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Thursday afternoons at 1.30 pm, or
Friday evenings at 7.00 pm,
starting on 23/24 September 2010.

£5 per session, to be paid at each class.

About This Class

If you want to learn to play bridge, but have little or even no knowledge of the game, this is the class for you! The twenty graded lessons will ease you into bridge at a comfortable and relaxed pace, yet will give you an excellent grounding in the basics of the game.

In each lesson, after a presentation by the teacher and a quiz to test your understanding, you will play some practice hands of bridge based on the lesson content. At the end of each lesson, you will receive your own set of notes to keep and study.

If you have any questions or would like further details, please send an e-mail to our Education Convener at classes@carltonbridgecentre.org.uk.

Lesson Topics

1. Introduction
2. Introduction to Minibridge
3. First Steps in Defence
4. First Steps in Declarer Play
5. Introduction to Bidding
6. Introduction to Scoring
7. Bidding Strategy
8. A Bidding System
9. Basic Acol: How Information Leads to Logical Deduction
10. Responding to 1NT
11. Limit Responses to an Opening Bid of One of a Suit
12. Change of Suit Response
13. Opener’s Rebid and the Jump Shift Response
14. Declarer Play: Choosing and Establishing the Work Suit
15. Defensive Play
16. Signalling in Defence: The Attitude Signal
17. Competitive Bidding: The Overcall
18. Competitive Bidding: Coping With Overcalls
19. Stayman: The First Conventional Bid
20. Competitive Bidding: The Takeout Double

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