About Great Bridge Links

Welcome to Great Bridge Links, a digital portal for the global bridge community. For over three decades, we have dedicated ourselves to mapping the world of bridge, serving as a vital crossroads for players, clubs, tournaments, and resources worldwide.

⏳ The Evolution of a Portal

• 1995 (The Early Days): Great Bridge Links first appeared on the internet as a single resource page hosted on the Canadian Bridge Federation website. Originally, it serviced an early online community of players who had very few digital tools to map available bridge resources.

• 2000 (A Standalone Domain): As the internet boomed, the page grew at an exponential rate. Recognizing its potential, founder Jude Goodwin migrated the site to its own dedicated domain and host (greatbridgelinks.com).

• Today: Marking 26 thriving years as an independent domain (and over 31 years on the web!), Great Bridge Links acts as the ultimate digital directory. While thousands of bridge sites now exist, we remain a trusted, central hub. In fact, 70% of our daily traffic consists of first-time visitors—a remarkable statistic that has remained rock-solid for over a decade.

🃏 What You’ll Find Here

Many of our container pages are curated specifically to guide new players into the game, but we remain a daily destination for regular viewers through our most popular core sections:

• The Bridge Magazine: Launched in 2017, our active magazine features deeply researched articles, game strategies, trivia, and news celebrating the culture of duplicate and contract bridge.

• Bridge Tournaments: A historically popular section featuring a comprehensive guide to global tournaments, offering a centralized archive found nowhere else on the web.

• Play Bridge Online & Software: The definitive directory mapping out where to play online, from casual clubs to major competitive platforms, alongside reviews of leading bridge software.

• New Links: The first stop for our community. We continuously update our index with fresh bridge resources, blogs, and tools from across the globe.

✍️ About the Founder

Great Bridge Links was envisioned, built, and managed for 30 years by Jude Goodwin. Jude is a well-known figure in the bridge world, recognized as the author of the acclaimed instructional book Teach Me To Play and the creative mind behind the beloved Table Talk bridge cartoons.

Through her publishing company, Goodwin Studios, Jude fostered Great Bridge Links from a simple list into a massive international repository. Today, Jude’s incredible legacy lives on as the site enters its next chapter under new stewardship, ensuring it remains an enduring, independent haven for the global bridge community.

Good Words

So, don’t waste your time in perpetual surfing. All the hard work has already been done. – Fred Gitelman & Sheri Winestock, 
About Bridge & Computers, Better Bridge Magazine 


Great Bridge Links was designated a Cool Site in the Netscape Open Directory. Your site is, and has been for a long time, the best bridge ressource on the net. It really is worthy of this special mark! (November 2002)

You have a great website … Thanks for all your hard work and devotion to getting information to players around the world. – Al Levy, past ACBL president, Computer-bridge championship.

There is only one place to go – Great Bridge Links. This site is the GREATEST. This site sets the International Standard for Great Web Sites and does the Bridge information task for beginners or grizzered veterans in an examplary manner. –Earl Hamman

Great Bridge Links is a remarkable resource, you have done an amazing job with it!
 – Colleen Wilson, Cascade Management (BridgeMart.com and WebForClubs.com) Colleen@BridgeMart.com

I appreciate receiving your newsletter and that your site is such a good one for keeping apprised of changes in the electronic bridge world. – Virginia Thompson (Play 3NT! and Play 4M! software) virginia@brickbarn.com

Congrats to you for a splendid site – it has proved useful for me on many an occasion!
 – Sid – South African Bridge Federation 
April 2001

GBL has turned into a very nice “starting page” for bridge players – I very much like your pages – especially the Competition Calendar.
 – Eskil Hagen www.topbridge.com

I enjoy your newsletters; thanks for sending them. 
Richard Pavlicek

Just don’t know how to thank you for this great newsletter. There is always something new & interesting. My heartfelt thanks to you & your staff, for all your hard work.
 – Judith Taylor in Oregon

GBL is THE premium site for anything bridge. I looked at it finally two days ago and I was astounded at its content and ease of use. – Dwayne Hoffman Apollo Beach, FL
 Feb 21, 1999

So, don’t waste your time in perpetual surfing. All the hard work has already been done.
Fred Gitelman & Sheri Winestock, 
About Bridge & Computers, Better Bridge Magazine 
May 1999

From this website, you can go anywhere in the Internet bridge community. It should be your “yellow pages” for bridge activities. – Bridge Today University, Course 101, Spring 1999.

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