World Championship
2024 World Bridge Games
Oct 21 – Nov 3, 2024
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Click here for GBL Jump Page
2023 World Bridge Teams
August 20 – Sept 2, 2023
Marrakech, Morocco
Click here for GBL Jump Page
2022 World Bridge Series
August 19 – Sept 3, 2022
Wroclaw, Poland
Click here for GBL Jump Page
2021 World Bridge Teams
March 27 – April 9, 2022
Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy
Click here for GBL Jump Page
2019 World Bridge Team Championships
September 14-28, 2019.
Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
GBL Jump Page with tournament links click here
2018 World Bridge Series
21 September 2018 Florida, USA
GBL Jump Page with tournament links click here
2017 World Bridge Teams Championships
12-26 August 2017 Lyon France
GBL Jump Page with tournament links click here
2016 World Bridge Games
3-17 September 2016 Wroclaw Poland
GBL Jump Page with tournament links, bulletins and more click here
2015 World Bridge Teams Championships
26th September – 10th October 2015
GBL Jump Page with tournament links click here
Tournament Archives
What is Duplicate Bridge?
Duplicate bridge is the most widely used variation of contract bridge played in clubs and at bridge tournaments. It is called duplicate because the same bridge deal (i.e. the specific arrangement of the 52 cards into the four hands) is played at each table and scoring is based on how well you did on the hand as compared to everyone else who played it. Read all about Duplicate Bridge here →
Other Good Tournament Links
BridgeScanner™ easy to use Bridge Tournament Portal. Available in English, Polish and Russian. Click here for more.
IBPA – International Bridge Press Association Bridge Calendar Click here.
Bridge Base Online Vugraphs Live vugraphs. Click Here for Schedule
Bridge Daily Bulletins.Thousands of Daily Bulletins from tournaments around the world and throughout history can be found here. Great resource for hands, articles, history and more. Click here for more.
The Bridge Archive. Represents vugraphed events by Bridge Base Online in Google and user friendly way. Deals can also be filtered with hand parameters. Click here for more.
LiveBridge.Net. Vugraph Schedules and Live Theatre. Click here for more.
43rd World Bridge Team Championships
August 12-26, 2017
Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup, d’Orsi Senior Trophy
11th World Transnational Open Teams Championshp
5th World Youth Open Championships
21st World Computer Bridge Championships
1st French Bridge Open
Organised by the World Bridge Federation in cooperation with the Federation Française de Bridge. All the Championships will be played at the CITÉ CENTRE DE CONGRÈS. Lyon, France
The 43rd World Bridge Team Championships and the 11th FunBridge World Transnational Open Teams ended tonight. Click here to read the WBF’s final message, and a list of winners
Links & News
We will be collecting Championship Links here for your enjoyment!
Bridge Winners – Championship Forum. Find discussions and polls and more here.
Mark Horton’s Questions and Answers : If you would like to send a question about any aspect of the championships send it to: markhorton007@hotmail.com or click here
BBO Vugraph Schedule: Click Here
France’s offical championship website is lovely. Click Here
Funbridge Live: Funbridge Live is a brand-new feature on the app or on your computer allowing you to follow official bridge matches live. Join us to follow the Lyon 2017 World Teams Championships (from 12th to 26th August). Click Here
The annual meeting of the International Bridge Press Association will be held in Lyon on Sunday, August 20th at 9:30 a.m. The location, once known, will be published in the Lyon bulletins prior to that date. IBPA Website Click Here
Bridge Blogging – This is the ‘go to’ spot on the ‘net for great bridge blogs and bloggers. There’s sure to be some excellent stories told here during the championships. Click here
Bridge Stories: Enjoy stories on our blog. Click Here
5th World Youth
The World Youth Open Championships will be held from August 15th (Tuesday) to 24th (Thursday) in Lyon.
The Championship is open to all players born on or after 1st January 1992 (Juniors & Girls) or born on or after 1st January 1997 (Youngsters) or born on or after 1st January 2002 (Kids) in good standing with their own NBOs. Teams and Pairs must be made up of players from the same NBO. Players must be members (not necessarily nationals) of the Federation through which they enter. NBOs were able to send as many teams or pairs as they wished.
Tournament Championship Website Click Here – bulletins and results
World Youth Bridge Website Click Here – some wonderful articles and lots of information
World Computer Bridge
21st World Computer Bridge Championship
The 21th World Computer-Bridge Championship will take place 19-24 August at the World Teams Championships in Lyon, France. The robot championship is supported by the ACBL and WBF.
The robots are used in software games and interactive teaching tools. More information is found at: www.computerbridge.com