A duplicate bridge movement is a scheme used in a duplicate bridge session to arrange which competitors play which opponents when, and which boards they...
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Duplicate bridge is a variation of contract bridge where the same set of bridge deals (i.e., the distribution of the 52 cards among the four hands) are...
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Duplicate Bridge, Law 80, pp. 99–100. Laws of Rubber Bridge, Law 4, p. 4. Laws of Duplicate Bridge, Law 6B & 6E, pp. 9–10. Laws of Duplicate Bridge,...
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major or 1NT respectively on a later hand. This is very different from duplicate bridge where each part-score and game are worth fixed amounts and each hand...
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In duplicate bridge, a board is an item of equipment that holds one deal, or one deck of 52 cards distributed in four hands of 13 cards each. The design...
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In the game of contract bridge, balancing (or protection in Britain) refers to making a call other than Pass when passing would result in the opponents...
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in contract bridge, using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other trick-taking...
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to bridge rooms for casual play and teaching, BBO hosts many types of duplicate bridge tournaments, including events sanctioned by official bridge organizations...
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combine features of single- and double-elimination tournaments Duplicate bridge movements List of round-robin chess tournaments Scheveningen system, where...
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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 has any...
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In duplicate bridge, a sacrifice (a save in common usage) is a deliberate bid of a contract that is unlikely to make in the hope that the penalty points...
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Tournament (section Bridge tournaments)
no pair plays the same board or the same opponents twice (see duplicate bridge movements). In poker tournaments, as players are eliminated, the number...
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Duplicate Bridge (also known as the Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge and the Laws of Contract Bridge) is the official rule book of duplicate bridge promulgated...
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Jacoby transfer (category Bridge conventions)
Jacoby and have gained widespread international acceptance by duplicate and rubber bridge players alike. In the article, Jacoby gave his name to the convention...
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High card by suit (section Contract bridge)
followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades. This ranking is used in the game of bridge. This ranking is adopted in Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2660/4...
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receive the monthly Bridge Bulletin magazine. In addition to the Laws of Duplicate Bridge (named Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge until 2008), the ACBL...
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values as in duplicate bridge. Part-score accumulation and level bonus: The part-score treatment differs from that in duplicate bridge and is somewhat...
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A squeeze play (or squeeze) is a technique used in contract bridge and other trick-taking games in which the play of a card (the squeeze card) forces an...
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honors, players often agree to play without the honor bonuses.) In duplicate bridge only: A partial-game bonus is received at the end of each deal for...
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A (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...
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The English Bridge Union or EBU is a player-funded organisation that promotes and organises the card game of duplicate bridge in England. It is based...
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A bridge convention is an agreement about an artificial call or a set of related artificial calls. Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge...
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Auction bridge was the first form of bridge in which players bid to declare a contract in their chosen trump suit or no trumps. It was first recorded...
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Psychic bid (category Contract bridge bidding)
Proprieties therefore require disclosure of the partnership's tendency. In duplicate bridge, sponsoring organizations often impose a number of restrictions on...
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Stayman convention (category Bridge conventions)
Stayman is a bidding convention in the card 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...
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Ruff (cards) (category Contract bridge card play)
the player who cannot follow suit is required to ruff. In others, like Bridge and Whist, he may instead discard (play any card in any other suit). Normally...
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Standard American (category Bridge systems)
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...
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Blackwood convention (category Bridge conventions)
opponent's indicates one ace, two above indicates two and so on. Except in duplicate, the king-asking 5NT bid assures partner possession of all four aces....
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Miles, Marshall. How to Win at Duplicate Bridge. Exposition Press, 1957. Chapter 9. Kelsey, H. W. Match-Point Bridge. Faber and Faber, 1970. ISBN 0-571-09436-8...
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Sylvia Shi (category American contract bridge players)
American multi national champion and world champion in duplicate bridge. Shi started playing bridge in 2011 when she picked it up over learning to fly planes...
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