Hello to all No Fear Bridge members and visitors.  I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year.

What better way to spend a cold and dark evening than playing a few hands with friends and a glass of wine or testing your skill at the local bridge club.

As always we're here to help you improve your bridge.  In this newsletter we have a review of what's been added in 2011 and plans for 2012, plus a special New Year discount.

2011 has been a busy year for us. We continued to add new declarer and defence hands at all levels, including an new batch added to the menus this week. Now over 500 hands to play from the menus!

All the bidding practices have now been updated to the new format so they are available for all users include those with IPad. We are looking to convert the tutorials into a format suitable for IPad in 2012.

The end of the year also saw the launch of the 'Advancer Zone'. This area of the website is especially for advancing learners and improving club level players.

There are already 98 declarer hands and 42 defence hands in the Advancer Zone with suitable difficulty level to challenge the improving club player!

Also added to the Advancer Zone are a number of Slam Bidding topics including Cue Bidding. To test your skill there are quizzes and bidding practice activities, all with feedback when you need it.

You can also print the hands as 'Partnership Bidding Practice' to try with your favourite partner!

If you haven't yet seen the latest activities, register now for your two week free trial.

(If you expired earlier in 2011 you will be able to re-register for another free trial)

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Coming soon: New tutorials with audio on finessing, plus an interactive activity showing you the best way to play various suit combinations as declarer.

Later in the year we plan to add some great new material for beginners: tutorials with audio talking you through step by step how to plan the play as declarer and as defender.

Coming soon in the Advancer Zone will be more bidding topics including Competitive Bidding, Weak Twos and Two Suited Overcalls.

When you play bridge in your class, at home or at your club do you look forward to being declarer but get disappointed if you end up defending?

Do you play the No Fear Bridge Declarer Hand of the Day but never play the Defence Hands?

It pays to work on your defence. Remember, you will be Declarer on average 1 in every 4 hands but you will be defending on average 1 in every 2 hands!

Not only that, but when you play a hand at a typical club duplicate session of 24 boards, EACH hand makes an equal contribution to your final percentage (a 'Top' score being worth about 4%). Can you truly say that you give as equal attention to defending a 2 part score as when you're declarer in a 6NT slam?! Remember both hands make an equal contribution to your final percentage!

There are over 60 defence hands at level 1 - 3 (plus 40 at advancer level) in the member's site. Why not try some? You will be guided through the thought process for the correct defence and even get feedback when you don't choose the best play!

Improve your defence skills and not only will you enjoy defending more but you will be a popular partner!

Make 2012 the year you become a better defender.

GOOD DEFENDERS ARE WINNING  BRIDGE PLAYERS!

If you're looking bridge lessons for somewhere to play where novices are welcome, check our links to local teacher and novice clubs.

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Clubs for Learners and Novices

If you play at or organise a club for novices and would like a mention in the next newsletter or a link from No Fear Bridge website, just let us know. 

If you want a mention for your charity bridge event in our next newsletter contact.

We may also be able to supply some prizes if you send us the details of your event.

Get a 10% discount on a One Year Membership (new or renewal) by entering coupon code 27F34G in the Coupon Code box on the signup page.

This can also be used by exisiting members and will add a year to your current expiry date.

Coupon code 27F34G is only valid on the one year membership and code expires on 31st Jan 2012.

Good luck with your bridge in 2012!

Leigh