Bridge is a trick taking card game for four players in two partnerships, combining a competitive bidding auction that sets a contract with card play to fulfil or defeat it. It descends from the English trick taking game whist, played since at least the sixteenth century, by way of an intermediate nineteenth century form called bridge whist and then auction bridge, developed around 1904. The modern contract form, in which the bidding auction itself determines the score rather than only the choice of trump suit, was codified in 1925 by the American businessman Harold Vanderbilt, who worked out its scoring table during a Caribbean cruise aboard the SS Finland. Contract bridge is now played both socially and, in its duplicate form, as an organized mind sport under bodies including the World Bridge Federation.
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Originating RegionEngland, by way of whist; codified in the United States 1 Game TypeCard game, trick taking and bidding 1 Governing BodyWorld Bridge Federation, the international governing body for organized competitive bridge. 1 Playing Time PublisherASS Altenburger Spielkarten 2 PublisherAtlantic Playing Card Company 2 PublisherChas Goodall & Sons Ltd 2 Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicTurn Order: Claim Action 2 Game MechanicTurn Order: Progressive 2 Minimum Players Maximum Players Disputed
Origin Year1925 is the year Harold Vanderbilt codified contract bridge, the game as generally played today, but bridge itself is the end of a longer line: whist is documented in England from at least the sixteenth century, auction bridge, an intermediate form, emerged around 1904, and Vanderbilt scoring table refinement in 1925 is the point at which the modern contract game is usually dated from rather than a true single invention date. Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Bridge
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Derived From
Whist, Games Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
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1. The Oxford Guide to Card Games
Oxford University Press, 1990entity record, description lead (player-count)
Bridge is a trick taking card game for four players in two partnerships, combining a competitive bidding auction that sets a contract with card play to fulfil or defeat it. It descends from the English trick taking game whist, played since at least the sixteenth century, by way of an intermediate nineteenth century form called bridge whist and then auction bridge, developed around 1904.
- Derived From: Whist
2. Bridge (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 60
- Designer: Harold Vanderbilt
- Publisher: (Public Domain)
- Publisher: (Unknown)
- Publisher: Ariel Productions Ltd
- Publisher: ASS Altenburger Spielkarten
- Publisher: Atlantic Playing Card Company
- Publisher: Berliner Spielkarten
- Publisher: Chas Goodall & Sons Ltd
- Publisher: David Westnedge
- Publisher: Excalibur Electronics
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- Publisher: TAG
- Publisher: TS Spielkarten
- Game Category: Card Game
- Game Mechanic: Communication Limits
- Game Mechanic: Hand Management
- Game Mechanic: Predictive Bid
- Game Mechanic: Score-and-Reset Game
- Game Mechanic: Team-Based Game
- Game Mechanic: Trick-taking
- Game Mechanic: Turn Order: Claim Action
- Game Mechanic: Turn Order: Progressive
- Minimum Players: 4
- Maximum Players: 4
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Wikipedia, Geir Helgemo
Wikimedia FoundationPlayed By: Geir Helgemo, Lead paragraph, opening sentenceQuote, Played By: Geir Helgemo, Lead paragraph, opening sentence
Geir Helgemo (born 14 February 1970) is a professional bridge player who was born in Norway but is now a citizen of Monaco.
American Contract Bridge League (Wikipedia)
Governed By: American Contract Bridge League, Lead paragraphQuote, Governed By: American Contract Bridge League, Lead paragraph
is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda
Wikipedia, Kit Woolsey
WikipediaPlayed By: Kit Woolsey, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Kit Woolsey, Lead sentence
is an American bridge and backgammon player.
Wikipedia, Zia Mahmood
WikipediaPlayed By: Zia Mahmood, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Zia Mahmood, Lead sentence
is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player.
Wikipedia: Billy Eisenberg
WikipediaPlayed By: Billy Eisenberg, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Billy Eisenberg, Lead sentence
was an American bridge and backgammon professional.
Wikipedia: Charles Goren
WikipediaPlayed By: Charles Goren, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Charles Goren, Lead sentence
was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game.
Wikipedia, Oswald Jacoby
WikipediaPlayed By: Oswald Jacoby, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Oswald Jacoby, Lead sentence
was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time and a key innovator in the game, having
Wikipedia, Giorgio Belladonna
WikipediaPlayed By: Giorgio Belladonna, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Giorgio Belladonna, Lead sentence
was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time.
Wikipedia, Benito Garozzo
WikipediaPlayed By: Benito Garozzo, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Benito Garozzo, Lead sentence
is an Italian American bridge player.
Wikipedia, Jeff Meckstroth
WikipediaPlayed By: Jeff Meckstroth, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Jeff Meckstroth, Lead sentence
is an American professional contract bridge player.
Carol Crawford, Wikipedia
Played By: Carol Crawford, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Carol Crawford, Lead sentence
was an American backgammon and bridge player from Buffalo, New York who spent many years in Detroit, Michigan.
Wikipedia, Eric Rodwell
WikipediaPlayed By: Eric Rodwell, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Eric Rodwell, Lead sentence
is an American professional bridge player.
Sabine Auken, Wikipedia
Played By: Sabine Auken, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Sabine Auken, Lead sentence
is a German bridge player.
Wikipedia, Pietro Forquet
Played By: Pietro Forquet, Lead sentenceQuote, Played By: Pietro Forquet, Lead sentence
was an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history.
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