LINKS TO COMPREHENSIVE SITES
Karen's
Bridge Library
- Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
This is a great collection of class handouts and reference sheets.
Lots of quick tips, conventions, strategies and more. You'll learn
it all here!
LEARN
TO PLAY BRIDGE - An excellent teaching site from Richard
Pavlicek.
The
Fifth Chair Foundation is an international non-profit organization
dedicated to fostering bridge education on the internet and attracting
new players to the game.
The
Bridge World Magazine's Introduction to Bridge
This site features great articles by well known bridge writers.
American
Contract Bridge League has a great Online Library.
FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHERS' SITES
The ABTA (American Bridge Teachers' Association)
A great resourse for teachers and students and includes a
geographic listing of all ABTA members. ABTA
Home Page
Find a Bridge Teacher (American Contract
Bridge League)
They're all listed here! ACBL
find a teacher page.
START WITH MINIBRIDGE - Want to teach your friends to
play the game? MiniBridge may be the perfect way to introduce
bridge concepts and mechanics. Its simple, easy to learn, and
fun! CLICK
HERE for the Rules as provided by Mickey Beutick-Warrren of
the Netherlands.
August 2006 :: Barbara
Seagram's website : Canada. Cruises, trips, books, products
and lessons.
March 2006 :: No
Fear Bridge - The website offers original bridge teaching
resources and other items of interest for bridge learners
and teachers, including free interative quizzes on bidding
and play. Leigh Harding
February 18, 2005 - Migry
Zur Campanile's Improve Your Bridge With Me website.The
personal page of Migry Zur Campanile, Bridge Professional
and editor of the Israeli bridge magazine. The pages contain
an extensive selection of articles from the English section
of the magazine as well as bridge travelogues, bios, pictures,
and articles on technique, humor and anything else that makes
this game so stimulating and interesting. Pietro
Campanile, managing partner.
December 20, 2005 :: Learn
Bridge - Everything for the bridge novice and beginner
- beginners course, weekly ezine, free tips and puzzles from
David Clement
Oct 2007 :: Gary
Frederick Brown Bridge Teacher/Bridge Holiday Host Brown School
of Bridge. Gary Brown, winner of ABTA - 'Bridge Book of
the Year' for 2007 is owner, director, supervisor, teacher
and handyman. With over 1800 club playing members, we are
all about learning and playing Bridge. If it has anything
to do with Bridge, we automatically like it.
Sep 2007 :: www.GrizzBridge.com.
Hi, this is Pete Rudie, I play and teach on BBO as "grizz"
and have just launched a website. The lesson archives from
my free defense lessons in the Beginner and Intermediate Lounge
on BBO are on the website now, and I expect to have archives
from my free defense lessons in Club2/1 up shortly, with more
content to come.
March 2007 :: Just
Play, Kathy Rolfe. I am a teacher of mostly beginners.
I do most of my teaching in elementary schools through ACBL's
school program but I also teach small groups outside of that
venue as well.
Teaching Bridge Online - A 3 Part Series by Caitlin, from
The Bridge
Forum International written for the Great Bridge Links Newsletter.
Part 1 | Part
2 | Part 3
Kitty Munson-Cooper, Bridge Teacher, presents a nice
web page which features Lesson Sheets, Bridge Book Recommendations,
and a Q & A page as well as free teaching materials for teaching
school kids - including a 100 page lesson plan (teachers manual)
based on the club series with activity sheets. The technique
is to teach different card games (whist, MiniBrdge, BridgeIt)
for 7 lessons leading into real Bridge with bidding at
lesson 8. it consists of 15 lessons followed by a competition.
Teaching this program in schools is sponsored by the
ACBL Educational foundation.
HOWTO SCORE
Bridge Calculators by Richard Pavlicek
Bridge
Score Calculator
Contract
and Result Finder
MISCELLANEOUS
LEARNING SITES
Here we list links as they come in. Newer links can be found
at the top pof this page.
Competitive Bridge
from Bob McConnell - This site offers extensive information on
how to become a duplicate, tournament bridge player. It's not
for the beginner to bridge, but for the good bridge player who
wants to move up to real competition. Total page count on the
site is nearly 800 pages. A CD of the entire site, for off-line
use, is available at a modest price from the author.
R. D. McConnell.
October 23, 2002 - Masterbridge.com
- A Guide To Being A Good Bridge Player. (Book) A compendium
of card playing techniques with exercises. Author: Frank Fongasira.
March 10, 2003 - A
Square's Guide to Bridge - dedicated to simple heads-up bridge,
counting winners and losers, getting out trump, except when you'd
better not do so too early, -- all sorts of categories up to dummy
reversals and squeezes (more than 50). "This isn't
the last step toward a formidable game, but the first step."
Written by Forrest Smith
Leeds
University Union Bridge Club
England, Yorkshire, Leeds - Geoff Ostrin's Beginners
Guide to Bridge and a Multi National Bridge Term Dictionary.
(November 2001)
January
3, 2000 - The
Culbertson Bridge Club Lessons Page Scroll down until you
find Albert Tom's online notes from his Miniseries: The
Stayman Convention; Jacoby Transfers; Improve your Defense; Improve
your Declarer Play; and Hand Evaluation.
Beginners'
Guide to Bridge - Ontario, Canada
Dan Berkley's site includes bridge lessons for beginners, links
to Internet Bridge Clubs, bridge resources and sample lesson.
Warren's
Free Bridge Lessons Workshop
Warren Hawley gives free
party bridge lessons online. Read lessons, email questions.
Challenges beginners, intermediates and seniors to raise the
level of their play, the easy way!
OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION
BRIDGE
RESOURCES Click
Here
The
Great Bridge Links Resource Centre has lots of good information
about tournament events, masterpoints, scoring, calling the
director, and more.
BIDDING AND PRACTICE Click
Here
Visit our Bidders Box for information on bidding, different
systems and conventions, and forums.
BRIDGE
NEWSGROUPS
The main Bridge Internet Newsgroup is rec.games.bridge. You
can post your questions, tell your stories, or read all about
the game. You will find lots of help and activity here. If
you want to know more about
Bridge Newsgroups,
David Stevenson (England) has an informative page on the subject.
Visit Rec Games Bridge through GOOGLE
GROUPS
PLAY
ONLINE!
Maybe you would like to try playing a bit of bridge with your
compute. You will meet an awful lot of friendly people at
the various online
bridge clubs. There is also an awful lot of bridge
software available - both shareware and commercial
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