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♣ For Beginners

The basics -- Lessons on how to play bridge

Introduction	Hand evaluation	Opening leads
Bridge glossary	Which suit to respond?	Defensive play
Bidding "cheat sheet"	Responder's bids in competition	Declarer Play: Forming a Plan
Opening 1-bids	Responding to 1NT	Declarer Play: Establishing Tricks
Opening and rebidding minors	Overcalls & takeout doubles	Declarer Play: The Finesse
Responding to an opening 1-bid	The reverse by opener	Declarer Play: Simple Odds
Opening 2-bids (strong)	The rest of the auction	Rubber-bridge strategy
Opening 3-bids	Forcing & non-forcing bids	Quick tips to improve your game
Opening 4-bids	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 material on the 2-over-1 system.
Why play bridge?	Developing your "card sense"
Group classes & self-teaching	*FREE* Learn to Play Bridge software
On-your-own activities to build skills	Web links to good sites for learners

♦ For Advancing Players

Lessons and convention summaries -- For experienced beginners and intermediates

Balancing over 1-bids	Michaels & Unusual 2NT overcalls	Bidding over opponents' preempts
Balancing over other auctions	Cuebids of the opponent's suit	"Law" of Total Tricks
New Minor Forcing	Jacoby transfers	5-level decisions
Negative doubles	Jacoby 2NT major-suit raise	Lebensohl in 1NT auctions
Weak two-bids	Drury convention	Lebensohl over weak two-bids
Opening lead strategies	DONT convention	Lebensohl over reverses
Trump leads & lead conventions	Roman Keycard Blackwood	"Sandwich seat" bids
Lead-directing doubles	What is 4NT?	Soloway-Style Jump Shifts
Lead-directing penalty doubles

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	Strong Jump Shifts (3 parts)
Forcing Notrump Convention	Defenses to 2-Suited Overcalls (3 parts)	Your 2C Bidding Structure (4 parts)
Improving the 2-over-1 System	Negative freebids (5 parts)

ACBL Bridge Bulletin articles -- Opening Leads, Troubles with Redoubles, "12 Habits" series

♠ For Players of All Skill Levels

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.

District 8 Online -- Homepage of District 8 of the American Contract Bridge League (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri)

Bridge Bulletin article -- On bridge and basketball

Flashes of brilliance -- Bridge feats & fun (all true) from my favorite partners & team-mates

The one that got away	If I had bid hearts ...	Sometimes, pessimism pays off
Toby and the Passion Coup	Count, count, count	The Obvious Solution (a bridge poem)
A rare trump squeeze	A nightmare on opening lead	Concentration (another bridge poem)
The missing redouble cards	Never put down an 8-card suit in dummy	Bridge & poker (interview with Barry Greenstein)

Bridge books and software

Bridge Bookstore -- Recommendations and reviews of good books for beginner, intermediate and advanced players, with links for discounted purchases from Amazon.com

Newest bridge books

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

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