Bridge on the Web
The game of bridge is probably the worlds most fascinating
card game.
Surely it is the most widely played card game with identical
rules all over the world.
Bridge started as a game played with four people around a table
with small pieces of pasteboard in their hands.
Nowadays it has also gone electronic, like almost everything else.
For information on how to play using the network check
out the pages about
OKbridge
,
Bridge player LIVE!
and
the Internet Gaming Zone .
This page is no longer actively maintained.
I hope to move the information that remains interesting elsewhere soon.
Send your suggestions and/or questions to
the page maintainer .
If this is your first time on this page,
and you are planning to read or print bulletins, please look at
the software issue first.
It might save you some frustration.
Daily bulletins of older tournaments
At various top level tournaments daily bulletins are made
with stories about the hands, descriptions of participants
and much, much more.
Since about 1992 they are collected, and
here they are.
I am trying to push the WBF and other bridge organisations into
the nineties. I try to get them all online.
This takes time, and you can help by asking officials you happen
to meet why they are not on the net yet.
Be patient in explaining.
Bridge is now Olympic Sport
For what it is worth the International Olympic Committee admitted
bridge into the olympic movement.
See this
fax from Antonio Samaranch .
This does not mean that the next Olympics will feature bridge.
We might get in as a demonstration sport sometime.
It does however help in securing funds from governments.
Bridge on Usenet
There is a newsgroup about bridge on Usenet.
The name is rec.games.bridge.
If your web reader is set up right you might be able to read it
here .
Other bridge pages on the Web
A good page to look at is
The Yahoo bridge page.
Private individuals
-
Hans van Staveren
, includes reference to hand generating program
dealer
-
Richard Pavlicek
, stories, systems, quizzes
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Per Lange
, Norwegian tournaments
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Randy Shepard , with a Windows bridge game.
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Thomas Andrews , includes program deal, and hand collection.
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Neil Morgenstern , systems, tips, bridge reports
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Svein Parnas
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Ian Frank , research on bridge software
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Roberto Scaramuzzi , Okbridge competition and systems,
front end for DOS port of dealer
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Bob Sievers , book reviews
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Raymond Ractliffe , 3 way bridge
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Herman van Ree , bidding system test software
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Mark Deardorff , Total Trick Calculator
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Herman De wael , improved scoring methods
Bridge clubs
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Baton Rouge Bridge Club
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Manhattan Bridge Club
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Stanford University Bridge Club
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University of Chicago Bridge Club
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Cal Bridge Club ( @ucb )
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University of Utah Bridge Club
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University of Michigan Bridge Club
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social Bridge Group for gay men, Los Angeles
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University of Waterloo Bridge Club
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Regina Duplicate Bridge Club of Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada
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Oxford University Bridge Club
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Cambridge University Bridge club
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University of Warwick Bridge Society
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Newcastle University Bridge Club
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Magazine bridge club, Leicester.
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University College Cork Bridge Club
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Young Chelsea Bridge Club. London
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London University Bridge Club
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Edinburgh University Bridge Club
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DESY bridge club
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Helsinki University of Technology bridge club, with Finnish tournament calendar
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KTH Bridgeklubb , Stockholm, Sweden
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Albrekts/Varberg , Sweden
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Uddevalla club, Sweden
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Kristiansand Akademiske Bridgeklubb
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Bridge club Amadeiro , St. Michielsgestel, Netherlands
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Double Bay Bridge Centre
Double Bay Sydney Australia
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Kyoto University Bridge Club
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BCC Bridge CLub, Geneva
Magazines
Commercial companies
National Contract Bridge Organizations
Other Bridge Organizations
Ftp sites to check out
Markus Buchhorn, Canberra, Australia has organized an FTP
archive with all sort of FAQ's and software. The original is in
Australia and there
is a mirror in the
US .
A German language FTP archive is available at
the University of Osnabrück .
And of course the FTP stuff from
Hans van Staveren .
The laws of bridge
The laws of bridge have never been online because of copyright restrictions.
This has now changed. The copyright holders have given their conditional
permission.
We can have the 1987 edition online, and if nothing too bad happens
to the copyright holders they will probably give their permission for
the next (1997?) version.
Having read the above, look at this
copy of the Laws of Bridge in HTML format
.
Various organisations, including the ACBL, have laws that forbid
(certain types of) psyches. These rules are probably in violation
of law 40 and 80. Anybody that knows about rules like this,
and their justification is requested to mail his knowledge to the
address below.
Various
S. Spencer Sun wrote PostScript score sheets for
pairs
and
teams
events.
The latter is a bit ACBL specific.
Hans van Staveren/VU Amsterdam/sater@cs.vu.nl
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