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Bidding system for the game of bridge
Bridge base basic, also known as BBO basic, is a bidding system for the game of bridge based on the Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC). It is simplified
Bridge_Base_Basic
Card game
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two
Contract_bridge
American gaming company
Bridge Base Online (BBO) is the world's largest bridge-playing online platform, with about 11.6 million monthly visits as of September 2024. In 1990, Bridge
Bridge_Base_Online
Playing card with an elevated rank
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
Trump_(card_games)
Assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit
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
High_card_by_suit
Points awarded by bridge organizations to individuals
English Bridge Union (EBU), and the Deutsche Bridge Verband (DBV) and independent leagues such as the American Bridge Association (ABA) and Bridge Base Online
Masterpoints
Bonus amounts are different in rubber bridge and duplicate bridge. See Bridge scoring. Book (Noun) The basic six tricks that must be taken by the declaring
Glossary of contract bridge terms
Glossary_of_contract_bridge_terms
Scoring of contract bridge
While a deal of bridge is always played following a unique set of rules, its scoring may vary depending on the type of event the deal is played on. There
Bridge_scoring
Card game of the trick-taking family
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
Auction_bridge
Convention in bridge card games
transfer, or simply transfers, in the card game contract bridge, is a convention in most bridge bidding systems initiated by responder following partner's
Jacoby_transfer
Variant of contract bridge card game
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
Duplicate_bridge
Bidding convention in contract bridge
Times, April 3, 1983. Based on standard hand evaluation methods Klinger, Ron; Husband, Pat; Kambites, Andrew (1994). Basic Bridge – The Guide to Good Acol
Stayman_convention
Contract bridge bidding convention
(also called Hamilton and Pottage) is a defensive bridge convention used in the card game contract bridge to compete or interfere in the auction when an
Cappelletti_convention
Bidding convention in contract bridge
This article describes the contract bridge bidding convention. Meckwell is a method for defending against an opposing strong one notrump (1NT) opening
Meckwell_convention
Contract bridge convention
Multi-coloured 2 diamonds, is a contract bridge convention whereby the opening bid of 2♦ shows a defined range of hand types. These always include a weak-two
Multi_two_diamonds
Set of bidding conventions and agreements used in the game of contract bridge
bidding conventions and agreements used in the game of contract bridge and is based upon an opening bid of 1♣ as being an artificial forcing bid promising
Strong_club_system
Bidding convention in contract bridge
Klinger in collaboration with Pat Husband and Andrew Kambites (1994). Basic Bridge: the guide to good Acol bidding and play. Victor Gollancz Ltd in association
Blackwood_convention
Slam bidding convention in contract bridge
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
Gerber_convention
Tracey; Rigal, Barry, eds. (2011). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (7th ed.). Horn Lake, MS: American Contract Bridge League. ISBN 978-0-939460-99-1.
Landy_convention
Bridge convention
Jacoby 2NT (Swedish: Stenberg 2NT) is a bridge convention in which a bid of 2NT over partner's opening bid of one heart (1♥) or one spade (1♠) shows a
Jacoby_2NT
Card game terminology
Some penalties in different trick-taking games include the following: In Bridge, the penalty for a revoke is normally one or two tricks scored against the
Revoke
Canadian bridge player and publisher
World Bridge Federation (WBF) World International Master (WIM). Lee is a regular commentator on Bridge Base Online and she blogs regularly about bridge. North
Linda_Lee_(bridge)
American economist (born 1940)
is a champion bridge player. North American Bridge Championships (2) Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1966 Mixed Pairs (1) 2007 North American Bridge Championships
Richard_Zeckhauser
Conventional bid in contract bridge
The Michaels cuebid is a conventional bid used in the card game contract bridge. First devised by Michael Michaels of Miami Beach, FL, it is an overcaller's
Michaels_cuebid
Player-funded organisation
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 at offices
English_Bridge_Union
a fragment bid is a bidding convention used in the card game contract bridge. It is an unusual jump rebid, usually a double jump, by either the opener
Fragment_bid
Bridge convention
In contract bridge, Bergen raises are conventional treatments of responses to a major suit opening in a five-card major system. Developed by Marty Bergen
Bergen_raises
Bridge system
5-card majors. Strong notrump. Bridge Base Basic, based on Standard American and used in internet play 2/1 game forcing, based on Standard American and gradually
Bidding_system
American sportswoman, aviator, journalist, and socialite (1889–1960)
(June 24, 1889 – March 24, 1960) was an American sportswoman, aviator, bridge player, artist, and journalist. Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on June
Dorothy_Rice_Sims
Texas transfer, or simply Texas, is a bidding convention in contract bridge designed to get the partnership to game in a major suit opposite a one notrump
Texas_transfer
Contract bridge bidding convention
New Minor Forcing (NMF), is a contract bridge bidding convention used to find a 5-3 or 4-4 major suit fit after a specific sequence of bids in which opener
New_minor_forcing
In the card game contract bridge, Gambling 3NT is a special treatment of an opening bid of 3NT. The bid is used to describe a hand containing a minor suit
Gambling_3NT
Contract bridge convention
Lebensohl is a contract bridge convention whose variants can be used in the following situations: by responder after an opponent's overcall of a one notrump
Lebensohl
Bidding convention in contract bridge
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
XYZ_convention
Bidding system for the bridge card game
strength and suit distribution based on hand evaluation techniques. "Standard American" was the label given to the bridge bidding system developed by Charles
Standard_American
Card game
Rubber bridge is a form of contract bridge played by two competing pairs using a particular method of scoring. A rubber is completed when one pair becomes
Rubber_bridge
1929 murder in the United States
The Bridge Murder case, also known as the Bridge Table Murder case, was the trial of Myrtle Adkins Bennett (born March 20, 1895, in Tillar, Arkansas),
Bridge_Murder_case
Late 1930s variation of contract bridge
Five-suit bridge is a late 1930s variation of contract bridge played with a deck of 65 playing cards divided into five suits. In the summer of 1937 in
Five-suit_bridge
Convention in contract bridge
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
Splinter_bid
Contract bridge technique
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
Squeeze_play_(bridge)
British army officer and bridge player
of bridge from the days of bridge–whist and auction bridge. He wrote his first book on this game in 1906, London Bridge, which "started the bridge craze
Henry_Beasley
Bidding sequence in bridge card game
A reverse, in the card game contract bridge, is a bidding sequence designed to show additional strength without the need to make a jump bid; specifically
Reverse_(bridge)
Bidding systems devised for contract bridge
– Karen's Bridge Library Basic hand evaluation for opening one-bids – Karen's Bridge Library Basic hand evaluation criteria – Pattaya Bridge Club Jeff
Hand_evaluation
Book by Louis Sachar
cardturner - someone to read aloud his cards to him - when he plays duplicate bridge. When Alton returns from his penultimate day at school, his mother agrees
The_Cardturner
Simplified form of the card game Contract Bridge
Minibridge, also spelt MiniBridge is a simplified form of Contract Bridge designed to expose newcomers to declarer and defensive playing techniques without
Minibridge
American journalist
ISBN 1400051606. Pomerantz, Gary M. (2009). The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age (1st ed.). Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-1400051625
Gary_Pomerantz
Bid of the opponents' suit in contract bridge
controls by jump bids. Even basic cue bidding therefore requires some partnership agreements. The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge gives an example where the
Cue_bid
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
History_of_contract_bridge
Card deal diagram for the game of contact bridge
to illustrate a deal 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
Contract_bridge_diagram
ten bridge players in the world according to the World Bridge Federation 'Open Ranking' by Master Points (MPs) as maintained by the World Bridge Federation
WBF_Open_Ranking
North American sports governing body
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
American Contract Bridge League
American_Contract_Bridge_League
Coup in contract bridge
The trump coup is a contract bridge coup used when the hand on lead (typically the dummy) has no trumps remaining, while the next hand in rotation has
Trump_coup
Card playing technique
In contract bridge and similar games, a finesse is a type of card play technique which will enable a player to win an additional trick or tricks should
Finesse
Method of hand evaluation in contract bridge
Elwell on Auction Bridge wherein he sets out, in tabular form, a scheme for counting losers in trump contracts similar to the basic counting method given
Losing-Trick_Count
Canadian-American bridge player
Graves is a Canadian-American bridge player. Canadian Bridge Hall of Fame Seven Canadian national championships World Bridge Championships (1) World Senior
Allan_Graves
British bridge player (born 1964)
is an English professional bridge player, writer and teacher. He is a British and English international. Robson is the bridge columnist for The Times and
Andrew_Robson
Inferring which remaining cards are held by each opponent
contract bridge, card reading (or counting the hand) is the process of inferring which remaining cards are held by each opponent. The reading is based on information
Card_reading_(bridge)
Contract bridge bidding system employing 2/1 as game forcing
forcing (Two-over-one game forcing) is a bidding system in modern contract bridge structured around the following responses to a one-level opening bid: a
2/1_game_forcing
In the game of bridge, Ghestem is a conventional overcall structure, using 2NT, 3♣, and the (non-jump) cuebid over an opposing opening at the one level
Ghestem
forcing Acol Bidding system Blue Club Boring Club Bridge Base Basic Bridge World Standard Canapé (bridge) Carrot Club EHAA Fantunes Highly unusual method
List of play techniques (bridge)
List_of_play_techniques_(bridge)
Bridge card game bidding system used in Britain and elsewhere
Acol is the bridge bidding system that, according to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, is "standard in British tournament play and widely used in other
Acol
Bridge convention
Strong two clubs is a bridge convention that is an agreement to use an opening bid of two clubs to indicate a strong hand and a strong holding in the bid
Strong_two_clubs
Contract bridge tournament
10K Fast Pairs is held at the Fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The 10K Fast Pairs is a four-session
0-10,000_Fast_Pairs
Official rule book of duplicate bridge promulgated by the World Bridge Federation
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
Laws_of_Duplicate_Bridge
Trump play in trick-taking card games
thereafter. The basic defense against crossruff is simple: lead trumps whenever possible, removing trumps from both opponent's hands. In bridge this may mean
Ruff_(cards)
In contract bridge, the support double is a bridge convention used to distinguish between three-card and four-card support for partner's suit response
Support_double
Bridge card game
Chicago, also known as Four-deal Bridge and Short Bridge, is a form of contract bridge and a variation of rubber bridge in which one or more sets of four
Chicago_(bridge_card_game)
In the game of bridge, Leaping Michaels is a conventional overcall in 4♣ or 4♦ made in defense to opposing 2-level or 3-level preemptive openings. A variant
Leaping_Michaels
Austrian-British bridge player
Fritzi Gordon (1906 – 8 February 1992) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's
Fritzi_Gordon
Treatment in contract bridge
The weak two bid is a common treatment used in the game of contract bridge, where an opening bid of two diamonds, hearts or spades signifies a weak hand
Weak_two_bid
Artificial call made during the auction in a game of contract bridge
phase of a contract bridge game convey information about the player's card holdings. Calls may be "natural" (that is, are based on a holding of the suit
Bridge_convention
Ogust is a bridge convention used by responder after his partner has made a weak-two opening bid; its purpose is to gauge the strength of the weak-two
Ogust_convention
Playing of contract bridge with computer software
Computer bridge is the playing of the game contract bridge using computer software. After years of limited progress, since around the end of the 20th
Computer_bridge
Swedish sportsman
(29 June 1901 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bridge player who won a bronze medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a football
Putte_Kock
Bridge convention
In the card game contract bridge, DONT is a conventional overcall used to interfere with an opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening bid. DONT, an acronym
DONT
Convention in contract bridge
The Drury convention is a bridge convention, used to show a game-invitational major suit raise by a passed hand while guarding against a light opening
Drury_convention
Bidding system in the game of contract bridge
Precision Club is a bidding system in the game of contract bridge. It is a strong club system developed in 1969 for C. C. Wei by Alan Truscott, and used
Precision_Club
European golf club owner and official, contract bridge official and Swiss player
was an art collector, golf course owner and former President of the World Bridge Federation. Ortiz-Patiño was born on 20 June 1930 in Paris. His father Jorge
Jaime_Ortiz-Patiño
Contract bridge convention
Serious 3NT is a contract bridge bidding convention. It is used in game-forcing auctions where a major suit has been agreed upon. 1♠–2♣ if using 2/1 Game
Serious_3NT
Tactic in bridge card game
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
Signal_(bridge)
British contract bridge writer (1909–1987)
1987) was a British contract bridge player, journalist and author. He is best known for his "Menagerie" series of bridge books, which consist of fable-like
Victor_Mollo
Contract bridge tournament
10K NABC Pairs is held at the Summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The 10K NABC Pairs is a four-session
0-10,000_NABC_Pairs
Bridge, or more formally contract bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill played by four players. WBF Championships: The World Bridge Team Championships
List of bridge competitions and awards
List_of_bridge_competitions_and_awards
Hungarian translator, writer, and contract bridge theorist
Hungarian writer, translator, mathematician, and bridge theorist. According to an American obituary bridge column, he was known in Hungary as "the ultimate
Géza_Ottlik
American bridge player
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
Sylvia_Shi
Contract bridge bidding treatment
Five-card majors is a contract bridge bidding treatment common to many modern bidding systems. Its basic tenet is that an opening bid of one-of-a-major
Five-card_majors
Italian bridge team
(Italian: "Squadra azzurra") represented Italy in international contract bridge tournaments, winning sixteen world titles from 1957 through 1975. From 1964
Blue_Team_(bridge)
This is a list of defensive conventions used in the game of contract bridge to compete in the bidding after the opponents have opened with a one notrump
List_of_defenses_to_1NT
French bridge player (1959–2020)
a French bridge player. She was 61 years old. World Mixed Teams (1) 2004[circular reference] Venice Cup (2) 2005, 2011 North American Bridge Championships
Catherine_D'Ovidio
Type of bid within contract bridge
The negative double is a form of takeout double in bridge. It is made by the responder after their right-hand opponent overcalls on the first round of
Negative_double
London gentlemen's club
Green Cemetery, London. In 1928, the club was refounded primarily as a bridge club patronised by British players including world champion Terence Reese
Crockford's_(club)
Conventional overcall in bridge
In the card game of bridge, the unusual notrump is a conventional overcall showing a two-suited hand. It was originally devised by Al Roth in 1948 with
Unusual_notrump
This is a list of bidding systems used in contract bridge. Systems listed have either had a historical impact on the development of bidding in the game
List_of_bidding_systems
French bridge player
Lorenzini is a French bridge player. North American Bridge Championships (1) Norman Kay Platinum Pairs (1) 2015 North American Bridge Championships (1) Norman
Cédric_Lorenzini
Annual invitational sporting meet
held in Beijing during December. Source: There were six medal events at bridge, three each for men and women. IMSA invited 24 players, six each from four
SportAccord_World_Mind_Games
Seven of diamonds playing card
In trick-taking card games such as bridge, the beer card is a name informally given to the seven of diamonds (7♦). Players may agree that if a player wins
Beer_card
Muiderberg is a bidding convention in the card game bridge. It is a two-level preemptive opening based on a two-suiter with precisely a five-card major and
Muiderberg_convention
Coup in contract bridge
Morton's fork is a coup in contract bridge that forces an opponent to choose between letting declarer establish extra tricks in the suit led; or losing
Morton's_fork_coup
International championship for contract bridge
World Bridge Championships consists of several sets of championships organized under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation. World Bridge Series
World_Bridge_Championships
Association formed by the international federations of several intellectual games
bodies for contract bridge, chess, draughts, eSports, go, xiangqi (Chinese chess), mahjong and card games. Its members are the World Bridge Federation (WBF)
International Mind Sports Association
International_Mind_Sports_Association
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English
Dwells at the Bridge; Bridge Builder; Lives Near a Bridge
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Dutch, English, French, Irish
Bringer of Peace; Box
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Bridges, a variant of Bridge.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English
From the Ridge
Female
Irish
Pet form of Irish Bride, BRIDIE means "exalted one."
Boy/Male
Australian
Lives Near a Bridge
Girl/Female
Australian, Celtic
Resolute Strength; Form of Bridget
Male
Hawaiian
Hawaiian name BANE means "long-awaited child."
Female
English
English pet form of Greek Barbara, BABE means "foreign; strange." Compare with masculine Babe.
Boy/Male
English
From the village near a bridge.
Girl/Female
Celtic Irish
ACeltic Bridget, meaning strong. Although Bride was once a common name in England and Scotland,...
Female
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic BrÃghid, BRIDGET means "exalted one."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English brigge ‘bridge’, Old English brycg, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge, a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element, as for example Bridge in Kent or Bridge Sollers in Herefordshire. Building and maintaining bridges was one of the three main feudal obligations, along with bearing arms and maintaining fortifications. The cost of building a bridge was often defrayed by charging a toll, the surname thus being acquired by the toll gatherer.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Bridge. The -s generally represents the genitive case, but may occasionally be a plural. In some cases this name denoted someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (Brugge), meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.
Boy/Male
English
From the Meadow Near the Bridge
Boy/Male
English
Lives at tbe bridge.
Girl/Female
Celtic Irish
ACeltic Bridget, meaning strong. Although Bride was once a common name in England and Scotland,...
Boy/Male
English American
Lives near a bridge.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Lives at the Bridge
Female
Irish
Modern form of Irish BrÃd, BRIDE means "exalted one."
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
Boy/Male
Hindu
Another name of Lord Murugan
Boy/Male
Muslim
Captivating, Attractive
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Name of a Sahabiyah (RA)
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Yearby.
Boy/Male
Chinese
Protects the country.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
A Hymn
Boy/Male
Greek
Defender of man.
Boy/Male
Muslim
One who speaks briefly but eloquently
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Servant of the Patient
Biblical
gazelle
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
BRIDGE BASE-BASIC
a.
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
a.
Full of bridges.
a.
Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
n.
A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
a.
Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
imp. & p. p.
of Bridge
v. t.
To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
v. t.
To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.
imp. & p. p.
of Base
v. t.
To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
n.
A bridge.
n.
Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
v. t.
To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.
v. t.
To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
n.
A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
a.
Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.
n., a., & v.
See Base.
n.
One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle.
a.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.