How to Use Advanced Bridge Strategies
The trick-taking card game of bridge is best enjoyed once you have mastered the essential skills and basic rules of the game. Once you have proceeded to a more advanced level of playing, the role of strategy plays an important part in whether you win or lose against equally matched players. You can increase your chances of winning by using advanced bridge strategies in your game play.
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Use Advanced Bridge Strategies to Win
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Visit the Fifth Chair Foundation website (see Resources below). This non-profit organization is dedicated to the promotion and teaching of the game of bridge and offers online and in-person mentoring for players of all levels. You can join online games and receive instruction in both basic and advanced strategies to winning at bridge.
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Review material published on bridge game play carefully. You will find a number of books published which feature different strategies towards game play from mnemonics to statistical analysis.
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Check out online bridge games for advanced play tutorials. Websites such as OKBridge and Bridge Base Online work with the Fifth Chair Foundation to offer mentoring programs and tutorials, so that you can learn and use advanced strategies while playing the game.
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Review your local newspaper for a bridge column. Many daily and weekly published newspapers run bridge columns that regularly feature basic and advanced strategies for the game. These columns generally appear in the "Lifestyles" or community section of your newspaper.
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Enter a bridge tournament to put your advanced strategies to use. As with any game, be sure that you are clear on the rules used by the club or league in which you are competing. Your strategy should be in line with the basic rules of the game, taking into consideration such principles as scoring, trump suits (or 1 suit of cards that has a higher value than the others) and game play.
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Tips & Warnings
The best way to improve your skills at bridge is to play the game regularly. By joining a local bridge club, you will not only have the opportunity to increase your skill level through game play, you will also have the chance to see how others use advanced strategies to win bridge games.
