NCBC provides several ways for a player to find a partner when one is needed:

• the Partnership Desk on the website
• the telephone list on the website
  • You must be logged in (this is to protect members' privacy)
  • Hover on "User Menu" in the green bar
  • Slide down to "Lists"
  • Slide over to "Phone Lists"
  • Slide over and down to the list you want
  • Click
• the telephone list sent by e-mail and in print at the club
• calling a partnership chairman
  • Alice Jones for Open games
  • Christie Bendickson for 299 games
  • Paula Storch for 299er games.

There is a another fairly simple and highly effective way for any player to handle his own partnership needs.  That is by creating a “group” of players he would like to play with in his address book and sending all those players messages via a single email.

Steps to create a group:

1. Collect email addresses of players you’d like to play with.
2. Open your Windows contact or other address book.
3. Click on New Contact.  (You don’t need to do steps 3, 4, or 5 if the names and email addresses are already in your address book.)
4. Enter the name and email address of possible partner.
5. Repeat for all players you want to notify when you need a partner.
6. Click on New Contact Group.
7. Enter Group name: "Bridge Partners" or any other name you wish.
8. Click on Add to Contact Group
9. Select player you want to play with
10. Click on Add.

Repeat for as many players as you want in your group contact list.

Now all you have to do is create an email, address it to Bridge Partners or whatever other group name you chose, and send.  All players on the group list will receive your message and can contact you if they are available to play. Usually, if one of them isn’t available, someone will know someone who is and you will have found a compatible partner.

A player without a computer could give a friend with a computer the names and email addresses of people he’d like to play with, have the friend create a group list, and have the friend send out the request for a partner for him whenever necessary.

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Millie Dabbs   |2011-11-28 16:16:12 Very good information. Thanks much, Annabelle.

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