NOTE: These Titles are specifically tutorial in nature. Many of the other titles, listed under Play and Practice, have tutorial as well as play features.

September 2004 - Bridge Master tutorial CDs. offering products by Larry Cohen, Kit Woolsey, Mike Lawrence, Eddie Kantar, Marty Bergen, Audrey Grant, Matt Ginsberg (GIB), Eric Jannersten, and Eric Kokish. Now with an online Shopping Cart.

April 29, 2001 - BridgeMania.com has launched a new bridge tutorial called BridgeMania. Developed in cooperation with world bridge experts Matthew and Pamela Granovetter, editors of the prestigious Bridge Today magazine, BridgeMania offers a fun easy way to learn the game at home and/or to improve your play up to the expert level. For more details on the CD, please visit our website

Bridge tutorial called BridgeMania, developed by Robert Dunn in cooperation with world bridge experts Matthew and Pamela Granovetter. BridgeMania promises "a fun easy way to learn the game at home and to improve your play up to the expert level."

December 27, 2000 -Mike Lawrence and Fred Gitelman introduce their CD ROM software CONVENTIONS - And The Judgment Needed To Use Them covering many areas of bidding through the play hundreds of interactive hands. You'll also be treated to bidding tricks used by professional players and a few previously unpublished stories. One of bridge's all time best authors and teachers teams up with one of bridge's top software developers - what a treat! Click here for Press Release .... | Click Here for Review

From Mr. Bridge - Interactive CD-Rom for Acol Bidding with Bernard Magee. "With voice and text explanations, this has to be the future of bridge software. Bernard explains why your bids are wrong or right and then at the end of each auction he gives a detailed account of the bidding. As well as an invaluable tool to practice and learn, you are also able to play the hands. Available from Mr Bridge at £59.50 The program takes you from the very basics of Acol all the way through the maze of bidding technique. The program includes Transfers and Key-card Blackwood as well as all sorts of bidding tactics and tests of judgement. Any Acol player should take advantage of this superb innovation. You are sure to learn a lot and have a great deal of fun. " bridge@mrbridge.demon.co.uk (Nov 2000)

September 12, 2000 - CardShark Bridge Tutor - CardShark Bridge Tutor is Windows-based software which assumes you know nothing about bridge and takes you to a high social bridge level. CSBT also includes a course on the Laws of Duplicate Bridge. Advanced courses are also available for the software.

Versione in italiano di Bridge Master 2000 e tutti i prodotti di Fred Gitelman: Vugraph e prodotti didattici interattivi.

DABRISOFT'S DECLARER PLAY SOFTWARE
NOW AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH - Dabrisoft's educational bridge software on declarer play, "Declarer Play in Suit Contracts", has been translated into English and is now available. The programs have so far only been reviewed in Denmark and are here highly recommended by several world famous bridge experts. You can download a free demoversion and online shopping is available.

PLAY BRIDGE WITH LARRY COHEN - ABTA SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR AWARD-2000

The 1999 Life Master Pairs - Day 3 List price $29.95. All details at www.larryco.com
The 1999 Life Master Pairs - Day 2 Free Demo Download
The 1999 Life Master Pairs - Day 1 Free demo download here.
Interactive CD with "Over-my-Shoulder" style presentation. Bid-by-Bid and Play-by-Play with the author's thoughts on every deal. Visit LarryCo, Larry Cohen's new site, for more information.

PLAY THE VANDERBILT with Kit Woolsey
Play the Vanderbilt is an over-the-shoulder type of product, with the actual hands from the 1996 Vanderbilt and from the viewpoint of each player. Readers are invited to download and examine a demo version.

Will-Bridge Software from World Bridge Club, France
World Bridge Club introduces a multimedia CD which provides Practice, Matchplay and World Championship titles. The software is very well reviewed and offers a downloadable demo. Visit the site to read more. For PC/Windows 3.1 or 95.

New Mike Lawrence software now available
05 Mar 1999 - Private Bridge Lessons Volume II, an interactive educational bridge software program is now available on the Mike Lawrence web site. The software was developed by Bridge Base Inc. and is based on original material by Mike Lawrence. Other products in this series include Counting at Bridge and Private Bridge Lessons Volume I, and Defense.

Bridge Pard Instructional bridge software - Now offering a free copy of this program for evaluation. Bridge Pard includes: Encyclopedia of Conventions, Terms, Declarer Plays, Defensive Plays; Movie Player; Tourney Capture feature; Lesson Writer feature; "The" Suit Play program; and a Distribution Calculator. If you have any problems downloading or installing the software please email me - I'll be glad to help you out. Email Lorne Russell

BridgeTrix - home of Bobby Wolff's Bridge Mentoring Series - designed to help intermediate and beyond players significantly improve their potential as bridge players. Bobby Wolff, 10 time former world champion and colummist, helps you to improve your game through mastering the principal techniques used in notrump contracts. System requirements - Windows 95. Review Here

Bridge Dealmaster - Widely accalimed, sophisticated, easy to use program for Bridge Teachers (complete organization tool for lesson materials, numerous printouts), Players (superb deal generator and simulator) and Clubs (deal generator and handsome Hand Record) For Windows 3.1 or 95.

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TO PRACTICE & PLAY

Bridge Baron 15

(click on graphic at left) for both Windows and Macintosh SILVER MEDALIST, 2004 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. Play Bridge with the five-time winner of the world computer bridge championship & the program top-ranked by the ACBL. With over 2 billion deals, Bridge Baron offers you the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, bridge game available. Bridge Baron is the product of over 40 years of research and development and has benefited from thirteen revisions to this great bridge-playing game. Through the placement of banners, BRIDGE BARON helps support Great Bridge Links.

Bridge Manager - (PC only) offers great new features for Bridge Baron®, the popular and acclaimed computer bridge game. Bridge Manager now also supports PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) deals, and can be used with many other bridge programs as well. click here ::>

JACK, The Winner of the World Championship 2 years running, is now available in English. Click Here to read more download free demo or to purchase the software. Purchasing JACK through this website's link will help support Great Bridge Links.

March 01, 2002 - Special K Bridge Software - download shareware. Version 2.9 for Windows 95/98, includes options to play with many of these. It also supports most non-standard screen resolutions. Bidding logic has also been enhanced. The latest addition is version 2.9.

December 28, 2001 - BridgePro, a contract rubber bridge game for Windows and Macintosh. A free download is available (fully functional for 7 days).

Oxford Bridge from Thinking Games. New Site Here (November 2001)

01 Jun 2001 - SmartBridge (Windows) multilingual (English, French, Italian) version V4.1 is available at the following sites: winsite | zdnet | vol and an archive of PBN games to be viewed using SmartBridge can be found here. Francesco Barcio

T-Plus Bridge for Windows CE - Play bridge on your palm-sized or handheld computer running Windows CE. Play rubber or duplicate with over a dozen bidding systems and user-specified skill levels. Advanced features include autoplay, replay, logging, user-specified deals, deal variations, and many user preferences. June 06, 2000

AllBridge"Il miglior software di bridge ...e altro". Italy. (May 21, 1997)

Blue Chip Bridge 2.1.0 - "Blue Chip Bridge is way ahead of its competitors when it comes to Acol bidding. The number one for Acol players" - Mark Horton - British International (Daily Telegraph) Five Star Rating, Jim Loy, Nov 1999.

Brassem Bridge, Netherlands, English and Dutch. Offers a FREE, downloadable demo with 4 hands that you can play as many times as you wish. Based on the ACOL system, for PCs only.

Bridge 8.0 for IBM and Mac. - Downloadable demo at website. Download upgrade to V6.0122 (press V at main menu to find your version number). Artworx Software

Bridge for Windows 3.4 - You always get the good hand. Opponents always pass.

Bridge from Special K Also available from ZDNet

BridgeWare - Toronto, ON Canada. BridgeWare is a Canadian company with two top-rated software products for bridge players - Bridge Buff 7.0 and Visual Deal. Bridge Buff was given a five star rating by Jim Loy, Nov 1999. Includes tutorials.

Eindeloos Bridge 6 - Loys Comments Nov 1999 - In Dutch. This is a newer Windows CD with more features than the English version Endless Bridge. Rated 5 stars, Jim Loy, Nov 1999. Endless Bridge 4.1 - IPBM, Nottingham, UK. English version of Eindeloos Bridge, from Bridgesoft in Holland. Rated 5 stars, Jim Loy, Nov 1999.

GIB - Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridge Player. Rated NUMBER ONE by Jim Loy (Nov 1999) and many others. A dozen or so different languages. Call toll free 1-877-PLAY-GIB.

Hoyle Card Games (includes bridge) (Windows and Mac) - Sierra On-line. 2001

Let's Play Bridge 99.3 - From this site a person can read about this game and download a FREE version of LPB that is capable of playing a number of games (Windows 3.1 or higher). This version can be made fully functional by a simple telephone call or by e-mailing Let's Play Bridge. Rated 4 stars by Jim Loy, Nov 1999.

Master Solvers Club The popular Bridge World feature is actually easier to do in this software format than from the magazine. From Fred Gitelman's Bridge Base.

Micro Bridge 9 - Contract bridge software supporting network play and many types of duplicate. Windows 3.1 and 95/98. Demo program is available, English or Japanese. Five star Rating by Jim Loy, Nov 1999.

MicroBridge 2000 - MicroBridge, po box 6029 London, England SW19 7XB.

MVP Bridge Deluxe for Windows v3.4 - MVP Software. Rated 4 stars by Jim Loy, Nov 1999.

Q-PLUS Bridge - Q-Plus is one of the top bridge programs on the market today. Jim Loy's 1999 review rated it 5 stars, placing 3rd out of 34. The Software is produced by Hans Leber. Free demo plays 32 different hands.

P-Plus Bridge The world's first bridge program written for the Psion Series 5 and Geofox One palmtop computers, from Breva Software. They have adapted Q-Plus bridge palmtop computers and are using the Q-Plus bidding and play engine.

Saitek Pro Bridge 510 - Saitek Ltd. Hong Kong. Also sold through Baron Barclay. This is a stand-alone, laptop computer with a liquid crystal display. Pro Bridge 310 can be used as a plug-in terminal. English or French. use an AC adapter as it drains batteries. Given a 5 Star Rating by Jim Loy, Nov 1999.

SmartBridge 3.0. - Francesco Barcio, Italy. Email francesco@kagi.com. English or Italian.

Winning Bridge - England - Software, humour. Details of the Winning Bridge software and how to get it, plus some fun and information about the author.

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UTILITIES

A lot of bridge utilites are free - either shareware or freeware. All shareware and freeware links can be found in Silicon Alley.

December 27, 2001 - REC Software is pleased to announce the availability of BRidgeBRowser version 2. BRidgeBRowser is the largest database of played bridge hands ever made available for study. It is at least 2 orders of magnitude larger than any other compilation of hands to date with a grand total of approximately 25 MILLION hand records, Stephen Pickett

August 20, 2000 - French bridge scorer WinRegul - Pairs, Teams, and so on. Ready for French and Swiss Fédérations. Only in french, but a translation is coming.

DEALMASTER PRO - Dealmaster Pro has all Dealmaster's famous features PLUS the "ultimate" Deal Generator/Simulator. Deal Generation is up to 40 times faster! Dealmaster's Deal Generator/Simulator are very powerful and satisfies the requirements of many users. For those who need even more in Deal Generation power, we believe Dealmaster Pro has all the answers. It is perhaps 20 times more powerful than Dealmaster. Dealmaster is offering one $1000. prize to someone who enters a Deal Generation problem that Dealmaster Pro cannot solve. Dealmaster Pro was introduced at NABC in Boston (Nov.1999).

Membership Director - Software for bridge clubs to use to track information about their members. Comprehensive, easy to use, and economical. At $75 there isn't a better way to track members, dues, committees, attendance, awards, contributions, etc. Download a working demo (limited to 20 members) at the site. (October 8, 1998)

HCS System Notebook, HCS CCEditor, and HCS Classic Card Editor. (September 14, 1998)

Visual Software
Winscore - A Windows bridge scoring program

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