Bridge
The following is Gidon Shavit’s bridge page, bequeathed to me some years ago. I do love the game, and my mother is a superstar.
Why Bridge
Bridge has a terrible image among young people today, of being an old folks’ game, but that’s all bolony! Read my rave on why bridge is the greatest game in the world (which is a scientific fact, mind you).
Sieg Hall Standard Discussion
The beautiful Sieg Hall is the home of the CSE department; Sieg Hall Standard (SHS) is our very own bidding system, based on Standard American (Yellow Card), aka SAYC.
Summary of the system
Conventions
Treatment of 2/1 Bids in SHS
Some Interesting Hands
The following are hands that I had the pleasure of either playing (or defending) myself, or just being there at the right time. Enjoy!
An unintentional suicide squeeze
Bridge Links
There are about 948,372,129 pages of bridge links on the web, and you can more or less find all of them by picking one and following from it. Here are a few good starting points:
Link Collections
OKBridge links page
GreatBridgeLinks.com, includes also news and some other resources.
The Bridge World’s links page – the world’s uncontested #1 bridge publication.
On-line Clubs and Organizations
OKBridge – the biggest (and best, IMHO) on-line bridge club.
ACBL On-line – based on e-bridge, this is the only real contender (again, IMHO) to OKBridge.
Yahoo! Games: Bridge – free, but hence not as serious as OKBridge.
MSN’s IGZ Bridge – has the same (dis)advantage of Yahoo!, namely it’s free.
ACBL (American Contract-Bridge League) home page
IBF (Israel Bridge Federation) home page