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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! ::>

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.

 

 


LINKS OF INTEREST

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP JUMP PAGES

2006 World Bridge Championships :: Verona, Italy. Click Here for GBL JUMP page with links to everything ::>

The 2005 World Bridge Championships, Estoril, Portugal, October 22 to November 5 2005. Click Here for Great Bridge Links JUMP page with links to everything ::>

2004 WORLD OLYMPIAD,
Istanbul, Turkey :::>

2003 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: :::>

2002 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: CANADA :::>

2001 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: FRANCE :::>

2000 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP :::>


Great Bridge Links Magazines and Publications Page - Magazines and Newsletters

Great Bridge Links Bridge Atlas - Youll find NCBO pages and lots of international links here - many international sites have newsletters and magazines online.


Playing Bridge Boosts Immune System
Want to stay healthy? Play bridge. A new study by a University of California-Berkeley researcher indicates that playing contract bridge leaves people with higher numbers of immune cells. Click Here for CNN.com story


GOOD PRACTICE: COPYRIGHT AND
JOURNALIST ETHICS

From the Minutes of the International Bridge Press Association General Meeting, Tuesday, September 1, 1998.

There was an animated discussion about copyright. Mr. Jannersten reported that one law existed to protect authors but that practice in using it differed from country to country. Participants in the ensuing discussion were: Messers Suri, Jourdain, Francis, Meyer and Truscott. It was an ethical matter more than a legal one with which members needed guidance. The key points to emerge for consideration by the Executive as good practice were:

Facts such as details of an actual deal are not copyright;

Invented deals such as Par Hands or Double Dummy Problems should be treated as words and subject to copyright;

Editors should not copy the words of a named author without crediting the author in the case of an extract, or asking permission in the case of the bulk of an article;

Authors who send the same words to more than one publication should tell the Editors what they have done Analysis of a deal is not copyright;

If an author is employed then ownership of the copyright is a matter between the author and employer, but others may work on the assumption that it is the employer who owns the copyright, particularly where the author is unnamed in such publications as Tournament Bulletins;

Further to this it could be good practice for such publications to have a clear statement regarding copyright of content so that contributing authors and prospective users of copy knew the published conditions;

Authors can give permission to specified third parties such as "other IBPA members" to reproduce their work;

IBPA is a members club where there is an assumption that the IBPA Bulletin may be expected to reproduce members' work without payment or permission, but readers of the Bulletin must treat copy within the Bulletin as having thes ame copyright as the original work; Invented deals such as Par Hands our Double Dummy Problems should be treated as words and subject to copyright.

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