• Laws of Duplicate Bridge (also known as the Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge and the Laws of Contract Bridge) is the official rule book of duplicate...
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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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    Laws of 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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  • "(untitled section)" (PDF). Victorian Bridge Association Bulletin: 6. The Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge. The English Bridge Union Ltd. 1987. Manley, Brent;...
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  • 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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    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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  • number of hands. It is not used for ACBL sanctioned duplicate play. It gained a lot of publicity after a celebrated match, referred to as the "Bridge Battle...
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  • Convention card (category Contract bridge)
    conventions and treatments that a particular pair is using. The Laws of Duplicate Bridge specify that "Each partnership has a duty to make available its...
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    inducted by the Hall of Fame. In addition to bridge rooms for casual play and teaching, BBO hosts many types of duplicate bridge tournaments, including...
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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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    Edition, 1968 Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bridge". Rules of Card Games: Bridge THE LAWS OF AUCTION BRIDGE (1908)...
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    the trump suit as in Contract Bridge or Skat. In most games trump cards cannot be played if the player has any cards of the suit led to the trick; the...
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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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  • 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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  • Jacoby transfer (category Bridge conventions)
    in 1956 in The Bridge World article by Oswald Jacoby and have gained widespread international acceptance by duplicate and rubber bridge players alike....
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  • Alcatraz coup (category Contract bridge coups)
    the Laws, so that now a remedy is available for use of the Alcatraz coup. The most relevant change is Law 16C2 (Law 16D2 in the 2007 Laws Of Duplicate Bridge)...
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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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  • 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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  • game of bridge mathematical probabilities play a significant role. Different declarer play strategies lead to success depending on the distribution of opponent's...
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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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  • contract bridge and other trick-taking games in which the play of a card (the squeeze card) forces an opponent to discard a winner or the guard of a potential...
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  • remarks at other tables or seeing a wrong card. Law 16 of the Laws of Duplicate Bridge states that Players are authorized to base their calls and plays...
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  • contract bridge had so supplanted other forms of the game that "bridge" became synonymous with "contract bridge." History of the Laws of Contract Bridge First...
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  • all times. The rules of the game and expectations for ethical play are codified in the official Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge and its published interpretations;...
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  • In contract bridge, the Law of total tricks (abbreviated here as LoTT) is a guideline used to help determine how high to bid in a competitive auction....
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  • Standard American (category Bridge systems)
    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...
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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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  • called Hamilton and Pottage) is one of many defensive bridge bidding conventions used in the card game contract bridge to compete or interfere in the auction...
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  • Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body of contract bridge. The WBF is responsible for world championship competitions, most of which...
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  • publication on Auction Bridge (also known as Royal Auction Bridge and simply, Auction) to the last publication of Laws of Auction Bridge by the Portland Club...
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