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ASK AN EXPERT!

Many professional bridge players and teachers frequent various online forums. Post your bridge question to one of these workshops:

GOOGLE GROUPS lists rec.games.bridge (RGB) with over 3,000 current topics and lots of great bridge teachers and experts sharing their knowledge of the game. RGB is the granddaddy of online bridge discussion forums - it was around before the world wide web!

Bridgetalk.com has an active Ask An Expert forum.

Bridge Base Forums - lots of activity and interesting topics including Book Reviews.

Lots of Ask An Expert links on our Bidders Box page :: click here

BRIDGE BLOGS

We've moved the ever-growing list to our People's Pages. You'll find BLOGS as well as OBITS and other interesting pages in the left menu.

WE LOVE BUGS.

Send your bug reports to jude06<at>greatbridgelinks.com

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You have done so much and continue to do so much, and everyone looking for something bridge-related is thankful for all your time and efforts. Greatly appreciated. Raymond, thebridgeguys.com

Online Women's Festival a great success!
The 1st WBF/BBO Women’s Bridge Festival Online, held on 7-13 April 2008, was a great success having attracted 664 entries from 68 countries worldwide. For a full week, women players from all WBF member countries had the opportunity to compete daily in bridge competitions arranged online by 'Bridge Base Online' (BBO). The overall winner was Indonesia's Jessica Tahya (shown). Click here for more

Bridge Blogging Bloggers - a fun bridge blog that features an impressive list of bridge authors. Click Here

NABCS in Detroit - North American Bridge Championships March 6-16. Be sure to drop by the website and read the daily bulletins. Always a source of excellent articles and news as well. Bulletins page here

1ST WORLD BRIDGE GAMES
All WBF member countries are invited and expected to participate in the World Bridge Games, i.e. the bridge series of the 1st World Mind Sports Games. Read more here

2008 Buffett Cup
The 2nd Warren Buffett Cup will take place in Louisville, Kentucky from the 15th-19th September. The website will be www.buffettcup.com

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WHAT'S BBOTV? You can now play in the Bridge Base online environment whithout having to download software. BBOTV is a technology preview of the next version of BRIDGE BASE ONLINE. Hats off to Fred Gitelman for stepping up to the plate and providing the online community with a service that is not platform dependant and does not require software downloads, installation or updates. Latest news about BBOTV available here. Click here

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PODCAST INTERVIEWS
AND BLOG

BridgeHands introduces audiocast/podcast bridge interviews and blog The free audiocasts are available via the listener's web browser by double-clicking on the play button at: www.BridgeHands.com/bridgeblog

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STILL YOUR FAVOURITE SITE

A recent examination of our 2007 web page stats shows Great Bridge Links is still a popular website with lots of new visitors as well as returning visitors. Thank you everyone for your feedback over the year and your continued support. If there is something you were looking for and didn't find here, feel free to drop me a line.

Stats for 2007

Page Loads 64,669
Unique Visitors 54,321
First Time Visitors 40,690
Returning Visitors 13,631

Search Engines

# 1 on Google
# 1 on Yahoo
# 2 on MSN
# 1 on AOL
Our PAGE RANK is 6.

Did you know? PLAY BRIDGE ONLINE gets more traffic than our front page!

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Bridge Cartoons
by Jude Goodwin
(Shameless plug for my own book)