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                  The Internet Bridge Archive and
                      Rec.Games.Bridge FAQ 

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FAQ Quick reference:
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* IBA & RGB FAQ site  : http://rgb.anu.edu.au/Bridge
                   (or    ftp://rgb.anu.edu.au/pub/Bridge/FAQ)

* WWW Bridge Directory: http://rgb.anu.edu.au/Bridge/WWW-Bridge.html
* Bridge URL Registration: http://rgb.anu.edu.au/Bridge/Forms/URL-submit.html

* Bridge Newsgroups
      Archive         : http://rgb.anu.edu.au/Bridge/News

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* The Laws of Bridge  : http://www.cs.vu.nl/~sater/bridge/nlaws/laws.html
* OKBridge info.      : http://www.cts.com/~okbridge/
* BridgePlayer LIVE!  : http://www.bridgeplayer.com/~bridge/bplive.html
* Tournament Info.    : http://www.cs.vu.nl/~sater/bridge/buls/buls.html

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The Internet Bridge Archive (IBA) is a repository of anything and
everything related to the game of Bridge that is electronically
available that I have found. It has grown from the Rec.Games.Bridge FAQ, 
which was never so much a list of Frequently Asked Questions as it
was a repository of Occassionally Referenced Lists (ORL). There will
shortly be a *real* FAQ (in Q&A style) once I free up a round tuit. :-)

The typical discussion in RGB is about particular bidding situations
and about the play of cards during a game. There is also some discussion
about the politics of Bridge (quite a popular topic in the U.S. :-) )
and the merits of various systems.

The remaining stuff is what this Archive is meant to cover. If you ask
a question about Bridge Books, or computer programs, or the Internet
Bridge servers (e.g. OKBridge) or even some systems/conventions then it
is quite easy to miss responses (if there *is* one, that is). The IBA
and RGB FAQ will try to maintain lists of Books, Programmes Systems,
Conventions, and anything else people may find useful to store
somewhere, such as the ACBL General Convention Chart, a list of Bridge
Clubs/Contact points for your area, etc.  If there is something you
would like to see in the Archive or FAQ then please email the
maintainer.

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The IBA and RGB FAQ are available on the WWW at

http://rgb.anu.edu.au/Bridge

or via anonymous ftp on rgb.anu.edu.au [150.203.5.35]
in /pub/Bridge/FAQ.  Underneath this directory there is also a
Programmes directory which contains a large variety of ftp-able 
Bridge software. There is a link to there on the top page under
'Bridge and Computers'.

I have set up an incoming ftp area for the archive BUT IT IS ONLY
AVAILABLE BY ARRANGEMENT, e-mail me for details. So, if you have 
something you'd like to contribute it should be very easy.

The maintainer is Markus Buchhorn (markus@rgb.anu.edu.au) who does not 
make any claims to bridge-geniusness. :-)

If you can't ftp or websurf, mail me and we can discuss options. One
technique is ftpmail - ftp executed via e-mail - which usually works
quite well.

I hope that this Archive/FAQ/ftp/WWW site will provide at least one 
person with help without having to wade (Apologies to Rudy) through 
the RGB battlefield :-) 

Cheers,
	Markus

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The current FAQ directory includes the following files and directories:

Top Level:
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Bidding/			Movements/
Bridge-as-Sport/		News/
Card-Play/			Programmes/
Clubs-and-Bodies/		Publishing-and-Publications/
Commercial-Advertising/		RGB-style-guide
Computers/			Reviews/
Counting-Ranking-and-Scoring/	Tournaments/
Forms/				WWW-Bridge.html
How-To-Get-RGB-FAQ		   
IBA-toc.html			
Interesting-Threads/		          
Jargon/

Bidding:
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Conventions/	Systems/	          

Clubs-and-Bodies:
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ABF/		ACTBA/		Europe/		WBF/
ACBL/		CBF/		Misc/		          

Clubs-and-Bodies/ABF:
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Alerts/		Clublist/	Contacts/	          

Clubs-and-Bodies/ACBL:
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Bidding/	Clublist/	Misc/		          
COI/		Contacts/	Tech/

Clubs-and-Bodies/ACBL/Bidding:
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ACBL-Responses/		Convention-Charts/	          
Alerts/			Defence-Pamphlet/
Convention-Card/	Recorders/

Clubs-and-Bodies/ACBL/Clublist:
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Canada-By-Area/	Others-By-Area/	US-By-Zipcode/
Original/	US-By-Alphabet/	          

Clubs-and-Bodies/ACBL/Tech:
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00_INDEX	ACBL-tech.txt	Forms/		Public/		          
00_ls-lR	Conditions/	Movements/	Rulings/

Clubs-and-Bodies/CBF:
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Contacts/	          

Clubs-and-Bodies/Europe:
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Alerts/

Clubs-and-Bodies/WBF:
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Alerts/		Bidding/	Contacts/	          

Programmes:
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00-Utilities/			Play-BridgeMate/
Bid-BridgeBidder/		Play-ImagiNationNet/
Bid-Vogt-Lisp/			Play-JTSBridge/
Dealer-Andrews/			Play-LetsPlayBridge/
Dealer-BenPorath/		Play-MMBridge/
Dealer-Jones/			Play-MVPBridge/
Dealer-Kahn/			Play-MVPBridge4Win/
Dealer-Lehman/			Play-Meadowlark/
Dealer-MacBridge/		Play-MicroBridgeComp/
Dealer-Marks/			Play-NetBridge/
Dealer-Newlands/		Play-OKBridge/
Dealer-Staveren/		Play-OmarSharifOnBridge/
Dealer-WBF-Bernasconi/		Play-PlayBridge/
Eval-and-Play-Hirschberg/	Play-RBridge/
Evaluate-Goldsmith/		Play-TRBridge/
Evaluate-MeanOpening/		Play-WellsBridge/
Evaluate-Scaramuzzi/		PostDeal-Bourke/
Play-AmigaBridge/		PostDeal-Lawrence/
Play-AtariBridge/		Score-ASE-7.2/
Play-BPLive/			Score-BridgeScorer/
Play-BRPro-demo/		Score-HSCalc/
Play-Bridge4Windows/		Score-WinScore/
Play-Bridge8/			Source-DoubleDummySolver/
Play-BridgeAssistant/		Teach-CardSharkTutor/
Play-BridgeBrain4Win/		Util-CCE/
Play-BridgeBuff3/		Util-CCE-Windows/
Play-BridgeChampion/		Util-Probs-Bourke/
Play-BridgeD/			VuGraph-PWP-1995/
Play-BridgeDeluxeII/		          

Publishing-and-Publications:
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Articles/		Bookstores/		TypeSetting/
Booklet-on-Duplicate/	Magazines/		          
Books.html		Papers/

Publishing-and-Publications/TypeSetting:
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Fonts/		HTML/		LaTeX2e/	TeX-LaTeX/	          

Reviews:
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Books/				ReviewsFromCanadianMasterPoint/
Computers/			          
Miscellaneous/

Tournaments:
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Bulletins/	Notices/	          

Tournaments/Bulletins:
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README			ebl-teams-1993/		nabc-1995-spring/
README.iba		ebl-teams-1995/		nabc-1995-summer/
Utilities/		eec-1993/		nabc-aitt-1995/
abf-not-1996/		far-east-1995/		schiphol-1995/
cap-gemini-1992/	forbo-1994/		wbf-1994@
cap-gemini-1993/	forbo-1995/		wbf-bb-vc-1993/
cap-volmac-1994/	          		wbf-bb-vc-1995/
cap-volmac-1995/	macallan-1995/		wbf-juniors-1993/
cap-volmac-1996/	minneapolis@		wbf-juniors-1995/
ebl-juniors-1992/	nabc-1994@		wbf-olympiad-1992/
ebl-juniors-1994/	nabc-1994-fall/		wbf-pairs-1994/
ebl-mixed-1992/		nabc-1994-summer/

Tournaments/Notices:
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96-Bridge-Olympiad		EuropeanMixedChamps.1996
ACBL-1995-Schedule		FarEast-Championships.1995
ACUI-Feb.1995-schedule		NewOrleans.JulAug.1995
Aus-Darwin-ANC-1995		Victoria-BC.Mar-95
AustralianSwissPairs.1996	          

RGB.Style-Guide  (The how-to-post guide for RGB..)

WWW-Bridge.html (The Internet Bridge Directory)

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