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How to Play Bridge
Learn how to play bridge from the first deal: the four players, the auction, the play of the cards and the scoring, explained step by step with one complete hand to follow.
The Rules of Bridge
The rules of contract bridge in one reference: players and the deck, dealing, the auction and its calls, the play of tricks, the dummy, irregularities such as revokes, and how a deal is scored.
Positions in Bridge
The four positions in bridge and what each one does: North, South, East and West, the dealer, declarer, dummy and the defenders, LHO and RHO, how the deal rotates and what vulnerability means.
Bridge Terms and Terminology
A plain-English glossary of bridge terms: the words of the auction, the play and the scoring, from auction and balanced hand to yarborough, each with a one-sentence definition and a link to its guide.
Duplicate Bridge
What duplicate bridge is and how a club game runs: boards, movements, matchpoints and IMPs, the convention card, masterpoints, and how it differs from rubber and Chicago bridge.
The History of Bridge
How bridge developed from whist through biritch, bridge whist and auction bridge to contract bridge in 1925, and how it grew from Vanderbilt and Culbertson to duplicate, the ACBL and online play.
Bridge Tournaments
How bridge tournaments work and the main ones: club games, sectionals, regionals, the three NABCs with the Vanderbilt, Spingold and Reisinger, the European championships and the Bermuda Bowl.
Bridge Bidding
How bridge bidding works, from the opening bid to the final contract: the rules of the auction, points, openings, responses, rebids and forcing bids.
Learn Bridge Online
How to learn bridge online for free, in order: the rules, counting a hand, bidding, play, defense and scoring, with the guides and free tools for each stage.