Leeds Bridge Club Trust

WE ARE RE-OPENING OUR CLUB

ON

MONDAY, 2 AUGUST 2021

We are pleased to announce that we will be re-opening our club, to our members, from Monday, 2 August 2021.  We will be offering three sessions to start with - 'Chicago' on Mondays at 10.30 am and 'Duplicate Pairs' on Tuesdays at 7.30 pm and on Saturdays at 7.00 pm.

 

We will be following government and EBU guidelines and there will be a booking system in operation.  If you would like to come back and play face-to-face bridge with us, please go to our 'Book to play Bridge at our Club' page on the left-hand side of this page.  You will find information regarding the provisions for play, together with our 'Booking Form'.

 

These sessions, for the time being, will be run alongside our usual online sessions on 'Bridge Base' and on 'RealBridge'.

 

The Trustees and Committee of Leeds Bridge Club would like to thank everyone for their support during the last 17 months and hope that together we will keep growing and developing our club.

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OLIVER COWAN BRIDGE CLUB

PRESENTS ITS

AUGUST SWISS PAIRS ON BBO

(Saturday, 21 August, 2021 from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm)

Please click here to download the flyer with further information regarding this event and details of how to book to play.

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GARFORTH SWISS TEAMS 

SUNDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2021

This year's Garforth Swiss Teams event is due to be held on Sunday, 19th September 2021.  The organisers are not sure if there will be sufficient support for this face-to-face event to go ahead.  If you think that you would be interested in playing, please could you email Audrey Jeal at

franjeal@talktalk.net

to indicate your interest?

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EBU SUMMER EVENTS -2021

The EBU are running many events over the summer.  

Please click the links below to see full details of each event.

Virtual Summer Seaside Congress - 2 to 4 July 2021 on ‘RealBridge’

Summer Seniors Congress – 9 to 11 July 2021 on ‘RealBridge’

British Summer Sim Pairs at various clubs – 26 to 29 July 2021 at various clubs - further details will be available soon

Summer Meeting at Eastbourne – 6 to 15 August 2021 – Face to face

Herts/Essex GP Weekend – 31 July to 1 August 2021

National Handicap Championship Pairs – 12 September 2021 at various clubs

Guernsey Bridge Congress – 13 to 19 September 2021 – Face to face

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 LEEDS BRIDGE CLUB ONLINE EVENTS

Whilst the bridge club is closed you can enjoy playing bridge online, either privately with friends or in one of our exciting club events.

LBCT Virtual Bridge Club on Bridge Base Online

We are currently running two virtual sessions a week on Bridge Base Online. Details of these sessions, which are open to non-members as well as members, are as follows:

Monday evenings at 7.30 pm (playing 20/22 hands)

1st Monday of the month - Swiss Pairs

2nd Monday of the month - Pairs 

3rd Monday of the month - Pairs

4th Monday of the month - Cross IMPS scored pairs

Thursday evenings at 7.30 pm - Pairs (playing 20/22 hands)

All events are run by an experienced on-line tournament director who oversees the playing of the boards within a steady time-frame. 

There is a charge of $3 per player for each session. Details have been sent to members regarding how to go about playing in these events with regard to the purchasing of dollars and registering. Please click here to load up the 'Leeds Virtual Bridge Club Instructions' or go the 'Leeds Virtual Bridge Club Instructions' page on the left-hand side of this screen.

The results for all of these events are sent out via Pianola and can also be viewed, on this web page, by scrolling down the panel on the left-hand side until you get to 'Virtual Bridge Club Results'

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'RealBridge' with LBCT

'RealBridge’ is an easy to access and innovative new way of playing bridge online where you can see and talk to your partner and opponents. LBCT is running four sessions a week for its members only: 

Monday 'Chicago' at 10.30 am - Please click here to go to our'RealBridge’ page where you will find the link to log in to the Monday 'Chicago' sessions, details of how to pay and information about  'RealBridge’.

Tuesday 'Stepping Stones' at 7.30 pm - Please click here to go to our 'RealBridge' page where you will find the link to log in to the Tuesday 'Stepping Stones' sessions and information about 'RealBridge'.

Wednesday 'Gentle Duplicate' at 2.00 pm - Please click here to go to our 'RealBridge' page where you will find the link to log in to the Wednesday 'Gentle Duplicate' sessions, details of how to pay and information about 'RealBridge'.

Wednesday 'Stepping Stones' at 7.30 pm - Please click here to go to our 'RealBridge' page where you will find the link to log in to the Wednesday 'Stepping Stones' sessions and information about 'RealBridge'.

Level of Sessions

Monday 'Chicago' - These sessions are aimed at members with an NGS of 8 and below or no NGS although it is open to all members. You will stay at one table and play a series of boards at your own pace.  The cost for each session will be £1.00. Members have been sent details of how to pay for these sessions.

Wednesday 'Gentle Duplicate' - These sessions are aimed at members with an NGS of 10 and below and 18 hands will be played.  The cost for each session will be £1.50. Members have been sent details of how to pay for these sessions.

Tuesday 'Stepping Stones' - These sessions are for first-year bridge players and 10 to 12 hands will be played.  

Wednesday 'Stepping Stones' - These sessions are aimed at inexperienced bridge players and 10 to 12 hands will be played.  The cost for each session will be £1.00. Members have been sent details of how to pay for these sessions.

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Leeds Bridge Club Seminars via 'Zoom'

Our 'Training and Development Team' are organising seminars, via 'Zoom' and other training events.  For full details, please click here to go to our 'LBCT Lockdown Seminars' page where you will find all the details.  

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ADDITIONAL WAYS TO ENJOY BRIDGE ONLINE

YCBA Events

YCBA is running a number of events on Bridge Base Online.  For details of future events, please click here to take you to the YCBA website.

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EBU Events

Please click here the to take you to the EBU website where you will be able to find details of all EBU events.

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Bridge Base Online (BBO) Private Games 

Many of our members are enjoying playing on Bridge Base with their friends.  The EBU website provides a fairly detailed article on how to get to play online on the BBO website.  Two useful pages are: https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3738, and http://www.ebu.co.uk/ebuscore-wiki/bboinstructions.

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Jack Stocken Videos and Livestreams

Jack Stocken is a highly-respected bridge teacher who runs Yorkshire Bridge and is also involved with Learn Bridge Online.  The following recordings are available FREE of charge:

Mini Lessons on the Use of Doubling

Four short videos on 'Doubling', covering take-out doubles, doubles for penalties and protective doubles have recently been recorded. These videos and accompanying worksheets can be accessed by clicking here and registering for free.

Free livestreams on YouTube

The following livestreams explain the bidding, declarer play and defence to hands that have been downloaded to Bridge Base Online.

Livestream from 18 May, 2020

Livestream from 25 June, June 2020

Livestream from 16 September 2020

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Bernard Magee Seminars

This is a series of useful bridge seminars which were given by renowned bridge instructor Bernard Magee.  They cover topics such as doubles, leads, finessing, frozen suits, declarer play and defence.  The seminars can be found on YouTube.  Just key in 'Bernard Magee Bridge Seminars'.  Through YouTube, you can also watch a set of teams' matches that Bernard played, on Bridge Base, throughout which he gave explanations of his bidding and defensive play. 

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Bridge Club Live (BCL)

Bridge Club Live (BLC) is a website where you can enjoy social games of bridge with your friends. 

All the information you need to enable you to join and use the facilities at BCL should be available via their website (https://www.bridgeclublive.com) but please get in touch if you need any assistance and we will try our best to help.

BCL also offers 'Bridge Club Support' at https://bridgeclublive.zendesk.com/hc/en-us, giving a lot of information as to how members can play together on that site.

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Google Trickster Cards

Another website/app that we have been told that some of our members have tried is Google Trickster Cards at https://www.trickstercards.com

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Funbridge

There is also Funbridge about which further details can be found on the EBU website at http://www.ebu.co.uk/ebuscore-wiki/funbridgeinstructions

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No Fear Bridge

Members can also register with No Fear Bridge at https://www.nofearbridge.co.uk and get a free trial.   If you are a student you can register for an extended free trial by using the link on the EBU website.

Do try one or more of these sites and, if you need help, please contact us and we will try to assist.

If you know of any other good apps or websites, please let us know and we will add them to our list.

Leeds Bridge Club does not recommend any one bridge game over another.

If any of our members, or students, would like to play online but need some help getting started, please do not hesitate to contact us as we have people who will be more than willing to help.   

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Leeds Bridge Club

(Pre-Covid Bridge Sessions and Lessons)

We are a friendly and active club located within the Moor Allerton Sports and Social Centre in Moortown which is on Stonegate Road.  The club has full facilities for the disabled and on-site parking.  We offer a range of pairs and teams events five days a week for bridge players from beginners to experts. Visitors and new members are always welcome whatever their standard.

When do we play?

We run pairs duplicate tournaments on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. We also run teams events on Wednesdays. (View our full calendar of events by clicking on 'Events Calendar' on the left-hand side of this page). All members are invited to put themselves forward to play in one of our six teams in the Yorkshire League.

Beginners and Improvers Courses and Bridge Sessions

We offer courses and bridge sessions for beginners and improvers including hosted, non-competitive Chicago bridge sessions on Monday and Thursday mornings.  (View our 'Courses and Bridge Sessions for Beginners and Improvers' pages on the left-hand side of this page for full details.) 

No partner?

We operate a host system on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for those who do not have a partner.  Our members can also use Pianola to place an advert for a partner for any of the duplicate sessions.  We can also try to help you find a regular bridge partner.  Please contact our partner finders.

 

Our facilities

 

The Club is comfortable and well-equipped. We play pre-dealt hands, use Bridgemates for electronic scoring and publish our results online using Pianola. There is an on-site bar and we offer quality catering at some of our annual events.

YCBA are running a number of online events to suit players of all levels. Please click here to go to the YCBA website where you will find information about all the online events that are being offered.

The EBU are running a number of online events throughout the summer including the 'British Summer Sim Pairs' and the 'EBU Summer Meeting'.  Please click here to view the 'EBU Event Focus' document where you will find details of the events that are coming up.

To see the complete calendar of EBU events for 2021 to 2022, please click here.

 

 

Please click on the link below to go to our 'Facebook Page'

https://www.facebook.com/leedsbridgeclub/