Bridge At the Coach House

                                                                                             Partners                                                                            WatCH                     

                                                                                    Tuesday afternoon 12:00 noon                                        Wednesday afternoon 1:00 p.m.

                                                                                    Thursday afternoon 1:00 p.m.

                                                                                    Liz McDowell    (519) 745-5906                                       Deaun Moulton   (519) 747 2771

                                                                                    Cindy Mahn       (519) 745-4356                                       cdeaun@rogers.com  

Website:  http://ca.oocities.com/cdeaun@rogers.com

August 2008

 

Welcome to the new combined newsletter for Partners Bridge Club (Liz and Cindy) and Wednesday at the Coach House (Deaun).   Watch this space for announcements about birthdays, accomplishments, special games and rules changes.

Congratulations to Helen Macdonald for succeeding Milos as director at K-W Bridge Studio.  We wish her the best. 

Upcoming Special Games – Mark your Calendars!

Partners

Tuesday September 23 - Club Championship

Tuesday October 14 - Club Appreciation      

Thursday October 16 - Club Appreciation

Thursday November 6 - Club Championship

Thursday December 18- Unit Game & Christmas Party                                                                

NO GAME on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day

 

WatCH

Wednesday, Aug. 6 – Club Championship

Wednesday, Oct. 8 – Club Appreciation

Wednesday, Dec. 10 –Championship Club

Wednesday, Dec. 24 – NO GAME

Wednesday, Dec. 31 – NO GAME

Wednesday, January 7 – Unit Game and Annual Individual Game Anniversary Celebration

Birthdays this month

(Let us know if we miss yours!)

August 1 – Deaun

August 13 – Marlene Drummond

August 23 – Barb Foell

 

Reminder   There are no secrets at the bridge table.  Your opposition is entitled to know your bidding system, your agreements and your style.  The convention card is the means of communicating your system to your opponents.  If you are a regular partnership, both you and your partner should have a completed convention card ON THE TABLE for review by the opponents.  The two cards should have exactly the same content and it should reflect the system that you actually play!  You are responsible for knowing what is on the card.  When there is a question about mis-explanation vs. mis-bid; the convention card will rule as to what your agreements are.  This is a rule of the game, not merely a nicety.  So, carry your convention cards with you and work to keep them accurate.

 

Review of the New Rules

 

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’ve joined the bridge laws mailing list.  This is a web mailing list where directors, experts and members of the World Bridge Federation laws committee talk (sometimes endlessly) about the laws.  They answer questions about ruling the game from others and I suspect they’ll have something interesting to say about the recent rules changes.  I’ll get to read through a bunch of archived messages to get up to speed, but then, I don’t mind that kind of thing.

Anyway, if anything interesting comes up, I’ll include it in a newsletter.  But in any case, I’ll use this space to talk about the new rules.

The most important thing about the new rules is the shift from the concept of “penalty” to the concept of “redressing damage.”  In the revised rules, penalties are imposed only for discipline and propriety infractions.  Irregularities during the game will be “rectified” if damage has occurred and then to restore equity.  There are a few places where the discretion of the director has been increased; in the case of the revoke rectification for example.  More about that later.