Hey all,
Don't forget that we will be holding our regular session tomorrow, in Huxley 503.
Also, if you are interested in extra sessions (especially the one being held on Thursday).
Don't forget to sign-up with this form: https://forms.office.com/e/b06SkVNhe2
You can also let us know -via the form above- which other days you are free if Thursday sessions don't work for you.
See you all tomorrow,
Kağan Uğur Pekgöz
ICU Bridge Club Secretary
Hey all,
This is the final reminder about signing-up for the session tomorrow using this form: https://forms.office.com/r/urYzTsz73E
We will be in Blackett 741 at 18:30 tomorrow for a Beginner Session.
See you there!
Kağan Uğur Pekgöz
ICU Bridge Club Secretary
Hey everyone!
We're holding our regular session tomorrow in Huxley 503, at 6pm.
Also, don't forget to sign-up to our upcoming Thursday sessions using the form below:
https://forms.office.com/r/urYzTsz73E
See you tomorrow,
Kağan Uğur Pekgöz
ICU Bridge Club Secretary
Hey everyone!
We are planning on holding Beginner and Advanced Bridge sessions on alternating Thursdays. Starting with a beginner session on the 24th. These sessions will take place in Blackett 741 from 18:30 to 20:30.
Let us know if you're interested by signing up with the form below:
https://forms.office.com/r/urYzTsz73E
See you next week!
Kağan Uğur Pekgöz
ICU Bridge Club Secretary
Hi all,
Competition results
Firstly I wanted to say I hope everyone enjoyed the tournament. I am so glad that so many beginners stepped out of their comfort zones to take part. Congratulations to Ervin Wee and Liangxun Tan for a dominant victory in the competition. Also I would like to congratulate Zhaowei, Killai and Jessica for performing the best of all the beginner players. The full set of results are attached.
Post mortem
As you may know, the tournament overran so we did not have time to do the post mortem. Therefore, this will happen at the start of the session on Tuesday in Blackett 741 at 7pm. This will provide a great opportunity to learn and improve. I will also reveal my scores on these boards as they were played in competition at Young Chelsea Bridge Club on 24th October.
Imperial Bridge Team
I am excited to announce that we have decided on our competition team for this year. It was decided based on the results of the competition. Well done to everyone who made it.
A team: Ben Lewis, Lee Ann Madissoon, Ervin Wee, Liangxun Tan
B team: Ryan Song, Tianxiang Fu, Yuan Wang, Yang Hu, Zitai Wang, Hoi Leong Pan
Middlesex Online Session
As I mentioned in my email last week, Middlesex County Bridge Association are launching a beginners initiative where every Sunday in November, beginners can play bridge for free on RealBridge with the support of some experienced players (and I am one of those for tomorrow). It is from 2:30-4:30. Here is the link to join tomorrow for those interested.
https://play.realbridge.online/dn.html?p=221106124864&q=HeartyBreakfast
Hope to see some of you there!
Thursday Training Sessions
On the week commencing 21st November, training sessions will start. We plan to use the Tuesday sessions as a casual session whilst the Thursday sessions would be focused on improving bidding and card play. We intend to alternate between beginner/intermediate sessions and squad sessions. We will run it is in this way if we have sufficient demand. They will provisionally be held in Blackett 741 at 6pm.
Other places to play bridge
For those looking for more opportunities to play bridge, there is a local bridge club called the Young Chelsea Bridge Club which has sessions on Mondays and Fridays.
Here is a link to their page if you are interested https://www.bridgewebs.com/youngchelsea/
I would also recommend installing BBO which is a free online bridge software. When you make an account, write your username in the discord chat so we can add you. There is also great declarer practice hands in the Bridge Master section, which will help people of all levels to improve their card play.
Membership
My plea to get more members for bridge club resulted in one new member last week. Let’s hope this one is more successful. Like I said last week, your support is vital for us to get the recognition and financial support our society needs to fulfil all our plans for this year. As you can see, we put a lot of effort into running this society. For example I spent over three hours writing excel code to score the competition because we do not have bridge mates which are too expensive, and Lee spent two hours organising the cards and sorting them.
Feedback from you
It would be great to hear from you. Are you enjoying bridge club and is there anything you want us to do differently? Are you interested in the Thursday sessions? If you are interested, but are not free on Thursday, let me know. It is possible for it to be moved. Do you like one long email a week or would you rather all these points be in separate emails spread out across the week?
Please reply to this email or email me at bl621(a)ic.ac.uk
Many thanks,
Ben Lewis
Bridge Vice President
Hello everyone,
Competition Nov 1st
A quick reminder that tomorrow is our intra college competition. It would be great to see as many people there as possible as it will be fun and a great opportunity to improve.
We would appreciate it if you filled out the form at the bottom of the email as it will help us with the organisation of the competition. However, we will try our best to accommodate anyone who shows up on the day.
Please try to arrive before 6:15 at Blackett 741 so we can start promptly. It should finish between 8:15 and 8:30 with the results announced shortly afterwards. There will be prizes.
Then, we will go through the hands interactively to help work out what everyone should’ve done on each hand. This will be a great learning experience and insight into how experienced bridge players think about each hand.
Beginner’s session Nov 6th
Also, on the 6th November, I am running a beginners and improvers bridge session in conjunction with Middlesex County Bridge Association. It is from 2:30-4:30. The bridge will take place on online software called RealBridge which is essentially a cross between FaceTime and bridge for those who don’t know. For those interested follow the link provided and a link to join will appear 24 hours before the session.
Membership
We have a lot of exciting plans for this year including some fun socials like karaoke night and for the first time ever we have been invited to send a team to the world university championships. Therefore, we need a lot of financial support from the union for all our plans to be realised. To get full funding from the Union, we need to hit our quota of 30 members. Currently we have 21. We would greatly appreciate it if you became a member.
Also it will give you a vote in the upcoming Bridge Autumn Elections, which I believe takes place next week.
Bridge competition form
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQA….
Middlesex beginners session
https://middlesexbridge.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1f2dfcc8444d37cc8…
Membership link
https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/activities/a-to-z/bridge
Many thanks,
Ben Lewis
Bridge Vice President
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Hello everybody!
It's nice to see how far everyone has come in their bridge skills!
We hope you found the bidding sheets from yesterday easier to follow than those from last week. If anyone wants to go over the bidding at home, then feel free to take a look at the sheets attached to this email :) Also, a great place to practise bridge on your own is Bridge Base Online (BBO) — simply download the app or play on a computer online!
Next week, on the 1st of Nov, instead of our usual session we're holding a competition! Everyone regardless of their bridge skills is welcome, use of bidding sheets while playing is allowed. It will be in the format of a pairs tournament, but even if you don't have a specific partner in mind, please still sign up here<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQA…> and we will allocate you one!
We will be choosing the two teams who get to participate in the inter-university bridge competition Portland Bowl by looking at our tournament results. Of course, we'll also take everyone's previous bridge experience into account, but whoever comes in 1st place will have a spot guaranteed ;)
Looking forward to the seeing everyone at the competition next week!
All the best,
Lee Ann Madissoon
President of ICL Bridge Club
Hello everybody!
The next bridge session will be tomorrow in Blackett 741 at 6pm as per usual. See you there!
Best,
Lee Ann Madissoon
President of ICL Bridge Club