Education & Resources

Rules, Regulations, and Guidelines

• Blank Convention Card
• How to fill out a Convention Card
  Single PDF of the 24 part Conventional Wisdom series in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin.
• Alert Regulations (2012)
• Laws of Duplicate Bridge
• More from Marvin French
• Code of Active Ethics
• NABC Casebooks (1996 onward)
• Bridge Writing Style Guide (Richard Pavlicek)

San Diego People

• Maritha Pottenger’s Handouts
• Maritha Pottenger’s Teaching Points
• Marvin French’s Website
• Ken Monzingo’s Website (former D22 director)
• Dayou Zhou’s Website
• John Swanson’s Website (Contract Bridge Forum Master Solvers moderator)
• Kitty Cooper (Bridge Teaching)

Humor

• Bacillus Bridgeus
• The Rubáiyát of Bridge
• Grasshopper on the Tournament Trail
• Bridge Players’ Coloring Book and Bridge Babies
• Bridge Humor and Stories from Eddie Kantar
• Bridge phrases (illustrated by non-bridge players Susan Stoddard & Larry Winkler)

Bidding Convention Compilations

• Bidding Toolkit (from the ACBL Bulletin) (commonly used conventions)
• Karen Walker's Bridge Library (good reference for new and advancing players)
• Mike Savage on Conventions (good reference for tournament players)
• The Bridge Guys (comprehensive coverage of conventions)
• Bridge Bum Conventions (Jeff Tang)

Bidding Conventions / Treatments

• Against Stolen Bids (as a defense to 1N interference)
  
• Defending Against Weak NT
• Defending Against Precision
• Meaning of Voluntary 5♥ and 5♠ bids
• Drury Continuations

Bidding Ideas For Serious Partnerships

• Roman Keycard Blackwood (12 part series by Kitty and Steve Cooper)
• 2-Way New Minor Forcing (, )
• Do You Pass 1NT Often Enough?
• Dead Notrump Defense
• Bennett (Passed hand balancing against 1NT)
• Bailey Weak Two Bids
• Modified Baze
• Peter Weichsel’s Defense to a Strong 1♣ Opener
• Splimit Bids (limited splinters)
• Transfers By Responder After Overcalls
• Curly Cue after 1x Dbl 1y
• Ted Muller’s New Age Bidding
  Anticipatory Transfers, Key Picture Cards, Color-Coded Baron, and more.
• Barry Crane System Notes (Notes from the matchpoint genius).
• Cool Bidding Systems (from Bridge with Dan)

Card Play

• Bridge Bites (for intermediates and newcomers)
• La Jolla Hands (probability, analysis, simulation, and more)
• Squeeze Refresher (For Good Bridge Players) by Marvin French
  Marvin’s 90 page document is shorter than the 260 page classic text Bridge Squeezes Complete by Clyde Love. If you can master Marvin's ideas then you will become a master player! For light bedtime reading, Bridge Squeezes for Everyone by David Bird is a good foundation.
• Bridge Without Sam (Caltech)
• Thomas's Bridge Fantasia
  The Bridge Stories and Deals link has very interesting and peculiar hands, many found by culling through double dummy analyses.
• Mike Lawrence articles
• Bridge Theory for Practioners (Amit Chakrabarti)
• Howard Schutzman’s tutorials (Hondo Bridge)
• Carl Dickel’s collected Glasgow Herald articles online: Tales of the Unusual and The McTavish Exploits
• Dante’s Infernal (Ted Muller’s Sacramento area diary)
• John Swanson’s Christmas Bridge Fantasies
• Robert Frick’s website on squeezes
• Gavin Wolpert’s Road to Victory (2011 Silodor Open Pairs)
• Kit Woolsey articles on Bridge Winners
• The Grosvenor Gambit
• Suit Split Probabilities
• Lars Kappel Hansen’s Card Combination Analyzer
• Suit Combination Odds Calculator (Allows user to specify “vacant spaces” for LHO and RHO to account for cards seen or inferred in other suits)
• George Coffin’s Great 88 (Various five card end positions)

Supplemental Material for High School Teaching

• Introduction to Bridge Scoring and Bidding (, )
• Art of Being Lucky (Probability in Bridge) (, )
• Restricted Choice homework assignment (, )
• Restricted Choice answer key (, )
• Reading Guide for Victor Mollo’s You Need Never Lose at Bridge

Worksheets and Quizzes for Elementary School Teaching

• Basic Knowledge Quiz (, )
• Scoring Worksheet (, )
• Good Leads, Golden Fits, and Bidding Dialogs Worksheet (, )
• Bidding Dialogs (in the form of text messages) (, )
• Way to Take More Tricks (, )

Online Play

• OKbridge
  The first online bridge, started by Matthew Clegg, who has San Diego roots.
• BridgeBase
  Play bridge on-line free! Worldwide coverage. Deal of the week. You pay for educational software.

Computer Simulation Results

• Ted Muller’s Double-Dummy Deductions
  Opening lead premium, many no-trump situations, values of tens, and more!
• Peter Cheung’s analyses
• Balancing Statistics After One of a Suit
• Gordon Bower’s Bridge Strategy Research
• Thomas Andrew’s Deal program. There is a learning curve but if you know something about programming and are serious, you’ll save at lot of time starting here.

Misc

• Bridge Winners
• Bridge Blogging collection (many contributors). By face.
• Bridge Kids Videos (interviews with juniors and a few well known non-juniors)
• Phillip Martin’s Bridge Articles
• Remembering John Lowenthal
• Review of Fred Parker’s Win at Duplicate Bridge by unit member David Oakley
• World Computer-Bridge Championship