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Thursday Morning Lecture Series

The Unit provides a series of free lectures as part of our education program. These lectures cover areas of interest for new as well as intermediate players. Starting January 1st, our series changed to a new time - 9 AM to 10:30 AM. They are still held at our Bridge Center.

We are pleased to announce the current lecture series.

Winter 2010 Lectures

Date Subject Presenter Supporting Material
Jan. 14 Matchpoint Declarer Play Frank Smoot Handout
Bridge Baron File
Jan. 28 Opening Leads Susan Johnston Handout
Exercises
Feb. 18 Splinter Bids Lori Spaeth Handout
Mar. 11 Weak Two Bids Frank Smoot Handout
Mar. 25 Preempts at the 3 level Frank Smoot Handout
Apr. 8 Improve your Game - by not just playing club Games Geeske Joel Handout
Apr. 22 Cue Bids Hamish Bennett

Handout
May 13 Balancing (and card detecting) Frank Smoot Handout
May 27 How to Select and Adopt New Conventions Dave Bernstein

*Instructions for downloading and playing exercises.

Previous Lecture Series topics and handouts:

Fall 2009
Winter 2009
Fall 2008
Geeske Joel presents Leads Against NT and Suit Contracts to over 60 attendees.
Our Lecture Series is funded by the generous donations of our members to the Unit 503 Restricted Fund. The Unit 503 Restricted Fund is administered by the ACBL Educational Foundation and donations to it are tax deductible. Information on how you can donate to this fund.

Many have asked about the cost of the Lecture Series. The 2008 - 2009 total was $5,600.00 which was made possible by the tax deductible donations by unit members and friends to the ACBL Educational Foundation which provides funds for Unit 503 programs such as this. We hope you will consider a donation. Details can be found here or by contacting alan.cummings@stanford.edu. Donations will be collected and sent to the Foundation at the end of August.

This page last updated on Wednesday, May 26, 2010