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NEWSY BITS & ONLINE BRIDGE EVENTS

IN THE CLOUD - Most online bridge clubs now use a browser-based interface for online play. This is great not only for people with Macs and other operating systems. It does not require users to download software. You can play at the library, or in an internet cafe. And at home you don't need to worry about updates and viruses.

The new term for this kind of functionality is 'in the cloud'. You can now play bridge 'in the cloud'.


Recent Bridge Listings & Links

Many times Great Bridge Links has been asked if there is someplace online where one can learn ACOL bridge. That place has finally arrived! No Fear Bridge, the UK’s leading ACOL bridge learning site for beginners and improvers. Hooray!

PLAY ONLINE BRIDGE APPS

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

Bridge Island - play bridge online on your iPhone. Duplicate IMP scoring, rating systems, excellent graphics. Editors review: This looks like so much fun! Just needs people ...

iBridge Baron. Based on the best-selling computer bridge game. Over 2 billion deals. Tournaments from ACBL, Cavendish and ABF. Also an excellent online play option.

Bridge2Go - Android App and online bridge play site.


November 2011 :: Cards have always been a popular pastime and learning to play card games is both a fun and a social experience. There are a myriad of card games, with contract bridge being one of the most popular. However, card players may also like to broaden their repertoire with some traditional online casino card games such as Blackjack. These can be played online on some great canada online casino software. Here you can learn at your own pace, and even have a flutter on the odds when you feel you are good enough.

July 2011 :: Bridge Big. 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 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.

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

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

BridgeHitBridgehit.com. Bridge online - play bridge and enjoy it with BridgeHit! Fast anonymous play (individual tournaments) No cheating, no talking – pure play! System matching feature. Praise/Warn feature. Significant prize money!

The Bridge Doctor : Perfect Online Bridge Club for Beginners
Learn how to play bridge online with contract bridge lessons covering bidding and the rules of bridge. Play ACOL or Standard American. The perfect bridge for beginners website. Click Here fore more info ::>.

Surfing the Bridge Sites October 2010
News from the Bridge Forum

While some online bridge sites know of players who employ Active Ethics, Okbridge recognizes one player each month as ‘Angelfish’. No grand allocations of money, but recognition of their work on the site. Caitlin and Mike Moss earned this honor early on.

News at Bridge Base Online (BBO) includes the introduction of Robot Duplicate tournaments (and ACBL Robot Duplicate tournaments where it is possible to win ACBL masterpoints). Also, how exciting that it is now possible to watch BBO vugraphs on various mobile devices (such as iPhones) by going to www.bridgebase.com/mobile. As well during the recent World Championships in Brazil, BBO had close to 23.000 people logged in simultaneously and at another point there were almost 11,000 people watching these vugraphs. Bravo to BBO!

We applaud Bridge Club Live which is taking extreme action against on-line cheating, analysing 300 hands by suspect pairs and expelling the members when one hand  in ten demonstrates the exchange of unauthorised information. The threat of such public humiliation has proved an effective deterrent. Quitting in the middle of a tournament or hand and rudeness are also not tolerated. Their popular 24/7 Drop-in-Drop-out tournament allows pairs to compete at their leisure any time. The emailed-daily leader board features detailed results for more than 200 pairs in this one tournament alone.


Women's Online Bridge Club Following the great success of the WBF/BBO Online Bridge Festival held in April 2008 this year, organizers have decided not only to repeat the Festival in April 2009, but also to create a Women’s Online Bridge Club. The purpose of the Club will be to have a special website where women can get information about Women’s Bridge – both on line and in clubs, tournaments, Festivals and Championships. info

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.

play bridge at Homo Ludens Online. A place where you can meet your bridge friends from across the globe. Invite them to a party and have fun like it used to be in the good old days. Free. No software to install, just use your browser. Play Chicago variant with Russian scoring.

Free bridge game for windows. Came across your website while surfing for Bridge related info. Thought you might be interested in including my free Bridge game in your listings. Thanks [wes]Wesley Steiner

Bridge 4 Money, led by David Gold (Anchor member of England Bridge Team), gives you an all new experience of online bridge, where you can play bridge for money with no bots!  Using the practice room facility to get to know the interface is free, so come and give a go. February 2007

BBO Friends : Gateway access to companion sites of Bridge Base Online. Clubs, tournaments, TD section and How To. www.bbofriends.com

Standard Bidding with SAYC : at last, the definitive book on the internet's most popular system. The most popular natural system for the hundreds of thousands of online players worldwide is the Standard American Yellow Card, or SAYC. In this book, for the first time, SAYC is fully described and explained. This will be an invaluable to aid to anyone wanting to learn and understand SAYC, or anyone who simply knows the basics and is eager to fill in the missing pieces in their repertoire. Written By Ned Downey and Ellen ‘Caitlin’ Pomer, Published by Masterpoint Press www.bridge-forum.com

you@bridgeplayer.net : Free Webmail for bridge players on the net Members of Bridge Club Live were amongst the first to have an e-mail address identifying them as bridge players on the internet.  Bridgeplayer.net was rolled out and tested amongst several hundreds of members. Now, after many months of trials, it  has opened out to the wider market and is a sturdy, FREE web mail product with anti virus scanning and spam filter. Click Here for more info

 

OTHER ONLINE PLAY LINKS

Giovedœ Bridge (Bridge Thursday)
Free IE-Web Bridge online
In order to participate you need four players. You then request a table (virtual) from Giovedœ Bridge. You set a date with three other players and one player completes the play request form, indicating a name and an email for each one of the four players. The system immediately sends email to everyone containing the personal URL for your assigned table and when you arrive, the cards are already dealt and you start to play. A message system is available in order to communicate with the other players. The game works with MSIE 4 or higher. It does not work with Netscape. Give it a go! Sounds great for team practice ... http://web.tiscalinet.it/GioBridge/

FLOATER
Free, cross-platform, open-source bridge network. Floater runs on Unix, MacOS Classic, MacOS/X, and MS Windows. It has both a GUI (based on Tk) and a text interface (based on curses). There are no charges, no advertisements, and no commercial offers, because Floater is supported by its users and is not connected to any of our jobs. We are a small and friendly network, so all the regulars know each other and have refined bidding systems with each other.

LatinBridge - Club Virtual de Bridge en español. We are a Spanish Club, we talk in spanish, about 90 % of our members are from Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and countries that are in the Hispanian World. We have also some EEUU (hispano hablantes) and European people. There are two areas in our club. The web pages are free and include software downloads, our Internet Pages and many chapters, links, classes and books. Ranking, statistics and much more, some in spanish. Our software runs on Windows platform, not available for mac yet. To play bridge in our online bridge club costs $45 USD a year, $4. a month for the Latinlider suscription. You can pay with Visa, Master and check. Right now we are the only bridge Club on-line in spanish, we are growing and improving our software to meet the quality standards of today.

Pogo.com is becoming a household word for online game players. Now they have put together a fairly decent java-driven online bridge club. Well worth a visit - it loads easily and plays smoothly. The graphics are simple, advertising kept to a minimum, and the game interface is intuitive. Lots of people there when I visited and here it was 6:45 am

At an online bridge club, individuals are able to play bridge against others from around the world. Usually the rooms are open 24/7, with bridge players of all levels and experience enjoying each other's company over a game of cards

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Click on GO: for comprehensive information page on each online club. RED indicates Membership fees (usually with a Free Trial Membership offered), and GREEN is free.

* indicates ACBL Masterpoint Games available.

In the Cloud
 
GO: Bridge Base Online *
GO: Bridge 4 Money
GO: Bridgehit
GO: Bridge Club LIVE! Free social room 
GO: Funbridge (English, French)
GO: LatinBridge (en español)
GO: OKbridge
GO: StepBridge  (Australia) Free 
GO: StepBridge  (Nederlands)
GO: TopBridge
 
Windows/NT OS
 
GO: Giovedœ Bridge (IE only)
GO: LatinBridge (en español)
GO: Swan Games *  Free social room
 

 

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