Melville Bridge Club

Melville Bridge Club: The Melville Bridge Club is a contract bridge club situated in the centre of Edinburgh. It was established in 1936 and with 300 members it is currently the largest bridge club in Edinburgh and one of the largest in Scotland.

The club has members ranging in all abilities from beginners to grand-masters. It is home to a significant number of Scotland's current and past internationalists. In the first World Mindsport Games in 2008 in Beijing all bar one of the open team and the majority of the ladies team came from the club.

The club hosts pairs and teams duplicate events and also rubber bridge. The club is also extensively used for matches and events organised by the Eastern District of the Scottish Bridge Union - the governing body for the game in Scotland. Various national events are also staged in the club.

Visitors are welcome to play at the club and details are on the web site.

The club first rented property at 44 Melville Street in the Edinburgh New Town, one of the grander streets in Edinburgh named after Viscount Melville. In 1950 the club moved to four storey Victorian Town House at 9 Grosvenor Crescent which it still occupies.

9 Grosvenor Crescent was built in 1868 firstly as a private house but during the years has changed its use, becoming a maternity home during the Second World War and then part of the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science.

During the excavations for the new building some bronze age swords were found [1] some of which are now part of the collection in the National Museum of Scotland - see [2] for details.

The building is opened to the public each year as part of Scotland's Doors Open day which is organised in Edinburgh by the Cockburn Association.

A bridge club of the same name exists in The City of Melville in Australia.

External links

Homepage of the Melville Bridge Club

Scottish Bridge Union

Scottish Bridge Union, East District

Cockburn Association

City of Melville Bridge Club, Australia

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v · 2/1 game forcing • A Acol • Alcatraz coup • American Bridge Association • American Contract Bridge League • Asptro • Astro convention • Auction bridge • Avoidance play • B • Backward finesse • Backwash squeeze • Balanced hand • Balancing (bridge) • Baron convention • Bath coup • Beer card • Belladonna coup • Bergen raises • Bermuda Bowl • Bid whist • Bidding box • Bidding system • Blackout convention • Blackwood convention • Blue Club • Blue Ribbon Pairs • Blue Team (bridge) • Board (bridge) • Boring Club • Bridge at the 1st World Mind Sports Games • Bridge Base Basic • Bridge Base Inc. • Bridge convention • Bridge d'Italia • Bridge ethics • Bridge magazines • Bridge maxims • Bridge probabilities • Bridge scoring • Bridge World Standard • Bridgette (game) • Brown sticker • Brozel • Bruce LM-5000 Pairs • Buffett Cup • Byzantine Blackwood convention C • Camrose Trophy • Canadian Bridge Federation • Canapé (bridge) • Cannibal squeeze • Cappelletti • Card reading (bridge) • Carrot 1NT • Carrot 4NT • Carrot Club • Cavendish Invitational • Chicago (bridge card game) • Clash squeeze • Comfy Canapé • Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships • Compound squeeze • Computer bridge • Contract bridge • Contract bridge diagram • Contract Bridge for Beginners • Copenhagen convention (bridge) • Coup (bridge) • Coup en passant • CRASH convention • Criss-cross squeeze • Crocodile coup • Cue bid • D • Dallas Aces • Deschapelles coup • Devil's coup • Distribution (bridge) • DONT • Double squeeze • Drury convention • Duck (bridge) • Duplicate bridge • E • EBUTA • EHAA • Ekren convention • Endplay • English Bridge Union • Entry (cards) • Entry squeeze • Entry-shifting squeeze • F • Fantunes • Finesse • Fishbein convention • Fishbein Trophy • Fit showing jump bid • Five-card majors • Flannery • Forcing bid • Forcing defense • Forcing notrump • Forcing pass • Four-color deck • Fourth suit forcing • Fourth suit forcing convention • G • Gambling 3NT • Game try • Gardener 1NT • Gerber convention • Ghestem • Glossary of contract bridge terms • Gold Cup (bridge) • Goulash (bridge) • Grand National Teams • Grand slam force • Grosvenor gambit • Guard squeeze • H • Hand evaluation • Hello convention • Highly unusual method • History of contract bridge • Hold up (bridge) • I • International Mind Sports Association • Inverted minors • J • Jacoby 2NT • Jacoby transfer • K • Kamikaze 1NT • Kaplan-Sheinwold • Keohane North American Swiss Teams • Knockout squeeze • L • Landy • Last Train • Law of total tricks • Laws of Duplicate Bridge • Leaping Michaels • Lebensohl • Lightner double • Lionel convention • List of bridge books • List of bridge competitions and awards • List of bridge magazines • List of bridge people • List of defenses to 1NT • Little Major • Loser on loser • Losing-Trick Count • M • Meckwell convention • Merrimac coup • Meyerson convention • Michaels cuebid • Mind sport • Minibridge • Mini-Roman 2 Diamond • Mohan convention • Morton's fork coup • Moscito • Muiderberg convention • Multi 2 diamonds • N • Nail Life Master Open Pairs • Namyats • Negative double • Negative free bid • New minor forcing • Non-simultaneous double squeeze • Norman four notrump • North American Bridge Championships • O • Ogust convention • OK bridge 2/1 • Opening lead • Optimum contract and par contract • Overcall • P • Pass-or-correct bid • Percentage play • Pin (bridge) • Piotr Gawryś • Playing card • Polish Club • Portland Club (London) • Precision Club • Principle of fast arrival • Principle of restricted choice • Progressive squeeze • Pseudo-squeeze • Psychic bid • Q • Quantitative no trump bids • Quantitative notrump bids • R • Raptor convention • Relay bid • Reverse (bridge) • Roman Club • Romex system • Rosenblum Cup • Rosenkranz double • Rosenkranz redouble • Rubber bridge • Rubens advances • Rubensohl • Ruff (cards) • Rule of 11 • Rusinow leads • S • Safety play • Säffle Spade • San Francisco convention • Scissors coup • Screen (bridge) • Semi-forcing notrump • Serious 3NT • Signal (bridge) • Simple squeeze • Simultaneous double squeeze • Singaporean bridge • Single suiter • Single-suit squeeze • Slam-seeking conventions • Smith signal • Smother play • Snapdragon double • Splinter bid • Squeeze play (bridge) • Standard American • Stayman convention • Stepping-stone squeeze • Strip squeeze • Strong club system • Strong pass • Strong two bid • Strong two clubs • Suction convention • Suit combination – J missing • Suit combination • Suit combinations – K10 missing • Support double • T • Takeout double • Tempo (bridge) • The Bridge World • The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge • Three suiter • Transfer Walsh • Traveling sheet • Triple crown of bridge • Triple squeeze • Trump coup • Trump promotion • Trump squeeze • Two suiter • U • Unusual notrump • Unusual vs. unusual • Uppercut (bridge) • Useful space principle • V • Vacant Places • Venice Cup • Vice squeeze • Vienna coup • Vugraph • W • Walsh convention • Weak two bid • Winkle squeeze • Woolsey convention • World Bridge Championships • World Bridge Federation • World IMP Pairs Championship • World Junior Pairs Championship • World Junior Teams Championship • World Mind Sports Games • World Mixed Pairs Championship • World Mixed Teams Championship • World Open Pairs Championship • World Senior Pairs Championship • World Senior Teams Championship • World Team Olympiad • World Transnational Open Teams Championship • World Women Pairs Championship • X • XY Notrump Convention • Y • Young Chelsea Bridge Club • Z • Zar Points

Contract bridge • Duplicate bridge • Glossary of contract bridge terms • Rubber bridge

See also

Auction bridge • Bridge ethics • Bridge maxims • Bridge Murder case • Bridge scoring • Bridge whist • Bridgette (game) • Chicago (bridge card game) • Computer bridge • Contract bridge diagram • Duplicate bridge movements • Goulash (bridge) • History of contract bridge • Laws of Duplicate Bridge • Major suit • Masterpoints • Minibridge • Minor suit • Neuberg formula • Optimum contract and par contract • Screen (bridge) • Singaporean bridge • Single suiter • Suit (cards) • Traveling sheet • Two suiter • Void (cards) • Vugraph

Bidding

Introduction

Bidding system •
Bridge convention • Hand evaluation

Bridge systems

List of bidding systems •
2/1 game forcing • Acol • Bidding system • Blue Club • Boring Club • Bridge Base Basic • Bridge World Standard • Canapé (bridge) • Carrot Club • EHAA • Fantunes • Highly unusual method • Kaplan-Sheinwold • Little Major • Moscito • OK bridge 2/1 • Polish Club • Precision Club • Roman Club • Romex system • Säffle Spade • Standard American • Strong club system • Transfer Walsh •

Bridge conventions

Asptro •
Astro convention • Baron convention • Bergen raises • Blackout convention • Blackwood convention • Brozel • Byzantine Blackwood convention • Cappelletti • Carrot 1NT • Carrot 4NT • Comfy Canapé • Copenhagen convention (bridge) • CRASH convention • DONT • Drury convention • Ekren convention • Fishbein convention • Fit showing jump bid • Flannery • Forcing notrump • Fourth suit forcing • Gardener 1NT • Gerber convention • Ghestem • Grand slam force • Hello convention • Jacoby 2NT • Jacoby transfer • Kamikaze 1NT • Landy • Last Train • Leaping Michaels • Lebensohl • Lightner double • Lionel convention • Meckwell convention • Meyerson convention • Michaels cuebid • Mini-Roman 2 Diamond • Mohan convention • Muiderberg convention • Multi 2 diamonds • Namyats • Negative double • Negative free bid • New minor forcing • Norman four notrump • Ogust convention • Pass-or-correct bid • Raptor convention • Relay bid • Rosenkranz double • Rosenkranz redouble • Rubens advances • Rubensohl • San Francisco convention • Serious 3NT • Slam-seeking conventions • Snapdragon double • Splinter bid • Stayman convention • Strong two bid • Strong two clubs • Suction convention • Unusual notrump • Unusual vs. unusual • Walsh convention • Woolsey convention

See also

List of defenses to 1NT •
Balanced hand • Balancing (bridge) • Bidding box • Board (bridge) • Brown sticker • Cue bid • Five-card majors • Forcing bid • Forcing pass • Gambling 3NT • Game try • Honor point count • Inverted minors • Law of total tricks • Losing-Trick Count • Overcall • Preempt • Principle of fast arrival • Psychic bid • Quantitative no trump bids • Reverse (bridge) • Sacrifice (bridge) • Shooting (bridge) • Strong pass • Support double • Takeout double • Three suiter • Useful space principle • Weak two bid • Zar Points

Card play

Introduction

List of play techniques (bridge) •
Card reading (bridge) • Duck (bridge) • Endplay • Entry (cards) • Finesse • Hold up (bridge) • Ruff (cards) • Safety play •

Declarer play

Coups: Alcatraz coup • Bath coup • Belladonna coup • Coup (bridge) • Coup en passant • Crocodile coup • Deschapelles coup • Devil's coup • Merrimac coup • Morton's fork coup • Scissors coup • Trump coup • Vienna coup • Squeezes: Backwash squeeze • Cannibal squeeze • Clash squeeze • Compound squeeze • Criss-cross squeeze • Double squeeze • Entry squeeze • Entry-shifting squeeze • Guard squeeze • Knockout squeeze • Non-simultaneous double squeeze • Progressive squeeze • Pseudo-squeeze • Saturated squeeze • Simple squeeze • Simultaneous double squeeze • Single-suit squeeze • Squeeze play (bridge) • Stepping-stone squeeze • Strip squeeze • Triple squeeze • Trump squeeze • Vice squeeze • Winkle squeeze • Suit combinations Suit combination • Suit combination – J missing • Suit combination – 10 missing • Suit combinations – K10 missing

Defender play
Journalist leads • Opening lead • Rule of 10-12 • Rule of 11 • Rusinow leads •

See also
Avoidance play • Beer card • Forcing defense • Grosvenor gambit • Loser on loser • Percentage play • Pin (bridge) • Principle of restricted choice • Shooting (bridge) • Signal (bridge) • Smother play • Tempo (bridge) • Trump promotion • Uppercut (bridge) • Vacant Places •

People

Administrators,
players and
writers

List of bridge people •
A • Terje Aa • Pierre Albarran • Martin Andresen • Walter Avarelli • B • Cezary Balicki • Hermine Baron • Henry Beasley • Giorgio Belladonna • Richard Belton • Albert Benjamin • Marty A. Bergen • David Berkowitz (bridge) • Huub Bertens • David Bird • Easley Blackwood, Sr. • Blue Team (bridge) • Norberto Bocchi • Janet de Botton • Tim Bourke • Marcelo Branco • Tomas Brenning • Raymond Brock • Jane Bronstein • John Brown • David Bruce (bridge) • Michelle Brunner • Walter Buller (bridge) • Wesley Burrowes • C • Orlando Campos • Mike Cappelletti • Drew Casen • James Cayne • Gabriel Chagas • Paul Chemla • George Coffin • Larry Cohen (bridge) • Ben Cohen (bridge) • Barry Crane • John R. Crawford • Ely Culbertson • D • Massimo D'Alelio • Dallas Aces • Hugh Darwen • Mike Develin • Leslie Dodds • Giorgio Duboin • Michel Duguet • E • Billy Eisenberg • Bob Etter • F • Fulvio Fantoni • Martin Fleisher • Jeremy Flint • Pietro Forquet • Tony Forrester • Robert Frederick Foster • Richard Freeman (bridge) • G • Nico Gardener • Benito Garozzo • Piotr Gawryś • Pierre Ghestem • Eldad Ginossar • Fred Gitelman • Ramesh Gokhale • Bobby Goldman • Phil Gordon • Fritzi Gordon • Charles Goren • Audrey Grant • Alan Greenberg • Susanna Gross • Glenn Grøtheim • Ace Gutowsky • H • Bob Hamman • Nicolas Hammond • Maurice Harrison-Gray • Geir Helgemo • Walter Herbert (conductor) • Marc Hodler • Mark Horton (bridge) • Carl Hudecek • Roy Hughes (bridge) • I • J • Oswald Jacoby • Pierre Jaïs • K • Charles Kalme • Edwin Kantar • Edgar Kaplan • Ralph Katz • George S. Kaufman • Norman Kay (bridge) • Amalya Lyle Kearse • Sami Kehela • Hugh Kelsey • Ron Klinger • Martin de Knijff • Putte Kock • Kenneth Konstam • Janusz Korwin-Mikke • Michał Kwiecień • L • Harry Lampert • Michael Lawrence (bridge) • Peter Lee (chess player) • Linda Lee (bridge) • James Lemon • Bobby Levin • Irina Levitina • Clyde E. Love • Paul Lukacs • M • Iain Macleod • Zia Mahmood • Ronald Mansbridge • Rixi Markus • Jack Marx (bridge) • Jeff Meckstroth • Adam Meredith • Marshall Miles • Victor Mollo • Albert Hodges Morehead • Bauke Muller • Eric Murray (bridge) • N • Claudio Nunes • O • Jack Olsen • Aileen Osofsky • Géza Ottlik • P • Camillo Pabis Ticci • Richard Pavlicek • Jordanis Pavlides Leonard Pennario • Carl'Alberto Perroux • Hubert Phillips • Gary M. Pomerantz • Julian Pottage • R Prabhakar • Tony Priday • Tommy Prothro • Jacek Pszczoła • Q • R • Terence Reese • Doris Rhodes • Andrew Robson • Eric Rodwell • Bill Root (bridge) • Eunice Rosen • William Rosen • Michael Rosenberg • George Rosenkranz • Alvin Roth • Jeff Rubens • Ron Rubin (bridge) • S • Boris Schapiro • Howard Schenken • Peter Schneider (film executive) • A. J. Sefi • Martin Seligman • Omar Sharif • Alfred Sheinwold • Shen Chun-shan • Jaggy Shivdasani • S. J. Simon • P. Hal Sims • Helen Sobel Smith • Nicola Smith • Marc Smith (bridge) • Tobi Sokolow • Paul Soloway • Alan Sontag • Nathan B. Spingold • Samuel Stayman • Paul Stern • Ralph Swimer • Peter Swinnerton-Dyer • T • Roger Trézel • Dorothy Hayden Truscott • Alan Truscott • Harold Stirling Vanderbilt • U • V • Bep Vriend • W • Louis H. Watson • C. C. Wei • Roy Welland • Berry Westra • Charles Wigoder • Bobby Wolff • Kit Woolsey • Milton Work • X • Y • Z • Richard Zeckhauser • Jack Zhao • Adam Żmudziński

Championships

Introduction

List of bridge competitions and awards

World

Bermuda Bowl •
Bridge at the 1st World Mind Sports Games • Cavendish Invitational • McConnell Cup • Rosenblum Cup • Senior Bowl (bridge) • Triple crown of bridge • Venice Cup • World Bridge Championships • World IMP Pairs Championship • World Junior Pairs Championship • World Junior Teams Championship • World Mind Sports Games • World Mixed Pairs Championship • World Mixed Teams Championship • World Open Pairs Championship • World Senior Pairs Championship • World Senior Teams Championship • World Team Olympiad • World Transnational Open Teams Championship • World Women Pairs Championship

National and Zonal

Buffett Cup •
Camrose Trophy • Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships • Gold Cup (bridge) • North American bridge Championships: Blue Ribbon Pairs • Bruce LM-5000 Pairs • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match • Fall National Open Pairs • Fast Open Pairs • Fishbein Trophy • Goren Trophy • Grand National Teams • Hilliard Mixed Pairs • Jacoby Open Swiss Teams • Keohane North American Swiss Teams • Lebhar IMP Pairs • Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams • Manfield Non-Life Master Pairs • Master Individual • Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs • Mini-Spingold • Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams • Mott-Smith Trophy • Nail Life Master Open Pairs • National 199er Pairs • National 49er Pairs • National 99er Pairs • Non-Life Master Swiss Teams • Norman Kay Platinum Pairs • North American Bridge Championships • North American Pairs • Red Ribbon Pairs • Reisinger • Rockwell Mixed Pairs • Roth Open Swiss Teams • Senior Knockout Teams • Silodor Open Pairs • Smith Life Master Women's Pairs • Spingold • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams • Truscott Senior Swiss Teams • Vanderbilt Trophy • Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams • Wernher Open Pairs • Whitehead Women's Pairs • Young LM-1500 Pairs •

Organizations

Clubs

Bridge Club Braşov •
Galatasaray Bridge Team • Melville Bridge Club • Portland Club (London) • Young Chelsea Bridge Club •

Governing bodies

American Bridge Association •
American Contract Bridge League • Canadian Bridge Federation • English Bridge Union • European Bridge League • World Bridge Federation •

Resources

Books

List of bridge books •
25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know • Bridge Squeezes Complete • Contract Bridge for Beginners • Edwin Kantar bibliography • Master Point Press • Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand • Terence Reese bibliography • The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge • Tickets to the Devil •

Magazines

List of bridge magazines •
Bridge d'Italia • The Bridge World •

External links

Bridge Base Basic •
Bridge Base Inc. • OK bridge 2/1 •

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