NORTH HAMPTON BRIDGE CLUB

Located at beautiful Centennial Hall in North Hampton, New Hampshire at 105 Post Road, this club offers two programs to learn and enjoy duplicate bridge; Lessons of 2/1 Game Force followed by a Bridge+ Duplicate Game (no partner required) on Tuesdays and ACBL sanctioned Open games (Partner required, register or find partner at rsvpbridge.com) on Wednesdays and Thursdays. See Programs below right for details. Contact the Club Manager, Skip Page, at (845)341-7178 or sdeelpage@comcast.net.

Tuesday 30 April 2024

We had a lesson about takeout doubles and negative doubles today and had 5.5 tables for our pupil game. We will have another lesson on takeout doubles next week.

The winners today were Martha and Jean with a whopping 72.49% !!!. Second place went to Claire and Mary Lynn with and astounding 69.42%, score that would garner a win on most weeks!

We will keep the format of the lessons, but we will go back and review at least one topic every week. I have been made aware that I am dumping too much information on you at one time. Part of the reason for that is that the places I went to college gave education in such a way that it was like trying to get a drink from a firehose. I will try to slow it down to a garden hose. See you next week! ---Carl

Saturday 27 April 2024-- Updated Monday 29 April

Special Lessons Days May 11 2024, May 25, 2024

By popular request, I am hosting two days of just "lessons". I am putting the quotes around lessons, because they will not be set to any particular topic. We will all play the same boards, one at a time, with discussion led by me between each board. The expectation is that 85% of topics that we might cover in a prepared lesson will come up, and this approach takes much less preparation time by me as I do not need to design hands for a specific topic, which saves me time and keeps your cost down.

As per the requests, this will be a marathon "Boot Camp." We will start at 10 A.M. and end at 4:00 P.M. or after 27 boards, whichever comes first. I will provide an printed, annotated hand record at the end of the class.

There will be a short break for lunch and a bathroom break. The cost is $10/person

These will happen at Centennial Hall on May 11th and May 25th. As of right now (Monday, the 29th), we have two spots available on the 11th and one spot available on the 25th for 3 full tables. If we get a few more than that, we can rotate up to three kibitzers on each day, and there will still be value in the lessons. There will be a fresh set of boards for the 25th, so you can attend both days without just a rerun of the 11th on the 25th.

If you are interested, and have not already done so, please email me: cvwikstrom@gmail.com

Thanks and see you there! ---Carl Wikstrom