Playing at the Club
Bridge Base Online Instructions
Freddie Wilkie’s Register on BBO Tutorial
BBO Tips and Tricks #1
Club Special Tournaments
General Information
Bridge is played regularly throughout the year, with seven sessions each week. Members, new members and visitors who are members of a club affiliated with NZ Bridge are always welcome. Daily sessions cater to every level and regular tournaments are held throughout the year.
Table fees are $10.00 per session or $28.00 per week.
Convenors often organise a team to help them do their job, they are not just there to read the notices and see the room is left tidy at the end of each session.
They are the players representative and the recorders for each session and have a strong influence as how their sessions are run and organised.
Convenors will listen to complaints and issues and take them to the appropriate committee member to deal with. They will take any ideas for improvement for the next years program book and offer suggestions as to what should be in the program book, e.g more teams events, rubber bridge etc.
Convenors can be very influential in getting changes. They are health and safety wardens in the event of an emergency. They organise Christmas celebrations and may organise theme celebrations such as Cup week, St Patricks Day, Valentines Day etc. Help your grade convenor by picking up boards at the end of play, and listening when the notices are read out.
Please be seated by the starting time listed above so that the Director can finalise planning the session movements and get play under way.
Monday afternoon:
Ian Familton - 027 480-1514
Monday evening:
Peg Butterfield - 388-4286 or 021 0298-4534
Tuesday night:
Janet Keen - 027 463-2005 (text only)
Wednesday night:
Lizzie Thompson - 384-3636 or 027 647-8215 (text only)
(Juniors only: no partner required)
Thursday night:
Kathy Hamilton - 322-4574 or 027 438-2497
Friday daytime:
Norma Loomes - 027 403-9339
Sunday afternoon:
Lizzie Thompson 384-3636 or 027 647-8215 (text only)
(Juniors only: no parter required)
If you require a partner for any session, contact the partner finders as listed above for help. Please leave a message so they can return your call.
Introduction
Alerting is not optional and players need to know which bids in their system are alertable. The purpose of alerts is to tell your opposition that your partner’s bid is substantially different from what they would expect. (The opposition players may ask when it is their turn to bid. They do not have to ask for an explanation immediately, but may do so then or wait until later.) Do not alert bids that are basically what you would expect from “natural” bidders.
The Club has an alert procedure, which is posted on the notice board and is repeated here. The principles shall apply in club grade play. (The NZ Bridge alerting regulations for tournament play, are at: http://www.nzbridge.co.nz/directing and see Policies, Rules & Regulations page D43).
Alerts
At the Christchurch Bridge Club, Acol is the standard system that most people play. If you play a standard version of Acol, you will not need to alert anything. If you play Precision, Standard American or any other system, or if you have modified your Acol, the onus is on you to make sure your opponents are aware of what you are doing by alerting (circling partners bid on the pad) and giving clear explanations when your opponents ask.
Before the auction:
During the auction:
The exceptions are:
After the auction is finished:
Directors
Partners
Opposition
Breaches of the Code of Conduct
Becoming a Better Bridge Player
Note: Canterbury Regional Bridge have a fuller discussion of Bridge Protocol. You can download it from here, and fold it into a booklet so that it is handy for reference.
The only information that can be exchanged is through the bids made and the cards played. Anything else is unauthorised information. For this reason, all bids and plays should be made at an even tempo without variation in manner, demeanour or tone of voice.
It is a breach of the proprieties to take advantage of partner’s inadvertent mannerism or change of tempo. You may draw conclusions from the opponents manner but at your risk.
Don’t make any adverse remark about another player’s bidding or play (even partner). Breaches may be subject to penalty.
Do not publicly or privately report on any player’s irregularities to any person other than the director or a club recorder. (To accuse a player of cheating is itself a serious breach of etiquette, except privately to the director or recorder).
If you gain unauthorised information about a hand (e.g. from overhearing remarks at another table, seeing another player’s cards or from partner’s mannerism) call the director immediately and they will advise what to do.
Promotion through the club grades is based strictly on performance during the year, and regrading normally takes place shortly after the conclusion of the Pairs Championships for each night. The numbers to be regraded are set by the Club Committee, bearing in mind the size and standard of each grade, and are taken from an ordered list drawn up by the Grading Committee, as follows.
The following is a list of systems and conventions agreed by your Committee as suitable for the various grade nights’ play. While the list is not exhaustive, the onus is on the pairs playing differently to be forthcoming with information about their methods. Pairs wishing to play systems and conventions markedly different to those stated must seek the approval of the club Committee.
The intention is to protect the lower graded players from all but the simplest conventions while allowing increasing freedom in the higher grades. This list is based on current club practice and is designed to reflect the ability of players to cope at each level. No player should be allowed to gain an advantage by using methods too complex for the average grade player and the director will refer to this list when deciding if a pair has been disadvantaged should a dispute arise.
Junior
Bidding should be as natural as possible with Acol as the recommended system. The Stayman and Blackwood conventions enhance natural bidding and are allowed.
Intermediate
As above, but also weak twos, transfers, doubles (all kinds), weak and intermediate jump overcalls, Michaels cue bids and splinters.
Senior Reserve
As above, but also multi-coloured 2D, Bergen raises (or similar) and any defence to an opening 1NT.
Senior
Any recognised system or convention is allowed with the one exception, HUMs (Highly Unusual Methods). When at least 8 board matches are played in team events then no restriction applies.
All Rights Reserved | Christchurch Bridge Club Inc. | Website made in Aotearoa with ❤ by Attraction Studio