• Bridge, or more formally contract bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance played by four players. This article consists of lists of bridge...
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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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    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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    Auction bridge was the first form of bridge where players bid to declare a contract in their chosen trump suit or no trumps. It was first recorded as...
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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 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 contract bridge: Auction Bridge Magazine Edited by Milton Work in the 1920s, this monthly magazine billed itself as the 'Official Organ of the Greatest...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • This is a list of bidding systems used in contract bridge. Systems listed have either had an historical impact on the development of bidding in the game...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades. This ranking is used in the game of bridge. ♦♣♥♠ Alternating colors Diamonds, followed by clubs, hearts, and spades...
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    Barbara Seagram (category Contract bridge writers)
    Registered Nurse and contract bridge writer, teacher, and administrator. She is co-author of thirty-two published bridge books, including co-writing...
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  • Standard American (category Bridge systems)
    overcall, except that 2♣ is still Stayman. Glossary of contract bridge terms List of bridge books Standard American 21 by John Sheridan Thomas, ISBN 1-4120-2063-8...
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  • Drury convention (category Bridge conventions)
    Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (7th ed.). Horn Lake, MS: American Contract Bridge League. ISBN 978-0-939460-99-1. Page 40 of the Biographies and Results...
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  • Stayman convention (category Bridge conventions)
    Stayman is a bidding convention in the card game contract bridge. It is used by a partnership to find a 4-4 or 5-3 trump fit in a major suit after making...
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  • In the card game of contract bridge, to duck (or ducking) means to play low to a trick to which one has led, losing it intentionally in order to set up...
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  • Contract Bridge For Beginners is a book written by Charles Goren on the rules and basic strategies of contract bridge. First published by Simon & Schuster...
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  • Bridge, or more formally contract bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill played by four players. WBF Championships: The World Bridge Team Championships...
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  • Blackwood convention (category Bridge conventions)
    In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a bidding convention developed by Easley Blackwood in 1933 and still widely...
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  • Splinter bid (category Bridge conventions)
    In the card game "contract bridge", a splinter bid is a convention whereby a double jump response in a side-suit indicates excellent support (at least...
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