Bridge Stories

Chrome is one of the world's most powerful internet browsers, and one of the most popular access points for online bridge. If you are both a Chrome and Bridge Base Online user, then you're in luck... Browser add-ons (also called extensions) can bring a little more to the game.

Alert!  It's not really something that comes up while you play Monopoly, Uno or Duel Monsters, but alert procedures are an important part of the bridge bidding phase. Alert procedures are meant to call attention to specific bids you make, usually when the meaning of a convention or bid might not be clear to your opponents. 

Podcasts are to radio what streaming is to television. Content is similar, but people get theirs through apps or the internet. There are podcasts out there for everything, from celebrity shows to bizarre conspiracy theories (and of course, for the game of bridge). Here's what you should know about the busy world of bridge podcasts, and what you're going to need if you want to create your own.

Setting up your reading list for the end of 2021, or the beginning of 2022? The bridge greats have had a busy time, and there are more than a handful of new bridge books to read. Barry Rigal, Kit Woolsey, Mark Horton, and Barbara Seagram are only some of the veteran bridge writers who have had just one more thing to say – and we're very glad for it! Here are 10 of the best bridge books for the holidays.