I will be putting up shortly a booking sheet for dates for the Thursday morning sessions in Wytham to cover the period from January to March next year. The current series of supervised play sessions in Wytham Village Hall continues this week and in all future weeks running up to Christmas. It is very helpful if you can continue to show your interest in coming by filling in or updating the Doodle poll as many of you have been helpfully doing.
Signing up is not binding, but will help us to plan numbers and where helpful find suitable partners. If you cannot make the Doodle poll work, as some of you have struggle to do, please just drop me an email to say you are planning to come. The formal start time is 10am, but we have been starting earlier once there are sufficient numbers. We play a series of pre-dealt hands, each one of which can be reviewed afterwards against my assessment of the best contract and a sensible bidding auction.
The last two sessions of our friendly monthly learn and play sessions in Charlbury have also been well attended and we have a separate poll to keep track of numbers who want to come to the next ones. The next two dates are November 22nd and December 20th. These start at 2.30pm (but please arrive earlier to ensure a prompt start) and finish around 4.30pm with refreshments provided. The format of these sessions is that we all play three teaching hands together and then continue with supervised play.
I am hoping to start a new series of single topic online seminars in the New Year, so if you are interested in brushing up your knowledge of Stayman, Jacoby 2 No Trumps, defensive signalling or any other topic, please look out for the dates when they are posted here. Finally I am looking to start a new group of near or recent beginners who would be willing to move their knowledge further in the New Year. Please let me know if you are interested and I will try to put together a viable group.
Jonathan
Andrew Robson Bridge in Oxford 