This site is dedicated to the art of playing bridge at home and related activities. See subpages Rummy and Macht. Some pages are in German.

                         B R I D G E   I S   F U N
To a great many, it is a pleasant way to pass the time with friends, pushing
cards around the table.The cost is minimal and the benefit enormous.
It pleases the competiive spirit. You can test your brains against other grown
ups.
At home, you want to see how your result compares to the first round,
and in club tournament you compare to the rest of the field.
 
                       B R I D G E   I S   L I F E
x  Bridge may play a central role in your social life, wether in your own living
room, or at a club or on a bridge holiday. To some, the bridge club is the main social event ot the week. Bridge clubs provide a congenial environment where sorrows, irritations or just the humdrum of everyday life can be blissfully forgotten for a few hours.  You play with a partner, and often this implies a regular partnershipt.
                     Y o u   w i l l   n e v e r   b e   a l o n e
 
       B R I D G E   I S   I N   C O N S T A N T   P R O G R E S S 
Bridge is the only cardplay which eliminates the chance of good and bad cards, because you can play each deal from both sides.  
The modern computer technology gives us acces to quick and perfect information.

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A short introduction to bridge for future players.

Bridge is a trick-taking card game . It is played by four players who form two partnerships ( NS and EW); the partners sit opposite each other at a table, and are identified(named) by the compass direction.
The game consists of dealing, the auction ( bidding) and downplay of 13 tricks, after which the hand is scored; all this takes about ten minutes.

The bidding ends with a ''contract'', which is a declaration by one partnership that their side will take at least a stated number of tricks, with a specified suit as trump or without trumps. The declaring partnership will try to make the annouced tricks, and the opponents - the other partnership- will try to impede them. This way a real competiton is established. The result is expressed in a score, a numerical value, which permits comparing to other scores.

The detailed rules of play are many, but millions of players have no difficulty to have the basic rules in mind. See page RULES. The special rule that one player's hand is displayed face up on the table is the necessary exception from the basic rule, that no player must know the content of the other hands: it enables the declarer to direct the game.

Bridge players like this game and to play many deals one after another. Each new deal presents a new competition and asks for solution of problems. No deal is similar or the same as the last deal, by dealing more than 6oo ooo ooo ooo can be generated. For practical reasons (exhaustion) the time for playing more than one deal is limited by agreement of the participants. If a given deal is to be played by another for players - or again at a later time- , it must be conserved in containers(boards) at the end of the downplay.

Bridge is played at home, and the standard is 16 boards.                           Tournaments, where two or more tables play the same deals of cards ( duplicate bridge ), are organised by small clubs with a handful of tables, big clubs, regional, national and international Organisations. Here duplicating of deals is necessary, if all participans are to play at the same time.

There are no proverbial "good or bad Cards (fortuitousnes)" in bridge, if deals are played from both sides (NS and EW):