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Cool Bridge Systems
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Check out the following cool systems! More commentary on some of these will be found on my blog.
- 2-bid structure – two-level scheme with one-level accuracy
- 2H Multi – as 2D, but higher; used at one point by Versace-Lauria and Helgemo; brief write-ups
- All systems – from 1995, all systems analyzed for ‘aggressiveness’; summaries of openings too
- An Unassuming Club – Polish with a weak NT; an improved version with Kokish after 1C; survival tree for on-the-fly use; hyperlinked version from Bill Campbell
- “Assiste” – by Romolo Napoletano
- Blue Team Club – Franco’s modern rewrite; FD card – or check out a characteristic Austrian version
- Burgay 1N response structure – Dano used to play (plays?) this with Burgay; emphasis is on showing shape, setting suit for cue-bidding
- Burgay Diamond – strong diamond, 2-way club, orig. 1973 version
- Combine, a.k.a. Slawinsky, Leads – treatise describing Fantoni-Nunes leads, why they cover the most important situations
- Dwururka – transfer opening 4-crd majors but no artificial strong opening, from Boguslaw Pazur (WBF convention card)
- Equality – from Misho Nedyalkov and Ben Riddles; handling competitive auctions in a better way
- ETM Victory – excellent 5-card major, standardish system from Glen Ashton; warning: Dan-complexity level; a slightly-more-followable condensed write-up, and FD card; a different optimized (strong NT) standard is Sher-Umeno Supernatural, with GF relay;
- Fantoni-Nunes – mainly from the Vugraph Project’s .lin files (updated but doesn’t change much now); there is a readable version of my observations by Bill Jacobs;
- Gazzilli – solves the 16+ HCP 1M openers in standard systems; major component of Garozzo’s new Ambra-like systems; the link is one way of playing it
- Garozzo-DuPont – notes from observations of “papi” and “snabu” on OKB; similar to Ambra
- IMprecision – symmetric relay strong club that starts off with a twist
- Incision – a micro-precision from Aviv Shahaf
- Janus – 1C is strong balanced or weak unbalanced, while 1D is strong unbalanced or weak balanced; from Fried Weber
- Jump-Bidding – nice 1990 overview of the development of bidding, by Francesco Sallustio, using the jump-bid to demonstrate what makes a good convention;
- Kantar’s Roman Keycard system – from the html pages that once were up; most of the modules are independent so can be added to taste
- Kokish-Kraft notes – Kokish’s own full weak NT system, 300+ pp; posted with express permission of authors, a text tree(abridged)
- Basic Italian cue-bidding methods – from Claudio Petroncini; does not include Turbo (described in BTC above)
- Magic Diamond – strong diamond, medium club, lite openings
- Martel-Stansby – Kokish-lite weak NT system, raw notes from all vugraph
- Millenium Club – Polish club (subsets all strong) with transfer responses; just 1C/1D opening modules; relay version from David Collier
- Marston’s Moscito 2005 – introductory booklet off of Australian Bridge website
- MOX-NT – attractive writeup (a la Ambra) of optimized 5M system with many strong/weak multi openings
- Nail – 4M system from Pazur with heart-sensitive strong 1C/1D openings, weak NT
- Neapolitan Club – like Blue Team Club but the original off of which it was based; more explanation; best viewed in Notepad with wordwrap
- Nightmare – from Buratti and Lanzarotti in the good old days
- NTC – very fun; Dynamic NT, lots of transfers, relays; from Misho Nedyalkov
- Obvious Shift Principle – carding method from the Granovetters, used by experts
- OKB 2/1 – OKB puts the “O” in “My G*D what a horrible software”; system is important in web bridge history; another writeup
- Polish Club versions – see what is affecting Polish bridge (alert regulations in Poland [Polski])
- Balicki-Zmudzinski – their WJ
- Kości – standard with a Precision 2C, played by Pazur-Jagniewski, try this summary;
- Polish Club (Matula) – the first English text on the Polish club, from 1994
- Strefa – Polish played by Kwiecień-Pszczoła of UNIA Winkhaus Leszno, with optional Brown Sticker openings; a Jassem-Tuszynski writeup
- WJ XXI – a more complex WJ pushed by expert Władysław Izdebski; a must-try for WJ aficionados; handy-dandy summary(in Polish), and constituent articles;
- WJ2000 (Polish Standard) – like SAYC for Poland (Polish Club); full detail FD card
- WJ2005 – an improvement over WJ2000; summary pdf; more complete FD card than BBO’s; my translation has become a book in English; Jassem’s new website;
- Polish Club International – a.k.a. WJ2010 – the world turns, as does WJ – get the official 189-pg e-book here from me at reduced price (licensed by author)
- Power Precision – Sontag and Weichsel; FD card;
- Revision Club – good writeup of a precision; 4th edition (John Montgomery); possibly the best-reading description of a strong club ever;
- Rigal Precision – from Barry Rigal’s excellent book Precision in the ’90’s
- Roadmap 2020 – nice document of a good weak NT system; from Francesco Sallustio – older version
- Robson/Segal’s Partnership Bidding in Bridge – the best study of competitive bidding; with permission from the authors ( prior format )
- Roman Club – summarized by Allen Miller; another version from Graz, Austria (a whole club plays it there); Belladonna’s 1986 update
- Romex – many very strong openings based on losers and controls
- Sher-Neill Canape Precision – it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt… then it’s just fun
- Superlambda – Polish forcing pass system; interesting but lacks some interference and relay-break notes;
- SuperPrecision – … but you can pay 2 old dogs to pretend to make up new tricks (lots of obvious bidding sequences)
- Swan 4.0 and Zebra – weak/strong clubs, detailed write-ups; less daring than Tangerine
- Tangerine Club – 1C = 8-9 bal. or 15+, very fun
- “Terrorist” Moscito – relays; Bo-Yin’s complex write-up; GIB has played this too; textfile condensate
- Toad Club -(updated again) relay precision from Jim Griffin
- TOSR – lost original html files, here’s a good reboot; FD card; a Josh-Dan thing (updated 2018 Atlanta)
- Ultimate Club – A great drug
- Ultra Club – canape with lots of science; FD card
- Vanilla Symmetric Relays – Alan Truscott’s notes; this, also in Rigal’s book, started it off for me;
- Volmac Precision – incomplete notes; apparently what Garozzo tried to teach Snabu originally in the 80’s
- Washington Standard – solid tournament-quality 2/1 system from Steve Robinson; FD card;
- Webertreff – lots of canape, some relays; good competitive agreements; also from F.W. above
Bidding System Links
- “Ambra” – write-up based on Garozzo’s 2/1 system for the Italian 2000 World Junior Champs; why this structure hasn’t dispersed out of Europe yet, I don’t know; edited further by Gijs Haarlem; FD file
- An Unassuming Club – Polish with a weak NT; an improved version with Kokish after 1C; survival tree for on-the-fly use; hyperlinked version from Bill Campbell
- Caroline Club – a canape precision
- F-club – hearty Scanian strong club
- MAF – by Chiel Verwoest, a master html-artist, and magic acol f***er
- Popivanov Precision – well-documented write-up
- Shark – very light 1M opening canape, strong club, simple
- SPREAD and SCREAM – by Mark Abraham
- Viking Club
Bridge Links (in no particular order)
- Overcall Structure – suggest only when NV;
- Prism Signals – The Dark Side of the Moon signals
- System details – of top current partnerships; browse to your content; from Ecats
- Rough Two’s openings – 4+m and 4M, weak; Ben Cowling has updated the site nicely;
- Crypto-raises – designed to keep at least two (maybe three) of your opponents in the dark
- Chris Ryall’s Acol description – good snapshot of the current state of Acol and its handling for non-Acol players
- ACBL Mid-Chart defense database – ACBL requires downloading and presenting these defenses for opponents to peruse
- Bridge Winners – forum for top players, including the controversial issues not allowed in magazines
- Światem Brydża – the Polish bridge magazine; years of pdf back-issues for free; lots of pics, reports, WJ, different systems, contests, quizzes, etc.
- Jeff Goldsmith’s page
- Buckys and Bridge
- Michael Goetze’s page
- Great Bridge Links by Judy Goodwin-Hanson.
- David Morgan’s bridge systems page (new) – relay systems
- Mark Abraham’s page
- lots of articles – mirrored by Frank van Wezel
- Polish bridge organization (Polish) – great news, results, things in Polish bridge
- Glen Ashton’s page
- Neapolitan Club magazine – good world bridge news, concentrates on Italian news but has English translations of everything
- The Bridge Channel (website, YouTube) – good for looking for bridge videos and live streamers
- Adam Meyerson’s lab
- Video interviews with top players – ACBL
- some free Mike Lawrence articles
- shape counting exercise – from Fred Gitelman, very handy for tune-ups
- Pics of Nationals – awesome, copious, from Jonathan Steinberg; also pics of other bridge events he attends
- Chris Ryall’s page – great index of preemptive two-bid structures!
- The Vugraph Project – Nikos Sarantakos’ collection of BBO .lin files from their broadcasts of events all over the world; good for system-watching but no explanations of alerts
- BDI Archive – the Italian Bridge Federation has put 10+ years of magazine articles online for free
- NABC casebooks – good reading for ACBL misdirectors-to-be
- Jari Böling’s page – EHAA (rare online writeup), weak NT, J-Moscito
- David Stevenson’s bridge page – laws authority, articles
- Claire Martel’s site – very enjoyable; including the systems page
- Norberto Bocchi’s columns (italiano) – current events; informative and interesting articles; loaded archive; email your bridge questions
- archived bulletins – Frank van Wezel and Hans van de Konijnenberg archiving all bulletins ever; awesome; the NABC’s
- Larry Cohen articles – and homepage