Wednesday, 10 August 2011
August Bridge Letter 2011
August Bridge Letter 2011
www.bridgeevening.com
It seems a long time since I sat in front of
The laptop worrying about what I could say.
Nothing changes!
On the personal front we have booked a holiday in Malta for next month.
I am being very cowardly and am going to be out of the country for my birthday.
Nuff said.
The relationship between education and the age-old card game of bridge has long been limited to bridge clubs at public schools, where it comes slightly below chess in the social hierarchy.
But this looks set to change with the development of a simplified version enabling primary pupils to use the game in the classroom.
www.ebu.co.uk
One teacher is using mini bridge to improve the mathematical skills in his primary school who took up bridge four years ago, said:
“I enjoy the game and thought I’d start up a club at school. There are sports and music clubs already and I thought this would be something a bit different.
www.nofearbridge.co.uk
Already between 100 and 200 schools have taken up mini bridge.
www.bluechipbridge.co.uk
At last something is being done to encourage next generations into the game.
Information about support from the EBU can be found on their website.
www.ebu.co.uk
One of the teachers involved is going to take pupils to the House of Lords to meet the all party bridge group.
The following web site might be of use to internet surfers.
Board / Card Games
Bridge
A collection of resources for Bridge players.
American Contract Bridge League
The ACBL is the largest bridge organization in the world with 165,000 members in North America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico and Bermuda.
Free Board / Card Games Newsletter!
www.acbl.org
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www.bridgeguys.com
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Pattie Dupree
Bridge Evening
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
June Bridge Letter 2011
June Bridge Letter 2011
www.BridgeEvening.com
Not a very auspicious start to the summer season! What with the ash cloud descending once again and the unrest in the Mediterranean holidays have come under threat, hope all goes well as the summer rolls on and substitute venues are found.
This article from USA gives hope to the game. School children are being interested in the game at a young age lets hope this catches on this side of the pond!!!
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — Four bridge players stared down at their cards, trying to determine which team would play the role of the so-called declarer and dummy.
Max Plati, 8, a second grader at Thomas Jefferson School, says, “Bridge is more fun than chess.”
Then one of the four, Max Plati, 8, dissolved into laughter as he mouthed to the boy sitting across from him: “You’re the dummy!”
Their teacher, Eileen Crowley-Bloss, reminded her second-grade students at the Thomas Jefferson School that in bridge, the meaning of “dummy” is “silent partner.” Even more unfamiliar, though, may have been the students’ quiet play and earnest concentration, all without the involvement of an electronic device.
Chess is still the game of choice among educators, but bridge is catching on at a growing number of schools, community leagues and recreational centres across the nation, many of which see the card game as offering similar mental benefits to those of chess, but with a social component.
The Lakeland district in this northern Westchester County town began teaching bridge this year as a way to both reinforce math and problem-solving skills and to socialize a generation of children raised on solitary pastimes like playing video games and listening to iPods.
Now kindergartners here learn to sort suits and high and low numbers, while older students play in bridge clubs and compete online in virtual tournaments.
Their efforts to promote bridge among students have helped revive a game that peaked in popularity in the years after World War II, and have redefined it from a leisurely pastime for the elderly to a game fit for interscholastic contests in which young players vie for trophies, scholarships and bragging rights.
In 2009, a 9-year-old Georgia boy, Richard Jeng, became the youngest player to earn the rank of life master from the American Contract Bridge League, the nation’s largest bridge organization; the average age of its 165,000 members is 67.
www.acbl.com
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www.bridgehands.com
Three hundred top junior players are expected to compete in the fourth annual Youth North American Bridge Championships in Toronto in July, while hundreds more will play in local tournaments this year.
“To see seventh and eighth graders sitting and concentrating for three hours, it never happens except in bridge,” said Bud Brewer, whose none profit group, Reno Youth Bridge, held a tournament in April after teaching the game to 160 students in 14 public middle schools and three private schools in Reno and Sparks, Nevada.
Similar youth bridge programs have cropped up in more than a dozen other cities, including Atlanta; Raleigh, N.C.; Pensacola, Fla.; Phoenix; and Honolulu. Atlanta Junior Bridge, which was started by bridge players in 2006, has taught the game to 1,700 students in after-school classes and summer camps.
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www.nytimes.com
www.cataloguecity.co.uk
This site is worth a browse if you have got time to spare.
These sites offer on line bridge if you cannot drag yourself away from the game and have to play at home as well as at your club.
www.peeplo.com/Online+Bridge
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www.swangames.com
www.ronklingerbridge.com
Pattie Dupree
www.BridgeEvening.com
Not a very auspicious start to the summer season! What with the ash cloud descending once again and the unrest in the Mediterranean holidays have come under threat, hope all goes well as the summer rolls on and substitute venues are found.
This article from USA gives hope to the game. School children are being interested in the game at a young age lets hope this catches on this side of the pond!!!
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — Four bridge players stared down at their cards, trying to determine which team would play the role of the so-called declarer and dummy.
Max Plati, 8, a second grader at Thomas Jefferson School, says, “Bridge is more fun than chess.”
Then one of the four, Max Plati, 8, dissolved into laughter as he mouthed to the boy sitting across from him: “You’re the dummy!”
Their teacher, Eileen Crowley-Bloss, reminded her second-grade students at the Thomas Jefferson School that in bridge, the meaning of “dummy” is “silent partner.” Even more unfamiliar, though, may have been the students’ quiet play and earnest concentration, all without the involvement of an electronic device.
Chess is still the game of choice among educators, but bridge is catching on at a growing number of schools, community leagues and recreational centres across the nation, many of which see the card game as offering similar mental benefits to those of chess, but with a social component.
The Lakeland district in this northern Westchester County town began teaching bridge this year as a way to both reinforce math and problem-solving skills and to socialize a generation of children raised on solitary pastimes like playing video games and listening to iPods.
Now kindergartners here learn to sort suits and high and low numbers, while older students play in bridge clubs and compete online in virtual tournaments.
Their efforts to promote bridge among students have helped revive a game that peaked in popularity in the years after World War II, and have redefined it from a leisurely pastime for the elderly to a game fit for interscholastic contests in which young players vie for trophies, scholarships and bragging rights.
In 2009, a 9-year-old Georgia boy, Richard Jeng, became the youngest player to earn the rank of life master from the American Contract Bridge League, the nation’s largest bridge organization; the average age of its 165,000 members is 67.
www.acbl.com
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www.bridgehands.com
Three hundred top junior players are expected to compete in the fourth annual Youth North American Bridge Championships in Toronto in July, while hundreds more will play in local tournaments this year.
“To see seventh and eighth graders sitting and concentrating for three hours, it never happens except in bridge,” said Bud Brewer, whose none profit group, Reno Youth Bridge, held a tournament in April after teaching the game to 160 students in 14 public middle schools and three private schools in Reno and Sparks, Nevada.
Similar youth bridge programs have cropped up in more than a dozen other cities, including Atlanta; Raleigh, N.C.; Pensacola, Fla.; Phoenix; and Honolulu. Atlanta Junior Bridge, which was started by bridge players in 2006, has taught the game to 1,700 students in after-school classes and summer camps.
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
www.nytimes.com
www.cataloguecity.co.uk
This site is worth a browse if you have got time to spare.
These sites offer on line bridge if you cannot drag yourself away from the game and have to play at home as well as at your club.
www.peeplo.com/Online+Bridge
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giff
www.swangames.com
www.ronklingerbridge.com
Pattie Dupree
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
January 2011
BRIDGE LETTER
January 2011
Well we have taken the plunge and booked our annual holiday in Tenerife.
We are trying a new hotel/apartment, it had very good reviews so are hoping it meets the standard of our previous stays.
I am so looking forward to going to the Italian Club on Mondays. It is very cosmopolitan and as usual in a new club it is difficult to work out the table numbering.
Look how many people get lost in a straight forward Mitchell in a club they have been attending for thirty years.
There did not seem to be a linear move so we all had to go from table to table and look at the table card to see if our number was there for the pertinent round.
This obviously led to chaos with people already seated shouting their opponents numbers and so on. As there were shouts in Italian, French English and Norwegian between rounds,
I think the true description would be melee!
One woman asked me how to find her table and I answered politely enough I thought, telling her what we all had to do and with that she swept out, poor hubby in her wake and ruined the afternoon for the scorer.
Hey Ho!!
Did anyone catch the Home Internationals for the Camrose Trophy? Matches were shown live on
www.bridgebase.com
They were held in Dublin with Wales providing a second team so that 3 matches could be played simultaneously.
Recently the TGR’s Club in London hosted what has become the biggest money event to be held in Britain.
Last year the prize money amounted to
£38,000.
This year not surprisingly a large entry has increased to more than 130 pairs.
Entries are from all over the world, Norway, Sweden, France, Poland as well as the home countries.
www.trgsbridge.com
www.londononline.co.uk
www.wherebest.co.uk
www.touchlondon.co.uk
www.marylebone.org
www.iwesrminster.co.uk
Good Luck to all.
Pattie Dupree
www.BridgeEvening.con
January 2011
Well we have taken the plunge and booked our annual holiday in Tenerife.
We are trying a new hotel/apartment, it had very good reviews so are hoping it meets the standard of our previous stays.
I am so looking forward to going to the Italian Club on Mondays. It is very cosmopolitan and as usual in a new club it is difficult to work out the table numbering.
Look how many people get lost in a straight forward Mitchell in a club they have been attending for thirty years.
There did not seem to be a linear move so we all had to go from table to table and look at the table card to see if our number was there for the pertinent round.
This obviously led to chaos with people already seated shouting their opponents numbers and so on. As there were shouts in Italian, French English and Norwegian between rounds,
I think the true description would be melee!
One woman asked me how to find her table and I answered politely enough I thought, telling her what we all had to do and with that she swept out, poor hubby in her wake and ruined the afternoon for the scorer.
Hey Ho!!
Did anyone catch the Home Internationals for the Camrose Trophy? Matches were shown live on
www.bridgebase.com
They were held in Dublin with Wales providing a second team so that 3 matches could be played simultaneously.
Recently the TGR’s Club in London hosted what has become the biggest money event to be held in Britain.
Last year the prize money amounted to
£38,000.
This year not surprisingly a large entry has increased to more than 130 pairs.
Entries are from all over the world, Norway, Sweden, France, Poland as well as the home countries.
www.trgsbridge.com
www.londononline.co.uk
www.wherebest.co.uk
www.touchlondon.co.uk
www.marylebone.org
www.iwesrminster.co.uk
Good Luck to all.
Pattie Dupree
www.BridgeEvening.con
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
November / December Bridge Newsletter
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER BRIDGE LETTER 2010
www.BridgeEvening.com
Hey ho Christmas time is here once more, to my delight!!!
I really love buying and wrapping presents, in fact my better half has threatened to curtail my shopping expeditions how he is going to do this is unclear so watch this space for further developments.
So to Bridge
Since our fateful trip to South Wales and our delightful visits to Llanelli and Mumbles Clubs we have not seen any action at all as we arrived back in Birmingham only to be struck down by various illnesses.
www.llanellibridgeclub.org.uk
www.welshbridge.net
We have barely made it to the shops let alone to venture to West Midlands for an evening’s entertainment.
www.westmidbridge.co.uk
It has been suggested somewhat unkindly that perhaps Penclawdd is a hotbed of infection and we were lucky to escape with our lives.
All I know is that my next holiday will be to a warmer climate!!
www.Llanellibridgeclub.org.uk
www.bridgeevening.com/mumbles
This year there was tremendous response to the Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs.18,000 bridge players competed at 400 bridge clubs and raised a staggering £60,000 for the charity.
www.childreninneed.org.uk
The play was spread over five days with a different deal for each day. The internet was used to score the events and compare the results.
Congratulations to Ron Quainton and Peter Russell of Thame bridge club who had the highest score of the week.
www.thamebridgeclub.co.uk
Anyone looking for ‘bridge’gifts for Christmas would do well to look at the Chess and Bridge catalogue2011.
www.bridgeshop.com
There are some really pretty playing cards. I had not seen the Cadbury pack before, very poignant for those of us who live in Birmingham.
www.cadburyworld.co.uk
Pattie Dupree
www.BridgeEvening.com
Hey ho Christmas time is here once more, to my delight!!!
I really love buying and wrapping presents, in fact my better half has threatened to curtail my shopping expeditions how he is going to do this is unclear so watch this space for further developments.
So to Bridge
Since our fateful trip to South Wales and our delightful visits to Llanelli and Mumbles Clubs we have not seen any action at all as we arrived back in Birmingham only to be struck down by various illnesses.
www.llanellibridgeclub.org.uk
www.welshbridge.net
We have barely made it to the shops let alone to venture to West Midlands for an evening’s entertainment.
www.westmidbridge.co.uk
It has been suggested somewhat unkindly that perhaps Penclawdd is a hotbed of infection and we were lucky to escape with our lives.
All I know is that my next holiday will be to a warmer climate!!
www.Llanellibridgeclub.org.uk
www.bridgeevening.com/mumbles
This year there was tremendous response to the Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs.18,000 bridge players competed at 400 bridge clubs and raised a staggering £60,000 for the charity.
www.childreninneed.org.uk
The play was spread over five days with a different deal for each day. The internet was used to score the events and compare the results.
Congratulations to Ron Quainton and Peter Russell of Thame bridge club who had the highest score of the week.
www.thamebridgeclub.co.uk
Anyone looking for ‘bridge’gifts for Christmas would do well to look at the Chess and Bridge catalogue2011.
www.bridgeshop.com
There are some really pretty playing cards. I had not seen the Cadbury pack before, very poignant for those of us who live in Birmingham.
www.cadburyworld.co.uk
Pattie Dupree
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Bridge News Letter August 2010
Bridge News Letter August 2010
www.bridgeevening.com
Back again after a gap, so hello to everyone. We had difficulties when we changed the websites and it took a while to get going again.
Of course it’s now the silly season when news is scarce but even so I can’t say I’m looking forward to the shortening days of Autumn.
We have been having a sabbatical from club bridge for various reasons.
Some of our time has been taken up with planning a wedding, which took place recently. All went well and I am off on a girlie cruise to unwind.
The Bennett Bridge Murder
Sadly the Bennett bridge murder of the twenties, when a woman was cleared by a bridge playing judge of the killing of her husband for failing to make 4 spades, has been trumped by a UK murder case.
www.wikipedia.org
www.thebridgeguys.com
The stormy relationship of Stephen and Carole Green of Lytham St Annes included constant criticism of her bridge playing.
It is alleged that this husband murdered his wife.
Daily Mail 20th July 2010.
www.dailymail.com
The Brighton Congress 2010
6th-15th August
Of course August does mean Brighton is once more the focus for many bridge players.
This years Pairs Championship was won by a Welsh pair.
Tim Rees and Filip Kurbalija.
They won over a field of 700 pairs.
Well Done!
www.bridgewebs.com
www.ebu.co.uk
Players at a one day event in East Wales were privileged to witness the return after twenty years of David McAndrew who returns to the game after a break of twenty years.
Happily his team, captained by David Birt of Cardiff won the event.
www.wbu.org.uk
Great Bridge Links
Great Bridge Links has a good page simply labelled Free Stuff. Its well worth a look to see what takes your fancy!
www.greatbridgelinks.com
Bridge.gif is a site with images for bridge.
Very useful if you are writing news letters and the like.
I am hoping to persuade one of my daughters to help me use this site.
Definitely!
Takegame.com also presents images ( of the game natch)
www.takegame.com
Qdgames.com is a site I found while hunting for bridge snippets. There are lots of online games using such characters as Ben 10. This might well mean an easier time when I am babysitting the grandchildren.
www.q-games.com
Pattie Dupree
www.bridgeevening.com
Back again after a gap, so hello to everyone. We had difficulties when we changed the websites and it took a while to get going again.
Of course it’s now the silly season when news is scarce but even so I can’t say I’m looking forward to the shortening days of Autumn.
We have been having a sabbatical from club bridge for various reasons.
Some of our time has been taken up with planning a wedding, which took place recently. All went well and I am off on a girlie cruise to unwind.
The Bennett Bridge Murder
Sadly the Bennett bridge murder of the twenties, when a woman was cleared by a bridge playing judge of the killing of her husband for failing to make 4 spades, has been trumped by a UK murder case.
www.wikipedia.org
www.thebridgeguys.com
The stormy relationship of Stephen and Carole Green of Lytham St Annes included constant criticism of her bridge playing.
It is alleged that this husband murdered his wife.
Daily Mail 20th July 2010.
www.dailymail.com
The Brighton Congress 2010
6th-15th August
Of course August does mean Brighton is once more the focus for many bridge players.
This years Pairs Championship was won by a Welsh pair.
Tim Rees and Filip Kurbalija.
They won over a field of 700 pairs.
Well Done!
www.bridgewebs.com
www.ebu.co.uk
Players at a one day event in East Wales were privileged to witness the return after twenty years of David McAndrew who returns to the game after a break of twenty years.
Happily his team, captained by David Birt of Cardiff won the event.
www.wbu.org.uk
Great Bridge Links
Great Bridge Links has a good page simply labelled Free Stuff. Its well worth a look to see what takes your fancy!
www.greatbridgelinks.com
Bridge.gif is a site with images for bridge.
Very useful if you are writing news letters and the like.
I am hoping to persuade one of my daughters to help me use this site.
Definitely!
Takegame.com also presents images ( of the game natch)
www.takegame.com
Qdgames.com is a site I found while hunting for bridge snippets. There are lots of online games using such characters as Ben 10. This might well mean an easier time when I am babysitting the grandchildren.
www.q-games.com
Pattie Dupree
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