For many bridge players, across the spectrum from amateur to elite, competing at tournaments is the absolute best part of the game. Whether you attend one tournament a year or you deliberately schedule your calendar around the events (making sure to hit the most exciting destinations, of course!), there are certain attributes that undeniably make …
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There’s more to playing bridge than just playing bridge. In fact, it turns out there’s a whole range of bridge-related games for bridge players out there including crosswords to get to know your lingo around the table, quizzes to sharpen up your card knowledge and even a range of bridge-related puzzles.
“Old Bridge players never die; they just lose their finesse.” Quote about bridge from famous and not so famous people
Whether your bridge-playing family or friends have convinced you to take up the mantle, or whether bridge’s brain benefits or some other reason have motivated you to learn the game, you’re about to embark on one of the toughest and most rewarding journeys of your life.
The 43rd World Bridge Championships are taking place between the 12th to 26th of August 2017 in Lyon, France. Excited yet? We took a closer look at the World Bridge Championships and what you should know.
Remember when you were a couple years (or decades) younger and things just seemed easier? Well, this is as close as you’re going to get to a time-machine: Fire up your old DOS PC or download an emulator like DOSBox (with detailed usage instructions on its website)and let’s play some retro bridge games.
Can you remember the first time you spotted a deck of cards as a kid and thought, wow that looks really cool? Check out some of the world’s most successful young card players.
AI has come a long way since Deep Blue beat chess player Garry Kasparov in 1996, but research shows that AI isn’t quite as close to matching up with real-life Bridge players as we thought. Here’s how far we’ve come with Bridge AI so far and what could still be holding it back.
Bridge is always an exciting game to play with friends or relatives. Whether you’re playing the game online or spending the night to get a few rounds in, the game is a great way to blow off steam while having fun at the same time. And Bridge is not the only card game that has …
Bridge has a lengthy, multi-layered history, but the version we play today evolved from the game whist. In whist, actual gameplay was almost identical, but there was no betting beforehand, and thus no trump suit. In addition, the scoring was vastly simplified.
