Do you want to know how SWISS PAIRS and SWISS TEAMS are played or scored?
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 PERCENTAGES FOR BRIDGE PLAYERS
Do you know whether you are playing with the odds.
Click for all the figures.
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 ANNOUNCEMENTS & ALERTS
Are you bidding correctly?
Click for a simple summary.
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 SIMS PAIRS
Do you want to know why your National Sims Pair Score is different from the score in the club?
Click here.
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 MOVEMENTS & ARROW SWITCHES
Are the pairs movements we play actually fair?
Should we arrowswitch and if so how many boards?
Click to find out
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 THE LAWS OF BRIDGE 7a
Even seemingly trivial laws have consequences when broken.
Click to find out more.
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 IS BRIDGE IN DEVON A GAME OF SKILL?
Results from The John Woolcott and Julia Chadwick Pairs 2011 suggested it was not.
Click to see why.
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 COMPUTER DEALING
How does a Duplimate work? Are computer dealt hand biased?
Click here to find out.
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 DEEP FINESSE
You can download Deep Finesse, the interactive bridge hand analyser that we use for checking duplimated hands.
You can use it to replay hands and find how you can make or defeat contracts. Click to go to our useful links page.
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 MATCHPOINTS or IMPS
Very different tactics are needed to get good results at Pairs and at Teams.
Click here for a useful summary.
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 WEAK TAKE-OUTS or TRANSFERS
A provocative argument by one of our members in favour of the weak take-out for the ordinary club player.
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 CHRISTMAS FUN BRIDGE
Click for the rules of bridge as played at Barnstaple at Christmas.
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