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Go Ahead Laugh
Bridge Cartoons by Jude Goodwin
as seen in the ACBL Bulletins.

NEWS! Now you can purchase products with Go Ahead Laugh cartoons at Cafe Press. Find one you like or custom order one from Jude Goodwin herself. Do you have a favourite? Let's put it on a pillow! (or a mug, a thong, a journal, or?)

Text Links Support Great Bridge Links - some of you may have noticed text links to casinos popping up here and there on Great Bridge Links. Similar to Google Ads, these links have been supporting Great Bridge Links for the past year. I try to keep them away from the useful content you know and love on this site - but I invite feedback always at jude06@greatbridgelinks.com

FEATURED SITES:

AMAZON'S Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Read bridge e-books, blogs and more and it's all wireless. You know you want it! Click on the Kindle for more.

BRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA!
Here are some sites that take on the enormous task of on online bridge encyclopedia.

Contract Bridge on Wikipedia
Available in 16 languages. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Bridge7 - BIG SITE with lots of info.

BridgeHands Bridge Encyclopedia Well-indexed complete Bridge Encyclopedia

Contract Bridge on Wikiverse: Information on bridge mechanics and history. Managed by Katz.

Great collection of bridge quotes on Roger Boyar's web page. Click Here ::>

you@bridgeplayer.net
Free Webmail for bridge players on the net a sturdy, FREE web mail product with anti virus scanning and spam filter. Click Here for more info

 

You have a wonderful site full of great and helpful content that is quite interesting to us, and we'd really like to be a part of it. James Yates

The sites on this page have been submitted within the last few months. This page is somewhat unmoderated. Our editors may not have had time to visit and review all the sites. The date is the day the address was added to this page. The URLs are generally removed once they have been added to Great Bridge Links properly. American Districts and Units will all be eventually found on the ACBL pages.

ALERT: NEW CLUB LINKS AND CLUB CHANGES VISIT OUR CLUBROOM

If you would like your site listed here, send URL and brief description to jude06<at>greatbridgelinks.com


January 2012: The Amazing Queen. This is a new concept bridge book with exciting responses. In 2010 the IBPA awards for the best declarer play and the best defence went to plays similar to my Bols Tip. I decided to publish a bridge book based on my 20 years of writing, with completely new concepts and a thorough research. If you have Hong Kong connection, it is available from Jing Kung Book Store at 168 Tung Lo Wan Road opposite Queen's College; or from Bridge House when they are holding an event. The sale price at 20% discount is HK$120 (US$15). You can order through me at ckmckmwong@yahoo.com. I can arrange delivery by air mail.

January 2012: Vu-Bridge beginners lessons reserved for Teachers use. Vu-Bridge announces a Series of lessons for beginners prepared by Paul Bowyer (UK), available in SAYC and ACOM system.. More details at www.vubridge.com or email: mailto:info@vubridge.com

December 2011: This is to inform you about our online club which exists now since almost 3 years. More than 1100 players have registered, more than 200 are coming to play every day, more than 350 in the month. In one year we had about 50% more players coming. We are basically french, but this year we wish to push our site more towards international audience. In the Bridgez club, you can play bridge with Wbridge5 and compare your results against other players. It is possible to have access at their way of playing... Gérard Joyez

December 2011:: VuBridge - free, internet based Autobridge revival! Review and play hands from championships, authors and teachers can prepare hands, create hands, review hands, also has a vugraph "instant search" facility to retrieve, play and review Championship boards

December 2011 :: Can you please add the Buffett Cup (dates 10th-13th September) in Omaha in next years calendar. Warren Buffett is intending to be present. The website is www.buffettcup.com Many thanks, Paul Hackett

December 2011 :: Board Generator. I have made a board generator that saves 35 hands per page down to PDF, perfect for Bidding Practice. Software runs in the browser built on Microsoft Silverlight. URL: www.brickor.com Thanks, Stefan Ekman

December 2011:: Bidding Practice. You may be interested to know about saycbridge.com which I've found useful for bidding practice.

December 2011 :: Orpington Bridge Club in the London Borough of Bromley, Kent. BR6 0RZ Small friendly,accessible club with forecourt parking playing duplicate bridge on Monday and Thursday evening from 7:25 to 10:25. Members can arrange a partner through the website www.bridgewebs.com/orpington. Non-members can contact the director to arrange a partner through email at orpingtonbridge@gmail.com

August 2011:: Bridge Calculator is freeware program that solves problems in the Bridge card game. It quickly solves the double dummy problem, has both graphical and console-based multiple languages user interfaces. It can imports deals from files in many formats, like PBN, BBO .lin files and files generated by the KoPS program.Best regards, Piotr Beling

August 2011 :: Bridge Big is a startup company dedicated to 'spicing up' online bridge, Zia Mahmood shares our vision and joined us as platform ambassador. We introduce an exciting platform that will enable players to win significant money prizes. Our platform is designed to run in the browser of any internet device, ranging from desktop computers to smart phones and tablets. Right now the platform is in the beta testing phase. We launched about 3 weeks ago and we are in the processes of fine tuning the platform to be ready for prime time, the official launch later this summer. For security reasons the play on Bridge Big is individual and anonymous. You can read more about how we plan to deal with security and more about our vision on the 'about' section on www.bridgebig.com.

August 2011 :: Bridge Pro Upgrade: BRIDGEPRO for Mac OSX 10.5+: After ten years, BridgePro™ has developed a major upgrade for its Macintosh OS X users. We invite you to try version 3.1.2. The ACBL Bridge Bulletin's editor, Paul Linxwiler said of our interface that it is: "a clean, simple graphical presentation." That has been further improved. More features and menu items have been added to make an exceptional user-friendly environment. Card play and bidding algorithms have been tweaked. Any questions write: support@bridgepro.com (Aug 2011)

July 29, 2011 :: CZECH REPUBLIC The Bridge Federation of Czech Republic has a new url http://www.bridgecz.cz

July 29, 2011:: Bermuda Regional. Celebrating its 53rd Anniversary, the Bermuda Regional has a long-standing reputation for friendly hospitality and competitive bridge in luxurious surroundings. A variety of pair and team events for all levels of players are scheduled morning, afternoon and evening, alongside Expert Panel Shows and activities for non-playing family members.

July 2011 :: ToyBridge blog It covers my play experiences with some side tracking into system design and evaluation. I have been updating it roughly every 3 days for about 6 months now and would very much like to be included on your link site. Daniel Skipper

June 2011 :: Learn Bridge Info. Learn ACOL Bridge, and How to Play Bridge Online. Good information stop for ACOL learners.

May 2011: Bridgetoernool. On this site I have I have collected almost 130000 boards from major bridge tournaments. Visitors can view the deal the players the bidding and play. See the tournaments section. Richard van Haastrecht

April 2011 : Learn Acol Bridge - learn bridge bidding and play online.

April 2011 : Online Bridge Lessons - This site is for bridge teachers to list online classes for all levels of players, given on BridgeBaseOnline.

April 2011 : Kibic Nonprofit Sport Association - from Hungary

April 2011 : Hungarian Bridge Federation

April 2011 : Bridge Archive - This website represents bridge deals vugraphed by BBO in more user friendly way than BBO own archive. Every deal is displayed in separate page with hand diagram, bidding, play and comments. It also have search and filter functions.

February 2011 : The Bridge Companion - An application for Windows Phone 7 that replaces the bridge score sheet, manages games played, and also tracks Masterpoints. If you would like more details (video, screenshots and how to download the application) or for any special requests, please visit my website, or reply to this email.

February 2011 : Xtraordinary tales in the world of Bridge. A personal look into some of the World's greatest ever players and personalities Bridge articles, and a tip of the week which is shown with both a online powerpoint presentation and BBO play of the hand. Free to join with monthly updates and bridge tips.

February 2011 : Bridge by Kelina. Bridge News and Articles in Russian

February 2011 : Hondobridge Howard Schutzman's site contains free lesson material to download and most lessons are presented as excellent bridge movies, compliments of Kia Azziz,

January 2011 : Bridge Clubs in Croatia. I am from Split, Croatia, and i saw you did not put Bridge Club Split in list of bridge clubs in Croati http://splitbridge.hr/
Here is correct link to list of bridge clubs in Croatia http://bridge.hr/klubovi.php

December 2010: ACBL Library Book Sale with Carl Ritner.

December 2010: Bridge Topics .com - pay subscription bridge news and topics service with Eric Rodwell and Jan van Cleeff. Free headline news items also available. Van Cleeff: “We publish at least one interesting news item every 24 hours from somewhere in this world. For that reason, we founded a worldwide network of correspondents. We get contributions from all continents. We work hard on the balance, finding interesting stuff fit for publication and to be objective at the same time. Therefore, we aim to show news not only from different places, but also from different angles.”

December 2010: Williamstown Bridge Club (Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)
The website has a feature called Hand Of the Week (HOW) and some very useful services for members to improve their game. Tim Orr

November 2010 : New FREE APP called "iBridgeOnline" in the app store that will let you play bridge online with others.

November 2010 : Wimbledon Bridge Club. As one of the UK’s largest bridge clubs, we offer several sessions daily and have sessions that cater to all standards. We have a large membership and are always delighted to welcome visitors.

October 2010 : Club Manager and Director Materials courtesy of MIT Draper Lab Bridge Club Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA

October 2010 : RoboBridge is computer bridge software that simulates three human bridge players. It allows you to play some boards whenever you have time. The robots provide a very high level of play, so you will be trained to always play your best bridge.

September 2010 : MeinGames Free multiplayer Bridge. (English, Russian
and German soon) MeinGAMES.de - Play free online bridge against real people.

August 2010: David Huggett's Bridge Page. Describes his 2 new ebooks as well as earlier printed publications. The books display particularly well on Apple's ipad and iphone but also are available on Amazon's various Kindle devices. They include an element of interactivity with various internal and external hyperlinks. Interested purchasers can link directly from his page to the appropriate page on Amazon US or UK and of course the books are available through Apple's ibookstore.

August 2010: The Bridge Source. Online shopping for card and bridge fans.

July 2010: Bridge Winners. Gavin Wolpert and Jason Feldman have just launched a new website www.bridgewinners.com with a social networking framework with an ACBL convention card editor that people can store and share in their profiles. You'll also find articles, and regular bridge news updates.

June 2010: Poker Pens - check out these beautiful pens! Then please send one to Box 7, 37776 2nd Ave. Squamish BC V8B 0A1 ... lovely website too. Products.

April 2010: John Manning's Bridge Pages - Thank you to Chris Ryall for keeping these pages online and to Tim Francis-Wright for sending us the link. People's pages.

April 2010: The Composite Club - new link. book by Bill Hodgkiss on a strong club bidding system. Apart from the 1C opener, the system is largely based on natrual bidding. It is descibed in two forms: BASIC for easier assimilation and ADVANCED for more interested readers. Books.

April 2010: Bridge4People is developing an innovative platform that enables a unique setting for playing traditional bridge with radical new opportunities to develop bridge players’ bridge skills. www.bridge4people.com. Products.

December 2009 :: ChrisRyall - new link http://chrisryall.net/index.htm

September 2009 :: Site Update. Shantanu Rastogi. As geocities is closing down I've moved my page to http://shantanurastogi.co.in My page is first bridge webpage from India and has information on bridge clubs in India, Tournament News & local bridge results of Lucknow , India.

May 2009 :: Bridgevaria - free online bridge magazine. Created by Ed Hoogenkamp (author of Dutch monthly BRIDGE), Peter van der Linden (ex-editor of BRIDGE and the Daily Bridge Calendar) and Pien Steringa (former DTP responsible of BRIDGE) Bridgevaria.com is intended not as anews site but a 'do'-site as well as a 'read'-site. One of the ambitions of the creators is to post new content daily.

 

MISCELANEOUS CLUB LINKS : SOME NEW, SOME CHANGED

Many of the new links we receive from around the world are from bridge clubs. Keeping our club pages up to date is an enormous task and sadly, one that is rarely completed. Starting this month, we will post Club Listings and Updates on our Club page, but will no longer be adding to the massive database of interior links. Please send a copy of your club update information to your National Bridge Organization for inclusion on their site.

New Links and Club Changes have been moved to our Great Bridge Links Clubs Page.