General info
Akademisk Bridgdeklubb will host a beginners course in bridge during fall 2023. We have set up 12 Tuesdays for course, but the exact plan will come later. The course is aimed at beginners that have not played any bridge earlier. The course costs NOK 200 for students and NOK 500 for others.
We recommend that all that are interested in the course attend our recruitment event the Tuesday before the course starts (29. August). Beginners will get information about the club and a head start in minibridge at this event. There will also be free pizza at this event. All necessary information is available at our web pages for the event: /bridge/english/events/social-events/recruitment-social-event-with-pizza_f23.html.
This course is hosted in cooperation with the Norwegian Bridge Association under the project Bridge Students Together. There will be a student tournament in Trondheim Saturday 24. and Sunday 25. February 2024 in the connection to this project. Information about this tournament and trip will come later.
Feel free to check out our Facebook event for the course: https://www.facebook.com/events/582534733959889/ (external link). Short messages might appear on the Facebook event, and those interested can ask questions. There are also other ways to ask questions, see our page about contact information.
Course plan
5. September: mini-bridge lecture 1 and 2.
- Introduction to mini-bridge: basic rules. Playing phase only.
12. September: mini-bridge lecture 4, 5 and 6.
- Contracts and points: partial game, game and slam. Choice of contract based on hp and distribution of suits.
- Basic play techniques in NT-contract and trump contracts.
- Hints and tips on opening leads.
19. September: mini-bridge lecture 7, 8 and 9, and the action rules.
- More playing techniques.
26. September: bidding lecture 1.
- Opening 1 in a suit.
- Partner has trump support.
3. October: bidding lecture 2.
- Opening 1 in a suit - partner does not have trump support.
- Opener has trump support to partner.
10. October: bidding lecture 3 and 9.
- NT openings.
- Stayman and transfers bids.
17. October: bidding lecture 4 and 5 (not defensive bids).
- Other NT bids.
- Openers second bid after forcing answer.
24. October: social event with pizza - no course lecture. But please join us for bridge and pizza.
31. October: bidding lecture 6, plus defensive bids.
- Defensive bids.
- Takeout doubles.
- Other types of doubles.
7. November: bidding lecture 7
- Weak 2 openings and higher suit openings.
- Pre-emptive bids.
- Sacrificing.
14. November: bidding lecture 8 and 10.
- Strong hands - opening 2 clubs.
- Blacwood.
Course material
All the course material used in the lectures are written by the Norwegian Bridge Association, and hence only available in Norwegian. Since I have made some minor edits to them, and saved them as .pdf files, I have also uploaded them to our website.
Mini-bridge: mini-bridge 1, mini-bridge 2, mini-bridge 4, mini-bridge 5, mini-bridge 6, mini-bridge 7, mini-bridge 8, mini-bridge 9.
Bidding: lecture 1, lecture 2, lecture 3, lecture 4, lecture 5, lecture 6, lecture 7, lecture 8, lecture 9, lecture 10.
For practicing playing bridge, we can recommend Bridge Masters on BBO.
For practicing bidding, the app Bridge by Neural Play can be a good choice.