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A Live National Congress in October
21 Mar 2022
National Bridge Congress 2022 (1st – 8th October) at Bay Park Tauranga. As promised last Friday, we are going to start promotion of the 2022 National Congress with you today. We will show you the program but first will address some of the... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
21 Mar 2022
RIGHT LINE ON LINE! Everyone at the Kelly Peirse Open Teams, hosted by the Rotorua Club last Saturday, was playing on-line but very few who ended as declarer found the right line to bring home a tricky 4 contract. West... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
18 Mar 2022
Rubber On-Line. Normally, the 2021 National Rubber Bridge finals would have taken place alongside the live National Bridge Congress. Of course, with the Congress reverting to on-line and taking place two months into 2022, the live Rubber event... read more here
Look Back Look Forward Two National Congresses in One Year
18 Mar 2022
We went 28 months without a National Congress, far too long. Even then, we had to compromise with an on-line Congress. We were so lucky to have RealBridge as the medium we could use for our Congress, not like live but very much the next best... read more here
News from the Chair- No 2 for 2022
18 Mar 2022
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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
17 Mar 2022
No way! We are talking about bridge hands! “Bread and Butter.” Not all deals can feature high level decisions in bidding or play. Pairs events are often won and lost in the world of the part-score and although today’s deal... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
16 Mar 2022
Double Trouble? Well, you doubled. So, you had better defeat this contract. You have the strongest hand at the table and have two certain tricks. West DealsE-W Vul ♠ 10 2 ♥ A 5... read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 187
16 Mar 2022
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Congratulations to our new Grandmasters
15 Mar 2022
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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
15 Mar 2022
but for which side? Happy Ending? That is what you would hope for as declarer on the deal below. It was indeed the ending for all players as it was the last of the 96 boards played at last weekend’s Taranaki Teams. For most declarers... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
14 Mar 2022
Family Win “in” Taranaki. This weekend saw the on-line Taranaki Teams take place, 8 x 12 board matches in the Open, 4 x 12 board in the Intermediates. If one could not go live to the lovely Taranaki area, then playing this event... read more here
CONGRESS BULLETIN EDITOR
11 Mar 2022
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST SOUGHT FOR ON-LINE BULLETIN EDITOR FOR LIVE 2022 NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL BRIDGE CONGRESS Congress live at Bay Park, Mt Maunganui Saturday 1st October until Saturday 8th October 2022 Be an... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
11 Mar 2022
In your bidding. Aces go Places! An ace is worth more than 4 hcp which means two must take you in or towards double figures. Throw in a side-suit singleton and four cards in partner’s weak 2 and it looks like we have a pretty good hand.... read more here
Taranaki Online Bridge Congress -
11 Mar 2022
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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
10 Mar 2022
The Best You Can. If you do that on every board, you cannot feel bad about the result. Neither can your partner! Yet, did our South on the board below do the best they could in trying to make their game? West DealsN-S Vul... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
9 Mar 2022
“Never” put an 8-card suit down as dummy. (well “almost never”.) There are certain bids, conventions you learn in your early days of playing Bridge and then you may as well forget them because they never happen at the... read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 187
9 Mar 2022
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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
8 Mar 2022
Not today! That’s a word one of our panellists, Michael Ware, uses a lot. One day, he will be proven right but today, like every other prediction he has made in such a situation, is not to be the one. We are talking about competitive... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
7 Mar 2022
Kevin Skoropada. Southern Winners of the National Pairs. Kevin Skoropada and Moss Wylie had a great weekend at the National Pairs emerging as clear winners. The event was supposed to be held at the Wellington Bridge Club though the live event... read more here
National 15A Pairs Online 5-6 March 2022
5 Mar 2022
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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
4 Mar 2022
Do we have enough? A Tricky Number. Well, today’s deal is tricky but only because our second suit is clubs. Were it spades and our partner had shown a strong hand with hearts and spades, it would simply be a matter of asking for... read more here
Statement from the WBF Management Committee, 3rd March 2022
4 Mar 2022
The WBF Management Committee, with all its members present, met via zoom on Wednesday 2 March to discuss how the war promoted by Russia with the support of Belarus is impacting the 2022 World Bridge Teams Championship to be held in... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
3 Mar 2022
A “Vulnerable” King. Or so it might seem to any East player who found themselves in a bit of a quandary in a sequence like the following. It is all very well trying for a slam but not so good when you lose the first two tricks because... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
2 Mar 2022
Or play it! Hold Up…and Give Up? It is an age-old problem for defenders. It is so often a good idea to withhold your high honour, especially the ace and especially in no-trumps, to cut a declarer’s communication from one... read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 186
2 Mar 2022
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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
1 Mar 2022
MIXING IT WITH THE BEST. We pick up the story from yesterday in the New Zealand Open Teams where the team of Jeremy Fraser Hoskin, Jack James, Geeske Joel, GeO Tislevoll, Kate Davies and John Patterson squeaked through the Swiss stage and... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
28 Feb 2022
New Zealand Open Teams – Nearly All the Way. This year’s New Zealand Teams featured a number of strong Australian teams, even one mainly Argentina based and the usual strong local subjects. However, one team featuring a strong... read more here
Gold Coast Rescue On Line Tournament
28 Feb 2022
March 5th and 6th on Real Bridge https://www.myabf.com.au/media/congress-downloads/2022/02/14/GOLD_COAST_RESCUE_POSTER_Series_1_002.pdf Both days are 12 noon to 7pm in NZ. Entries... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
25 Feb 2022
Mishaps on Court and at the Table. Observant readers will have noticed that this column, “Daily Hands” was missing for just about all of January and some of February. There was a couple of reasons why. One had something to do with a... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
24 Feb 2022
What’s the Question? Well, if you knew the question, then you might be able to give the answer! What is your partner doing? Have you ever had cause to wonder about that? Just once or twenty times! So? South DealsBoth Vul... read more here
Daily Bridge in New Zealand
23 Feb 2022
Have You Got the Pip (s)? I commented yesterday that there is always a good mix of the spectacular deals and then the more bread and butter ones in every bridge competition. Today’s deal falls into the latter category but it was still very... read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 185
23 Feb 2022
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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
22 Feb 2022
That many! Not just another flat 4333 hand! Naturally, there were some interesting deals in the week of Bridge during the... read more here
Online Bridge Lessons
22 Feb 2022
Want to learn bridge but can't make it to a club for lessons? We have two online sessions coming up open to anybody in New Zealand wanting to learn bridge. Auckland's online sessions start on Monday 7th March from 7pm -... read more here
New Zealand National Congress 2021
21 Feb 2022
ON-LINE and ON-TRACK for Success. In the last couple of weeks, we have seen the National Congress for 2021 take place on-line on Real Bridge. While some are not comfortable with this medium, it was realistically the only way we could run such an... read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 184
16 Feb 2022
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Congratulations to our new Grandmasters
15 Feb 2022
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Board Election Cycle 2022
12 Feb 2022
As at the close of the nomination period at 5pm yesterday two nominations were received for the two vacancies. Accordingly, no election will be required. Congratulations to Anne Barrowclough returning for a further term... read more here
NZ Bridge Congress information
11 Feb 2022
All results, real bridge links, seating plans, supplementary information and other info is on the Congress page of this website. Click here to access it. read more here
A special day for a special lady
9 Feb 2022
Eileen doing what she loved with Jeanette Meijer (partly obscured), Jean O'Brien and Shirley Craig. There was a special day at the Geraldine Bridge Club on Wednesday 2nd February 2022 when Life Member Eileen Lyon turned 100 years... read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 183
9 Feb 2022
Here is the link to this week's show The weekly Bridge gossip, views, tips and chatter with Barry and Mereana At the pond with Kermit ... read more here
Covid-19 Advisory from NZ Bridge
4 Feb 2022
Advisory No 25 - 4 February 2022.pdf read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 182
2 Feb 2022
Here is the link to this week's show The weekly Bridge gossip, views, tips and chatter with Barry and Mereana At the pond with Kermit... read more here
Covid-19 Advisory from NZ Bridge
27 Jan 2022
Mask Wearing Advisory No 24 - 27 January 2022.pdf read more here
National On-Line Congress Update...for those not familiar with Real Bridge
26 Jan 2022
Not Familiar with Real Bridge? We have just launched the 2021 National On-Line Bridge Congress, to be held on the Real Bridge platform. Dates for this Congress are as per the cancelled live Congress, Thursday February 10th –... read more here
The Bridge Zone Radio Show - 182
26 Jan 2022
Here is the link to this week's show The weekly Bridge gossip, views, tips and chatter with Barry and Mereana At the pond with Kermit ... read more here
New Zealand Bridge National ON-Line Congress update
25 Jan 2022
We cannot hold the Congress live because our country is “red” but we can still hold it on "Real Bridge". Same Dates: Thursday February 10th until Thursday February 17th 2022 Same main events (though... read more here
National Congress Feb 2022
24 Jan 2022
We had hoped to share details with you today but putting arrangements in place to move the Congress to RealBridge is taking us bit longer. Tomorrow (Tuesday 25th) we will circulate details including: Revised list of events... read more here
Tauranga Mini Congress- hosted online using RealBridge
24 Jan 2022
Tga Mini Congress Poster 2022 Revised.pdf The Tauranga Regional Congress ( this coming weekend) has been transferred from face to face to online using the RealBridge platform. Additional entries are being taken. (link below)... read more here
Announcement- National Congres Feb 2022
23 Jan 2022
We must have upset the bridge gods. Once again we are being forced to look at an alternative for Congress. With the decision by Government to change the “traffic light system” to red from 11.59pm this evening there is no way... read more here
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