For Advancing Bridge Players

Bridge Refresher Class

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If you learned bridge a long time ago and still play the way you learned, or if you just need to refresh your bridge knowledge, then this class is for you. While neither defense nor declarer play has changed all that much in the past few decades, bidding certainly has. By learning contemporary bidding, you'll significantly improve your bridge and have a lot more fun in the process.

The goals of this class are to:

  • Review the basic concepts in the three aspects of bridge: bidding, playing and defense, with an emphasis on current bidding practices. Having a firm, basic foundation is necessary for continuing to add more advanced concepts to your game.
  • Introduce and add more advanced concepts, increasing your success and enjoyment of the game.

These goals will enhance your communication with your partner, not only in bidding, but also in defense, and will make you a better declarer.

Details:

  1. Dates: Wednesday evenings, October 1 - November 5, 6 PM - 7:30 PM
  2. Location: FeatherStone at Hickory Hill, 2450 Hickory Trail, Iowa City
  3. Cost: $90 per student, $170 for partners registering together, $70 for FeatherStone residents
  4. Text: Coming Back to Bridge by Paul Goldfinger, available from most booksellers.

View / download a copy of the class flyer.

For more information, or to register, contact us.

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.