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Added 11-April-2025 Session Time Change: Tuesday Afternoon sessions will start at 10.20am from Tuesday, May 6th. There will be a brief break for morning tea. Beginner Lessons: Next set of Beginner lessons: start Wednesday 30th April. Tutor: Shirley Newton The Club also has a set of beginner lessons starting on Tuesday, July 22 at 10am-12.30pm. Tutor: Fiona Temple Easter Bridge at the Club: The regular bridge sessions will be on as usual for the Friday, Sunday and Monday sessions. Anniversary Pairs: Date & Time: Friday 25th April at 10am. This is a handicapped tournament. See website for more information. Entries can be made by email or sign up at the club. Please pay entry fee into the Club’s bank account by Wednesday 23rd April. This is to allow the payments to be checked on the Thursday before the tournament. Please note: The regular Friday bridge session will not be held on that day. Club Working Bee: Saturday 26th April, 9.30am start to midday. From 9-April-2025 Sunday Bridge THIS weekend 13th April Bridge will still be on when the CHCH marathon is running. There is a map on what route to take to the Club and a car pass to be displayed on your dashboard when entering the closed road section at the following link https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6x6kgp3mg1qtb6vygesii/2025-CM-Bridge-Club-Access-Map-Pass.pdf?rlkey=mky1mvay4p61jy1gxno0qb62n&st=593gb0tv&dl=0 . There are also copies printed at the Club for anyone who is going to bridge this Sunday (map on one side and car pass on the other). Please see the director. Tournament Results: Mid Canterbury Pairs (5A) 1st – Leo Hammond / Leon Meier (scroll down to see their photo) 2nd – Jane Lennon / David Taylor Waimate Pairs 1st Lynn & David Taylor Anniversary Pairs: Date & Time: Friday 25th April at 10am. This is a handicapped tournament. See foyer for more information and sign-up sheet. Club Working Bee: Date & Time: Saturday 26th April, 9.30am start to midday. Next set of Beginner lessons: start Wednesday 30th April. Tutor: Shirley Newton Tournament Date Confirmations: Senior / Junior Teams tournament: There is an error in the programme book regarding the date of this tournament. The correct date is Saturday 16th August. Canterbury Charity Pairs: the date has been changed from Saturday 6th December to the following Saturday 13th December. Cruise Bridge session at the Club Date & Time: Thursday 10th April at 10am until 1pm. 20 visitors from the cruise along with Jeff Grotenhuis, owner of the Agile Bridge Club in Los Angeles are coming to play at the Club and we would love our members to welcome and join them in this bridge session. Morning tea provided. See the foyer noticeboard to enter.

Added 28-March-2025 NZ Bridge Website Issues Hi to all Canty Clubs - Ashburton Tournament 5th April Can you please forward this to your members please: "If you entered our 5th April Ashburton tournament in the last few days, while the website was having problems, PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE, check if you are entered. People who did enter very recently have been dropped off it seems. If your name doesn’t appear on the entry list, PLEASE enter again. Thanks. Ashburton Bridge Club 79 Alford Forest Rd Ashburton 7700 (03) 308 4276" From NZ Bridge Hi again everyone, Just quick progress report for you to share with your members. The roll back has been successful. Players and administrators should now be able to enter tournaments We can add flyers to tournament listings and those loaded previously can be accessed. Clubs can now upload session files for masterpoint purposes. Administrators are now able to make changes to player records for membership purposes. There will be some updates that were captured during the days that the revamped website was up that will have been lost due to the wind back. If its session files these can now be reloaded. Membership changes can be reloaded (send to me if that helps) One thing that will be an issue is tournament entries made during this period. Those will have been lost. I am sorry about that but ask that you check the current listings and if you can recall missing ones, please add them back. Share this email with your members and ask them to check their recent tournament entries and resubmit them if they are missing. Tomorrow we will continue the tidy up and have even thing sorted before the weekend. If anyone is having login issues particularly club administrators, please email me. I can record a temp password t get people up and running. Finally, I know that Bridget is working hard to get the congress events back on the calendar and will open them up for entries sometime tomorrow. I will send a note out when this is operative. Thanks everyone for supporting us and for your patience while we sort things out. Some good progress today, and we will all sleep a little easier tonight. Best wishes, Alister. Added 27-March-2025 Helen Bremner , valued club member and past committee member, passed away earlier this week. Helen’s friends are invited by her family to attend a Celebration of Helen’s Life at Birdwood in Beckenham 2-4pm Saturday 29 March. April Tutorial – Aimed at Junior and Intermediate players: This coming Wednesday night at 5.50pm, $5 Learn to switch your brain to the NT page, as responses to NT’s are quite different to when your partner opens 1-suit. Describe your shape and HCP to reach the best contract. We will also learn how to use Stayman correctly to find a Major FIT. NZ Bridge Website Issues: Date: 26/03/2025 To Club Secretaries CC Regions Please share this important information with your members' I am writing to share some important information regarding the situation with the refreshed website and the serious implications that this changeover has had on our database and some key functions. There is no point trying to sugar coat a disaster, so I am telling it as it is. While we had hoped that the functions including tournament entry management, membership management and the congress entry function would be remedied quickly, it is clear to me that this is not going to be achievable. A further issue was discovered last night where in some players had lost their A points after files for a team’s tournament were uploaded. As this was not able to be fixed as of 4pm today I have made the decision in conjunction with the site developers to wind things back to the old Website. This will enable the new offering to be worked on (offline) and tested properly before going live. There is no time frame for this, it’s imperative that we do this properly this time. This will take place tomorrow (Thursday) during which time there will be no website access. It will mean that the position will be rolled back to as of Thursday morning last week. Session files and membership changes input since then will need to be reloaded. Players may find that they need to log in with their former passwords. If need be, I can reset these on request. To make this happen I need you all to work with me. I want clubs to refrain from uploading session files until I give the go ahead to do so. That is likely to be Monday next week. This will include any files previously uploaded from Thursday last week as these will be dropped as part of the wind back. If you have made any membership changes since then I would like you to send the details to me. I will take responsibility at this end to load these when I can. For those who have sent in such changes already, I still have the details, and they will be on my to do list. With regards to the Congress entry function this new offering is not going to be available for this year’s event. When the wind back is up and running Bridget will put the congress events back in the schedule and will open them up for entries. We will advise you by email when this is available. Between us we are working on an option in the short term for payments. It may be by way of the issue of an invoice or using a “stripe” payments facility. More on this when we can. For those clubs with tournaments this weekend I will cut and paste your entry lists now and email those to you separately. I want to make sure you have information as of now. Things are rugged for us all right now, but rest assured we and our designers are working hard to sort this all out. Best wishes, Alister. Date: 27/03/2025 Good morning Just touching base with a progress report for you. Thank you so much for the kind messages we received over night, they certainly help us at this end. We are making good progress with the roll back. The old website is now in view with the restoration of the database as at last week underway. This will take some time to complete. At this point though we are not ready for club admin people to load any changes or input session files. As mentioned yesterday please send any membership changes to me and hold your session files back until we give the go-ahead to upload them. I also mentioned yesterday that players may experience an issue logging in when we give the word that it is safe to do so. They will need to use their original login details. I can reset passwords at this end if need be. Please share this with your members as we want players and clubs to be fully informed as we work through this. I will touch base again later today hopefully with a further report. We will be on deck and available over the weekend to work though queries and issues that arise. Regards, Alister. From 26-March-2025 Sunday Seminar 30th March (this Sunday: aimed at Junior and Intermediate players. Email the office to sign up. Starts at 10am. Tutor: Neal Phillips Cost: $15 Topic: Overcalls The opponents will open the bidding before you about half the time, so it is important to have an effective defensive bidding structure. You and partner must be confident in the meanings of each other’s bids. We will discuss what you are showing partner when you overcall a suit bid, pre-emptive bids, and no-trump bids. When do you double? When do you cue bid? Have you even discussed what it means when you double opponents minor suit pre-empt? Waimate All Grades 8B Tournament: For those who have entered, please read the following message re this tournament. "The link on the email and flyer to our tournament on 6 April has changed because of the recent changes to NZ Bridge website. As long as your members have re-registered on the new website this new link should work. If they have any problems, just email me the names to add. The link is now https://legacy.nzbridge.co.nz/events/11570/Waimate-All-Grades-Pairs " Cruise Bridge session at the Club Date & Time: Thursday 10th April at 10am until 1pm. 20 visitors from the cruise along with Jeff Grotenhuis, owner of the Agile Bridge Club in Los Angeles are coming to play at the Club and we would love our members to welcome and join them in this bridge session. Morning tea provided. See the foyer noticeboard to enter. Westende Jewellers , Club sponsor are having their Anniversary sale 26th March to the 6th April, 421 Colombo Street. https://www.westendejewellers.co.nz/