Contract Bridge

I started playing Bridge after moving to a new community as a way to sort of force myself to get some social interaction. That was maybe a bad move as the bridge community is so old, and sort of insular, that it didn't really lead to much. Though I imagine if I was traveling to lots of tournaments I'd feel differently.

That being said, I play a lot online despite a preference for in-person.

Is it more difficult for you all to play in-person recently? Does it feel like we are moving into a largely online space?

I will start.

I find two things most fascinating about Bridge (among a million other things lol)

(1) The first being the obligatory Duplicate scoring system. It revolutionized the game by getting rid of the luck factor in a card game where hands are dealt randomly. Basically it says "I get a shit hand, and you get the same shit hand. Let's see who deals with it better !"

(2) The other thing that fascinates me is - when the dummy comes down, each of the other three players gets to see about half the deck, but they each have a distinct version of reality in front of them, which drives their individual decision processes. This is a beautiful aspect of Bridge that I haven't seen in other card games.

Would love to hear others' comments on this !

Basically what the title says.

Presently, when we talk about "competitive chess", we mean Duplicate. However, I know people still play Rubber and/or Chicago when it comes to "social bridge" or "kitchen table" bridge.

Just being curious, do any of you still play Rubber or Chicago ? And why ?

An article which might be of interest to people starting out, and in general, everybody.

The original Wall Street Journal article has been paywalled since this came out - so posting a wayback url.

Prodding through this earth-shattering silence in this community for over two weeks - here I decided to debut with an opening post.

Nothing special - just comment with what bidding systems ya'll play, how long you have been playing Bridge, and any other interesting thing about you that you want to share.

To start with - I am an intermediate level 2/1 GF player, started getting into Bridge a couple of years ago - after playing Chess for over two decades.

Apart from BridgeWinners, I joined the Bridge Subreddit just in search for civilized Bridge discussions.

After the Reddit API saga - I jumped ship and landed in Lemmy.

So far liking it here. Would like more if people continue the discussion.

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Welcome to Lemmy, all the Bridge Addicts !

I am an Intermediate hobbyist player (2/1 GF). I was a lurker (but did post reasonably as well lol) in r/bridge.

I noticed that Lemmy was sorely lacking a community on Bridge, and so I created one.

Welcome once again !