range of skills and we enjoy friendly bridge
Pairs every week. Teams events are held occasionally on other days of the week - see Calendar
For more information email: ksbcsecretary@gmail.com, or use the Contact Us option under the Information tab
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| Email: ksbcsecretary@gmail.com |
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