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We hope this site will be useful to you as a resource for a variety of Bridge topics. The menus show the topics that are here, but the site will always be a work-in-progress so check in again later if you don't see what you want. Click on GO to access any topic. There are many sites on the internet with lessons and explanations of conventions. We have tried to provide something that is a lot harder to find - Practice Deals. Most of the topics contain interactive practice hands, right now more than 500 of them. BASIC BIDDING Introduction to Bidding GO The New Old Fashioned Bidding Wheel GO Major Suit Openings - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Minor Suit Openings - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Notrump Openings - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO BIDDING CONVENTIONS THUMBNAIL descriptions of 23 common conventions GO 2-OVER-1 Game Force - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Blackwood and Gerber - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Fourth Suit Forcing - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Gerber Quiz - Take this before reading the Gerber lesson GO Help Suit Game Try - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Jacoby Transfers - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Jacoby 2NT/Splinter Bids - Summary plus Practice Deals GO New Minor Forcing - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Ogust after Weak 2-bid - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Preemptive Bids - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Reverse Bid - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Reverse Drury - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Roman Key-card Blackwood - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Stayman Convention - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Strong 2♣-Bids - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Weak 2-Bids - Summary plus Practice Deals GO COMPETITIVE BIDDING DONT - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Law of Total Tricks GO Lebensohl - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Michaels Cue Bids / Unusual NT - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Negative Doubles - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Overcalls - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Support Cue-bids - Summary plus Practice Deals GO Takeout Doubles - Summary plus Practice Deals GO DECLARER PLAY Planning the Play of a Hand GO Elimination Plays - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Entry Management - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Finessing - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Holdup Plays - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Squeeze Plays - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Suit Establishment - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Trump Management - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO DEFENSE Opening Leads - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Third Hand Play - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Second Hand Play - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Defensive Signals - Lesson plus Practice Deals GO Rule of Eleven GO PRACTICE DEALS 100 NoTrump Openings - Bidding and Play GO 100 Miscellaneous Deals - Bidding and Play GO PARTNERSHIP BIDDING PRACTICE Practice Bidding for Two Players GO We have tried hard to keep mistakes from slipping into the pages but there will surely be some. We apologize for them and would appreciate you letting us know of any errors that you find, whether they be typos, missing cards or incorrect explanations. On that note we want to send a special thanks to John Finlay who has sent us more than a dozen corrections in recent weeks. Thanks, John. We welcome any suggestions from our readers. E-mail Gwen E-mail Jim...