Bridge Base Online (BBO) is the world's largest bridge-playing online platform, with about 11.6 million monthly visits as of September 2024. In 1990,...
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each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's...
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2023-05-26. "Bridge BASE jumper faces charges if he lives". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2005-04-14. Retrieved 2018-10-17. "Bridge Day 2013 – BASE Jumping Registration...
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in internet bridge, particularly on Bridge Base Online. It is taught in Fred Gitelman's educational software called Learn to Play Bridge that is available...
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or players may bid for the right to select the trump suit as in Contract Bridge or Skat. In most games trump cards cannot be played if the player has any...
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Masterpoints (category Contract bridge)
English Bridge Union (EBU), and the Deutsche Bridge Verband (DBV) and independent leagues such as the American Bridge Association (ABA) and Bridge Base Online...
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High card by suit (section Contract bridge)
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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While a deal of bridge is always played following a unique set of rules, its scoring may vary depending on the type of event the deal is played on. There...
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Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten, a WWII Dutch secret service Bridge Base Online, for the game of bridge British Ballet Organization BBO, the ICAO code for Flybaboo...
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The World Bridge Games are held quadrennially. The first two events were held in 2008 and 2012, in Beijing and Lille respectively, as part of the World...
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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 where players bid to declare a contract in their chosen trump suit or no trumps. It was first recorded as...
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Jacoby transfer (category Bridge conventions)
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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Fred Gitelman (category American contract bridge players)
a Canadian-American bridge player, developer of bridge software, and a founder of the online bridge platform Bridge Base Online. Gitelman has won one...
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fixed-trunnion bridge (based on engineering drawings from the Henry Ford Bridge) Animation of a rolling lift bridge (such as the Pegasus Bridge) Bascule bridge in...
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and shipping address to be in the same country as the online shop's base of operation. Other online shops allow customers from any country to send gifts...
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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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Bridge to Terabithia is a 2007 American fantasy drama film directed by Gábor Csupó (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay by David L. Paterson and...
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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 used...
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American bridge player. Smith was born in Greensboro, Alabama, on January 22, 1947, and died on October 16, 2024, at the age of 77. North American Bridge Championships...
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Cappelletti convention (redirect from Cappelletti (bridge convention))
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 when...
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Duplicate bridge is a variation of contract bridge where the same set of bridge deals (i.e., the distribution of the 52 cards among the four hands) are...
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A squeeze play (or squeeze) is a technique used in contract bridge and other trick-taking games in which the play of a card (the squeeze card) forces an...
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Zava (category Technology companies based in London)
ZAVA is the brand name for an online doctor service and online pharmacy Zavamed.com run by the London-based Health Bridge Ltd. Launched in 2011 as DrEd...
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Drury convention (category Bridge conventions)
The Drury convention is a bridge convention, used to show a game-invitational major suit raise by a passed hand while guarding against a light opening...
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Ruff (cards) (category Contract bridge card play)
the player who cannot follow suit is required to ruff. In others, like Bridge and Whist, he may instead discard (play any card in any other suit). Normally...
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be uploaded to the Google Base servers by browsing your computer or the web, by various FTP methods, or by API coding. Online tools were provided to view...
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Vugraph (category Contract bridge)
Bridge; Decision to Sacrifice or Not Calls for Careful Thinking in Tournaments". The New York Times. p. 24. Bridge Base Online Vugraph. Bridge Base Online...
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Acol (category Bridge systems)
Acol is the bridge bidding system that, according to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, is "standard in British tournament play and widely used in other...
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phase of a contract bridge game convey information about the player's card holdings. Calls may be "natural" (that is, are based on a holding of the suit...
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