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Since getting our dealing machine three years ago, we have pre-dealt all the boards at all the sessions. To date, we have dealt how many boards?
(A) around 12,000
(B) around 23,000
(C) around 35,000
(D) around 42,000
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Replay At Home
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Replay Boards at Home Video |
You can replay the boards you've played at the club - in the comfort of your own home.
Replay the exact same hands with any of several commercial bridge programs such as GIB or Bridge Baron if you own one. If you have not purchased one, we have a free program for you to download.
Watch the video above or click here for further instructions. |
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Print at Home
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Print Hand Records Video |
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Download and print hand records from any game played at Bridge Ace.
Watch the video above or click here for further instructions. |
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Free Bridge Lessons
Rich answers your questions every Tuesday prior to the game. |
Thursdays, we have a vugraph presentation. Rich reviews interesting deals of the past week. Each board in question is projected onto our large video screen for all to see as we discuss it.
We also have many other free bridge lessons online at our website which you can find here. |
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Since St. Demetrios is rented out so often on Saturdays, we now hold Saturday games at Billy Rose's bar, Jester's. It is located at:
801 E. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33334 |
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Trivia Answer:
(D) around 42,000
As of yesterday, we have dealt exactly 42,147 boards! |
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Greetings!
By the 1950s, the Culbertson era was over and modern bridge can fairly be said to have arrived. Goren's point-count methods had overtaken Culbertson's honor trick system in popularity in the USA. Meanwhile a group of young British experts had developed a new natural system, Acol, named after the Acol Road Bridge Club where they all played. The 1955 World Championship was held in New York and to some extent was regarded as a test of the two ideologies. The final indeed saw Great Britain taking on the defending champions from the USA in a match which Great Britain won by 5,420 points - they used aggregate scoring in those days. This deal set up a spectacular comparison of declarer play: 
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 Online Partnership Desk |
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You may remember we tried an online partnership desk once before. Unfortunately, we had to take it down because of spammers. We have reinstituted it in a different way.
If you need a partner, just enter your contact information and the date(s) you want to play.
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New Addition to Website |
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As in any sport, bridge has its share of heroes. Those who enter the Hall of Fame have helped make the game what it is today.
Hall of Fame History
The Hall of Fame was started by the Bridge World magazine in 1964 with founding members Ely Culbertson, Charles Goren, Harold Vanderbilt, Oswald Jacoby, Milton Work, Sidney Lenz, Waldemar von Zedtwitz, Howard Schenken and Sidney Silodor. Portraits of all members are housed in a gallery at the ACBL.
We have interviews with 15 members of the ACBL Hall of Fame on our website. You can learn much by listening to their wisdom.
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The Daily Deal |
Each day we "seed" one lesson deal somewhere into our otherwise randomly dealt set of boards. The board number is different each day. You never know which board it is.
The daily deal is a free mini-lesson. You can take home a handout of the daily deal every day. We hope you find it educational as well as entertaining. To see past Daily Deals, click here. |
BOLS Bridge Tips |
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Check out our new page of free lessons online.
The BOLS Bridge Tips competition started in 1974, and took place off and on for more than 20 years. During that time, virtually all the world's greatest bridge players and writers contributed their ideas to the series.
Not sure what to lead? Can't decide the right bid? Want to make more contracts? Get pointers from the all-time greatest names in bridge - Reese, Rodwell, Zia, Flint, Goren, Hamman, Wolff, Schenken, Garozzo, Belladonna, Chagas and many more - they're all represented. All the advice is here in a perfect potpourri for players of every standard.
These tips are terrific. You can find them here. |
A Master at Work |
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The American declarer's effort showed nothing special. West led the nine of diamonds; declarer won with dummy's ace
and played a club to the jack. When that worked he was able to draw trumps and give up a spade. Given West's
preemptive effort, that was reasonable, but if the finesse had lost declarer would almost certainly have gone down.
It was in the replay that Terence Reese showed why he was regarded by many as the best player in the world by taking a much superior line. He ruffed the opening lead of the nine of diamonds and cashed the two top trumps. Then he cashed the ace and king of hearts. East covered the seven of hearts and declarer ruffed and exited with a trump. This was the position:
A heart or a diamond would allow declarer to establish two tricks in hearts. East took his best chance and tried the king of spades, only to have Reese table his hand. |
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