LEARN BRIDGE GREENSBORO

A Tool for Practicing Bridge

To learn the game of bridge, you need to play and practice. For many years I have practiced using the products from Vu-Bridge, an extensive set of lessons with hands to play and quizzes to test your knowledge. Their original product, V-Blue Newsletters, is unlike any other set of lessons I have seen. 

To me, the most important aspect of learning bridge is to learn how to think at the table. When you work through a set of hands in V-Blue, your online mentor is at your side pointing out what to pay attention to. Learning hand evaluation skills is integral to the lessons. Early on I learned the importance of shape, the placement of honors and more.

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Although Vu-Bridge controls the play of each card (this is not a bad thing), you can still test yourself by having the mentor go away. My favorite scenario is when I am trying to understand where the cards lie or how many cards the defenders still have. I can verify how good my logic or counting is by showing the remaining cards in all four hands any time during the play.

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Not everything is perfect unfortunately. The user interface, especially the navigation, is dreadful. I have put together a tutorial for playing a hand.  It can be found on the Vu-Bridge page.