Bridge Classes for those new to Bridge

We have completed the first of our 2026 Bridge for Beginners courses. A big thanks to Anne O'Hagan our presenter.
The course was well attended, and most have progressed onto supervised sessions.

For the next course, keep an eye on Breaking News on the front page or contact the club.

2026, July-August, Bridge Lessons' Slides

Below are the links to the slides Anne O'Hagan prepared. To view them as a slideshow you need Microsoft Powerpoint on your mobile phone/tablet, available free. Please click on one of them, download and save the presentation. Then open Powerpoint, find the saved file and run it. On a PC it can be run in your browser, hit "Open in Google Slides" then "Slideshow" and scroll through the slide presentation:-

• Lesson 1 - Play of the cards
• Lesson 2 - The bidding
• Lesson 3 - Fit then game
• Lesson 4 - Searching for a fit in a major
• Lesson 5 - Opener has a balanced hand
• Lesson 6 - They open the bidding

General Practice / Supervised Play

This is held each Wednesday from 9:30am to 12:30pm throughout the year, except for a period over Christmas-New Year. No playing partner is necessary, the supervisor will arrange one on the day. Please contact the club for any details on the Supervised sessions.

Videos

Several videos, by Stuart Craig, are available to support beginner and intermediate players. They cover:-

• Declarer play in no trumps, suit contracts, and finessing
  
• Defence in making top tricks or tricks by promotion, tricks with small cards, tricks with a finesse, and signals
• Responding to Stayman
• Intermediate level bridge on competitive bidding and,
• Intermediate level bridge on declarer play.

They are listed and accessible from this Menu. The videos are arranged in folders and the folder names indicate the subject of the videos in the folder. In most cases, the videos in a folder follow on from one another.