Bridge
On this page you'll find a rather unorganized cornucopia of things of
interest to a bridge player.
My writing
Being a descendant of a teacher's family I couldn't resist writing a
couple of lessons about bridge. (You know what Shaw said? Oh, never
mind.)
As an introduction to defense I wrote a column of 30 instalments
Defend with Berry (and Jos), following an idea of former World Champ
Berry Westra.
Encouraged by the modest succes of DWBJ I have ventured another project:
Thinking Bridge. .
On a different track is a rather unorthodox explanation of a particular
instance of restricted choice, avoiding the Baysian conditional
probability that makes this subject otherwise so, erm, interesting.
And now for something completely different.
Most Dutch players know the stories of Ernst Heldring (writing under the
nom de plume P. Rodeo) by heart. These stories appeared in
the Dutch bridge magazine BRIDGE in the early 50's
and have been bundled in the
book Rustig en onrustig bridge (Quiet and unquiet bridge). To
get some of the flavor here is an example: Christmas.
OkBridge
There is a great way to play live bridge on the internet: OkBridge.
For more information or a try click
You'll find players from all categories, novice to world champ, and from
more than 90 countries. At this moment OKBridge has some 16000 subscribers.
The OkB experience.
For what it's worth I have created an archive of my experiences at
OkB. I hoped to keep this updated, but to no avail. After about a year
another activity took over. Here it is, my
Archive.
5th chair
The fifth chair is a program to educate novices and intermediates and
has been initiated by the OKBridge community. It is part of a mentor
novice program. More of it on their own
webpage.
Bridge Base Online (BBO)
Another way to play online bridge (for free!) is Bridge Base Online . They also have a vugraph service that broadcasts live covering of international events and an archive of events in the past,
Links
Here are some ten more Bridge links.
Last update:
e-mail: J.vanKan@math.tudelft.nl