Optimum contract and par contract are two closely related (and sometimes confused) bridge scoring terms in the card game contract bridge. The optimum...

The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (5th ed.). Memphis, TN: American Contract Bridge League. p. 278. ISBN 0-943855-48-9. LCCN 96188639. Richard Pavlicek...

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...

designed to make it difficult for the opposing team to bid and find their optimum contract even if they have the bulk of the points. This hand is nearly...

of 52 cards in four hands in the game of contract bridge. Each hand is designated by a point on the compass and so North–South are partners against East–West...

bid and subsequent rebids by responder and notrump opener "is designed to help partnerships reach the right contract", i.e. their optimum contract. In...

The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest...

Barbu, or players may bid for the right to select the trump suit as in Contract Bridge or Skat. In most games trump cards cannot be played if the player...

Programming for Equilibrium Problems Optimum contract and par contract – Bridge scoring terms in the card game contract bridge Prisoner's Dilemma – Standard...

High card by suit and low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit. When suit ranking is applied...

information which one's partner may employ in order to arrive at an optimal contract while concurrently contending with the opponents' attempts to do likewise...

Par, or par score On a given deal, the score that results from best bidding and best play by both sides. See optimum contract and par contract. Par contest...

confirmed a full opening hand and the following rebids by the Drury bidder enables opener to judge the best final contract: 2♥ - I have a minimum Drury...

(bridge) signal is a move in the card game of contract bridge in which partners defending against a contract play particular cards in a manner which gives...

game contract bridge. It is used by a partnership to find a 4-4 or 5-3 trump fit in a major suit after making a one notrump (1NT) opening bid and it has...

Strong Club System is a set of bidding conventions and agreements used in the game of contract bridge and is based upon an opening bid of 1♣ as being an artificial...

In the card game "contract bridge", a splinter bid is a convention whereby a double jump response in a side-suit indicates excellent support (at least...

competitive situations, vulnerability can influence the optimum contract. Thus, with the HCP evenly split and facing a bid at the three level by the opposition...

In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands so that they may reach the optimum contract. Key...

their hand and to arrive at a suitable contract at which to play the hand (or to prevent the opponents from arriving at a suitable contract). Although...

Gerber is a contract bridge convention devised by William Konigsberger and Win Nye from Switzerland who published it in 1936; John Gerber of Texas introduced...

Cappelletti (also called Hamilton and Pottage) is one of many defensive bridge bidding conventions used in the card game contract bridge to compete or interfere...

to declare a contract in their chosen trump suit or no trumps. It was first recorded as being played in Bath around 1904. The Bath Club and Portland Club...

contract points; a new game ensues until one pair has won two games to conclude the rubber. Owing to the availability of various additional bonus and...

about the strength and distribution of the overcaller's hand, potentially enabling improved declarer play should they secure the contract. In his seminal...

responder can set the contract. There are many variants to the Ogust convention. Some partnerships reverse the meaning of 3♦ and 3♥, which is Ogust's original...

Bridge and Short Bridge, is a form of contract bridge and a variation of rubber bridge in which one or more sets of four deals are played and scored....

combined high card strength of the two hands to within one HCP, and thus the most probable optimal level to which to bid (with the caveat that one sometimes...

This article describes the contract bridge bidding convention. Meckwell is a method for defending against an opposing strong one notrump (1NT) opening...

XYZ is a bidding convention in contract bridge. After opener's one of a suit (X), partner's one of a suit response (Y) and opener's 1-level rebid (Z) (a...