Tuesday, 28 April 2009

ACOL Bridge Scoring


As a member of the No Fear Bridge site you will find a range of helpful handouts, including two on bridge scoring.

The extract shown here is from the one for duplicate bridge.  There is also a handout for rubber bridge.

You can find this and a range of other helpful handouts in the "handouts" section of the No Fear Bridge membership site.

Click Here to sign up for your completely free, two weeks trial. It gives you unlimited access to all the quizzes, tutorials, videos, handouts, flash cards and help you need to help you become a better bridge player.  Once your trial has expired you can join for one year, or for a great discount, join for two years.

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Learn ACOL bridge bidding with the Weekly Quiz

On the No Fear Bridge membership site you will find a weekly quiz to help you practice your ACOL bridge bidding.
Each week you will find a set of 20 questions. See how many you can answer correctly. Your answers are recorded so you can see a graph of your personal progress. A great learning tool. There is also a weekly leaderboard (only usernames are displayed, not real names). See if you can score 20/20 and be top of the weekly leaderboard.
This quiz is so popular that there will soon be a more advanced version for users who regularly score 20/20.
If you would like to try the quiz, head over to the No Fear Bridge site and sign up for your free two week trial (no credit card details required).

Sunday, 19 April 2009

Bridge Jargon


Like any game - the game of bridge has its jargon. This can be daunting for beginners - struggling to learn how to play and learn the meaning of terms. At the No Fear Bridge membership site you will find a printable glossary of terms to help you.

There is a free two week trial, but membership costs just £10 for 3 months or £32 for a year. Join for a year and have unlimited access to the best bridge learning resource on the net.

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

No Trump Rebids

There's a new "millionnaire" quiz over at No Fear Bridge. All the answers require a bid of No Trumps, but can you work out which level to bid at, and why?

This quiz is a fabulous learning aid. If you choose the wrong answer, you are given a clear explanation of why your answer was incorrect.

Can you answer all the questions correctly and score a million? Membership at No Fear Bridge is free for two weeks - but at just £30 for a year, why not sign up for full membership?

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Practice your bridge bidding

The latest tutorial added to No Fear Bridge helps you practice overcalling after an opening bid of 1NT. In lesson 1 you are first responding bidder, in lesson 2 you are opener's partner and in lesson 3 you are second responding bidder. This tutorial gives you a chance to practice your bidding in all three situations.

Saturday, 7 February 2009

Responder's Second Bid

Practice your bridge bidding. Once you have started to master your opening bid as a responder, you will want to practice your second bid as a responder.

With this quiz you are given 10 questions to help you practice. You can take the quiz several times as you won't be given the same questions each time.

Click to select the answer. When you have answered the questions, click on "submit" and see how many you answered correctly.

When you make a mistake, you are given a clear explanation of why your answer was wrong. Here's an example:If you'd like to try this quiz for yourself, head over to the No Fear Bridge membership site and sign up for the two week free trial. It really is free - no need to give your credit card number. New material is being added to the site all the time. This quiz was added yesterday.

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Learn Bridge Bidding

Learn Bridge Bidding - responding to 1NTThe latest addition to the No Fear Bridge membership site is a set of 24 hands on the topic "responding to a 1NT opening".

You can use this practice exercise as many times as you want to improve your responding. Each time you will be given a selection of 12 hands from the 24 available. Plenty of variety to keep you interested and a different selection every time.

You can choose to include the Stayman convention, or to exclude it.