BBO: – play bridge on-line. The club is resurrecting BBO sessions for members for the remainder of this week. The Committee will review this after the government’s Friday COVID/lockdown announcement. Sessions start at 7pm (1pm for Friday) and you can register up to 90 minutes before hand. All sessions are Open:

• Tuesday Evening: 7pm
• Wednesday Evening: 7pm
• Thursday Evening: 7pm
• Friday 1pm

The instructions from last year may be helpful and are reproduced below

See below for those who haven’t played BBO before:

Please read ALL instructions:

 

If you have registered with BBO and emailed the office your BBO username go to:

No.2 REGISTER FOR A SESSION

 

If you are wanting to play, you must register with BBO first to get your username.

See below how to achieve this. Once you have done this, email the club; office@chchbridge.co.nz with your BBO username.

PLEASE do this well in advance for any session you want to play! You only need to do this once.

 

If you wanted to play you must have registered on www.bridgebase.com

Freddie Wilkie, one of our younger members has created a tutorial on how to do this. Thanks Freddie!

Click on the link below.

 

In the set up (account) make sure you type your real name under “real name” and under ‘other” your system you play. Also under convention cards, a more details about your system. There is a default but for Simple Acol if you wanted.

 

 

Registration is open 90 minutes from the session start, 11.30am for 1pm start and 6pm for 7.30pm start. Once you have registered make sure are seated ready to go at least 5 minutes before the start time.

 

To register from 90 minutes before each session:

1. Log on to BBO, make sure your partner is logged on as well.
2. Click on Competitive
3. Click on All Tournaments
4. Under pending, scroll down to our club session, it will have the words ChCh Club.  Click on that session to register. Only one player from each partnership needs to click onto that session to register. It will then ask you for your partners BBO Id to invite them into the session as your partner. They will need to be logged in as well. This will then show up on their screen.
5. Please be seated ready to play at least five minutes before the start time.

Any issues registering, please ring Sue Edwards 0272577466.

 

 3. TIPS FOR PLAYING:

1. Generous amounts of time is given to play the hands, please keep an eye on the time.
2. Claiming: It is good etiquette to claim when all the remaining tricks are yours.
3. Alert your own bids, the opposition will be able to see but not your partner.