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Bridge World Standard Defense

For Beginners

Lessons, class handouts and reference sheets on the basics:

Basic bidding guide
Bridge glossary
Opening 1-bids
Opening 2-bids (strong)
Opening 3-bids
Opening 4-bids
Hand evaluation 
Which suit to respond?
Responder's bids in competition
Responding to 1NT
Overcalls & takeout doubles
The reverse by opener
Forcing & non-forcing bids
Slam bidding
Opening leads
Defensive play
Declarer Play: Forming a Plan
Declarer Play: Establishing Tricks
Declarer Play: The Finesse
Declarer Play: Simple Odds
Counting the hand
Rubber-bridge strategy

Quick tips to improve your game

Learning to play bridge -- How to get started, and get better:

Group classes & self-teaching
On-your-own activities to build skills

Developing your "card sense"
FREE Learn to Play Bridge software
Web links to good sites for learners

For Advancing Players

Lessons and convention summaries for experienced beginners and intermediates:
Balancing over 1-bids
Balancing over other auctions
Opening leads: aggressive
Opening leads: passive
Opening leads: trumps
Michaels Cuebids & Unusual 2NT
Weak 2-bids
Negative doubles
Jacoby transfers
Jacoby 2NT major-suit raise
Drury convention
New Minor Forcing
DONT convention
Roman Keycard Blackwood
"Law" of Total Trumps
Lebensohl over weak 2-bids

Lebensohl over reverses

Lebensohl in 1NT auctions

Duplicate bridge:

IMP (teams) strategy
Matchpoint (pairs) strategy

Web links for duplicate players

For Intermediate to Advanced Players

Bidding conventions and treatments  (most originally published in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin):
Strong Jump Shifts (3 parts)
Negative Freebids (3 parts)
Your 2C Bidding Structure (4 parts)
Defenses to 2-Suited Overcalls (3 parts)

Opener's Jump-Reverse 

2-over-1 Game-Force System

Forcing Notrump Convention

Default agreements  (originally published in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin):

Was that a cuebid? (4 parts)
Was that a penalty double? (I) (Parts 1-3)
Was that a penalty double? (II) (Parts 4-6)

Was that a penalty double? (III) (Parts 7-8)

For Players of All Skill Levels

Flashes of brilliance -- Bridge feats & fun (all true) from my favorite partners & team-mates:
The One That Got Away
Toby and the Passion Coup
A Rare Trump Squeeze
The Missing Redouble Cards
Never Put Down an 8-Card Suit in Dummy
Count, count, count
The Obvious Solution (a bridge poem)
Concentration (another bridge poem)

A Nightmare on Opening Lead

Attention：These articles are copied from Karen’s website. All the original articles releases on www.prairienet.org/bridge.