Cal Bridge Club

Meetings

We will start meeting again this semester soon. Send me an e-mail (see the bottom of the page) if you'd like me to add you to our mailing list. I'll be sending out a poll for when we should meet this semester soon. Last semester, we met Monday afternoons from 4 to 6 PM in the Bear's Lair (that cafeteria-type-place next to the student bookstore under MLK). We've been playing casual bridge at our meetings and generally play some duplicate if enough people show up.

Write-ups of interesting hands

• February 2, 2004
• February 9, 2004
• March 1, 2004. A great write-up of a compound guard squeeze by Li-Chung.

Links

• The ACBL (American Contract Bridge League) is the primary bridge organization in the US.
• For more information about duplicate bridge in the bay area, visit the ACBL District 21 web site.
• Nearby Club Games can be found in Oakland/Piedmont and in El Cerrito
• The old Cal Bridge Club website can be found here

  Bridge Clubs at Other Universities

• Stanford Bridge Club
• Harvard Bridge Club
• U. Chicago Bridge Club
• Caltech Bridge Club

  General Bridge Links

• Bridge Base Online is by far the best free online bridge program at the moment
• Richard Pavlicek's webpage has bridge puzzles, polls, and quizzes, and lots of other good bridge stuff.
• Jeff Goldsmith's webpage has lots of articles and some fun "bridge movies."

  How to Play Bridge

• Richard Pavlicek has a nice introductory lesson here. Be sure to check out his link at the bottom of the page to more extensive learning material.
• Karen Walker has a collection of articles for beginners here (but if you don't know how to play at all, you should probably check out Pavlicek's site first).
• The ACBL has a "Learn to Play Bridge" program developed by Fred Gitelman (of Bridge Base) which I hear is quite nice.