113 LOCAL CLUBS AND SOCIETIES Dartmouth & District Bridge Club A few facts........
Description: People from in and around Dartmouth meet every week to play the card game bridge, which is described as a ‘game of skill’. Players need to be good at reasoning, remembering and planning!
History: Records for the club date back to the early 80s.
Number of members: 50
When they meet: Tuesday afternoons and Thursday evenings at the Flavel.
Membership costs £10 per year and each person pays £2 per session to play but there’s no prize money.
If you want to join go to
www.bridgewebs.com/dart- mouth/
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What bridge is all about… Bridge is one of the most popular card games, played by millions of people around the world (includ- ing American business giant Bill Gates). People can play at home, in clubs, tournaments and online. Belonging to the same family as whist and euchre, the game is quite tricky to master but, as is often the way, it sounds more complicated than it really is! There needs to be four players - two teams of two and you sit opposite your partner. All of the pack is dealt so you have 13 cards each and the aim is to win as many tricks as you can. Each pair must assess how many tricks they can take based on the quality of their cards and to nominate a suit for trumps or to play in ‘no trumps’. However partners are not permitted to discuss their cards other than by making a bid for an amount of tricks that they estimate they can make and with which suit as trumps. The opposition have to try and stop the declaring side from achieving its goal. Many partner- ships have developed complicated bidding sequences to communi- cate information to their partner about the cards that they hold or to ask their partner about their cards! A typical bridge session would play 24 deals per pair, which would take about three hours. Why it’s good for you…. Playing bridge is claimed to im- prove mental health and to delay the onset of dementia. It relies on a number of skills and attributes - logic, memory, concentration,
creativity, stamina and patience and tolerance (with your partner!) Secretary, Bill Luscombe says: “It can be an important part of people’s social lives as many of our players live alone, but there are couples who partner each other. The club also serves as a swap shop for recipes, surplus fruit and veg, books, puzzles, holiday destination ideas etc as people enjoy a chance to meet with familiar faces and have a chat and a catch up.” Other perks… Club members try and socialise outside of the gaming room as they hold an annual BBQ, a Christmas party and Christmas lunch. They have two annual awards, donated by the late Helen Toon (well loved ex player) one award for the most improved player and one for the best score. These are presented after the Christmas lunch. The results from each bridge session are displayed on the club’s website page and also a cumulative ranking for the year. The members….. Dartmouth Bridge Club mem- bers are mostly 60+, many live in Dartmouth but some travel up to 15 miles to come to each session. They don’t play against other clubs but many of the members belong to more than one club and get in- volved with other bridge competi- tions and bridge charity events. Bill says it’s a great hobby and anyone can, and should, join: “I would describe bridge as complicated, challenging and addictive.”
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