Patrick David Jourdain 1942-2016

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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 to 2002. He had been president of the IBPA since 2003  and was named IBPA’s Personality of the Year in 2002.

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Playing with the ‘bots

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Just Play Bridge - ACBL
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 robots, players are not able to engage in any form of unauthorized communication.
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Dirty Hands – A cheating scandal in the world of professional bridge.

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Dirty Hands - the New Yorker
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.
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53 billion billion billion bridge hands

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Play bridge on your laptop in the garden

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 (friends live too far away? Invite them to join you for a few hands of your favourite game) or against robots (beginner,

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