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May 2009 :: Great Modern Conventions. Will you add a link to my new site describing some conventions I have written? I hope you enjoy, Mo Clark

Standard Bidding with SAYC : "A few months ago someone asked me to recommend a good, up-to-date book on standard American bidding. I couldn't think of one and so asked my American friends to do so. After much head scratching the best that anyone could come up with was a Kaplan classic - written 40 years ago! This book- Standard Bidding with SAYC [by Ned Downey and Ellen Caitlin Pomer] fills  therefore not a gap in the market but a gaping hole." - Julian Pottage. Click Here for more ::>

Dec 2007 :: Book: 1/1 Game Force, Henryk Mach. It provides information in the following categories: bidding systems, conventions, bidding theory, and humor.

June 2007 :: Roberto Bonari. I would like to add my personal version of the EHAA System in your "Individual conventions and System pages". You can also find it in www.legnanobridge.it (English version).

March 2006 -BridgeHands Bridge Encyclopedia - new bridge instruction website. BridgeHands offers a well-indexed complete Bridge Encyclopedia with conventions and play narratives, comprehensive Laws reference for players/Directors, Tourney bulletins, free monthly eMagazine Newsletter, webhosting, reviews for cruise and books (including ordering). Owner : Michael Nistler

March 2006 - Contract Bridge on Wikiverse : a community of sites dedicated to providing high-quality informative web content. Information on bridge mechanics and history. Managed by Katz.

March 2006 - Contract Bridge on Wikipedia : a community of sites dedicated to providing high-quality informative web content, similar to Wikiverse above. Available in 16 languages. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In the English version, started in 2001, members are currently working on 1,030,462 articles. Anyone can drop in and correct, update or add to the content.

March 2006 - Bridge7 - BIG SITE with lots of info - bridge terms, theory, conventions and more. Practice your bidding and play online with these neat pages from Bridge7 (Yalcin Pekiner). Yalcin writes "Learn or improve your bridge by numerous exercises, tests and free software." He has recently completed "Conventions" Looks like there is a LOT on this site (IE5, mac)

BIDDING and PLAY

Daily and Weekly Bridge Puzzles - a page on Great Bridge Links.

Sep 2009 :: Double Dummy Corner - started in January 2001 for the benefit of people interested in double dummy bridge problems. Its main purposes are to provide a repository of every worthwhile DD problem that has ever been published; and to provide a medium for publication of new problems for competitive solving. It is updated every Sunday, in principle, subject to the vagaries of the webmaster's personal life.

Sep 2007 :: bridgeStudio. Fast and powerful solver of bridge double dummy problems. One can also download a library which uncludes about 840 double dummy problems. The library was created from Hugh Darwen's double dummy corner webpage.

December 2006 :: 1.3 of BbnOrganiser. This program enables you to organise your personal bridge bidding system. The program, documentation, etc can be found at http://bbn.tistis.nl/ The main improvements in version 1.3 concern bug fixes. Best regards, Tis Veugen

THE BECKER ARCHIVES :: Bid-em-ups for bidding practice available online at LarryCohen.com . Mike Becker, a future hall-of-famer, and son of the legendary B.J. Becker, has been compiling bidding practice deals for many years.  He was gracious enough to make them available to the public. Deals from the "Becker Archives" often appear in Bridge World magazine. Click on any set below then have your partner click (and print) the corresponding set for partnership bidding practice - bid over the phone, the internet or by email - smoke signals, telegraph or owl! Partnership Bidding Practice (courtesy of Mike Becker and Dave Berkowitz) Hosted by Larry Cohen. Great hand printouts, new set each month. Click Here ::>

January 29, 2004 :: Bridge Bidding Trainer V2.0 - Bridge program to train the bidding BBT is a complete program to practice and improve your own bidding system. Windows or NT  Email

Practice Bidding ONLINE!
Question: I'm looking for a (free/share)ware on windows implementing a server to practice *bidding* through the Internet (using modem to modem connection, and opening a port). Answer: Try Bridge Base Online. This is a free service that does what you are looking for. When you first log in to the program go into the Training Rooms area. Then enter the Partnership Bidding area. There are a lot of other things you can do with this software as well that you will not find in other online bridge games. The software is available as a free download through: www.bridgebase.com/online Let me know if you have any questions. Fred Gitelman Bridge Base Inc.

August 31, 2003 - Bridge Calculators from Richard Pavlicek. These may not be new to some of you, but on a site this large cool things can get buried. As well, Richard has new URLs for these cool little utilities. Check it out! Bridge Hand Evaluator | Bridge Hand Calculator | Suit Break Calculator | Dual Suit Break Calculator | Wheeler Dealer | Personal Deal Creator | Bridge Score Calculator | Contract and Result Finder  These links can also be found on the Software page, the Resource page, the Bidding & Play page and in the Classroom.

Bidding Quest dot com - Online bidding with Bidding Quest - a site were you can bid for practice and/or compete in online bidding contests. Practice bidding with you partner. Bid 10 boards with an unknown partner. Compete against other pairs. Learn new systems. Improve your bidding technique. This site is lots of fun. Doesn't work in my Mac Internet Explorer 5, works fine with Netscape 6.1 on the Mac

PlayBRIDGE -Hand Generator - WINNER of the Great Bridge Links Great Site Award May 2000.
"It is a bridge education tool to be used to practice bidding, visualize hands or resolve what-if situations. It also produces duplicate forms pre-filled with computer generated deals. You can generate random deals, seed your hand with selected cards or specify your strength and distribution requirements. I hope that the Internet bridge playing community will find playBridge useful and fun."

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 call or an opening lead.

Intermediate/Novice Bidding and Play material can be found in the Great Bridge Links Classroom

STANDARD AMERICAN YELLOW CARD
Most Comprehensive Site on the Net

Wayne Flournoy and Anna Marsh have put together a great site (click on SAYC logo). It includes a complete discussion of all aspects of the Standard American Yellow Card including its conventions and responses. It also discusses other common conventions used by players on OKbridge. The site is laid out to provide easy printing or online viewing, and has a gif file of the ACBL Convention Card for printing. It's everything you could want or need from a convention card site.

SYSTEMS AND CONVENTIONS COLLECTION SITES

ACBL's Commonly Used Conventions - With only 15 words allowed during an auction and just 13 cards in each suit, bridge players have invented dozens of special bids, called conventions, to describe their strength and hand patterns. These descriptions are from the ACBL Bridge Bulletin series called the Bidding Toolkit. A new bid is added monthly. Click here for Commonly Used Conventions

Othere sites:

• Bridge World Standard (BWS) A nice site from the Bridge World Magazine.

• Bidding: A comprehensive page from Jeff Tang

• Bidding Systems Page
  Vlatko Primorac is converting the available documents from the Internet Bridge Archive into the html format. The page also contains the link to every bidding system description that Vlatko can find on the net.

• BridgeWare List of Conventions - Toronto, ON Canada Bridgeware Software Company lists lots of conventions here.

INDIVIDUAL CONVENTIONS AND SYSTEMS PAGES

Posted in order of receipt. Many players discuss conventions and systems on their personal blogs. Visit the Pressroom for a growing list of bridge blogs. As well, individual player pages can be found listed on our People's Pages. Our Bridge Campus will also have articles discussing bidding and play for the learning bridge player.

November 2009:: Paul's Bridge Site - a personal web site. This site introduces the Westwood Club. It is a strong club system. It's different than most other club systems. It is a natural system--an opening 1 diamond shows 4+ diamonds. It favors 4-card major responses on the first round of bidding (longer majors are bid on the second round).

June 2007 :: Roberto Bonari. I would like to add my personal version of the EHAA System in your "Individual conventions and System pages". You can also find it in www.legnanobridge.it (English version).

June 8, 2005 - Mark Abraham - The server upon which my bridge systems page was located suffered a catastrophic failure recently and is not being resurrected. . I would be grateful if you would update your links and bookmarks accordingly. For those who don't know, or have forgotten, there are descriptions of a number of symmetric relay systems, including strong club and strong pass methods, mostly with transfer-opening styles. There are also links to several other exotic Forcing Pass systems and bidding conventions. Regards, Mark Abraham

January 11, 2004 - The Modest Club - New Bridge Book : The Modest Club gives you dynamic distribution data fast. Think hard, right away. Project the possible auctions. Be prepared to handle surprises. Be ready to create them, too. Ted Warner, author.

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

Feb 20, 2003 - Pannol Bidding System - copyright 1995-2002 James Wanless & Claire Gilman

January 10, 2002 - Composite Club: book describing a new strong club bidding system Bill Hodgkiss

October 3, 2001 - Suction - Thomas's Bridge Fantasia

August 31, 2001 - MUTOS-MUlty Transfer Oriented System - Belgium. Eugeen Vannuten Bidding System- New modern innovative Bridge system, simple and yet accurate

August 01, 2000 - Bridge Matters Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. - Bidding, Systems, Conventions, Articles, Interviews

July 18, 20009 - Daniel Neill's cool links to systems and other bridge sites.

July 1, 2000 - Bridge System from Davide Tavoschi. Italian and English

December 19, 1999 - The ETM Bidding Systems - by Glen Ashton. The "Everything That Matters" methods are systems, conventions, and bidding approaches designed to keep the important while eliminating the unnecessary.

November 13, 1999 - The Blue Team Club Home Page - A site dedicated to the famous bridge system played by Forquet, Garozzo, Franco, etc. The site is not yet in English, but the English version of the Arturo Franco and Benito Garozzo's System Notes is available for download. It is a very interesting 73 page system, more or less the same used by De Falco and Ferraro to win the las European Championship. Marco Pancotti.

October 22, 1999 - L_system - Bidding System. L system is for the idea of light opening: open the 5 card suit with 8-12HP, since the range is of highest probability. If we overcall with these hands, why not bid at the first chance.

Is the Montreal Relay legal in Canada?
The "Montreal Relay" is a treatment first popularized by Eric Kokish. Major openings promise 5+ cards; diamond opening promises 4+ cards; hence, when you hold a 4-4-3-2 opening hand, you must systemically open 1 Club. My mathematician friends tell me the one club is "short" no more than 10% of the time.

The 1D response is artificial denying a 5 card major. One of a major promises 5+ cards in the suit.

Today, Eric Kokish believes the "Montreal Relay" treatment is mostly for beginners. Notwithstanding that, Baran-Kokish still play it! So do I with a few of my partners (hey, I grew up in Montreal!).

Yes, of course it is "legal" -- in fact it is a general convention card treatment and can be played at any level in any ACBL game. Naturally, you must alert the "artificial" 1D response. Jonathan Steinberg, May 13, 1999

Mike's MAGIC Bridge System called: M.A.F Netherlands, HERVELD N. - Mike's MAGIC bridge system, which many wonderful, completely new and very powerful properties. (December 31, 1998)

Prism Signals The sole content of the site is an 11 chapter e-book entitled Prism Signals. A hyped description- A Revolutionary Defensive Signal...Defender Signals Declarer's Distribution. A more down to earth description (a quote from the forward)- “The purpose of these pages is to demonstrate one fact: The four hands of a bridge deal are structurally interdependent.” (September 23, 1998)

Jeff Tang's Home Page - Lot's of conventions on this Bidding page, part of Jeff Tan's excellent site. (February 26, 2003)

Defence to Multi 2D:Dixon - by David Stevenson

EHAA: FAQ by Eric Landau, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Christopher W. Hasney's The Basic American Bidding System a book designed for beginners and for those who have been playing for a while but need to go back and "Fill in the gaps." Copyright Christopher W. Hasney and Gerald Pottier

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