• Numerous magazines have been devoted to the card game contract bridge: Auction Bridge Magazine Edited by Milton Work in the 1920s, this monthly magazine billed...
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  • This list is a compilation of contract bridge players, writers, administrators and personalities who have been recognized for their skills, achievements...
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    The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest...
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  • The history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with...
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  • game of bridge mathematical probabilities play a significant role. Different declarer play strategies lead to success depending on the distribution of opponent's...
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    contract bridge terms List of bridge books List of bridge competitions and awards List of bridge magazines List of contract bridge people In face-to-face...
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  • used in contract bridge, using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other...
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  • List of bridge competitions and awards List of contract bridge magazines List of contract bridge people 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know Bridge Squeezes...
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  • Diagrams are used to illustrate a deal of 52 cards in four hands in the game of contract bridge. Each hand is designated by a point on the compass and...
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  • followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades. This ranking is used in the game of bridge. This ranking is adopted in Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2660/4...
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    In 2018, Bridge Base Online was inducted into the American Contract Bridge League's Hall of Fame for its long-term commitment to bridge. As of February...
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  • understanding bridge scoring: Bridge scoring consists of six to eight elements, depending on the variant. The method of accumulation of contract points toward...
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  • The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body for contract bridge. Emulating the organizational concepts of the Olympic movement...
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  • Rubber bridge is a form of contract bridge played by two competing pairs using a particular method of scoring. A rubber is completed when one pair becomes...
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    Auction bridge was the first form of bridge in which players bid to declare a contract in their chosen trump suit or no trumps. It was first recorded as...
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  • Acol (category Bridge systems)
    wrote in the Contract Bridge Journal of December 1952, that "...the Acol system was pieced together by Skid Simon and myself the best part of 20 years ago...
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  • known as Four-deal Bridge and Short Bridge, is a form of contract bridge and a variation of rubber bridge in which one or more sets of four deals are played...
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  • Optimum contract and par contract are two closely related (and sometimes confused) bridge scoring terms in the card game contract bridge. The optimum contract...
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    Wilbur C. Whitehead (category American contract bridge writers)
    Whitehead (1866-1931) was an American auction bridge and contract bridge player and writer. Whitehead was president of the Simplex Automobile Company but retired...
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    select the trump suit as in Contract Bridge or Skat. In most games trump cards cannot be played if the player has any cards of the suit led to the trick;...
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  • was a British auction and contract bridge organiser, player and writer, the leading British bridge personality at the start of the 1930s. Buller was from...
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  • Jenny Wolpert (category American contract bridge players)
    World Bridge Federation.. Retrieved 2014-11-26. World Team Championship Winners "Blue Ribbon Pairs – A Look Back | American Contract Bridge League"...
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  • called Hamilton and Pottage) is one of many defensive bridge bidding conventions used in the card game contract bridge to compete or interfere in the auction...
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  • A (bridge) signal is a move in the card game of contract bridge in which partners defending against a contract play particular cards in a manner which...
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    many magazines, including Bridge Plus, English Bridge, Bridge Magazine and the ACBL Bridge Bulletin. He has been a co-author of books with some of the...
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    forming a barrier running diagonally between two table legs. Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge state that "Players are authorized to base their calls and plays...
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  • Jacoby transfer (category Bridge conventions)
    Jacoby transfer, or simply transfers, in the card game contract bridge, is a convention in most bridge bidding systems initiated by responder following partner's...
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  • in contract bridge and other trick-taking games in which the play of a card (the squeeze card) forces an opponent to discard a winner or the guard of a...
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  • Allan Stauber (category American contract bridge players)
    Dorthy A., eds. (1994). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (5th ed.). Memphis, TN: American Contract Bridge League. p. 747. ISBN 0-943855-48-9. LCCN 96188639...
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  • A bridge convention is an agreement about an artificial call or a set of related artificial calls. Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge...
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