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History of contract bridge. The history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved through the late 19th and early 20th centuries to form the present game.
Contract bridge. Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a plain trick-taking card game played with a standard 52-card deck. It is played by two pairs competing against each other, with the partners facing each other as in Whist . Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and socially, making it one of the world's ...
Bridge in the Menagerie by Victor Mollo. Right Through the Pack by Robert Darvas and Norman de V. Hart. Watson on the Play of the Hand at Contract Bridge by Louis H. Watson. Card Play Technique or the Art of Being Lucky by Victor Mollo and Nico Gardener. Bridge With the Blue Team by Pietro Forquet.
This is a list of bidding systems used in contract bridge. Systems listed have either had an historical impact on the development of bidding in the game or have been or are currently being used at the national or international levels of competition. Bidding systems are characterized as belonging to one of two broadly defined categories:
Precision Club. Precision Club is a bidding system in the game of contract bridge. It is a strong club system developed in 1969 for C. C. Wei by Alan Truscott, and used by Taiwan teams in 1969. Their success in placing second at the 1969 Bermuda Bowl (and Wei's multimillion-dollar publicity campaign) launched the system's popularity.
Bridge Squeezes Complete is a book on contract bridge written by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based mathematics professor Clyde E. Love, originally published in 1959. [1] Written in a "dry, mathematical way", [2] it is still considered one of the most important bridge books ever written [3] and the squeeze vocabulary Love invented [4] remains the basis for all discussions of squeezes.
Standard American is a bidding system for the game of bridge widely used in North America and elsewhere. Owing to the popularization of the game by Charles Goren in the 1940s and 1950s, its early versions were sometimes referred to simply as 'Goren'. With the addition and evolution of various treatments and conventions, it is now more generally ...
Gerber convention. Gerber is a contract bridge convention devised by William Konigsberger and Win Nye from Switzerland [1] who published it in 1936; John Gerber of Texas introduced it to North America in 1938 where it was named after him. [2] [3] It is similar to Blackwood but uses 4 ♣ instead of 4NT as a relay (asking) bid to inquire about ...