Education & Resources

Rules, Regulations, and Guidelines

Bidding Toolkit (from the ACBL Bulletin)
PDF file of commonly used conventions.
Karen Walker's Bridge Library
Good site for new and advancing players.
The Bridge Guys
Comprehensive coverage of conventions, including bidding examples and full hands.
Danny Kleinman articles on bidding and conventions
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
Losing Trick Count
This is a nice introduction to Losing Trick Count, a method of estimating the number of tricks that can be made in a suit contract. For more detail, see Ron Klinger’s excellent book, The Modern Losing Trick Count. This book also includes corrections for side suit fits, the impact of controls and adjustments for queens, jacks and tens.

Roman Keycard Blackwood (12 part series by Kitty and Steve Cooper)
2-Way New Minor Forcing (, )
Dead Notrump Defense
Bennett (Passed hand balancing against 1N)
Bailey Weak Two Bids
Modified Baze
Splimit Bids (limited splinters)
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).

Bridge Bites (for intermediates and newcomers)
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
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
Gavin Wolpert’s Road to Victory (2011 Silodor Open Pairs)
The Grosvenor Gambit
Suit Split Probabilities
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)

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.

Ted Muller’s Double-Dummy Deductions
Opening lead premium, many no-trump situations, values of tens, and more!
Peter Cheung’s analyses
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.