| Welcome to the Great Bridge Links Pressroom.
This page is intended to be a resource for bridge writers,
editors, journalists, publishers and illustrators. Its a beginning
- feel free to send us your opinions and ideas.
What is the International Bridge Press Association?
Website:: www.ibpa.com
The International Bridge Press Association is an organization
of journalists who write about bridge. At all major championships,
IBPA allows access to wellequipped press rooms that receive
all results as soon as matches are completed. The IBPA publishes
a monthly journal with reports and deals that may be used
by members for their own columns.The organization also publishes
a membership list of bridge journalists worldwide. There are
awards for reporting what are adjudged to be the best in card
play, bidding, defense as well as an award for the best bridge
book of the year. Members of the IBPA receive the Bulletin
monthly. For
more info and sample click here ::>
BRIDGE PLAYER BLOG SITES
The newest form of bridge journalism is the 'blog' (short
for web log). Blogs are free and provide bridge writers and
players an excellent opportunity to post their thoughts and
experiences. Here is the beginning of a list of bridge blogs.
I'm sure there are many more. If you have one or know of one,
let us know and we'll add it into the mix.
Best
of Bridge Blogs. Excellent page from the Bridge Advocate,
the newsletter is published by ACBL District 8 (Illinois &
portions of bordering states).
www.bridgeblogging.com
- A blog site about bridge, featuring bloggers such as Bobby
Wolff, Mark Horton, Ray and Linda Lee, Roy Hughes and Barbara
Seagram.
Jonathan
Ferguson
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly : Many hands, and good blog links
too.
BridgePro
Gavin Wolpert
Squeezing
the Dummy
Justin Lall
Vikings in Space
(English)
Jannes
Diablogando
(Italian)
Mr. Mitch
Tyler's
Bridge Blog.
One junior player's journey into competitive bridge. North
Carolina.
Cue
Bidding at Bridge
Kenneth Rexford
Barry's
Blog
General Manager of the English Bridge Union
Bridge
Review is a blog dedicated to the game of contract bridge
written by excession and arctangent.
Bridge
Club Ideas : BLOG : A forum for those organising Bridge
sessions to share ideas for increasing interest and participation.
The site is new so any contributions and comments would be
welcome! Joe
Ridyard Joe Ridyard
Culcheth, Nr Warrington, United Kingdom, Secretary, Daten
Bridge Club.
Webpage Hand Creator - If you have ever
struggled with formatting bridge hands for a webpage, hooray,
your troubles are over. Hand Creator makes it so easy! Simply
enter the card values in a form, click the button and the
HTML code is created for you, which you then copy and paste
into your web page. From Contractbridge.net and free!
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Huge Data base of deals in French, English this September.
François Colin has collected a database of
more than 10,000 deals from the highest level of bridge, including
all deals from the world championships from 1955 to the present.
He has organized them into training material previously available
only to the French national teams. The material is now available
to the general public for a fee. Contact fcolin@ffbridge.net
for further information.
Bridge Writing Style Guide
Richard Pavlicek recently put together an excellent "Bridge
Writing Style Guide". Anyone who does any bridge writing,
even if it's just posting to a newsgroup, should find some
benefit in it. It is available in two formats: HTML
for browser viewing |
PDF for printing (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). Mr.
Pavlicek welcomes any comments or differing opinions from
other bridge authors and journalists. Richard
Pavlicek's Web site
Rec.Games.Bridge Style Guide
Advice
on Style for Contributions to rec.games.bridge
Before you consider posting to rec.games.bridge for the
first time, you might want to read through this excellent
guide. Thanks to David Stevenson and his group of contributors:
Ted Ying, Paul Jackson, Paul Barden, Mark Lehto, Mark Brader,
Jim Loy, Hans van Staveren, Geoff Hopcraft, Franco Baseggio,
Doug Newlands, David Grabiner, David DesJardins, Chris Ryall,
Charles Blair, Brian Clausing, Bharat Rao, Barry Rigal and
Andy Bowles, and Jude Goodwin-Hanson for help in promulgating
it.
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