The European Bridge League's first online championship starts on 9th January, shortly after, other events start.
3rd Online European Women's Teams Championship: 9th to 11th January 2026
European Spring Online Transnational Senior Teams Championship - March 16th to 19th, and 23rd to 26th.
Euroopean Online Youth Championship - January 25th to April 26th
Euroepan Online Transnational Mixed Team Championships May 14th to 17th.
See https://www.eurobridge.org/
BANDonline are organising duplicate games with ACBL masterpoints, and social bridge. Check out their site for details.
The Canadian Bridge Federation Maple Leaf games are friday nights, straing 7 & 7:10 (two games to choose)
ACBL Social Bridge Club on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Coming up in January: The Real Deal, organised and hosted by ACBL. Silver and Gold teams and pairs games
Graham Hazel, the CEO of Real Bridge Games Ltd, along with fellow directors Shireen Mohandes and Andy Bowles, is looking forward to July 1 2025.
Why? Because from that day onwards clubs will be able to host ACBL-sanctioned games on RealBridge, allowing players to earn ACBL masterpoints on the only online platform that looks and feels like real bridge.
Following a recent agreement between the ACBL and RealBridge, the two organizations are working together to implement the necessary interfaces to support this new opportunity.
Bronia Jenkins, Executive Director of the ACBL, said, "We are delighted to offer an ACBL sanction to RealBridge. Through RealBridge's work with the ACBL Educational Foundation and the ACBL's Social Bridge Nights, we have become familiar with their technology and their commitment to quality. We're confident that expanding the options available to players to include platforms like RealBridge is good for bridge."
Maybe you are a teacher, coach or author and you would like to find out about applications that can help you?
The Bridge Technology Train is a series of short presentations. It is free to attend.
https://realbridge.online/techtrain.html
https://realbridge.online/intro-signup.html
Gonzalo Goded, from Spain, is revolutionising the world of Vugraph, with technology that means it will no longer be necessary to have human operators inputting bids and plays.
Who is it for? People who want their events to be broadcast via a Vugraph presentation. This is not just for major events. If your club enjoys face-to-face play, and players later want to find out how the board was played at the table of the club expert – you can make that happen.
Does it work right now? Yes!
Chris Jones, from the USA, is on a mission to produce sophisticated deal-generating software. To be clear, this application is not for dealing boards for tournament play. It is for creating hands that match shapes, patterns and constraints.
Who is it for? Teachers, Coaches, Authors, Analysts (especially those interested in conventions), Players who want hands for practice. If you are a Tournament Director wanting to analyse or review boards for rulings, you will find it useful to do simulations.
Jean-Pierre Desmoulins, from France, has developed a great way to play a deal, whether this is for a magazine feature (with “link to play”) or for a teacher who wants players to have top-up reminders on what they’ve recently been taught. Bite sized learning for hungry bridge players. Could we coin the phrase “sushi sized learning”? Sure.
Who is it for? Teachers, coaches, authors
Ray Spalding, from USA, is the familiar face of BridgeComposer, used extensively by communities of Bridge professionals around the world. If you don’t know about it, or if you would like to know more about what it can do, then come along. Ray will demonstrate four parts of the system.
Who is it for? Primarily, Teachers, Coaches, Authors, Tournament Directors, Analysts.
