Meeting Times

• Monday 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Description

This class is for more experienced players who have taken several classes beyond the Beginner level. We will cover bidding, declarer play, and bringing your defense to the next level. We’ll use Standard American bidding based on five-card majors and will cover important basic conventions, like Blackwood, Stayman, transfers, and Negative Doubles. Then we'll build upon that knowledge and learn more about competitive conventions, like Michaels, Splinters, Jacoby 2NT, and New Minor Forcing. The class will also cover advances in defensive play: what to discard, giving count, and how to use suit preference signals. Comprised of short classroom lectures followed by the bidding and play of real bridge hands, this class is for those who are ready for more complex play.

Recommended texts: Bridge for Everyone, D. W. Crisfield, and 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, Seagram and Smith, available on Amazon.

Mike Hess has been mentoring and teaching bridge for over 30 years. He is a Diamond Life Master with over 5,500 masterpoints. Mike has won pair and team events at the club, sectional, regional and even national levels. In addition to taking several  CT Unit 126# pairs and team titles,  Mike's  2017 four person Grand National team qualified to represent District 25 (New England) at the Summer Nationals in Toronto, and then went on to win the North American championship for Flight A over a five day period.

Additional Notes

Class dates are: 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4