An Overview of the Card Game Contract Bridge, Including Its Game Play, the Laws of Contract Bridge, and Tournaments

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game played by four players in two competing partnerships using a standard deck of 52 playing cards with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. For purposes of scoring and reference, each player is identified by one of the points of the compass and thus north and south play against east and west. The game consists of several hands (ordeals) each progressing through four phases - dealing the cards, the auction playing the hand, and scoring the results. This book overviews the game of bridge including the bidding box, bridge scoring, hand evaluation, and the World Bridge Federation. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.