On Sunday 17 November, Sati, Tana and Jan did a two-hour course put on by New Zealand Bridge on the 5 most common things Directors get called for during the course of club brdge play.
Although our Real Bridge platform and our electronic Tablets on Thursday night mitigate our making many of these errors, like bidding or calling 'out of turn', or making an 'insufficient bid' there was someinteresting learning relating to "Leading out of turn" and "Revoking" (reneging).
One thing that we can put...
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We were invited to join Waiheke Bridge Club for the Loveblock Nationwide Pairs event held at the Catherine Mitchell Centre on Friday, the 15th of November. It is a tournament held throughout New Zealand at exactly the same time. Everyone plays the same hands which have been put together by top Directors. This event is scored Nationwide and you receive a detailed booklet of how one could have played the hands at the end of the night. There is also detailed analysis of how others bid and played each...
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This Spring we offered the opportunity to play in a BridgeNZ Pairs event, where we encouraged members to play with the same partner if they could for the three nights. Although we had good numbers playing each night - and there is scoring as usual
Scoring with masterpoints
justthree pairswere eligible for the Ladder creation at the end of the three nights.
Ladder calculated after third night
However, this was a trial to see if this is something we could offer each year - perhaps in the Spring...
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