** NEW ** - Site For American Standard Bridge Players

Until Jan 2013 this site has been aimed at Acol bridge players.  This is the system of bridge that is played in the UK and a few other countries.

However, most of the world uses a different system.  And there is now a No Fear Bridge website for beginning and improving players of American Standard bridge.

As well as being widely played across the world, this is the system used by most online bridge websites.  So if you want to play bridge online - this is the system for you.

You can now choose which site to join.

To learn Acol bridge - click here

To learn American bridge - click here

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Bridge Lessons: Online Bridge Lessons

Bridge Lessons: Online Bridge Lessons: Welcome to Bridge Lessons - A Publication of Blueberry Bridge . A series of 12 lessons for complete beginners wanting to learn Acol bridg...

Blueberry Bridge

I have a birth announcement.  My new site, Blueberry bridge was born today.  It's dedicated to helping beginners learn how to play Acol bridge.  You can see it HERE.

It's going to be a selection of fairly random hints and tips for beginning and improving Acol bridge players.  I'm not disciplined enough to give the site a real structure and a lot of the content has been moved from an old site of mine that no longer exists.

I should organise, but so far I haven't.  Maybe I will one day.  Look on it as an opportunity to browse at random through Acol bridge conventions, play and bidding.  

Blackwood Bidding Convention

If you think that you and your partner have enough points to bid for a slam it can be essential to know that you have enough aces (and kings) - to avoid the embarrassment of losing that vital trick to an ace held by the opposition.  It is possible to hold enough points and still be missing an all important card.

This is where the Blackwood bidding convention comes into its own.  It is a way of asking your partner how many aces (and/or kings) they hold, to ensure that you have enough high cards to make the contract.

You can read more about Blackwood and see how it works if you click here.

Leading Away From A King

The opening lead in a game of bridge can be the crucial card that helps your partnership to defeat the contract.  Most players accept that you should never lead away from an Ace - it can give away a trick, especially if the opposing partnership hold a singleton king.

Does the same thing apply to leading away from a king?  Usually, it is safe to lead away from a king and in most circumstances it is unlikely that it will give away a trick.  You can read more about leading away from a king and see a working example if you click here.

Bridge lessons For Beginners

I have been busy working on a new website - bridge lessons for beginners.  It's a site for beginning Acol bridge players - the system usually used in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand.

It assumes that the reader has no bridge knowledge at all and starts right at the beginning by telling you how to add up the number of points in your hand, progressing through some basic jargon to how to play the cards.

It then starts looking at basic bidding techniques, starting with explaining how to decide who opens the bidding in each game.

Using this site, anyone should be able to start playing Acol bridge.  You can then sign up for your two week trial at No Fear Bridge and practice and learn online, with fun exercises, quizzes, hands to play, progress chart, hands of the day, handouts, flash cards and much more.  Join now by clicking here.