The first phase of any bridge hand is bidding. On this page we’ll dig into bridge bidding, bidding systems, and bidding theory. As well, we’ll present places where you can join other bridge players and talk about bridge.

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Convention Card Editor Lets you fill-in ACBL Convention cards, print them, and save them. NOTE: The Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC) and the ACBL Fat Free cards are contained in the Non ACBL program (below). Click here to download the NON ACBL Convention Card Editor. Download CCENONACBL.exe. This program contains about 30 foreign convention card editing formats including the WBF Card. It DOES NOT contain the ACBL card.

GLOSSARIES & DICTIONARIES

Funbridge offers a complete Bridge Glossary https://www.funbridge.com/glossary-bridge

BridgeBum offers a complete listing of Bridge Bidding Conventions https://www.bridgebum.com/

BIDDING & DISCUSSION FORUMS

Bridge Winners– This is a forum-type website where players discuss the game which, over the past few years, has become the ultimate place for current news, articles, problems, and lessons for the card game bridge.

Rec.Games.Bridge GOOGLE GROUPS (RGB) with over 3,000 current topics and lots of great bridge teachers and experts sharing their knowledge of the game. RGB is the granddaddy of online bridge discussion forums – it was around before the world wide web!

IN THE WELL – from Bridge Winners. A growing list of expert players answer your questions – this story is posted at the top of the page. A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become a part of. He is shown a well and his guide says, “On any day except Thursday, you can shout any question down that well and you’ll be told the answer.” The man seems impressed, and so he shouts down: Why not on Thursday? The voice from in the well shouts back:Because on Thursday, it’s your day in the well.

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NEW FROM BRIDGE WINNERS – YOU HOLD Bridge App: Now you can ask the members of the leading Internet bridge community, Bridge Winners, about a problem you faced at the bridge table. Tell them “you hold…” and what the auction is, and you’ll soon get votes and comments from people around the world. Or answer the problems yourself and see if the best bridge players agree with you. Apple Store | Google Store

Bridge Base Forums : Lots of activity and interesting topics including Book Reviews.

THE CONVENTION CARD

BridgeWinners.com Convention Card Editor : Join Bridge Winners for free and you’ll find all sorts of wonderful stuff including a great ONLINE Convention Card Editor. Fill it out, save it, view it, print it – awesome.

ACBL Convention Card Editor : Download a PDF file that you can edit and print.
ACBL’s page How to Fill Out The New ACBL Convention Card : Line by line advice from ACBL editors and experts.

LEARN BIDDING SYSTEMS

Two Over One Bidding System : Lots of information here from Karen Walker. Also links to further resources.

Two Over One with Val Covalciuc : This site offers an interactive book on the Two over One bidding system. Each of the sixteen playbooks has an informational page, a quiz + eight practice hands. also there are 32 practice hands to test the students knowledge of the basic concepts. Alert – this is not a ‘for free’ site.

2 Over 1 – Serious about adopting the 2/1 system or serious about playing the 2/1 system better? Then these playbooks are for you! Val presents a comprehensive guide that offers everything you need to play this system successfully.

SAYC – The ACBL Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC) was created to be the required system to be used in a Standard Yellow Card event. The object was to provide a simple, modern method that will lead to a good, solid understanding in a partnership when both players have read this booklet. Bridge App Here. Wikipedia Page Here. Booklet Here.
ACOL : The bridge bidding system that, according to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, is “standard in British tournament play and widely used in other parts of the world”. It is basically a natural system using four card majors and, most commonly, a weak no trump. The Bridge Doctor will help you learn this system. Or visit the ACOL BIDDING website

Precision Bridge Page – Michael O’Connor

Standard Dutch Bidding System AKA Biedermeijer Red

LEARN POPULAR CONVENTIONS

ACBL’s Commonly Used Conventions: With only 15 words allowed during an auction and just 13 cards in each suit, bridge players have invented dozens of special bids, called conventions, to describe their strength and hand patterns. Great list of conventions here.

Jeff Tang’s Bridge Conventions : Lot’s of conventions on this Bidding page, part of Jeff Tan’s excellent site.

Bridge Buff : A good Conventions page from Bridge Buff.

The Bridge Guys – massive collection of conventions on this popular website.

Baker Bridge – Bidding Conventions with Practice Deals

PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

Daily and Weekly Bridge Puzzles – a page on Great Bridge Links.

Intermediate/Novice Bidding and Play material can be found in the Great Bridge Links Classroom

SAYC : STANDARD AMERICAN YELLOW CARD Bidding Practice website and app.

Nikos Sarantakos’ Bridge Page Luxembourg : Articles and Quizzes. Originally published in Dutch and/or the Greek Bridge Federation magazines, Nikos Sarantakos presents problems from real-life deals played at the highest levels. In each problem, you face a decision, usually concerning a call or an opening lead.
Australian Bridge Magazine Online Bidding Forum. Five problems are posed every two months and visitors are invited to submit their answers with comments. The most interesting comments are presented with the answers. These are the same five problems that we run in the magazine. This allows us to also show the scores from the expert panel in the magazine.www.australianbridge.com, Paul Marston, Publisher and editor

SOME TOOLS FOR THAT

Biddingquest– bridge-bidding practice software that features bidding contests on prepared boards with a partner.

Bridgetoernool (not currently available). On this site I have I have collected almost 130000 boards from major bridge tournaments. Visitors can view the deal the players the bidding and play. See the tournaments section. Richard van Haastrecht

Double Dummy Corner : Started in January 2001 for the benefit of people interested in double dummy bridge play problems. Its main purposes are to provide a repository of every worthwhile DD problem that has ever been published; and to provide a medium for publication of new problems for competitive solving. It is updated every Sunday, in principle, subject to the vagaries of the webmaster’s personal life. (September 2009)

Bid-em-ups for Partnership Bidding Practice courtesy of Larry Cohen. Great hand printouts, new set each month.

1.3 of BbnOrganiser. This program enables you to organize your personal bridge bidding system. Tis Veugen (December 2006)
PlayBRIDGE : Bridge Hand Generator : It is a bridge education tool to be used to practice bidding, visualize hands or resolve what-if situations. It also produces duplicate forms pre-filled with computer generated deals. You can generate random deals, seed your hand with selected

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