For Beginners and Novices
Bridge Basics

Common Sense Bridge 1: Introduction to Bridge

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Learn to play bridge, the world's greatest card game! The Common Sense approach we employ systematically and clearly layers new information upon previously learned concepts, providing a coherent structure that minimizes the need to always attempt to memorize new ideas in isolation, making learning easier. You'll also benefit from this class if you've recently started playing bridge, or would like to refresh your knowledge.

Bridge is the ultimate partnership game. As such, communication between partners is of paramount importance in order to convey information about your hand strength and shape. The best way to communicate these assets is by employing the concept of inference. Our teaching stresses the use of inferences to maximize the partnership's success when bidding, playing, and defending.

This 4-week class is our first in a series that teaches you bridge principles in a comfortable and fun environment. In this class we will cover bridge fundamentals, notrump opening bids and responses, major suit opening bids and responses, and minor suit opening bids and responses.

Details:

  1. Dates: Mondays 6PM - 7:30PM, September 28, October 5, October 19, and October 26, 2006 (no class on October 12).
  2. Location: StoryPoint at Hickory Hill, 2450 Hickory Trail, Iowa City
  3. Cost: $70 per student, $60 for StoryPoint residents
  4. Text: Bridge Basics 1: An Introduction by Audrey Grant, available from Amazon.
  5. Class size is limited to 16.
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It's a game of a million inferences. There are a lot of things to draw inferences from — cards played and not played. These inferences tell you something about the probabilities. It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.