BridgeScanner is one of the leading websites for locating a bridge event anywhere in the world. There’s listings for thousands of events from organizers and players, and there’s more planned for the site to make it even better. We caught up with the BridgeScanner CEO Erikas Vainikonis to find out what’s new.
Category: Bridge Stories
Bridge is always up for discussion, and other than mainstream platforms like Wordpress there are a few specialized platforms meant just for blogging about bridge.
Even a few thousand games in, most bridge players will still have fond memories of the first time they picked up some cards. We spoke to some big personalities in bridge about their first impressions, fondest memories and how they got started.
Michael Xu, of Palo Alto CA, first started playing bridge thanks to being invited to a Silicon Valley Youth Bridge party which he says is hosted every month.
Bridge is played everywhere in the world. For our next location in our Bridge by Country series, here’s where to go and what to know in all things bridge, if you’re living in or visiting South Africa.
The news of the world’s top bridge player being issued a recent doping ban from the game shocked, surprised and slightly confused everyone at the same time – but that’s not the end of the story, and nor is Geir Helgemo the only top player that has ever been banned from the game.
Just Declare Bridge is a solitary bridge game available through Bridge Base Online that allows you to play a game of bridge against intelligent robot players – with you as the game’s declarer by default. It can be a great way to practice your skills and improve your overall game with just a click.
Barry Crane, a renowned bridge player and television producer, was brutally murdered in his Studio City home in 1985. The case remained unsolved for 34 years until forensic evidence led to the arrest of Edwin Hiatt in 2019.
For our next article in our world bridge series, with the International Bridge Fest taking place on the 11thof May, 2019 in Warsaw, we take a closer look at the current bridge scene in Poland.
Money bridge was huge at one point, but it seems like it’s disappeared from the scene, leaving precious few options left where you can play an online bridge game for cash. We wondered why there aren’t more readily available options for money bridge through online casinos, so we went digging.
