GENERAL

 

The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is the organization that oversees competitive duplicate bridge in North America.  Its webpage on convention cards has several useful items.  There is a pdf file of a blank convention card; a filled out card with a very basic bidding system; a filled out card for Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC), a slightly more complex system; a booklet describing SAYC; and a description of Bridge Bulletin Standard (BBS), a bidding system used in bidding contests in the ACBL Bulletin.  BBS is a bit more complex than SAYC but less complex than a full-blown 2/1 system.

 

The webpage on convention cards also has links to Conventional Wisdom and Conventional Wisdom Lite, two series of articles on what different parts of the convention card mean and how to fill them out, as well as the  Bidding Toolkit, a list of common conventions with explanations.

 

Larry Cohen has a website with lots of information and lessons for both beginning and advanced players.

 

Loeb Bridge is a site with articles on many aspects of bridge bidding, play, and defense.  Articles are classified for beginners, intermediates, and advanced.

 

Karen Walker's website has lessons for players of all levels, including beginners.

 

Richard Pavlicek has a website with many bridge resources for all levels, including beginners. 

 

Bridge Clues is a website that provides new lesson hands to bid and play every day.

 

Bridge Base Online is a site for playing bridge online.  The homepage has links where you can play bridge for free – matchpoints, IMPs, Just Play Bridge, and Bridge 4 – as well as other useful links.

 

IntoBridge is another site for playing bridge online. Features allow you to replay hands (all of your previously played boards) to see where you might have gone wrong or how you would have done in another contract. It also calculates player rankings, similar to chess rankings, with its Ranked Games feature.

 

Trickster Cards is a site for online play of many trick-taking card games, including Bridge. The other trick-taking card games are: Spades; Euchre; Pitch; Hearts; Whist (the precursor to bridge); 500; Pinochle; and Oh Hell.

 

PARTNERSHIP BIDDING

 

Larry Cohen's lessons on Standard American bidding

Larry Cohen's lessons on two-over-one bidding

Larry Cohen's recommendations for what conventions to play

Larry Cohen's hands for you and your partner to practice bidding

 

Karen Walker's bidding lessons for all levels, including beginners.

 

Richard Pavlicek’s Standard American bidding lessons for beginners.

Richard Pavlicek’s hands for you and your partner to practice bidding.

 

The Bridgebum website has thorough articles on many popular bidding conventions.

 

Bridge Clues' bidding hands for new players.

 

COMPETITIVE BIDDING

 

Karen Walker has a website with a few lessons on competitive bidding.

 

The Bridgebum website has thorough articles on many popular bidding conventions.

 

Richard Pavlicek has a website with many bridge resources including lessons and quizzes on competitive bidding.

 

 

DECLARER PLAY

 

Bridge Clues' declarer play hands for new players

 

Karen Walker has a website with a few lessons on declarer play

 

Bridge Base Online is a site for playing bridge online.  It includes Bridge Master, a series of exercises in declarer play, presented in increasing order of difficulty and Just Declare, where you are presented with a stream of hands to play.

 

Richard Pavlicek has a website with many bridge resources including lessons and quizzes on declarer play.

 

Larry Cohen's lessons on declarer play

 

 

DEFENSE

 

Karen Walker has a website with a few lessons on defense.

 

Richard Pavlicek has a website with many bridge resources including lessons and quizzes on defensive play.

 

Larry Cohen's lessons on defense

 

BRIDGE TIPS

 

BOLS EXPERT TIPS: From 1974 to 1994 the world's bridge experts submitted expert tips to BOLS, a Dutch Distiller, who each year asked a panel of eminent members of The International Bridge Press Association (IBPA) to vote on the very best of these tips. These BOLS Bridge Tips can now be viewed courtesy of the IBPA.

 

Rhoda's Rules: Rhoda's wisdom and experience about the greatest game on Earth: BRIDGE! Rhoda Walsh is an ACBL Grand Life Master and a World Bridge Federation World Master.

 

46 Bridge Rules To Live By (plus 12 more) of World Grand Master Kate McCallum.