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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     ***** NEW !!
                   or    ftp://rgb.anu.edu.au/pub/Bridge/FAQ
* WWW Bridge Directory: http://rgb.anu.edu.au/Bridge/WWW-Bridge.html
* 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 now be even easier.

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

Bidding/Conventions:
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2C-Bidding-Structure			Marx-Sharples-Transfers
2C-Bidding-Structure-Article		McCabe
Bergen-2under-preempts			Minor-Suit-Slamtry
Bergen-raises				Niemeijer-over-2NT
Bergens-Jacoby-2NT			Optimal-Two-Bids
Bergens-Jacoby-2NT-2			Overcalling-NT
Blackwood.When-To-Use			Polish-2D-Opener.Rodziewiez
Brozel-DONT-CRASH			Polish-2D-Opener.Rosa
Byzantine-Blackwood			Powerhouse-Asks
CRASH-over-2C-open			Puppet-Stayman
Cambridge-WeakTwos			Reverses
Comic-NT				RomanKeyCardBlackwood
Constructive-KS-1NT-Structure		Rosenkranz-Inverted-Minors
Crowshurst				SeaDog-Raises
DONT					SlamTries-after-Stayman
DONT-Washington				Smolen
Doubling				Spiral-cuebids
Forcing-Pass-guidelines			Spiral-scan-RKCB
Garozzo					Stayman-Jacoby-Texas-xfers
Ghestem-and-defence			Suction
Good-Bad-2NT				Super-Michaels
Jacoby-2NT-1				Swiss-Raises
Jacoby-2NT-responses			Transfers-over-1C
Johnson-Berkowitz-Club-system		Trash-overcalls-of-1NT
LaptChan-xfer-over-2nt-rebid		Truscott-over-2C-open
Lead-Directing-Bids			Undisciplined-Weak-Two-Responses
Lebensohl				WBF-1990-conv-list
Lebensohl-Weak-2s			Walsh-relays
Leongs-Defence-vs-Hamilton2D		Walsh-structure
Martel-Stansby-2NT-GF-M-raise		          

Bidding/Systems:
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1D-example-system		Mauren-Diamond
2-over-1			MiniMax5.doc
ACBL-Std-Yellow-Card		MiniMax5.txt
ACBL-Std-Yellow-Card.gif	Mod-Eclectic-Symm-Pass
ANTI				Moscito.tarz.uue
Acol				Overcall-Structure
Acol-GR-MC			Polish-Club
Acol-Jesner-MC			Power-system
Acol-Lewis-Hancock		Precision-extended
Acol-Totally-Imaginative	Precision-orig
Acol-Variations			Ptah-Club-Structure
Aspro-Symmetric-Pass		Reese-Modified-Precision
Blue-Club-SW-WW			Regres-Two-Suiters
Bridge-System-Collection.ps	Relay-Precision
Bridge-System-Collection.tex	Roman
Bridge-System-Collection.text	SA-YC-OKBridge
Bridge-World-Standard		Shukan-Scissors-SA
Bridge-World-Standard-1994	Std-5cd-Majors-IR
Carrot-Club			Std-Amer-OKB
Carrot-Club-2			Sun-Ashton-Preempt-Structure
DH-Eastern-Scientific		Symmetric-Club
Defence-ForcPass.sit.hqx	Tangerine-Club.ps.gz
Diff-US-Europe			Tangerine-Club.tex
Eclectic-Symmetric-Pass		Tape-relay-2.0
Erni-Diamond			Tranare-87
German-Canape			TresBoof
German-Moscito			Truscott-Symmetric-Relay
Gromoeller			Unusual-systems
Honeymoon-Moscito		W-Compet-BL
Italian-Blue-Club		W4-Std-JW
Kaplan-Sheinwold-Plus.tar.uue	Weak-NT-structures
Kerns-Precision-Club		Wentworth.tar.gz
Kerns-Weak-2-shortness		Westgate-Std
Kernsy-Short-2			          
Lai-forcing-pass.tar.uue

Bridge-as-Sport:
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BridgeAsOlympicSport.ps.gz	          
README

Card-Play:
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Compound-Squeeze	Lavinthal-Discards	          
Defensive-Carding	Suit-Combinations

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

Clubs-and-Bodies/ABF/Alerts:
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1995-Alerts-Summary.msw		Alerting-Discussion.1994
1995-Alerts.msw			          

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/WBF:
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Bidding/	Contacts/	          

Clubs-and-Bodies/WBF/Bidding:
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Abbreviations			Systems-Policy.WP51.uue
Abbreviations.WP51.uue		WBF-back.tex
Conv-Card-Guide			WBF-front.tex
Conv-Card-Guide.WP51.uue	          
Systems-Policy

Commercial-Advertising:
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00-DISCLAIMER				SW-Supplier.Great_Game_Products
Book.Diamond-Major			SW-Supplier.Great_Game_Products-Catalog
Game.Bridge-For-Windows			Service.Professional-Bridge
Game.Positronic-Bridge			Software.OKBridge
Mag.Bridge-Today			Software.OKBridge.9511
Misc.CustomisedConventionCards		Travel-Agent.Bridge-Pro-Travel
SW-Publisher.Robert-MacMillan		Travel-Agent.The-Bridge-Traveler
SW-Supplier.Baron-Barclay		          
SW-Supplier.Bridge-Parlor

Computers:
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Bridge-Computer-Hardware	Bridge-software-concepts
Bridge-Computer-Tournaments	General-Online-Services
Bridge-Mailing-Lists		OKBridge-KO-competition
Bridge-on-networked-computers	          
Bridge-on-personal-computers

Counting-Ranking-and-Scoring:
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Changing-Odds			Ranking-Players
Counting-Cards			Ranking-Players.Mag-article
Distribution-Odds		Restricted-Choice
HCP-distribution		Scoring
Hand-evaluation			WBF_IMP-VP.ps
Law-of-Total-Tricks		          
Losing-Trick-Count		pairs-score-sheets.ps
Neuberg-scoring			teams-score-sheets.ps
Probabilities

Interesting-Threads:
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Bridge-for-challenged		Origin-of-Bridge
Can-computers-psych		Playing-at-home
Computer-Bridge-Players-in-2005	What-makes-a-good-player
Defn-of-Relay-Systems		Why-Alert
Hesitation-discussion		          
How-to-hold-ones-hand

Jargon:
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00-Under-Construction		Jargon.movements-and-scoring
Balancing			Jargon.rubber
Jargon-2-over-1			Jargon.tournaments
Jargon.Namyats			          
Jargon.misc			yarborough

Movements:
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Mitchell	          

Programmes:
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00-Utilities/			Play-BridgeDeluxeII/
Bid-BridgeBidder/		Play-BridgeMate/
Bid-Vogt-Lisp/			Play-ImagiNationNet/
Dealer-Andrews/			Play-JTSBridge/
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/
Evaluate-Goldsmith/		Play-RBridge/
Evaluate-MeanOpening/		Play-TRBridge/
Evaluate-Scaramuzzi/		Play-WellsBridge/
Play-AmigaBridge/		Score-ASE-7.2/
Play-AtariBridge/		Score-BridgeScorer/
Play-BPLive/			Score-HSCalc/
Play-BRPro-demo/		Score-WinScore/
Play-Bridge4Windows/		Source-DoubleDummySolver/
Play-BridgeAssistant/		Teach-CardSharkTutor/
Play-BridgeBrain4Win/		Util-CCE/
Play-BridgeBuff3/		VuGraph-PWP-1995/
Play-BridgeChampion/		          
Play-BridgeD/

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

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

Publishing-and-Publications/TypeSetting/TeX-LaTeX:
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Goldsmith/	VanDerLaan/	          

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-1995/		nabc-1995-spring/
README.iba		eec-1993/		nabc-1995-summer/
Utilities/		far-east-1995/		nabc-aitt-1995/
cap-gemini-1992/	forbo-1994/		schiphol-1995/
cap-gemini-1993/	forbo-1995/		wbf-1994@
cap-volmac-1994/	          		wbf-bb-vc-1993/
cap-volmac-1995/	macallan-1995/		wbf-bb-vc-1995/
ebl-juniors-1992/	minneapolis@		wbf-juniors-1993/
ebl-juniors-1994/	nabc-1994@		wbf-juniors-1995/
ebl-mixed-1992/		nabc-1994-fall/		wbf-olympiad-1992/
ebl-teams-1993/		nabc-1994-summer/	wbf-pairs-1994/

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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-- 
Markus Buchhorn, Parallel Computing Research Facility 
email = markus@octavia.anu.edu.au   snail = CISR, I Block, OAA, ANU 
Australian National University, Canberra, 0200 , Australia.
[International = +61 6, Australia = 06] [Phone = 2492930, Fax = 2490747]