Useful Links
National & Regional Bodies
Contract Bridge Association of Ireland
Dublin North Region
Irish Bridge Union
Northern Ireland Bridge Union
English Bridge Union
Scottish Bridge Union
Welsh Bridge Union
European Bridge League
American Contract Bridge League
World Bridge Federation
Computer Based Bridge
Bridge Base Online (BBO) allows you to play bridge with other people on rhe internet. Most users play SAYC but there is an Acol section. You can also watch major international competitions (including the Camrose) live on Vugraph.
Bridge Baron is a program which allows you to play bridge on your computer. It bids and plays. You can set it up to use almost any bidding system and chose which conventions to use.
Jack is another such program and has won the World Computer Bridge Championship on numerous occasions. Its website includes a comprehensive list of other bridge playing programs.
Bridge Master 2000 presents you with a series of increasingly difficult hands which you play as declarer. It is totally unforgiving. You can make every contract but if you make any mistake you go down.
Some Other Interesting Sites
BridgeHands and Bridge Guys are two large sites with extensive information on systems and conventions.
The Bridge World’s Website has an excellent Bridge Glossary.
Wikipedia contains hundreds of articles on bridge topics. They have a specific project to improve the quality of their bridge articles as described here.
ECatsBridge is the site used to score simultaneous pairs competitions. Go here to see the results on CBAI and IBU simultaneous pairs competitions, among many others.
The mathematically inclined may enjoy this article on Bridge Probabilities or this one on the Mathematics of Movements and Scoring.
Finally, we use Stephen Bligh’s excellent Scorebridge program to do our scoring.