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Acol
Acol is the bridge bidding system that, according to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, is "standard in British tournament play and widely used in other parts of the world".
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque (Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil; Arawageeki; Vakêêke; Gołgéeki) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is the governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Mexico, Bermuda and Canada and is a member of the World Bridge Federation, the international bridge governing body.
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Animal Crackers (1930 film)
Animal Crackers is a 1930 Pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding.
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring Cantinflas and David Niven, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.
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Auction bridge
The card game auction bridge, the third step in the evolution of the general game of bridge, was developed from straight bridge (i.e. bridge whist) in 1904.
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Bidding box
A bidding box is a device used for bidding in bridge, usually in duplicate bridge competitions.
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Bidding system
A bidding system in contract bridge is the set of agreements and understandings assigned to calls and sequences of calls used by a partnership, and includes a full description of the meaning of each treatment and convention.
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Biritch
Biritch (birich, biryuch бирич, бирюч) in Ancient Rus was a herald, an announcer of the will of a knyaz, sometimes kniaz's deputy in police or diplomatic affairs, or tax collector.
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Blackwood convention
In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention that was developed by Easley Blackwood.
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Board (bridge)
In duplicate bridge, a board is an item of equipment that holds one deal, or one deck of 52 cards distributed in four hands of 13 cards each.
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Body language
Body language is a type of nonverbal communication in which physical behavior, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information.
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Bridge Base Inc.
Bridge Base Incorporated is a company founded in 1990 by Fred Gitelman, President, and Sheri Winestock, Vice-President and based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Bridge convention
Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge game convey information about the player's card holdings.
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Bridge maxims
A bridge maxim is a rule of thumb cited by players in contract bridge acting as a memory aid to best practice gained from experience.
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Bridge scoring
Bridge scoring is keeping score in contract bridge.
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Bridgette (game)
Bridgette is a two-player bridge game that has been popular since 1970.
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Cappelletti convention
Cappelletti (also called Hamilton and Pottage) is a bridge bidding convention for the card game contract bridge, primarily used to interfere over opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening.
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Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.
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Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.
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Casablanca (film)
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's.
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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Communication
Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
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Computer bridge
Computer bridge is the playing of the game contract bridge using computer software.
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Contract bridge diagram
The diagram is typical of that used to illustrate a deal of 52 cards in four hands in the game of contract bridge.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Cue bid
In contract bridge, a cue bid (also, cuebid or cue-bid) is either a bid of the opponents' suit, or "slam seeking"--a slam-investigating bid made during an auction's later rounds that shows control of a suit.
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Duck (bridge)
In the card game of contract bridge, to duck (or ducking) means to play low to a trick to which one has led, losing it intentionally in order to set up a suit or to preserve a control or entry.
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Duplicate bridge
Duplicate bridge is the most widely used variation of contract bridge in club and tournament play.
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Dutch Bridge Federation
The Dutch Bridge Federation (Nederlandse Bridge Bond) is the national governing body for bridge in the Netherlands, based in Utrecht.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Euchre
Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 28, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards.
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Finesse
In contract bridge and similar games, a finesse is a card play technique which will enable a player to win an additional trick or tricks should there be a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponents.
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Five-card majors
Five-card majors is a contract bridge bidding treatment common to many modern bidding systems.
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Forcing bid
In the card game contract bridge, a forcing bid is any that obliges the partner to bid over an intermediate opposing pass.
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François Rabelais
François Rabelais (between 1483 and 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.
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Francesco Berni
Francesco Berni Francesco Berni (1497/98 – May 26, 1535) was an Italian poet.
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French playing cards
French playing cards (jeu de cartes) are cards that use the French suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs), carreaux (tiles or diamonds), cœurs (hearts), and piques (pikes or spades). Each suit contains three face cards; the valet (knave or jack), the dame (lady or queen), and the roi (king).
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Galata Bridge
The Galata Bridge (Galata Köprüsü) is a bridge that spans the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Game of chance
A game of chance is a game whose outcome is strongly influenced by some randomizing device, and upon which contestants may choose to wager money or anything of monetary value.
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Game try
A game try (also called a game trial bid) in the card game of bridge is a bid that shows interest in bidding a game and asks partner to help in making the decision.
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Garden City, New York
Garden City is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, in the town of Hempstead.
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Glossary of contract bridge terms
These terms are used in contract bridge, using duplicate or rubber scoring.
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Grand Slam (1933 film)
Grand Slam is a 1933 American comedy film directed by William Dieterle and Alfred E. Green, starring Paul Lukas, Loretta Young, and Frank McHugh.
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Hand evaluation
In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands to each other so that they may reach the optimum contract.
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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE (July 6, 1884 – July 4, 1970) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family.
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Honor point count
In contract bridge, the honor point count is a system for hand evaluation.
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Horn Lake, Mississippi
Horn Lake is a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States which is located south of Memphis, Tennessee.
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International Match Points
International Match Points within the card game of contract bridge is a measurement for conversion of the absolute contract bridge scores.
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International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Jacoby transfer
The Jacoby transfer, or simply transfers, in the card game contract bridge, is a convention initiated by responder following partner's notrump opening bid that forces opener to rebid in the just above that bid by responder.
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John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.
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King (card game)
King is a card game similar to Bridge but played by four individual players rather than partnerships.
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Lanterloo
Lanterloo or Loo is a 17th-century trick taking game of the Trump family of which many varieties are recorded.
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Law of total tricks
In contract bridge, the Law of total tricks (abbreviated here as LoTT) is a guideline used to help determine how high to bid in a competitive auction.
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List of bridge competitions and awards
Bridge, or more formally contract bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance played by four players.
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List of contract bridge books
Bridge, or more formally contract bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance played by four players.
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List of contract bridge magazines
Numerous magazines have been devoted to the card game contract bridge.
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List of contract bridge people
This list is a compilation of contract bridge players, writers, administrators and personalities who have been recognized for their skills, achievements or contributions to the game as identified by various specific sources.
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Losing-Trick Count
In the card game contract bridge, the Losing-Trick Count (LTC) is a method of hand evaluation that is generally only considered suitable to be used in situations where a trump suit has been established and when shape and fit are more significant than high card points (HCP) in determining the optimum level of the contract.
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Major suit
In the card game contract bridge, the major suits are spades and hearts.
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Masterpoints
Masterpoints or master points are points awarded by bridge organisations to individuals for success in competitive bridge tournaments run under their auspices.
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Memory
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
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Mind sport
A mind sport, or as it's more commonly referred to an altsport, is a game of skill where the competition is based on a particular type of the intellectual ability as opposed to physical exercise.
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Minor suit
In contract bridge the minor suits are diamonds and clubs.
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Moonraker (film)
Moonraker is a 1979 British spy film, the eleventh in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
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Napoleon (card game)
Napoleon or Nap is a straightforward trick-taking game in which players receive five cards each; whoever bids the highest number of tricks chooses trumps and tries to win at least their bidden number of tricks.
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Nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication (NVC) between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless cues.
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North American Bridge Championships
North American Bridge Championships (NABC) are three annual bridge tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL).
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Old age
Old age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is thus the end of the human life cycle.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Ombre
Ombre is a fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players.
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Opening lead
The opening lead is the first card played in the playing phase of a contract bridge deal.
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Optimum contract and par contract
Optimum contract and par contract are two closely related (and sometimes confused) terms in the card game contract bridge.
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Overcall
In contract bridge, an overcall is a bid made after an opening bid has been made by an opponent; the term refers only to the first such bid.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Polish Club
Polish Club (Polish: Wspólny Język, literally "Common Language") is a bridge bidding system which was developed in Poland, where it is the most popular bidding system, and which is also used by players of other countries.
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Precision Club
Precision Club is a bidding system in the game of contract bridge.
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Preempt
Preempt (also spelled "pre-empt") is a bid in contract bridge whose primary objectives are (1) to thwart opponents' ability to bid to their best contract, with some safety, and (2) to fully describe one's hand to one's partner in a single bid.
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Probability
Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur.
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Quadrille (card game)
Quadrille is a card game that was popular in the 18th century.
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Randomness
Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.
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Revoke
In trick-taking card games, a revoke (or renege, or) is a violation of the rules regarding the play of tricks serious enough to render the round invalid.
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Rex Bridge
Rex Bridge (Swedish: Rexbridge) is a version of Contract Bridge invented in Sweden 1959 by Sten Lundberg.
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Rubber bridge
Rubber bridge is a form of contract bridge played by two competing pairs using a particular method of scoring.
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Ruff (cards)
In trick-taking games, to ruff means to play a trump card to a trick (other than when trumps were led).
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Rule of thumb
The English phrase rule of thumb refers to a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation.
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Screen (bridge)
A screen is a device used in some tournaments in duplicate bridge that visually separates partners at the table from each other, in order to reduce the exchange of unauthorized information and prevent some forms of cheating.
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Signal (bridge)
In the card game of contract bridge, partners defending against a contract may play particular cards in a manner which gives a coded meaning or signal to guide their subsequent card play; also referred to as carding.
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Skat (card game)
Skat is a 3-player trick-taking card game devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
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Solo whist
Solo Whist, sometimes known as simply Solo, is a trick-taking card game whose direct ancestor is the 17th-century Spanish game Ombre, based on the English Whist.
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Spades
Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s.
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Spoil Five
Spoil-Five (also Spoilt Five and Five and Ten) is the traditional book version of the Irish national card game called Twenty-Five, which underlies the Canadian game of Forty-Five.
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Standard 52-card deck
A deck of French playing cards is the most common deck of playing cards used today.
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Standard American
Standard American is a bidding system for the game of bridge widely used in North America and elsewhere.
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Stayman convention
Stayman is a bidding convention in the card game contract bridge.
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Strong two clubs
Bridge bidding systems that incorporate a strong 2 clubs opening bid include modern Standard American, standard Acol, 2/1 game forcing and many others.
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Sunset Boulevard (film)
Sunset Boulevard (stylized onscreen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett.
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Takeout double
In the card game contract bridge, a takeout double is a low-level conventional call of "Double" over an opponent's bid as a request for partner to bid his best of the unbid suits.
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Terence Reese
John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the short story of the same name by James Thurber.
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The Sleeping Cardinal
The Sleeping Cardinal, also known as Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour in the United States, is a 1931 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming.
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Titanic (1953 film)
Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco.
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Traveling scoreslip
A traveling scoreslip (also called a traveler) is a form used for recording the results of each deal in a duplicate bridge tournament.
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Trick-taking game
A trick-taking game is a card game or tile-based game in which play of a hand centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are each evaluated to determine a winner or taker of that trick.
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Trump (card games)
A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games.
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Vugraph
Vugraph (or Viewgraph) is a method of displaying the bidding and play of bridge hands on a screen for viewing by an audience.
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Weak two bid
The weak two bid is a common used in the game of contract bridge, where an opening bid of two diamonds, hearts or spades signifies a weak hand with a long suit.
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Whist
Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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World Bridge Federation
The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body of contract bridge.
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Zar Points
Zar Points (ZP) is a statistically derived method for evaluating contract bridge hands developed by Zar Petkov.
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2/1 game forcing
2/1 game forcing (Two-over-one game forcing) is a bidding system in modern contract bridge structured around the following responses to a one-level opening bid.
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500 (card game)
500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game that is an extension of Euchre with some ideas from Bridge.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_bridge
