This is to confirm that we will be continuing to run our two regular morning sessions throughout March, one on Tuesday mornings at The Trout and the second on Friday mornings at the Terrace Room in Islip Village Hall. The Trout sessions have now been running for more than two months and are proving popular, with everyone entering into the spirit of an open-minded review of each hand played.
Last Friday’s inaugural event at Islip was also well attended and the feedback on both the venue and the play session itself has been positive, so do please come and try one of these events if you can. They are a great opportunity to play real life hands and discuss them afterwards, both at the table and under supervision from Annabel and myself. Each session runs from 10am to 1pm.
If you are interested in coming it would be helpful if you could update your likely dates on the Doodle polls for each event. I don’t take these as a binding commitment on your behalf, but they are a useful indicator of core numbers. We can also normally accept you if you simply turn up on the day, with or without a partner. So don’t assume that just because the numbers on the poll look lop-sided you won’t get a chance to play – there have been more people coming than expected every week so far.
The links to the Doodle poll are as follows:
The Trout
Islip Village Hall
Each session consists of a series of real life pre-dealt hands, selected by me to bring out important points of interest. Here is one hand from Tuesday’s session which showed how bidding a slam does not depend solely on the number of High Card Points you and your partner have between you. The shape of your hand is just as important. Do you have the methods to bid Six Spades if these were your two hands? We discussed exactly how that might happen at various tables.
Details of the next series of bridge courses will be posted to the website any day now. My expectation is that the next round of courses will start after the school holidays, but with some one-off seminars on specific conventions and play topics between now and then. So please watch this space……..
Andrew Robson Bridge in Oxford 