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BRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA!
Here are some sites that take on the enormous task of on online bridge encyclopedia.

Contract Bridge on Wikipedia
Available in 16 languages. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Bridge7 - BIG SITE with lots of info.

BridgeHands Bridge Encyclopedia Well-indexed complete Bridge Encyclopedia

Contract Bridge on Wikiverse: Information on bridge mechanics and history. Managed by Katz.

Great collection of bridge quotes on Roger Boyar's web page. Click Here ::>

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You have a wonderful site full of great and helpful content that is quite interesting to us, and we'd really like to be a part of it. James Yates

The sites on this page have been submitted within the last few months. This page is somewhat unmoderated. Our editors may not have had time to visit and review all the sites. The date is the day the address was added to this page. The URLs are generally removed once they have been added to Great Bridge Links properly. American Districts and Units will all be eventually found on the ACBL pages.

ALERT: NEW CLUB LINKS AND CLUB CHANGES FURTHER DOWN THIS PAGE.

If you would like your site listed here, send URL and brief description to jude06<at>greatbridgelinks.com

November 2009 :: Vilnius Cup 2010 - 16-19 Sept. 2010 and Lithuanian Bridge Federation

November 2009 :: Vilnius Bridge Club. Kauno g. 3a (5.th floor) Vilnius Our club is the greatest Lithuanian bridge club. We play tournaments each Monday and Wednesday, 6 p.m. You can get any information concerning bridge in Vilnius calling president of the Club - Sonatab Malisauskaite - tel +37061064447 or by e mail: VBK@bridgeclub.lt

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).

October 2009 :: World Bridge Club - a social network for bridge players. Players have tools to assess their skill level and describe their bidding style. Skill level and bidding style are then used to search for similar players, who likely are suitable partners.

October 2009 :: The Gargoyle Chronicles - Phillip Martin's Bridge Blog features an ongoing match, where all his teammates and opponents are Jack, the computer program that won the 2009 World Computer Bridge Championships.

October 2009 :: Bridge Buddy - a communal web site that has been designed to provide unique valuable services to all ACBL Bridge Clubs, ACBL bridge players and tournament directors.

October 2009 :: Marty Bergen offers online lessons starting in October. Marty Bergen Online Classes are hosted by hondobridge.com

October 2009 :: Andre's Bridge Blog - I've only been keeping the blog for about 3 months and it is really just my thoughts and experiences as a bridge teacher in a small town in Georgia and one of the top players in Georgia.

September 2009 :: BridgeComposer allows entry and display of bridge hands in PBN file format; formats lesson handouts for bridge teachers; has a full-screen mode; formats web pages and emails; saves records of hands; deals random hands; has a double-dummy solver; interfaces with ACBLScore, Bridgemate and BridgePad; and more. Reasonably priced, free 30-day trial. (Windows)

September 2009 :: Cartes Production - le premier site internet français de la carte à jouer, des cartes à thèmes, des jeux de cartes pour enfants et de la cartomancie!

September 2009 :: Bridge Hand Pro dot com. The world's first publically available Bridge Hand Database. the purse of this iste is to allow users to search hands palyed by the world's top bridge experts. Launched November 2008.

September 2009 :: Bridge Union - Contract Bridge for the World. A facebook type social network for bridge players -photos videos, status updates etc.

September 2009 :: Marty Bergen .com the home of Points Schmoints
Features seminars, lessons, books, cruises and other products.

September 2009 :: Ryder Bridge - a fun social bridge league. Ryder plays its Regular Tournaments most days of the week as well there are Special Tournaments each month, using the Yahoo bridge engine.

September 2009 :: Just discovered - Really Easy Bridge - from English Bridge Union. A bridge website with a focus on making bridge easy to learn. Information such as 'Bridge Terms', 'Point Count Table', 'Really Easy Books' etc.

September 2009 :: BridgeWebs provides a facility to allow a secretary, scorer and other members to jointly set up and maintain a web site for a bridge club, county association or bridge teacher. BridgeWebs is simple to set up and no knowledge of designing a web site is required. The hard work has been done for you and most aspects of a bridge web site are included as standard.

September 2009 :: Bridge Solutions Site for Beginners. Learn Bridge, rules, Openings and Conventions, Problems and solutions, Score and Points.

September 2009 :: Site Update. Shantanu Rastogi. As geocities is closing down I've moved my page to http://shantanurastogi.co.in My page is first bridge webpage from India and has information on bridge clubs in India, Tournament News & local bridge results of Lucknow , India.

August 2009 :: BridgeComposer allows entry and display of bridge hands in PBN file format; formats lesson handouts for bridge teachers; has a full-screen mode; formats web pages and emails; saves records of hands; deals random hands; has a double-dummy solver; interfaces with ACBLScore, Bridgemate and BridgePad; and more. Reasonably priced, free 30-day trial.

August 2009 :: Hua Hin Bridge Club - Thailand We play every Thursday and Sunday. Start at 4.00 Pm, with a short break for refreshment. ADDRESS:Thipurai City Hotel 8/5-7 Soi Kanjanomai Poolsuk Road Hua hin, Prachuabkirikhan 77110 Thailand

August 2009 :: Cartes Production - Online Card & Games Supply Store, in French. Based in Les Les SORINIERES France

June 2009 :: The BridgePhone - The BridgePhone client enables you to register your score at the and of each game during a tournament easily on your own cell phone. www.bridgephone.eu

May 2009 :: Bridge Software for Linux (with free trial download) and Windows Mobile: http://www.xcontractbridge.com Chris Burkinshaw, Bibase Software

May 2009 :: Online Sign Up for bridge clubs and events. We provide you with a website for your weekly bridge group activities. Your website maintains a sign up sheet for your activity. All the members of your group's website can view this sign up sheet to see the schedule of play for several weeks into the future.Each member of your group maintains their own sign up status over that period of time. Visit us at http://www.susheet.com for full information. There is a full featured demo there that you can run to see how everything works.

May 2009 :: New Release. Version 4.0.3 of Easy Bridge, Steve Han's freeware Bridge program. This is a user-friendly program aimed primarily at beginner players to help learn and practice the game of Bridge. Click Here for more.

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

May 2009 :: Bridgevaria - free online bridge magazine. Created by Ed Hoogenkamp (author of Dutch monthly BRIDGE), Peter van der Linden (ex-editor of BRIDGE and the Daily Bridge Calendar) and Pien Steringa (former DTP responsible of BRIDGE) Bridgevaria.com is intended not as anews site but a 'do'-site as well as a 'read'-site. One of the ambitions of the creators is to post new content daily.

May 2009 :: LifePhoto - Use a favourite photo to make a deck of customized playing cards for yourself or your favourite bridge player. Glossy palying cards are laminated for durability.

January 2009 :: Free Movement Software. See Jeanie - the movement wizard at http://www.asecomputing.com/Jeanie.htm and my blog at http://www.asecomputing.com/forums/blog.php?b=1

January 2009 :: Simiplicity Bridge. Learn to Play Contract Bridge the Simplicity Bridge Way

November 2008 :: Karen's Bridge Library. A favourite and one of the oldest bridge links site has changed its url to kwbridge.com - lots to discover and love about this site.

September 2008 :: Bridge Book Reviews. Over 500 bridge book reviews, with all books available from Amazon. Terry Quested. Director and webmaster of the Pattaya Bridge Club.www.pattayabridge.com

September 2008 :: Deal 3.1 by Thomas Andrews. Deal is now up to version 3.1, and can be accessed at bridge.thomasoandrews.com/deal/ The latest release includes a built-in double dummy solver written by Bo Haglund.

April 2008 :: Free Bridge Scoring Software as used by English Bridge Union. Pairs, Teams, Swiss Pairs & Swiss Teams software all compatible with Bridgemate (&Bridgepad) usage.

Jan 2008 :: New bridge Cards. These patented playing cards are great for many other games i.e. Solitaire & Texas Hold ‘em! Check us out! 

Jan 2008 :: Playing Cards and More. We are an e-commerce site
specializing in 100% plastic bridge size playing cards. We carry all the best brands: Bicycle, Copag, KEM, GEMACO, Modiano, Da Vinci, Rally, Aviator, and WPT. We are a family owned business and we pride ourselves delivery top-notch service to our customers. Use discount code: bridge10 for ten percent off!

Jan 2008 :: Vivisphere Publishing. We currently offer 14 bridge titles, some of which you are not currently offering on your site. One of our most popular books, "Serendipity in Bridge" by R. Jayaram was nominated for 2006 IBA Book of the Year.

Jan 2008 :: Plastic Playing Cards and Unique Card Protectors. We carry all the major brands of plastic and paper playing cards, and all other accessories you need to host a home game.We will offer a 10% discount when you make a purchase, just use the discount code of "shark10".

Dec 2007 :: Software: SMdummy. SMdummy generates from a *.bri or *.dup file (normally produced from a dealing machine) for all (unlimited number) boards in the tounament a html file, which can be shown on the clubs homepage .
The program generates the "Par Result" for a given Board, and You can
play the board single or double dummy. There is also now a new function "Problem Play" that can help you solve Single Dummy Problems.
It is also possible under "Deal" to "prick" in a given board, and have this analysed and saved as a html file, or you might read in a *.pbn file.
The program is based on the dll written by Bo Haglund, Stockholm
Sven Aage Madsen.

Dec 2007 :: Software: Ray's Bridge Game Ray's Bridge Game allows user's to write their own rules for bidding at Bridge. You can bid hands and watch how the rules determine the appropriate bid. There is a review window which interprets your partner's bid and tells you what each bid means in terms of point count and suit length. You can save hands to a file and bid all of the hands in the file at one time. Lot's more. Java. PC, Windows and Internet Explorer

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

Sep 2007 :: E-Books - Lybrary.com. We are an ebook publisher specializing among other areas in bridge ebooks. We are currently publishing four ebooks by Eddie Kantar and an ebook on cheating at bridge.We will be able to offer more ebooks by Kantar and others in the coming months.

Sep 2007 :: Electronic Bridge Accessories (EBA). Electronic Bridge Accessories (EBA) has a new website, replacing the old one that has been around for a dozen or so years. Bridge boards, cards, games, software and accessories. Dennis Yovich Director, EBA

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.

July 2007 - Bidding Quest - bridge practice software in three platforms: Windows, Mac & Linux

June 2007 :: BridgeMate - Electronic Bridge LCD Game (TG0277) We all know how difficult it is to find 4 friends to start a game when you wanted to. Now you can play Bridge anytime anywhere with BridgeMate LCD game.

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).

April 2007 :: Bridge Diagrams. It is now possible to create a card diagram online in under 2 minutes. Works for MS Word and for the browser. Kind Regards, Richard van Haastrecht

March 2007 :: Bridge Review is a blog dedicated to the game of contract bridge written by excession and arctangent. We are (British)intermediate level bridge players playing mostly online. We will be writing about our experiences learning how to improve our game, reviews of books we read and general comments on hands that we play. We also hope to have a bidding system wiki in due course. Any feedback is most welcome.

March 2007 :: Bridgify - Free double-dummy analyzer (something that is hard to find elsewhere) for Windows with an easy-to-use (I think) user interface.

February 2007 :: Bridge Squeezes Complete:  This interactive software adaptation of Clyde E Loves classic text allows you to play all 129 exercises and 59 problems before proceeding with Love's analysis. The average player will find a wealth of information on planning and executing end plays, while even the expert can use it for polishing his technique. Free evaluation download offers the first 14 exercises.

January 2007 : bridgecorner.com. Discussion Board for Tactics, Partners and More

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

MISCELANEOUS CLUB LINKS : SOME NEW, SOME CHANGED

Many of the new links we receive from around the world are from bridge clubs. Keeping our club pages up to date is an enormous task and sadly, one that is rarely completed. To make things easier, I will simply list here any recent emails and when I have time, will transfer them into the appropriate club page.

June 2009 :: Central Coast Leagues Club Bridge Club, Gosford, NSW. The club plays in the Central Coast Leagues, Dane Drive, Gosford which is about 80 km north of Sydney. Play starts at 12:30 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; at 13:30 on Wednesday and at 19:15 on Monday. There is a standby player for casual visitors (except when a special event is on). See web site for further details.

May 2009 :: We are a Bridge Centre and offer tuition, supervised bridge and duplicate sessions for all standards FIVE days a week. See our website www.southbucksbridgecentre.co.uk   We are located in a 16th century barn near Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire with easy access to M4, M25 and M40 motorways.

May 2009 :: The Bridge Club of Castres is situated in the South of the Tarn. It is an International Club as there are different countries represented as Australia, Great-Britain, The Netherlands, so do not worry if you do not speak French, there is always someone to help you!

Jan 2009 :: Cambridge University Bridge Club. Cambridge England
New Link, old link no longer functions.

 

New Links and Club Changes previous to 2009 have been moved to our Great Bridge Links Clubs Page.

 

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