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Bridge: It’s not your grandmother’s card game.
Well, actually, it may very well be your grandmother’s card game. But, despite
social stigmas, bridge is a fun and challenging game for all ages with depth
rivaling that of chess, go, and other popular pastimes. In addition, as a
partnership game, bridge is also social—a fun activity for friends and a great
way to meet new people. Bridge can be learned by middle schoolers, but remains challenging for 40 year veterans of
the game.
The
Meetings
Our games are fun, low-key and open to everyone!
Tuesday 8:00PM--???: The Tuesday Night Game
is Now Running Once Again…
We are resuming our traditional Tuesday night informal game, subject to
maintained interest. Games will be held
at Old Union (next to Tresidder) on the second
floor. You can come late, leave early,
and come with or without a partner; players of all levels are welcome. More information is available by contacting
Eric: mayefsky
at stanford dot e-d-u.
ACBL Sanctioned Duplicate Game—Meyer Library Forum
Room—Currently Not Operating
(We ran this from January 2008 through March 2009. Due to declining attendance, it is not
currently happening.)
This game is totally free for students (also open to the public), and open
to players of all skills. If you’ve never tried duplicate before this is
a great place to give it a shot! Note that this is more formal than the
Tuesday night game, i.e., you need to stay the whole time, if you don’t have a
partner you need to notify us in advance, etc. More details are available
on the game’s website and you
can of course contact Eric with questions.
News
1-6-09: Happy New Year!
We are resuming our Tuesday night informal games this quarter; see the
above listing for more details.
Mailing
List
Stay informed about club events by joining the mailing list:
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/bridge-club
Competition
In addition to being a great place to play bridge casually, Stanford has
dominated the college bridge scene in recent years. Stanford has the
following recent high finishes in the North American Collegiate Bridge
Championship (the most widely recognized competition for bridge at colleges in
Stanford is also well represented in the Fifth Chair Junior Team Collegiate
Championship, which is open to teams from around the world. (In this
event, teams are allowed to consist of members attending different
colleges.) Since the year 2000 teams with Stanford students on them have
taken first place three times.
In addition, Stanford students have represented the
Stanford students also have won national events such as the Non-Life Master
Pairs and the Flight B Grand National Teams.
Questions?
Questions about bridge, Stanford, bridge at Stanford, or this website
should be directed to club president/dictator-for-life Eric Mayefsky— [his last
name]@[the school he attends].edu
Links
Bridge Organizations
By Scope:
American Contract Bridge League (ACBL)
ACBL District 21 — Northern
ACBL Unit 503 — Stanford/Palo Alto/Mountain
View (this includes information for the
Learning to Play
Popular learn-to-play software can be downloaded here (along with other resources
for new players).
Bridge Partner offers
bridge lessons for 4th-8th graders in the
Unit 503 also offers classes
for beginners in
Bridge on the Internet
Bridge Base Online is the
best and most used internet bridge service around. (It’s free!)
Bridge Blogs
If you’re ready to check out some interesting hands and other fun bridge
goings-on, check out some of the following:
Mike Develin’s Bridge is Cool Blog
Li-Chung Chen and Mike Develin’s Bridge Problems Blog
Bridge Tales
which includes interesting hands from the 2006 World Youth Team Championships
Archive
The long-running old Stanford
Bridge Club website maintained by Ted Hwa has older
material on bridge at Stanford, if you’re looking for something that’s not
here. (Thanks Ted!)
This website was last updated on
January 6, 2009.