This workshop is for new players who are joining our online duplicate community. The additional challenges introduced by duplicate and the mechanics of playing duplicate on BBO will be explained and demonstrated. Topics will include signing up for our newcomer games, scoring, stratification, and BBO features that are useful for the new player. Zoom and BBO will be used.
Participants must have registered with BBO and ACBL before the seminar (instructions will be provided).
Level: Beginner
Instructor: Jack Cole
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2022, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Mode: ONLINE
Fee: $20 for members/ $25 for non-members
In-person bridge will soon make a welcome return to our club. This workshop is intended to ease newer players into the mechanics of playing face-to-face games. We will learn about in-person registration, bidding, alerts, table movements, calling the director, scoring with BridgeMates, and (as time permits) review the basics of duplicate bridge scoring.
Level: Beginner/Novice
Instructor: Ted Boyd
Date: Saturday, January 15, 10:00 am - noon
Mode: Face-to-Face
Fee: FREE
In an 18-board club game, you are likely to be declarer on four or five boards. You need to learn techniques to help you become a better declarer. First, you need to be aware of your goal. Second, you must learn how to make a plan. And third, you must learn how to implement your plan. In this course, you will learn how to make a plan right after the opening lead has been made, and you will also learn how to minimize your losers so that you can make your contract and maybe even make overtricks. A second course, Play of the Hand (No Trump) will be offered in the spring.
Level Novice
Instructor: Dianne Aves
Mode: Face-to-Face
Dates: Tuesday, January 18, 25, February 1, 8, & 15, 9:30 am - noon
Fee: $75 for members, $85 for non-members, plus $20 for the text
This course and its separately-enrolled continuation, Part 2, focus on Standard American bidding. Opening bids, responses, and rebids will be briefly reviewed. Topics covered in more detail will be forcing and non-forcing bids, competitive bidding, doubles, and balancing. Each lesson will conclude with some hands illustrating the lesson's topics, for practice in bidding and play. A few topics regarding play and defence will also be included, but the main goal of the course is to make attendees comfortable and confident with standard bidding conventions. Regular partners may find it advantageous to attend as a pair.
Level: Intermediate
Instructor: Neil Jeffrey
Time: Tuesdays from 7:00 pm until 9:30 pm, January 19, 25, February 1, & 8
Mode: Face-to-Face
Fee: $70 for members/ $80 for non-members (includes handouts and HST)
The bidding is over and your opponents have reached a four hearts contract. You're on lead. What card should you play? Opening leads are the only card played while the dummy is still concealed, but this is one advantage the defenders have over the declarer. This workshop is for post-beginners and will help the participants decide which card in which suit is the preferred lead. Leads for both suit and no trump contracts will be discussed.
Level: Novice
Instructor: Susan Lawton
Date: Friday, January 21, 2022, 9:30 am - noon
Mode: Face-to-Face
Fee: $20 for members, $25 for non-members