Clifton Bridge Club Visitors Website - Bridge Courses
Beginners' Bridge - Course Information
The Club has classes for Beginners which take place on Wednesday Evenings  and Friday Mornings starting in September each year........ there is also opportunity to join them at a later date, depending on your previous experience of the game. You need NO previous experience if you start in September..... and you don't need to have a partner. To book your place email our Training Secretary Pat Murphy at tonymurfia@tiscali.co.uk or call her on 01253 734489. The next courses will start in September  ,but you can enrol for them right now to ensure that you have a place.  There will be an Open Day at 2pm on Sunday, August 22nd 2010 if you want to call in and learn all about the classes and the Bridge sessions that the Club has to offer.

Clifton currently has several EBU  trained Teachers  and several more Assistants who will be helping to deliver the courses using the recommended "Bridge For All" programme.   The  first lesson is FREE but at the second lesson, which is also FREE, each student will be asked to buy the EBU  "Beginning Bridge" book which will be of enormous help in consolidating what you have learned at the classes, and will give you all the basics of how to become a good Bridge player....once you have "graduated" at the end of the 3 Terms of lessons you will be offered a membership of the Club and the £10 Joining fee will be waived!   The lessons cost £50 for a term. Because we have so many Teachers/Assistants there will be several of them attending each session so that students can have more individual attention. 

We are also keen to encourage new and inexperienced players to play Bridge regularly so that they can consolidate what they have learned., so we have special sessions deliberately aimed at new and inexperienced players. On a Friday Afternoon we have an "Assisted Bridge session" where you will be able to call for help with your bidding and play....and we will provide you with a partner if you don't have one! On Wednesday evenings we play "Simple Systems" Duplicate Bridge where questions can be asked at the end of the session about the hands played that evening.   There are also special sessions on Wednesday afternoons and Saturday Evenings which are aimed at Beginners and Inexperienced players where "Simple Systems" are used and the play is more relaxed and gentle.   As you gain confidence you will be more than welcome to join our existing members on Monday afternoons ("Simple Systems") or any of the other evening sessions when Competitive Duplicate Bridge is played to Level 3. Although these are competitive sessions, our members do appreciate the difficulties experienced by relative newcomers to the game and you will find them very supportive.

Improvers' Classes for the more experienced players

From time-to-time the Club offers sessions for the more experienced players on various aspects of the game such as transfers, doubling, overcalls, defending contracts.  These sessions are run by EBU-trained teachers from our Bridge Teams. The next set of lessons will be announced here in due course.

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