Northerns Bridge clubs elects new chair
Anyone who wants to join the club can contact Bridie on bridiebullensmith@afrihost.co.za for more information.
Devan Chetty was elected as the new chairperson of the Benoni Northerns Bridge Club at their AGM at Benoni Northerns Sports Club on March 9.
Chetty replaces the long-serving Bridie Bullen-Smith.
After three years of Covid-19 disruptions where games were played online, the club is ready to forge ahead, especially after the pandemic led to the closure of two other local clubs.
How is bridge played? Bridge is a game played by four people at a table. Two pairs in combat.
Your partner will sit opposite you, and players are commonly referred to as north, east, south and west. North/south and east/west are partners.
Cards are shuffled and distributed one at a time – clockwise – to the players. Each player will get 13 cards. Then it starts.
The object is to use a sequence of bidding with your partner to arrive at the number of tricks you think you can make depending on the cards you were dealt – your opposing pair will do the same. This aspect of the game is called “the auction”.
Each “game” comprises two segments – an auction where you need to bid and buy the contract depending on the strength of your honour cards and the length of suits, and then the play commences, which is the second segment.
Each player plays a card in turn where the highest card (or trump) wins to form a “trick”, and each side will assess the number of tricks gained in the play and a score is assigned depending on the end result as compared to the final bid in the auction period.
When one plays at a club, one plays duplicate bridge, where every table receives the same hands of cards in rotation.
One, therefore, competes not only against one’s opponents at each table, as in social bridge, but also against every other corresponding pair at the other tables, thus arriving at an overall winning pair.
Anyone who wants to join the club may contact Bridie on bridiebullensmith@afrihost.co.za for more information.
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