| In addition to providing duplicate games, we are committed to bringing new players to the game, and providing appropriate venues for their game to grow. |
Program Offerings - Overview |
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| Program | When | Duration | Details | |
| Beginning Bridge Level 2 | Starts: January 9 2012 | 10 weeks | Click here | |
| Supervised Play | Every Wednesday 1:00 | Ongoing | Click here | |
| "Experienced Beginner" Courses (topics TBA) | April - June 2012 | 4 week courses | Details coming soon - participants have taken 2 full courses or equivalent | |
Beginner Bridge Level 1: Lesson series |
| This course will start from the very beginning and take participants through the basics of the game. Topics include .... |
| * Basic mechanics of the game |
| * Bidding basics; suits/rank/auctions |
| * Counting points in your hand |
| * Starting to bid your hand - Opening Bids |
| * Bidding - Evaluating your hand |
| * Bidding - Responses |
| * Scoring |
| * Starting to Play the Hand |
| * Card combinations |
| * Bidding - Overcalls |
| * Intro to Defence - Basic strategies |
| * Intro to Defence - Opening Leads |
Beginner Bridge Level 2: Lesson series |
| This course is for those who have specifically taken Beginner Bridge (Level 1) at EBC or an equivalent first bridge course. (Those wishing to verify equivalence, please check the course description above). Topics for Level 2 include .... |
| * Review of Beginner course |
| * Bidding: Opener's Rebids |
| * Competitive Bidding: Overcalls & Doubles; review and responses |
| * Playing the Hand: Building Blocks of Declarer Play |
| * Playing the Hand: Analyze and Play Trump & NT contracts |
| * Defense: Talking with your cards |
| * Bidding: Big Hands |
| * Bidding: Adding some conventions (Blackwood, Gerber) |
| * Last week: Supervised Play & Casual competition |
Supervised Play Drop-In |
| Participants have learned the basics of the game but need to improve their skills. There is about 30 minutes of direct instruction (topic of the day such as Raising a Major opening), followed by play of 4 hands. Hands are prepared and duplicated to provide maximum learning. Everyone plays the same hands, with direct assistance from the class director. After each hand is played, the instructor will go over the bidding, opening lead and play with the entire group. It is the intention that participants will, if they so choose, be able to move to a novice duplicate game and on from there, once they are in a position to do so. Note that the EBC runs a Novice game every Thursday |