Glenfield Bridge Club

Last Updated on 21^st November 2008

Welcome to the Glenfield Bridge Club website.

We play bridge at the Glenfield Memorial Hall every Wednesday and at St Bartholomew’s church hall at Kirby Muxloe every Saturday. Please arrive by 710pm at both venues to allow play to commence at 715pm. If you need a partner for Wednesday please phone Dennis Bradley on 0116 2871145. Partners for Saturday can be found by phoning Nick Daniels on 07765800125

Please contact the Webmaster with information of interest to Glenfield members for inclusion on the website.

Latest News

Winners of the duplicate on Wednesday 19^th November 2008 were Gordon Musson and Geoff Day. Follow the links for the results, travellers and personal score cards.

Wednesday 19^th November 2008 was another mixed night for the teams. Bob Parker & Gerry Bucciero achieved the best analysis for Glenfield A as they beat Loughborough University A 8-4 but the University had the best of the night overall as their B team beat Glenfield B 9-3. Best analysis went to Nick Daniels and Tony North. Glenfield C lost 7-5 to Loughborough C. Best analysis went to Leslie Neville and Ken Clayton.

Winners of the duplicate on Saturday 15^th November 2008 were Brenda Coltman & Bharat Thakrar (North/South) and Nick Daniels & Ron Ferguson (East/West). Leaders for the November prize for the biggest increase on average percentage are Nigel & Patricia Wollen. Leaders for the November prize for the highest percentage are Tim & Margaret Glover. Follow the links for the results, travellers and personal score cards.

Winners of the duplicate on Wednesday 12^th November 2008 were Margaret Glover & Peter Tyers (North/South) and Teresa Daniels & Pam Leeson (East/West). Leaders for the November prize for the biggest increase on average percentage are Nigel & Patricia Wollen. Leaders for the November prize for the highest percentage are Tim & Margaret Glover. Follow the links for the results, travellers and personal score cards.

Peter Tyers has downloaded the master points won at Glenfield to the EBU. Congratulations to Tom Wright who is promoted to Advanced Master and to Teresa Daniels & Barbara Corlett who become Masters.

Site Map Last Updated 17^th August 2008
1. Home Page	Club News	Glenfield A Fixtures	Glenfield B Fixtures	Forthcoming Events	Links	Master Points
2. Newsletters, Photos and Correspondence	Bulletin Board	April 2003	Xmas Tree Competition	Xmas Party	AGM
3. Competitions	Chairman’s Prize 2003
4. Results Archive	Buildrite Cup	Helen Doughty Memorial Trophy	Club Results	A team results	B team results	C team results	D team results
5. Statistics	Statistics Archive
6. Technical Library
6.1 Bidding	Strategy	Acol	Psychic Bidding	Precision	Blue Club
6.1.1 Hand Evaluation	Defensive Tricks	Losing Trick Count	Playing Tricks	Point Count	Total Number of Tricks	Passing
6.1.2 Opening Bids	One Club	One Diamond	One Heart	One Spade	One No Trump	Pre-empts
	Two Clubs	Two Diamonds	Two Hearts	Two Spades	Two No Trumps
6.1.3 Responding to an Opening Bid	Simple change of suit	Opener’s Rebid	Responder’s Rebid	Preference	Opener’s Second Rebid	Jump in a new suit	Responding in no trumps
	Limit Raise	Inverted Minors
6.1.3.1 Responding to 1NT	Transfers
6.1.3.2 Responding to 2NT	Transfers	Baron
6.1.4 Conventions	Stayman	Fourth Suit Forcing	Reverse	Crowhurst
6.1.4.1 Conventional Opening Bids	Lucas Twos	Multi Two Diamonds	Weak Twos
6.1.4.2 Competitive Conventions	Jump Overcall	Lebensohl	Unassuming Cue Bid	Unusual No Trump	Continuing after opponent’s take out double	Take out Double	Cue Bid
	Fishbein	Defence to 1NT	Halmic	1NT Overcall	Redouble	Simple Overcall
6.1.4.3 Slam Conventions	Blackwood	Gerber	Roman Key Card Blackwood	Splinter	Jump to 5 of a suit	Grand Slam Force	Acol Four No Trump Opening
	Asking Bids	DOPI and ROPI
6.1.5 Doubles	Optional	Penalty	Lead Directional
6.1.6 The Protective Position
6.2 Declarer Play
6.2.1 General Technique	End Play	Squeeze	Finesse	Lose tricks early	Pin	Avoidance	Restricted Choice
6.2.2 Trump Management	Ruffing	Ruffing Losers before drawing trumps	Trump Coup	Ruffing Finesse	Loser on Loser	Coping with bad splits	Cross Ruff
	Dummy Reversal
6.3 Defence	Second Player	Signals	Third Player	Play the cards you are known to have
6.3.1 Defensive Tactics	Forcing Defence	Passive Defence	Merrimac Coup
6.3.2 Opening Leads	Fourth Highest	Third and Fifth	MUD	Top of Nothing