http://www.cs.vu.nl/~sater/bridge/bridge-on-the-web.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

Bridge on the Web

The game of bridge is probably the worlds most fascinating cardgame. Surely it is the most widely played cardgame with identical rules all over the world.

Bridge started as a game played with four people around a table with small pieces of pasteboard in their hands. Nowadays it has also gone electronic, like almost everything else. For information on how to play using the network check out the pages about OKbridge and Bridge player LIVE! .

This page is, and will remain, incomplete. So additions are more than welcome. Send your suggestions and/or questions to the address below.

Current tournament

In Phoenix the Spring Nationals are played now.

Recent tournaments

In London the Macallan invitational was played from January 25 till January 27. Bulletins are available here .

In the Hague the Cap Volmac invitational was played from January 19 till January 22 1995. Bulletins are available here .

The European Bridge League Junior Team championship has been played from July 15 till July 24.

Bridge on Usenet

There is a newsgroup about bridge on Usenet. The name is rec.games.bridge. If your web reader is set up right you might be able to read it here .

Daily bulletins of top tournaments

At various top level tournaments daily bulletins are made with stories about the hands, descriptions of participants and much, much more. Since about 1992 they are collected, and here they are.

Other pages on the Web

Non commercial

The bridge page of Hans van Staveren , including reference to hand generating program dealer
The page of the Stanford University Bridge Club
The page of the University of Chicago Bridge Club
The page of the University of Waterloo Bridge Club
The page of the University of Warwick Bridge Society
The page of the Newcastle University Bridge Club
The page of the Magazine bridge club, Leicester.
The page of the DESY bridge club
The page of the Helsinki University of Technology bridge club

Commercial

The page of Meadowlark Software

Ftp sites to check out

Markus Buchhorn, Canberra, Australia has organized an FTP archive with all sort of FAQ's and software. The original is in Australia and there is a mirror in the US .

A German language FTP archive is available at the University of Osnabrück .

And of course the FTP stuff from Hans van Staveren .

Various

S. Spencer Sun wrote PostScript score sheets for pairs and teams events.

The laws of bridge

The laws of bridge have never been online because of copyright restrictions. This is about to change. The three copyright holders the Portland Club, the ACBL and the EBL have now given their permission, and I have received the text from ACBL headquarters. It is in a strange format so will take some work. I will try to make it available as soon as possible. You can start bugging me after April 1.

Various organisations, including the ACBL, have laws that forbid (certain types of) psyches. These rules are probably in violation of law 40 and 80. Anybody that knows about rules like this, and their justification is requested to mail his knowledge to the address below.

Hans van Staveren/VU Amsterdam/sater@cs.vu.nl