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Desoto Times Tribune > Bridge Museum ‘world class’

Wow, sounds like a great museum

Desoto Times Tribune > Bridge Museum ‘world class’

Bridge Museum ‘world class’

By ROBERT LEE LONG

Community Editor

Published: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:05 AM CDT

HORN LAKE — Atlanta. Orlando. Horn Lake?

The American Contract Bridge League, with more than 165,000 members worldwide, could have built its multimillion-dollar museum and library anywhere in the world, and chose to locate its 2,500 square-foot museum detailing the history of the popular card game inside the League’s larger 31,000 square-foot international headquarters at 6575 Windchase Blvd. in the Gayoso Farms business park off Interstate 55 in Horn Lake.

Inside the ACBL Hall of Hame more than $2 million worth of silver trophies are on display, along with an interactive museum, artifacts and the largest collection of bridge books in the world.

 

 

This is a great quote from the article as well.

“It’s the thinking man’s game,” Yarbro said. “People who have been playing for 75 years can come in here and learn something.”

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Major Bridge Websites, the ones that matter

These are the most major bridge websites available.  If you want something shiny and new these people probably the ones that have it.

Master Point Press

Baron Barclay Bridge Supply

 

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Expert Bridge Blogger Reviews Bridge Websites (and I’m taking notes)

Linda Lee writes a really nice, frequently updated blog AND… right now she’s reviewing bridge websites!!  (Where’s my pencil and paper?!)

“This year I am up for a REAL challenge.  I am searching the web to look for bridge sites and review them.  I know there are some old favorites like BBO, Swan Bridge, Great Bridge Links, Bridge Guys and many other but there are a lot of new sites and some really improved websites too.  I will rate the sites from A to D as I go along.  If I find anything worse than a D I won’t include it.  Even a D site has at least something of interest.”

She’s done four blog posts on it.  

Here they are so far

 

Bridge on the web Part 1 of too many

 

The Bridgeverse Encyclopedias and more … Part 2 of Reviews

 

Bridge Players At Home … Bridge on the Internet Part 3

 

A+ for the ACBL … Part 4 of the endlessly saga

My work is cut out for me.

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Contract Bridge Blogs

Looking at a bunch of contract bridge blogs, a few stuck out, WAY OUT.  

Here they are.

Bridge Blogging

and

Planet Bridge

♠♥♦♣ planet bridge

bridge blogs from the planet

 

They make very interesting funnels of tons of bridge blogs, the volume might be hard to deal with however.

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Smiles of World Champions

You have to love the smiles.

article from BridgeWinners.com (October, 2010)

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Levin and Weinstein Win

 

by (Jason Feldman)

Congratulations to the new World Champions!

Bobby Levin and Steve Weinstein won the World Open Pairs. Bjorn Fallenious and Peter Fredin were second.

Lynn Deas and Beth Palmer won the Women’s Pairs.

Israel held on to win the juniors, despite a last quarter surge by France.  France picked up 38 imps in the final set, but Israel still won by 18.

Poland won the Under 21 division comfortably over England.

Hinze won the mixed swiss teams (Greg Hinze, Jo Ann Sprung, Daniel Lavee, Connie Goldberg, and Dale and Lynn Johannesen).

Wolfe Thompson and Marc Zwerling won the Imp Pairs.

Great Bridge Information Websites

A great fountain of information from a bridge website.

Karen’s Bridge Library

 

    

Karen’s Bridge Library

For bridge players . . . current and aspiring

 

and don’t forget her Bridge Bookstore!

 

 

Bridge Bookstore  from Karen’s Bridge Library

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Here’s a listing of good books and software for beginners through experts. These are titles I’ve read or reviewed and can personally recommend as among the best for players of the indicated skill level. Use the links below to jump to a list for each category.

 

Also this is a great website as well.

“For Bridge Players”

In Loving Memory of Mom

For Bridge Players

 

 

 

Jack wins Computer Bridge Championship

Jack wins 2010 computer bridge championship

Computer Programmers love their fun! 😀

(taken from the official World Computer Bridge Championship website)

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Jack takes home the gold medal, overtaking WBridge5 in the final quarter of their KO match.

Coordinator of the event, Al Levy, center, congratulates Hans Kuijf, developer of Jack, the winning ‘robot’ in the World Computer-Bridge Championship. WBF President José Damiani is at right. Also shown are Jack team members, Martin Pattenier and Wim Heemskerk. Jack defeated WBridge5 in the final KO.

 

Bridge Software: A First look

There seems to be a lot of different type of bridge software provided at a bridge store like Baron Barclay Bridge Supply.

Here are some notable bridge software

Bridge Baron 21 $65

Jack 5.0 $70 – 2010 Computer Bridge Champion

Bridge Doctor $7/month, 7-day free trial

YouTube Bridge Lessons

I wrote on my website Learning Bridge Spot about some contract bridge lessons that are available for free on YouTube.  I’ve listed them below

Bridge Union has a very long bridge course to teach beginners to play.  Their website is set up a social networking site for bridge players.

Shafik Ismail has bridge lessons as well.  He’s an experienced bridge player teaching on YouTube.

iBridgePlayer has some lessons as well.