Welcome to the Lessons Page!
BRIDGE TIPS
Due to the Holidays in December, Bridge Tips will resume once again on January 3. Janie Hunt and Margie Moses, will be offering the following topics from 10-12 each Saturday morning. The cost is $5.00 and all are welcome to join us if the topic is of interest to you. We present the daily topic in a fairly short lesson and this is followed by playing lots of example hands with table monitors to help with any questions you might have about the bidding and play of hands. We look forward to seeing everyone again.
January 3 – Comprehensive review of No Trump and responses
January 10 – Major Opening – 2/1 responses, delayed limit raise, drop dead response
January 17 – Major Opening – limit raise, cue bids, Jacoby 2NT, HSGT (help suit game try)
January 24 – Inverted minors – How to find a No Trump fit
January 31 – Doubles – Support, negative, take out and the BIG DOUBLE
INTERMEDIATE BRIDGE LESSONS
John Felker will be using techniques from the Losing Trick Count [LTC] and the Law of Total Tricks [LOTT] methodologies to help you better evaluate your and partner’s hands to bid to the best level. After learning about these two methodologies, you will also learn bidding systems that will help you further
refine your bidding skills. These techniques work whether you use 2 Over 1 or Standard American.
John’s classes will be held on Wednesdays from 10:45 to 11:30, beginning January 14 and continuing each Wednesday for the next 6 to 7 weeks. You are encouraged to entice your favorite partner(s) to also attend as bidding is not a one-way street.
The cost is either $5.00 per class or $20 up front for the entire course with proceeds going directly to the CBC.
January 14 and 21 – Losing Trick Count
January 28 thru February 25 – Law of Total Tricks
CBC Library
Cheryl Whitfield, Librarian
Prior to moving to Chattanooga in 2002, Cheryl Whitfield lived in three states and obtained a degree from a university in each one of those states. Learning to play duplicate bridge in Chattanooga has been perhaps the hardest “degree” to earn, she says, but that education has been well worth the time and effort and added a great deal of enjoyment during her retirement years. Initially Chattanooga Bridge Center member Sue Shramko encouraged Cheryl to try bridge at the Bridge Center. At about that same time, Betty Sue Farmer opened the Bridge Center to new players for a game on Mondays so that they could learn to play the duplicate way before taking the plunge to play in any regular duplicate game. Not long after, Michael (Mike) Sherman agreed to teach a group of four newcomers in a series of private lessons that certainly improved their play of the game. Because of the welcoming attitude and encouragement of these duplicate players, Cheryl and other new players became regular players at the Bridge Center. Cheryl’s first game at the Bridge Center was in 2005, and she hasn’t stopped playing several times a week since then. Her duties as Club Librarian began in 2008, and she has maintained the club’s library since that time, ordering and processing 600+ books on the subject of bridge. Cheryl wrote the document “Chattanooga Bridge Center Library Policies and Procedures,” which was approved by the Board of Directors on November 16, 2008. No good library is without one of these documents. In lieu of a card catalog, there is a spreadsheet in a notebook that lists the library’s holdings, and any member who is interested in finding a book on a particular subject or a book by a particular author can use this list to find books the library has in its collection. The support of the library by the Board of Directors has provided a valuable resource for all members.