Why EthBridge ?

ETHBridge™ is a bridge document site for bridge players. We are serving below services to bridge players from all around the world, beginning from beginners to top level in experience. You are visiting introduction pages about our service related to bridge game. We hope you will enjoy it and we are sure you will find what you are looking for.

If you want to improve faster OR, if you need any kind of bridge document OR, ...

Daily Newsletters Best learning and teaching method ever

In fact they are bridge bulletins. Members receive 3 issues daily. We are preparing and sending issues directly to members' mail boxes. A single bridge topic is discussed during a week.

In the first year of membership:

For 50 weeks, 50 different bridge topics are covered.
This is a total of; 800 issues of bridge bulletins. More than 1.000 pages.
Over 1.200 sample bridge hands.

In three years of membership: 150 bridge topics, 2.400 issues of bridge bulletins and more than 4.000 sample bridge hands, which equals to coverage of approximately 16 bridge books.

But, at ETHbridge™ it is like eating an elephant...One bite at a time.

[List of topicsYear1 - Year2 - Year3] [Weekly distribution schedule] [Read more]

Documents Documents are Downloadable in pdf format

There are 4 main sections for members to download bridge documents:

■Conventions: There are 350 listed bridge conventions on members' site. Conventions are grouped into categories according to the usage like; After 1 minor openings, After 1 major openings and etc. 200 most popular of them are detailed in explanation with examples and tests. Detailed conventions are 3 to 30 pages and well formatted. Other 150 non-popular are 1 to 2 pages long and placed on the web site. Please click to see what conventions pages look like.

■Systems: Members can download 6 complete bidding system books:

Two Over One (2/1) for Beginners

Two Over One for advanced to expert players

A natural bidding system modified with conventions and relays

Strong Club System (Scandinavian)

Strong Club System (Artificial and highly sophisticated)

Transfer System By Salvador Assael of Turkey

Members also can find outline of some other systems. There are also some system components are placed on systems section of the members' site. Those are conventional opening bids like: Multi 2¨, Tartan 2s, Flannery 2¨, Weak 10-12, 12-14 1NT openings and etc. Click here to see what systems pages on members' site look like. [Read more]

■Articles: On present time, you may find 20 articles written to describe confused bridge approaches and we continue adding new ones. Some bridge subjects that are misused and new approaches are discussed. Some of the articles are: "A Well Structured Bidding System" , "Upgrade Illness-Any hand to downgrade?" , "Why Artificial Solutions?" , "How They Win?" , "Misuse of Principal Of Fast Arrival" , "Security Level" and etc. [List of articles] [Example]

■Partnership Coaching: Documents related to build up and improve partnership. Coaching documents include: Descriptive documents, Solutions to common partnership misunderstandings, Defensive conventions to artificial and brown sticker treatments, examples and tests. More than 2.000 pages of documents for partnerships to try themselves. [Read more]

Knowledge-Base

This is a library for a bridge player. You can find Bridge Zones and countries with information about unique country and links. World Championships with information, history, participants and results. Upcoming world wide events with which, when and where info. Links to the official pages of the event. See what it looks like.

Teachers', Club Managers' and Tournament Directors' Site

■Teachers can reach some teaching and lecture planning materials. Documents for students. Teachers may signup their students and his students will bring newsletters as if they are send by the teacher. Teacher will decide which newsletter topic will be send in which week. Teachers have special pricing for their students.

■Club Managers will have a similar site with Teachers. Addition to Teachers' site club managers can find some tools to run a club. Some enjoyable ideas for club members for attendance.

■TDs can find the rules of duplicate bridge. There are various documents for TDs like: How to organize a tourney, scoring types and how to score an event. Types of events with explanation of the organization. Table numbers or guide cards to organize events.

Other

Members will enjoy many other sections like: Laws, Distribution probabilities, Who (famous bridge personalities), Double dummy problems, Information about running world wide events and etc.

Bidding Competition

There is a sub site running for players all around the world to test and compete on competitive bidding which we call "It is your turn to bid". It is a weekly contest. Contestants are asked 6 questions. Your hand is and the bidding is given and you are asked for your bid when it is your turn to. It is an instant scoring event and weekly and cumulative results are announced on Sundays. Members can also reach to pointing and explanation of bids of the sets at members' site under partnership coaching section. Visit Bidding Competition sub-site to see what it looks like and read for more.

Life time e-mail address to members

Not a promise but we are working on giving 25 mb life time mail addresses to members. Now currently we are granting Brigde E-Mail Address to our members with 10 mega bytes of quota. Members are getting yourname@ethbridge.com Bridge E-mail Addresses reachable on web and from desktop mail client like Outlook, Outlook express, Incredimail. Click here to see what our web based e-mail client looks like.

Discussion Forum

Our members and all bridge players of all level can visit the discussion forum running on site. You may contact to our members for their opinions on our service. Without subscription you may read postings if you want to tell your ideas to us why don't you join this group which is 100% free service. Please do not forget to upload your photo there. We will be glad to see it while you are posting. Click here to visit Discussion Forum

Some Numbers From ETHBridge™ as of July 04, 2006

	# Pages	# Books
Web Site	6.710	-
Conventions	2.620	11
System Books	2.400	6
Coaching	1.875	7
Articles	70	-
Bulletins	3.600	14
System Outlines	100	-

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