For Beginners

Lessons, class handouts and reference sheets on the basics:

Basic bidding guide

Responder's bids in competition

Declarer Play: Forming a Plan

Bridge glossary

Responding to 1NT

Declarer Play: Establishing Tricks

Opening 1-bids

Overcalls & takeout doubles

Declarer Play: The Finesse

Opening 2-bids (strong)

The reverse by opener

Declarer Play: Simple Odds

Opening 3-bids

Forcing & non-forcing bids

Counting the hand

Opening 4-bids

Slam bidding

Rubber-bridge strategy

Hand evaluation

Opening leads

Quick tips to improve your game

Which suit to respond?

Defensive play

Learning to play bridge -- How to get started, and get better:

Group classes & self-teaching

Developing your "card sense"

Web links to good sites for learners

On-your-own activities to build skills

FREE Learn to Play Bridge software

For Advancing Players

Lessons and convention summaries for experienced beginners and intermediates:

Balancing over 1-bids

Weak 2-bids

DONT convention

Balancing over other auctions

Negative doubles

Roman Keycard Blackwood

Opening leads: aggressive

Jacoby transfers

"Law" of Total Trumps

Opening leads: passive

Jacoby 2NT major-suit raise

Lebensohl over weak 2-bids

Opening leads: trumps

Drury convention

Lebensohl over reverses

Michaels Cuebids & Unusual 2NT

New Minor Forcing

Lebensohl in 1NT auctions

Duplicate bridge:

IMP (teams) strategy

Matchpoint (pairs) strategy

Web links for duplicate players

For Intermediate to Advanced Players

Bidding conventions and treatments (most originally published in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin):

Strong Jump Shifts (3 parts)

Defenses to 2-Suited Overcalls (3 parts)

Forcing Notrump Convention

Negative Freebids (3 parts)

Opener's Jump-Reverse

Your 2C Bidding Structure (4 parts)

2-over-1 Game-Force System

Default agreements (originally published in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin):

Was that a cuebid? (4 parts)

Was that a penalty double? (II) (Parts 4-6)

Was that a penalty double? (I) (Parts 1-3)

Was that a penalty double? (III) (Parts 7-8)

For Players of All Skill Levels

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

The One That Got Away

The Missing Redouble Cards

The Obvious Solution (a bridge poem)

Toby and the Passion Coup

Never Put Down an 8-Card Suit in Dummy

Concentration (another bridge poem)

A Rare Trump Squeeze

Count, count, count

A Nightmare on Opening Lead

Other Articles:

Bridge World Standard Defense

Attention：These articles are copied from Karen’s website. All the original articles releases on www.prairienet.org/bridge .