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AMAZON.COM Greetings from Champaign, Illinois USA Home of 500,000 acres of corn and soybeans, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini , the Bridge at Ginger Creek duplicate club, the Illini Regional Bridge Tournament (May 18-24, 2021) and Karen's Bridge Library For bridge players . . . current and aspiring Bridge books, software & gifts Custom Search ♣ For Beginners ♥ Quick-Start Course : Teach yourself to play with this 12-step guide ♥ The basics -- Lessons on how to play bridge Introduction Opening 2-bids (weak) Defense: Opening leads Bridge glossary Opening 2-bids (strong) Defense: Play & signals Bidding "cheat sheet" Opening 3-bids Declarer Play: Forming a Plan Opening 1-bids Opening 4-bids Declarer Play: Establishing Tricks Opening and rebidding minors Overcalls & takeout doubles Declarer Play: The Finesse Responding to an opening 1-bid The redouble Declarer Play: Simple Odds Responding with a two-suited hand Opener's reverse rebid Declarer Play: Hold-up Plays Opener's second bid Game-try bids Quick tips to improve your game Responder's second bid Responder's bids in competition Rubber-bridge strategy Responding to 1NT Forcing & non-forcing bids Rubber-bridge scoring Hand evaluation Slam bidding Learning to play bridge -- How to get started, and get better Bridge for Beginners and Beyond A self-teaching guide to good bridge for beginning and intermediate players. Updated and expanded 18th edition, featuring new lessons on the 2-over-1 system. Why play bridge? FREE Learn to Play Bridge software Group classes & self-teaching Web links to good sites for learners On-your-own activities to build skills Just for fun : Should you be a bridge player? Developing your "card sense" Want to help others learn? Guide for new teachers ♦ For Advancing Players Lessons and convention summaries -- For experienced beginners and intermediates New Minor Forcing Balancing over 1-bids DONT convention Negative doubles Balancing over other auctions Bidding over opponents' preempts Responsive doubles Michaels & Unusual 2NT overcalls Advancing partner's bid over a preempt Opening lead strategies Cuebids of the opponent's suit Lebensohl over weak two-bids Trump leads Mixed raises Lebensohl in 1NT auctions Lead conventions Jacoby transfers Lebensohl over reverses Lead-directing doubles Jacoby 2NT major-suit raise "Law" of Total Tricks Lead-directing penalty doubles Drury convention 5-level decisions Tips for declarers Accepting game-try bids "Sandwich seat" bids Safety plays Roman Keycard Blackwood Soloway-Style Jump Shifts Counting the Hand - Part 1 & Part 2 What is 4NT? Duplicate bridge IMP (teams) strategy Matchpoint (pairs) strategy Web links for duplicate players Discover the Fun & Challenge of Duplicate -- a booklet on duplicate play, scoring, customs & strategies. PDF format ♥ For Intermediate to Advanced Players Advanced bidding conventions and treatments 2-over-1 Game-Force System Opener's Jump-Reverse Your 2C Bidding Structure (4 parts) Forcing Notrump Convention Defenses to 2-Suited Overcalls (3 parts) New ideas: Below-Game Asking Bids (J Maloney) Improving the 2-over-1 System Negative freebids (5 parts) 2-over-1 partnership checklist Strong Jump Shifts (3 parts) ACBL Bridge Bulletin articles -- Opening Leads, Counting, Troubles with Redoubles, Table Feel, Notrump defenses, "12 Habits" series Bidding forums and quizzes ♠ For Players of All Skill Levels Flashes of brilliance -- Bridge feats & fun (all true) from my favorite partners & team-mates The one that got away The missing redouble cards Sometimes, pessimism pays off Toby and the Passion Coup Count, count, count A nightmare on opening lead A rare trump squeeze Never put down an 8-card suit in dummy If I had bid hearts ... Bridge features A tribute to my first bridge teacher Bridge & basketball The King has left the building D-Day memories of the Bridge Player in Chief Bridge & poker (interview with Barry Greenstein) The Obvious Solution (a bridge poem) Most disastrous bridge hand ever played Bridge & marriage (interview with Chip & Jan Martel) Concentration (another bridge poem) Bridge books, software & web sites Bridge Bookstore -- Recommendations and reviews of books for beginners through experts, with links for discounted purchases from Amazon.com Bridge for Beginners and Beyond -- A self-teaching guide and class textbook "Learn to Play Bridge" software -- Teach yourself to play with these free programs from ACBL Online clubs -- Links to multi-player bridge games on the Internet Playing online -- Getting started with Bridgebase Online District 8 Online -- Homepage of District 8 of the American Contract Bridge League (Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri) District 8 Advocate newsletter Bridge features, Solvers Forum column & Midwest bridge news. Published bi-monthly by ACBL District 8. Archive of previous issues & Solvers Forum columns. Search for books by topic, title or author. Bridge in Champaign-Urbana IL Bridge at Ginger Creek -- Champaign-Urbana's community bridge center Game results with hand records Club photo album Local bridge lessons Illini Regional Tournament -- May 18-24, 2021 (Memorial Day), Holiday Inn, Champaign IL Travelogues & photos England 2001 Ireland 2003 Scotland 2004 France 2006 article & photos Hawaii 2006 Alaska & DeNali 2010 South Africa 2011 Peru 2013 Newspaper story Galapagos Islands 2013 Newspaper story Tanzania 2014 Newspaper story 1 & 2 Rhine River & Amsterdam 2016 Sydney & New Zealand 2016 Tanzania 2017 Baltic & Scandinavia 2018 Tanzania 2019 Thanks for supporting this site with your visit. If you'd like to do more, please see the Support page . Your comments are appreciated. 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