Attleboro Bridge Club Student's Corner (and lesson info) Home | Thursday results 2011/12 | Upcoming Events for 2012 (updated 01/07/12) | Directions and Contacts | Players of the Year | My Two Cents Worth | Other Links | Student's Corner (and lesson info) Other Links  Monday Night game at Epoch assisted living facility in Norton, right on Route 140, about a mile south of the Tweeter center.  See lessons link for directions and info about formal lesson schedule.  This is a student game.  There is always a clinic (free mini lesson) starting at 6:15 PM, when there is not a formal lesson series ongoing.  The free lesson runs for @ 1/2 hour.  Then there is a short play session, which lasts about 2 hours.  It is duplicate style, but very casual.  There is also a free hand analysis of the hands played for that evening.  Occasionally, we run formal lesson series once or twice a year.  During these periods, lessons run for about an hour, then play for @1 1/2 hours.  There is no cost to play.  Epoch pays for my services.  During formal lesson series, there is no cost for the lesson itself, but non-resident participants will be required to buy the student text, which is currently $20.  Formal lesson series run for @8 weeks. The Club series or Bidding series starts every September the Monday after Labor Day.  You can download the first two chapters pending ordering and receipt of the books.  To print, you will need to print in landscape, and may need to reduce the size slightly to @ 85% to fit on 8.5 by 11 paper.  One note, this is from the old version of the book, that uses 16-18 1NT instead of 15-17 1NT.  The new books will have the 15-17 1NT range. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 The diamond Series or play of the hand is usually started around the end of January or beginning of February each year. You can download the first two chapters here. They are from the old book that uses 16-18 1NT. The new books will have the 15-17 1NT range. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Transfer bids lesson GAME FILES Listed below are files that can be downloaded on your computer.  They are hands that can be played in Bridge Baron or supposedly other major bridge playing software programs.  The first link is the directions to access the file from Bridge Baron once you have downloaded a file (I suggest saving the ????????.PPL file directly to your C: drive to make finding the files easier).  In the first section after the directions, these are files from the various lesson series.  Suggested bidding and play is programmed in.  I request that only my students download these files.  Other teachers who wish to use these for their students may use them as well. In the second section are files that have been previously played in my Thursday game in Attleboro.  Suggested bidding is geared to my students with only standard conventions used. There are usually 16 hands in each file, each running @12K in size.  These files may be downloaded by anyone.  In the third section are files created from hand records from various tournaments and events I have been to.   There are usually 36 hands.  No suggested bidding or play is programmed in, although in notes, if there were suggested results, they are included there.  These files may be downloaded by anyone.   Directions for accessing files once downloaded  Please read this first before downloading any files. Lesson Series, students only please! Club Series, or Bidding  posted, ready to download and play!  Grouping of hands by each chapter will be done and posted by the end of September 2012. Diamond Series, or Play of the Hand  posted, ready to download and play! Grouping of hands by each chapter is in process. Chapters 1-7 are complete, uploaded, and ready to play. ?Chapters 8-9 will be posted as I complete them, but all of them should be posted by the end of March 2012. Diamond Series, Chapter 1 Making A Plan Diamond Series, Chapter 2 Developing Tricks- Promotion and length Diamond Series, Chapter 3 Developing Tricks- The Finesse Diamond Series, Chapter 4, Eliminating Losers, Ruffing and Discarding Diamond Series, Chapter 5 Watching out for entries Diamond Series, Chapter 6 Watching out for opponents Diamond Series, Chapter 7 Managing the trump suit Diamond Series, Chapter 8 Putting it all together (pending) Diamond Series, Chapter 9 Jacoby Transfers (pending) Heart Series, or Defense  posted, ready to download and play! New by chapter: an average of 12-16 hands, mostly from the defense book, with a few additional examples applicable to the topic. They are available by chapter. Heart Series, chapter 1 Opening leads against NT contracts Heart Series, chapter 2 Opening leads against suit contracts Heart Series, chapter 3 Third hand play Heart Series, chapter 4 Second hand play Heart Series, chapter 5 Defensive signals Heart Series, chapter 6 Developing defensive tricks Heart Series, chapter 7 Interfering with declarer Heart Series, chapter 8 Making a plan Heart Series, chapter 9 Negative doubles New Spade Series, or commonly used conventions, Est unknown No Trump Series, or more commonly used conventions, unknown Game Series  These may be downloaded by anyone. These are a sampling of hands previously played at the Attleboro Bridge Club, and have also been used at the student game previously for lesson purposes. I do have @ 100 additional files uploaded (all of 2007, 2008, and some of 2009), but have not yet had a chance to type up the links to all those files. You will see the links added gradually over the next couple of months. Each file contains @ 16 hands, and each file is @ 12KB in size. 11/16/2006 12/28/2006 02/08/2007 11/30/2006 01/04/2007 02/15/2007 12/07/2006 01/11/2007 02/22/2007 12/14/2006 01/18/2007 03/01/2007 12/21/2006 01/25/2007 03/08/2007 02/01/2007 03/15/2007 Other series  These may be downloaded by anyone. Just hands from Tournaments I have been to or STAC games I have run or played.  No suggested bidding listed, but if hand analysis is listed on the hand records, it is included in the notes.  Most hand records contain 36 hands, each file is @ 27 K in size. I am a little behind in my postings here, but I will have some new files here in a few months. RI Unit Gala 10/30/05   AM (posted, filename rigalaam.ppl)   PM  (posted, filename rigalapm.ppl)

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