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What is the purpose of a personal web page? You might dissect your favourite conventions, tell stories, discuss your most interesting hands, or sometimes best of all, list your favourite web links. The personal web page could also: give our bridge writers a chance to 'publish' articles, or advertise their books/magazines; give our bridge directors the opportunity to discuss their craft; and give our bridge professionals the chance to introduce themselves and their services. This page was last swept for dead links October 24, 2009 Not all personal web sites submitted are listed here. Sites must have reasonable bridge content to be included on a Great Bridge Links list. BLOGS: You can find these in our Press Room LOOKING FOR SOMEONE'S BIDDING SYSTEM? Individuals with bidding system pages can also be found in our Bidders Box SEE PHOTOS OF YOUR FAVOURITE PLAYERS! Jonathan
Steinberg - photos from NABCs and Regionals World Mastepoint Standings - Those of you interested in such things will find lists of the World Masterpoint Holders at the new site for WBF Points - www.wbfmasterpoints.com. The Bridge World list of individual bridge player websites Click Here |
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SOME INTERVIEWS Interview with Mike
Lawrence from Jeff Tang SOME INTERESTING PERSONALITY SITES Terence Reese Page Mehmet Ates Gulcugil's Page of Links to web pages relating to Terence Reese.
Gathered here are pages with biographies (and pics too sometimes) of famous bridge players and personalities.
OBITUARIESGene Freed 1930-2009. Gene Freed, Grand Life Master and one of ACBL's most successful tournament players, died at his home in Los Angeles on Friday of complications from a heart ailment. He was 79. More here
Grant Baze :: If there was ever a doubt that Grant Baze left his mark on the bridge world, it was erased on Friday night in Houston TX as a huge crowd gathered at the Hilton Americas to pay tribute to one of the game’s best and most popular players. Click here for more Paul Soloway :: Articles Gathered Here ::> Alvin Roth 1914 - 2007 :: Articles collected here ::> Alan Truscott 1925 - 2005 :: Tribute from Bulletin One, World Championships 2005 Click Here ::> World of Bridge loses Peter Mollemet and Harry Lampert : Read More Here ::> Max Hardy - from the ACBL includes memorial photo album Norman Kay - Alan Truscott memorial and ACBL Obituary Edgar Kaplan - ACBL Remembers Edgar Kaplan Jacques Ribeyre April 26, 1924 to January 10, 2001 Ken Bibby Memorium Jane Johnson 1933 - 2000. ACBL Obituary. John Lowenthal passed away at 61 Tuesday, Dec 7, 1999. He will be much missed. Friends pay tribute here ... Dick Cummings - 1932 - 1999. One of Australia's greatest players. Click Here for memorial. Ted Horning - Memorial written by John Carruthers. Click Here. Listen to the CBC Radio One interview with Audrey Grant in regards to Ted Horning. As It Happens July 20, 1999. 6-8pm, PST. Choose part two of radio broadcast.
INDIVIDUAL BRIDGE PLAYER PAGESFebruary 2007 :: Michael Chourdakis. Includes bridge, precision bidding, ZAR points, tournaments in BBO and more. June 2006 :: John-Elder Pederson I am running one of the northernmost bridgepages in the world. Beside results, “small talk” and so about bridgelife in northern Norway I also combined my websites with info from my “Farm” which is 300 km north of Arctic Circle where I live. I run my website in norwegian, but indexsite also in English, Germany and Spanish. When I present my Farmen Invitational on BBO VuGraph I always make a main site in English. Please add my website www.nordpol.no Regards John-Eldar Pedersen, Norway February 2006 :: Marvin French : All of Marvin French's writings on the games of bridge and blackjack, plus some other topics. Marvin L. French, San Diego, California October 2005 :: Web links from Tony Poole - Tony's Personal Bridge Site: Many problem hands, reviews, conventions and bridge stories. Declarer Play Software: (660 deals), with a variety of difficulties. Demo version available, and a professional review from a top UK player. Free Demo: A free demo version may be downloaded to a PC covering 15 deals. Tony Poole October 2005 :: realbridgehands.com - JEFF HAND - I am a professional bridge player, and I have various sections at my website: It has everything from information on how to hire me as a pro, my resume, hands of the month, an archive of Central American and Caribbean Bridge Federation Bulletins that I edited and wrote in the 1970, my booking calendar, etc. In the future I plan on adding hands that beginners and advanced players can read too, as the hand of the month is typically very advanced for them. Jeff Hand September 7, 2004 :: Ted Muller's World of Bridge, Home of X-Men Bidding Systems - powerful methods not seen elsewhere. Home of Dante's Infernal commentary. Classic and original play problems, bridge movies, editorials, movements and movement design, software. Ted Muller, Sacramento, California September 1, 2004 - URL Change Cliff Yang New URL http://www.tylco.com/yjs.html July 24, 2004 - Dick Olson Bridge Site - This site contains data of interest to my duplicate bridge partners and others who are serious bridge players. Conventions, Treatments and Systems from Dick Olson March 20, 2005 - Gerard bridge pages New URL has changed. Newly added G-Precision pages, Gerard Cohen 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. February 1, 2005 - New
OKScriptX URL I am the author of OKScript and DealPump (which replaced
BridgeX) and an article on the Polish Club. I have moved my website
containing this material. Please update the relevant links in your site
... September 7, 2004 :: Ted Muller's World of Bridge, Home of X-Men Bidding Systems - powerful methods not seen elsewhere. Home of Dante's Infernal commentary. Classic and original play problems, bridge movies, editorials, movements and movement design, software. Ted Muller, Sacramento, California September 7, 2004 - Play Bridge with John McIlrath Sydney, Australia. Activities include playing bridge at two venues, plus directing and board dealing requirements. Includes complete location maps session details, results, individual personal scorers, travellers and hand records for all sessions, news, members area. John McIlrath May 1, 2004 - The Bridge Buddah - enjoy humorous conversations had between Geoff and his friends held at a local pub. January 18, 2004 - Bridge Articles - Articles on somewhat neglected aspects of the game, historical, current, and futuristic. It also offers a platform for other writers, and a random hand generator. David King January 24, 2004 - Adam Wildavsky - Bridge champion Adam Wildavsky shares his favourite links. Adam Wildavsky September 17, 2003 - Dan Neill Flight B Bridge Pro - offering sessions online with email analysis, as well as the advantage of being able to play in Flight B in ACBL events. Dan Neill August 24, 2003 - At last! The new Hackets URL. Bridge With the Hacketts. June 1, 2003 - Marco Troiani FIGB (Italian Federation of Bridge) Teacher - personal site Email Marco Troiani May 27, 2003 - Henry Mach of PA, USA. Precision - 2/1 Mix and Weak 2 Diamond Opening: 5+ cards + 4 card major, 5-10 HCP Kent Feiler Home of COLONIAL ACOL and LISA (Low Information Standard American) - notes and write-ups available for download in a variety of forms. (April 11, 2003) March 10, 2003 - Forrest Smith - 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 December 1, 2002 - Marijke Blanken - "All EBL executives have to promote the 1st European Open Bridge Championships in Menton. I am promoting through The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. I have created my website especially for this promotion but the more thought I gave it the more I wanted it to be a lasting one to promote all European Bridge Championships and Women's Bridge, especially, as I am a member the Women's Committee of the EBL as well." European Bridge news, calendar and links on this new site - and Marijke plans to add more and more to promote Women's and European Bridge. Good Luck Marijke! Email Marijke Blanken August 18, 2002 - Serge de MULLER Buenos Aires/Fribourg Personal Page. Email August 10, 2002 - Paul Cronin - Bridge Pro Does It August 10, 2002 - Jude Goodwin - Great Bridge Links - linking you to all that's bridge on the net. July 30, 2002 - Bridge7 from Turkey's Yalcin Pekiner Free Software for practising bidding & playing. July 30, 2002 - Gerard's Bridge Page. Email Gerard Cohen June 14, 2002 - Ace of Trumps This is a British site created by leading bridge writer Paul Mendelson and is aimed at bridge players and winning gamblers. May 24, 2002 - Andre Cloutier's Bridge Page Mostly in french, but with link to English translation. System Notes, conventions, links and list. May 17, 2002 - Henry Wong's personal homepage, including bridge articles and more (conventions, systems) in the future.Henry Wong May 10, 2002 - Kantar Bridge - Tests, quizzes, and travel. Eddy Kantar's "Will-Bridge Magazine" - Launched January, 2001. Original monthly teaching magazine endorsed by the World Bridge Federation. Suitable for all bridge players, whatever their level. This revolutionary magazine with fun games covers fundamental areas in bidding, play and defense. "Don't read it, just play it". A perfect size booklet fits right into your pocket. Visit World Bridge Club (www.world-bridge-club.com) to view the specimen. Online subscription available (secured card payment). GBL note: I have received these little magazines and they are awesome! April 1, 2002 - Eugeen Vannuten Bridge System, MUTOS (MUlti and Transfer Oriented System) composed by myself and my partner. It took us about 2 years to settle the details and to have it tested in practice. Still today we tune it when necessary. The documentation is kept up-to-date on-line. Of course reactions are welcome as there is always room to improve. We claim it to be a modern system taking in the best ideas of the last 10 years in a hopefully comprehensive way. kind regards eugeen.vannuten@pandora.be Geel Belgium March 29, 2002 - Henry Wong Personal Bridge Page - this is my personal home page, and on it i have a bridge page. bridge is my favorite hobby. I have already posted two articles, plan to post more in the future. Henry Wong February 2, 2002 - Ken Latty's Bridge Site - Ken comments that his articles page will be of interest to the vast majority of bridge players, especially those who have no aspirations to become Experts and are not interested in a mulitude of conventions. Ken Latty December 5, 2001 - Yves Campana's homepage - West Flanders, Oostende, Belgium. Site Owner Yves Campana - Personal information, bidding system, bridge hands, bridge course and lessons in dutch, links. Personal homepage about my family and my hobbies bridge and sailing in the mediterranean. This link will be moved to People's Pages in 4 weeks. December 5, 2001 - Ace of Bridge Clubs - Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Site Owner: Rich Waugh Online lessons, free software, online duplicate results from local clubs, cruise information Rich Waugh's home page features free online bridge lessons, bridge links, bridge software written by Rich and local duplicate bridge results online. Includes lessons from Bernie Chazen and Helen Shanbrom.This link will be moved to People's Pages in 4 weeks. December 5, 2001 - Bernie Chazen - Tamarac, Florida, USA. This ACBL National Champion and Bridge Teacher has put of a very nice site! You will find our Hand-of-the-Week, and Tip-of-the-Week that will usually be related to the Hand-of-the Week, and a monthly set of Bid-Em-Ups along with suggested auctions and comments. Also Mr Chazen presents "Bridge Sense", a monthly newsletter whose intended audience is what we call club/tournament players. Download complete issue as a sample, subscription rate $29.95/yr. Those interested in Bernie Chazen the Champion will find a good biography page. People interested in Cruising will find a page of Bridge Cruises with Bernie Chazen information. Bernie Chazen. November 20, 2001 - Phillip Alder - Florida, USA. Primarily features his syndicated newspaper column (put up during the weekend following that week's set). ÜPhillip Alder email November 1, 2001 - Bridge Pro Tour Inc- Larry King outlines his Bridge Plan 2005 November 20, 2001 - Phillip Alder - Florida, USA. Primarily features his syndicated newspaper column (put up during the weekend following that week's set). ÜPhillip Alder email July 8, 2001 - Diane the Bridgequacker Belfast, Ireland Diane Greenwood bridge lessons, holidays and play June 2001 - David Stevenson's Bridge Page - David's page is a treasure trove of information about our favourite game. Alerts, Newsgroups, Proprieties, there's lots here! The site is best known, however, for its explanation of The Laws of Bridge, in all their glorious forms. June 2001 - Learn bridge online with Richard"Twojacks"Sampson May 8, 2001 - Homepage for JCBL member by Kyoko OHNO - Kyoko Ohno started playing bridge 31 years ago and is now a Diamond Life Master in Japan with an impressive win list. Her new web site is a good resource for Japanese players and includes a list of Bridge Clubs in Japan, a Player Gallery and tournament cakebdars. It is available in Japanese and English April 28, 2001 - I have created a web site for exploring solutions to the problem of online cheating. The site is intended to provide a contructive working environment. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Responsible approaches to the problem will be published at the site. I'm especially interested in: - how different online sites deal with cheating - how players view the problem - possible software solutions. Paul Lanier January 16, 2001 - Mike Mardesich - There are a number of links to Polish related sites at this site. Also OKScript, Bridge X and Polish Club. November 23, 2000 - Bill Slepin, Bridge Pro - Bill Slepin is a bridge professional who specializes in playing with non-lifemaster serious bridge players who wish to win their fair share of master points at sectional, regional and national tournaments. Since he is still a bronze life master (over 500, less than 1000 master points) he and his partner can play in silver, red or gold flighted and stratified master point events with competition at the FLIGHT B level. He is also eligible to play in SENIOR events. October 22, 2000 - Claus Sñnderkñge Bridgefiles for you Denmark - SYS-files for on-line bridge, cc's in ZONE-layout, GOREN, ACOL, 2-SUIT-BIDS, SAYC, KS, PRECISION, REGRES. Hands-on files, ready to use in the hope especially to find partners for rare played systems. September 28, 2000 - Eddie Kantar's Website - A complete list of Eddie Kantar's Books and Lessons. Also bridge travel/lessons with Eddie. July 23, 2000 - Glen Ashton's Bridge Matters presents bridge articles and The ETM Bidding Systems (Everything That Matters) - systems, conventions, and bidding approaches designed to keep the important while eliminating the unnecessary. June 23, 2000 - Jean-Luc Garneau. (mostly in French, some English, a little of German) the name is B-bridge which features bidding, card play, cards dealer, etc. June 14, 2000 - Bridgez chez vous from France, Lorient. Guyot Christian's personnal web site about bridge in french includes bidding conventions history, problems, biddind tests cards test. June 13, 2000 - Alex Wagner's Pages, Israel - Always pushing the envelop, Alex's site was one of the first bridge sites with animated gifs and it now features lots of web page gadgets! As well Alex still provides us with a fantastic page of links May 29, 2000 - Peter Wood - UK based artist specialising in the design of playing cards. My latest - 2000PIPS - is a beautiful full colour transformation deck printed to the highest standards in a limited edition of just 1,000. This unusual deck features a total of exactly 2000 hearts, clubs, diamonds & spades hidden within its full colour art - plus a whole lot more. For any card player, 2000PIPS is a joy to play with as features quality board with a high gloss laminate for durability and playability. Click on 'Pipland' for the playing cards. Jeff Tang's Web Site. Jeff Tang's bridge pages are always fascinating. Interviews, scandals, articles, history and more. (December 2003) Bridge pro online - An interesting site from bridge pro Richard Sampson. Includes forum, chat room, articles and more. Recently updated. (May 2000) Larry Cohen's Bridge Books & CDs Homepage You will find information about Larry, his books & CD's, and upcoming cruises and seminars. May 12, 2003 - Hi GBL. Thanks for all you're doing for the game. I've started to post some fairly advanced articles about bridge. The page is called "Museum of Contract Bridge Theory". In time, I hope to cover all the commoner techniques of play and defence. Regards from Vancouver, Larry Hammick November 23, 1999 - Bridge - Pellegrini - Chile, Sudamerica, Santiago. Personal bridge page. August 9, 1999 - Christoffer Abel Arntzen. Bridge is iT - Bid it, Play it, Surf it, Sick of it. Visit it, you'll like it. June 7, 1999 - Warren Hawley Free bridge lessons that challenge beginners, intermediates and seniors to raise the level of their game June 5, 1999 - Bridge - the Best Pastime - Sid & Abby of South Africa. Bridge pages for all levels of play; OKB hands are analyzed (in depth) and feature bridge hands played by the greats are reported. This site also contains bridge humor and calendar of events. Various conventions are smartly explained through real live hands! Lots of free downloads and other niceties too! May 19, 1999 - The Stranger - Bridge hands, stories, columns, problem sets and polls. Currently 404 April 2, 1999 - Gilbert T Schwob bridge Page Currently 404 November, 1999 - Mike Lawrence - About, Products, Articles and Links. Nikos Sarantakos' bridge page Luxembourg - Articles and Quizzes. Originally published in Dutch and/or the Greek Bridge Federation magazines, Nikos Sarantakos presents problems from real-life deals played at the highest levels. In each problem, you face a decision, usually concerning a bid or an opening lead. (December 17, 1998) Tony's Bridge Pages UK. "I have placed these bridge related web pages on the Internet. Although they are UK related, everyone world-wide should find some topics (for example, stories) of interest. I am sure you will find plenty of enjoyment during your visit." (November 13, 1998) Currently 404 Halstein`s bridgepage Norway - Bidding systems (November 05, 1998 ) Tom Butler - This site includes a wonderful About Bridge collection of pages, extensive writing on all aspects of the game at a social level including: scoring, definitions, General Approach, Offensive and Defensive bidding, and more. Site also features Bridge for the Dummy 1.2 - intended both as an enjoyable game as well as an informative tutor. FREE Demo provides 50 hands (product has 30,000 or so) (Software for Windows only) (October 1998). Chris Ryall's Bridge Pages, Birkenhead UK - Chris plays some home grown and UK style ideas for competitive auctions, and a large collection of weak two bidding styles to browse. He has a working system to combine traditional Acol major twos, and 4441 Roman types into a strong 2C. Also the home pages of Merseyside & Cheshire Bridge Association, with an online newsletter (December 1998). Bob McCurdy's Bridge Page - local results (Dubuque, IA, USA), links, archiving, hand records, local duplicate info, tips. A geocities site... (October 1998) Cathy Chua's Website - Book related. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. History, Articles, Second-hand Books, Ordering information for 'Fair Play or Foul? Cheating Scandals in Bridge' (November 1999) Lawrence M. Gaunt - For News & Results of Duplicate Bridge Around the World. Mr. Gaunt is hoping to begin an international Club Results Posting service. (November 1999) Julian Richens - bridge page and Reversi site. (November 1999) Halstein Kvangraven (Norway) Polish club, Precision & some intresting plays (November 1999) John and Nina Swanson's Contract Bridge Page Bridge page of Nikos Sarantakos - Articles on real life deals. For the moment there is but one longish article plus another shorter (by Reese and me) but I do plan to add more. NS (November 1999) The Building Blocks of
Bridge Geoff Ostrin Tore Skoglund - Home of Bridge Arkade. (November 2001) Jannersten Forlag Kaj G Backas' homepage Tony "tuna" Reus Bridge Professional
- Bridge Questions Forrest Smith A Square's Guide to Bridge (November 1999)
Ron Klinger's Web Page
Bill's
Bridge Page
Anna Gudge
Jay Apfelbaum
Randy's Personal Bridge
Page
Curt Hastings Andrew's
Bridge Corner
Anna Marsh's Bridge Page, London Thomas Andrews PRECISION BRIDGE PAGE - Michael O'Connor Christer Enkvist Rodnet A Ludwig
Hank Eng TJOEN OEI Jeff Goldsmith Neil Morgenstern - Strong Club System, Astpro, and TIPS. (November 1999) Currently 404 Ian Frank JOS VAN KAN, Delft, The Netherlands. On this page you'll find a rather unorganized cornucopia of things of interest to a bridge player. ROLF KIHN,
Germany. Randy Corn , USA. RC's
Bridge Page (November 2001)
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Dick
Freeman 1933-2009. Dick Freeman of Atlanta, GA, USA, one
of the world's great players, passed away on 29 June 2009. 