Announcements

Next Saturday (March 11) will be the first session of Supervised Play/Real-Time-Bridge. 9:30AM and will last three hours. The fee is $10 per person. Advanced signup is not required.

This is geared towards newer players and others who feel they might benefit from the discussions. We will all play the same boards and then discuss bidding, opening lead, play of the hand and the defense.

We are planning on offering this session on the second Saturday of each month as long as there is sufficient interest.

If you have any questions, please contact Don Marsh. Also, if you know of anyone who is interested in learning about the game, this is a great opportunity for them, so feel free to ask them to attend.

See you Saturday!

After 18 years, the District 20 Trumpet will no longer be published, doomed by its cost of production in a time when District 20 finances remain under pressure from the changes the pandemic brought to in-person bridge.

In the Trumpet’s place, District 20 will publish an email newsletter monthly, the D20 Declarer. It’s intention is to provide more timely news about D20 in a much less expensive format.

The Trumpet’s farewell issue is a tribute to long-time staffers who made the publication possible for all these years.

For the upcoming teaching session (second Saturday of the month), we’ve decided to start not with a 12 board sanctioned game but rather revive Real Time Bridge. Play a board and discuss. Play a board and discuss. Hands will be pre-selected with some basic and some more advanced. Each hand will be followed by immediate discussion. This should work better. This may lead to a sanctioned teaching game in the future.

See you March 11!

We’re starting up a new Saturday morning sanctioned game that will include discussion of the hands.

This game will be the 2nd Saturday of the month beginning March 11th at 9:30.

Details:

• 12 boards followed by 90 minute debrief session.
• Open to anyone with less than 1,000mps.
• Some hands random and some topic-specific selected.
• The topic discussion will be somewhat determined by who is attending so could be pretty basic to more advanced-intermediate.
• If there is interest, we will consider expanding to include also the 4th Saturday of the month.

EBC has been lacking a teaching component for some time so this will begin to address that.

To summarize the Saturday schedule:

• The 1st Saturday game is Swiss team.
• The 2nd Saturday game will be this 12-board sanctioned game with 90 minute debrief following the game.
• The 3rd Saturday is the Unit game.
• We will consider a 12-board sanctioned game on the 4th Saturday if there is interest.
• All Saturday games are at 9:30.

The February Unit Game (Saturday, February 18) includes the annual unit party and election.

Once again, the unit is providing free pizza after the game. Game starts at 9:30am.

You need to sign up for this event at the club or with Betsy Ovitt so we buy enough pizza.

See you there!