"It’s a game you can play at any age. If you take it up young,
you have fun doing it the rest of your life. A lot of games don’t have that depth. This one does."
-Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and ACBL member.

Introduction to Modern Bridge: The Club Series
 

April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 3, 5    6:45pm - 9:00pm

Cincinnati Bridge Center • 2860 Cooper Road • Evendale, Ohio 45241

Attention Baby Boomers, Seniors, College and High School Students!

Start now to learn the game. Bridge is an excellent hobby. You will meet new friends, keep your mind sharp, and have fun. The Cincinnati Bridge Center provides parties, mentoring programs, tournaments, a bridge library, lessons, and regular novice and duplicate games for you to enjoy during the day or evening.

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates both play bridge. They have learned that bridge is more than just a card game. It teaches logic, reasoning, quick thinking, patience, concentration, and partnership skills.

The American Contract Bridge League has commissioned one the the world’s most successful bridge teachers, Audrey Grant to develop this course. Audrey has taken what many people consider to be a complex game and made it easy and fun to learn. The "Club Series", a first in a series of four courses designed for beginners or those who may have played before, and would like to learn modern bidding and play.

In this six-session course you will learn:

• The Basics of Bidding and Play
• Modern Bidding
  - NoTrump bidding
  - Suit Contracts
  - Overcalls and responses
  - Responding as a partner
  - Rebids
  - Stayman convention
• Scoring
• Duplicate bridge
• Guidelines for Play

Instructor
Bob VeVerka is a certified ACBL instructor and director. He is a past board member of the Cincinnati Bridge Association.

Cost and Registration
$95 per person or $175 for two students who register together (regularly $190). Price includes text book. Class size is limited. Register early to insure a seat. Registration must be paid before class starts. Registration deadline is April 3, 2010

 
For more information call 513-772-5115 

Download Registration Form

"Playing chess, bridge or a musical instrument significantly lowers the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease
or other forms of dementia, according to the most comprehensive study to examine the
benefits of challenging intellectual activity among the elderly."

-The Washington Post, June 19, 2003
Based on a study released by
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University, New York