Planning on attending a Bridge tournament in the new year? Alex has put together a helpful checklist to prepare you for your first tournament adventure.
Category: Bridge Stories
Bidding boxes, table screens, bidding trays and crowd sourced video surveillance – it’s not your grandma’s bridge game anymore!
If you’ve become somewhat obsessed with the game of bridge, a deep breath and a card shuffle is in order: It’s okay, you’re not alone! Check out some of these famous (fictional and real-life) famous bridge players.
Did you just see someone cheat at bridge? Or worse, did someone just accuse you of cheating? As you can expect, this is a very sensitive topic and newcomers to the game will appreciate an introduction to cheating at bridge.
The 2016 International Bridge Press Awards Links last updated Feb 2018 George Rosenkranz wins IBPA Personality of the Year 2016 On the occasion of George Rosenkranz’s 100th birthday the IBPA is delighted to name him our Personality of the Year at the IBPA Awards during the World Bridge Games in Poland this September. Also awarded …
Patrick David Jourdain 1942-2016 by John Carruthers, Editor, IBPA Bulletin. August 2016. IBPA President Patrick Jourdain died on July 28 at the age of 73 after a short battle with inoperable pancreatic cancer. Jourdain was the bridge correspondent for London’s The Daily Telegraph since 1992 and had been editor of the IBPA Bulletin from 1982 …
Matt Smith is one of the ACBL’s longest-serving and most popular National Tournament Directors. Here is an interview by Bob Levey.
In some online bridge casinos your partner will be a robot, and the opposing team will consist of a real person and their computer software partner. While the game is still four players, only two of them are real people. The positions of the humans and robots are randomly generated and since the partners are …
No matter what eventually happens, players today seem less resigned to unethical behavior by opponents than players of the past sometimes did—no doubt partly because, for the time being, they have the tools to fight it. Read how this came about in 2015 thanks to Boye Brogeland.
Bridge Baron 26 Software Sometimes, you just wanna play some bridge. Bridge Baron 26 is a bridge playing software program. You can play offline practicing hands from tournaments, randomly dealt or even newspaper hands. Or you can play online in duplicate clubs, rubber bridge clubs. You can play at an open table, an invite table …
