Summer Season of Online Pairs now Open!

The NSW Online Pairs League is a state-wide IMPs Pairs competition particularly aimed at non-metropolitan players. It's played on the RealBridge platform every Thursday night for 8 weeks. There have already been two successful seasons (see Spring season results). The Summer season commences on 12 January. This flyer has detailed information.

In case you need convincing, here are some of the reasons you should really want to play:

short (12 board) sessions (start at 7:30 pm, no more than 1.5 hours)
separate divisions for players at every level
a full round-robin with North-South and East-West winners in each division (a truly fair IMPs pairs event)
half-price entry (only $20/player for 8 weeks – what a bargain) for less experienced players (<100 masterpoints) whom NSWBA is keen to encourage
Red masterpoints
substitutes allowed for matches where life gets in the way
NSWBA returns $10 to the NSW registered Home Club of each participant!

Enter now via MyABF.

State Open Teams Finals

Where City meets Country

State Open Teams Finals - 10* Teams from the NSWBA, the Sydney Metropolitan zone, the Outer Metropolitan, Northern, Southern and Western zones will play in the John Arkinstall State Teams Round Robin on Friday and Saturday 9-10 December.

* Unfortunately there is no representative from the Western zone, so there are only 9 teams.

On Sunday 11 December the top two teams will play in the Final and the top two Country Teams will play in the Country Teams final.

The Summery Swiss Pairs Congress will be held in parallel on Sunday 11th December. This event is open to everyone! Enter via MyABF.

Upcoming Events

The NSWBA Tournament Calendar now allows you to filter the list of congresses so that you can see which are face-to-face and which are online - the online congresses can be filtered by platform.

For Club Congresses Organisers, applications for 2023 congresses are now open. Please submit your application to Pauline Gumby, the Congress and State Events Co-ordinator.

STATE EVENTS
STATE EVENTS
Dec 9-11 (Fri-Sun) NSWBA
State Open Teams Finals (TBC)

Dec 10-11 (Sat-Sun) NSWBA
State Youth Championships - Pairs and Teams

May 20-21 (Sat-Sun) NSWBA
State Mixed Pairs Championships

May 30-31 (Tue-Wed) Central Coast Leagues Club Bridge Club
State Seniors Championships - Pairs and Teams

Jul 29 (Sat) NSWBA on BBO
State Individual

NSWBA EVENTS
Jan 30-Feb 13 (over 3 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
Open ITS Stage I

Feb 27-Mar 13 (over 3 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
Open ITS Stage II

Mar 18-19 (Sat-Sun) NSWBA
Open ITS Final

Feb 27-Mar 13 (over 3 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
ITS Swiss Pairs

Mar 20-Apr 24 (over 5 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
GNOT Direct Qualifier

Mar 31-Apr 2 (Fri-Sun) NSWBA
Women's ITS

Apr 21-23 (Fri-Sun) NSWBA
Seniors ITS

May 1-8 (over 2 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
State Mixed Pairs Qualifying

May 15-Jun 5 (over 4 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
ANC Butler Pairs

Jun 19-Jul 3 (over 3 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
City of Sydney BAM Teams

CONGRESSES
Dec 11 (Sun) NSWBA
SOT Swiss Pairs

Dec 11 (Sun) Wollstonecraft Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs

Dec 17-18 (Sat-Sun) North Shore Bridge Club
Festival Season Online Congress - Swiss Pairs and Teams

Dec 26-Jan 2 (Mon-Mon) Trumps Bridge Centre
Festival of Bridge

Jan 8 (Sun) North Shore Bridge Club on RealBridge
Summer Online Teams

Jan 29 (Sun) North Shore Bridge Club on RealBridge
Australia Day Weekend Online Swiss Pairs

Mar 11-12 (Sat-Sun) Armidale Bridge Club
Pairs

Mar 18-19 (Sat-Sun) Central Coast Bridge Club
Super Congress - Swiss Pairs and Teams

Mar 25-26 (Sat-Sun) Port Macquarie-Hastings Bridge Association
Swiss Pairs and Teams

Mar 26 (Sun) NSBC@Lindfield
Pauline Evans Swiss Pairs

Apr 16 (Sun) Taree Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs

Apr 23 (Sun) North Shore Bridge Club on RealBridge
Autumn Online Swiss Pairs

Apr 29-30 (Sat-Sun) Peninsula Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs and Teams

May 6-7 (Sat-Sun) Gunnedah Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs and Teams

May 13-14 (Sat-Sun) Coffs Harbour Bridge Club
Teams

May 21 (Sun) NSWBA
Autumn Swiss Pairs

May 28 (Sun) Maitland Bridge Club
Teams

NATIONAL EVENTS
Jan 7-13 (Sat-Fri) Australian Youth Championships
Details announced soon

Jan 10-22 (Tue-Sun) Canberra
Summer Festival of Bridge

Feb 17-25 (Fri-Sat) Gold Coast
Gold Coast Congress

Mar 23-26 (Thu-Sun) Hobart
Tasmanian Festival of Bridge

Apr 28-May 1 (Fri-Mon) Cairns
Barrier Reef Congress

May 4-8 (Thu-Mon) Adelaide
Autumn Nationals

May 20-21 (Sat-Sun) Perth
Western Senior Pairs

May 27-28 (Sat-Sun) Brisbane
River City Gold Mixed Pairs

Jun 8-12 (Thu-Mon) Melbourne
Victor Champion Cup

OTHER
Jan 12-Mar 2 (over 8 Thursdays) NSWBA on RealBridge
NSW Online Pairs League - Summer 23

Apr 6-May 25 (over 8 Thursdays) NSWBA on RealBridge
NSW Online Pairs League - Autumn 23

May 11-Jun 15 (over 5 Thursdays) North Shore Bridge Club on RealBridge
NSBC GNOT DIrect Qualifier

FEATURED ARTICLES

Congress Stories by
Rakesh Kumar

The pluses and minuses of the modern approach to interfering on some shape but little else... and Rakesh celebrates the return of the face-to-face congress at his home club.

The Jacaranda Teams
Aggressive interference

Southern Highlands Congress
Back face-to-face after 3 years!

Directors Course

For Clubs
If you represent a club and would like to host a Directors Course, please contact NSWBA for further details.

For players
To better understand situations that arise when a director is called, Matthew McManus has explained several of them in detail, together with the reasons behind the rulings. His articles are written from the perspective of players - you may find them helpful in your quest to be a better congress player. Review his columns here >

CONGRESS PSYCHE REGISTER

The NSWBA has established a central psyche register for all congresses held in NSW.

The laws permit players to deviate from their systemic agreements so long as the partner of the player who does so has no greater reason to be aware of this deviation than the opponents. Once your partnership has a history of deviating from its agreements in a certain situation you are required to inform your opponents of this tendency.

If you feel that your opponents have psyched against you, please email details of the hand to the psyche register – no action will be taken against players who are reported to the psyche register but once a pair has multiple entries in the psyche register, congress directors will be informed so that they are aware of this history when making their rulings.

A form which can be used for submissions is available HERE.

ABOUT eCONGRESS

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