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This page is no longer actively maintained.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

Bridge clubs

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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