Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.6.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Bridge Teaching by Kitty Cooper Learn to play Bridge, materials for teaching Bridge ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://bridgeteaching.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [June is for Charity: Buy a Pro!](https://bridgeteaching.com/june-is-for-charity-buy-a-pro/) - Every June, Bridge players support research for Alzheimers with games and auctions to play with pros. Other bridge charities also run in June. If you want a playing lesson with me, there are two ways you can buy that, My home unit in San Diego runs a longest day auction in which I participate. The details are here: https://www.32auctions.com/TLD2023 Another way - [Watching the USA Bridge Team Trials](https://bridgeteaching.com/watching-the-usa-bridge-team-trials/) - ​What I love about watching the US team trials online in the early stages is that I can see how 16 different experts handle the same hand, often even on the same auction. Some hands are all over the map while others are the same at every table. The action can be found on the - [Spark! Video - Improve your Matchpoint Game](https://bridgeteaching.com/spark-video-improve-your-matchpoint-game/) - The recent charity game where people could play with a pro after making a donation to support young people's bridge was very successful and fun. It even has a video which includes some commentary by me about halfway through. These were very challenging hands; even the experts got a few wrong! Click the image below - [Buy Me or Another Teacher to Support Young Bridge Players](https://bridgeteaching.com/buy-me-or-another-teacher-to-support-young-bridge-players/) - This is the second year of the ACBL Educational Foundation's Spark! auction which benefits Junior bridge programs across North America. You can bid on an amazing array of world champions, bridge celebrities, authors and legends. (Paraphrased from a terrific article on Bridge Winners - https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/3rd-acblef-spark-fund-auction-junior-bridge-fundraiser-2-dihohpa0yn/ ) If you want to have a personal lesson with - [Preempting](https://bridgeteaching.com/preempting/) - One of the most effective strategies in competitive bidding is the preempt. When you have a long strong suit and not many points you can start the bidding at the 3 level with a 7-card suit and at the four level with an 8-card suit. This makes life very difficult for the opponents since they - [My Basics Articles for District 17](https://bridgeteaching.com/my-basics-articles-for-district-17/) - My Basics articles for District 17 are no longer online but most of them have been republished on this site. You also may occasionally attend my talks on these same or more advanced subjects at Regionals. Did you know there are more detailed handouts in my downloads section which include problems to solve? The answers - [The US Team Trials are on again](https://bridgeteaching.com/the-us-team-trials-are-on-again/) - May is the month for the team trials and the action is on at LoveBridge again. Click here for the article at the USBF explaining how to watch. Impact-Site-Verification: d4edb8c0-160b-4a59-a509-1c2706aeb502 I often write up interesting hands from this event, as do others, at BridgeWinners.com - try this one: https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/a-wild-hand-from-the-us-open-trials-today/ No this is not that hand - [May is the Month for USA Team Trials](https://bridgeteaching.com/may-is-the-month-for-usa-team-trials/) - This year there are four different events for which teams are being chosen. Spector was chosen in last years trials to be the USA1 Open team, so this year only one more Open team will be chosen. However two Mixed Teams, two Women's teams, and two Senior Teams will win the right to represent the - [Double Dummy Movie on TV and some Bridge Podcasts](https://bridgeteaching.com/double-dummy-movie-on-tv-and-some-bridge-podcasts/) - The very enjoyable bridge movie, Double Dummy, about the travails of the USA 2012 under 21 bridge team, is scheduled to be aired on some PBS stations on January 17. Presumably passport members can stream it on demand as it came on earlier in some locales. PBS had this to say about this new shorter - [Watching the Team Trials Vugraph](https://bridgeteaching.com/watching-the-team-trials-vugraph/) - UPDATE 20-May-2022: This article is still useful for how to watch the current 2022 Open team trial, although it is only the Open event. Also please click here to fill out my survey if you are watching. One of the best ways to improve your bridge game is to watch experts playing. These days with so - [End of an Era](https://bridgeteaching.com/end-of-an-era/) - The final issue of D17 ScoreCard is online. It includes our 2020 suggestions for Bridge books to give for Christmas. More importantly perhaps, it includes an index to past articles which I have updated to include December's issue and put in the downloads section here . In coming months, I plan to add more of - [Bridge in the Time of Coronavirus](https://bridgeteaching.com/bridge-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/) - Unless you have four players in the same house, you may think you cannot play bridge while sheltering in place but not so... There are places to play online - two of them are Bridge Base Online (BBO) and Okbridge. On BBO you can play with robots, with strangers, with your regular partner or in - [Bridge Today](https://bridgeteaching.com/bridge-today/) - Today we have the pleasure of a guest post from world champion and acclaimed bridge author and teacher Mathew Granovetter. I have been helping him update his website, Bridge Today, a great site for learning more about the game of bridge. The Kabbalah Approach to Bridge by Matthew Granovetter Here is an excerpt from a - [Slam Bidding Basics over Suit Openers](https://bridgeteaching.com/slam-bidding-basics-over-suit-openers/) - I SLAM TRIES IN SUIT AUCTIONS: CUE-BIDDING Point count is not very accurate with unbalanced hands that have a fit. Tricks and controls, or controls with distribution and lots of trump are the hand types that make slam easily with less than 33 points. For example, the following two deals both make slam and neither - [Alzheimer's fund raiser - buy a bridge teacher](https://bridgeteaching.com/alzheimers-fund-raiser-buy-a-bridge-teacher/) - Bridge is wonderful mental exercise and may even stave off dementia but we all fear the big A. It pleases me to see top bridge players donating their time to help raise money for Alzheimer's research. So I am happy to be one of them. You can buy me or even better players for this - [Say it ain't so … bridge cheating](https://bridgeteaching.com/say-it-aint-so-bridge-cheating/) - The top ranked player in the world, my former hero, has been accused of cheating along with his partner on the bridge team of Monaco. The evidence seems overwhelming and I am heartbroken. The full article is here: http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/the-videos-speak-fantoni-nunes The foreign press has picked this up but not the U.S. Press Click here for the - [Playing Bridge in Norway](https://bridgeteaching.com/playing-bridge-in-norway/) - The European Championships are being played above the Artic Circle in Norway this year so I could not resist visiting the land of my ancestors and playing some bridge. I recommend watching them on vugraph at BBO. You also might look at some of the fun video bridge tips from the championships at http://eurobridge.org/repository/competitions/15Tromso/microsite/Videos.htm Also - [Last Minute Gift Ideas for Bridge Players - Bridge Books](https://bridgeteaching.com/last-minute-gift-ideas-for-bridge-players-bridge-books/) - Most bridge players appreciate a good bridge book for Christmas. So here are my suggestions One of everyone’s all time favorite bridge books is S.J. Simon’s Why You Lose At Bridge, so it is great to see that one of our favorite British authors, Julian Pottage, has written a sequel, Why You Still Lose At Bridge. He - [Are you going to the Nationals in Las Vegas?](https://bridgeteaching.com/are-you-going-to-the-nationals-in-las-vegas/) - One of my favorite things about the game of Bridge is that you can sit down and play against the greatest players in the game just by entering. That's right, most of the National Championships do not require any pre qualification. You may need to be a Life Master or have some minimum number of points - [Balancing when they have stopped at the two level](https://bridgeteaching.com/balancing-when-they-have-stopped-at-the-two-level/) - Today at 2pm at the Riverside California regional tournament I will talk about balancing. Because I was late sending my handout, there will not be copies at my talk so I have uploaded it to my downloads section on this site. Here are a few highlights from that talk. When the opponents have stopped in - [Learn about effective opening leads - Kitty's lecture](https://bridgeteaching.com/learn-about-effective-opening-leads-in-dallas/) - I often speak on the subject of opening leads. This is a free lecture for beginning and intermediate bridge players sponsored by the ACBL. Come and listen. Next one is scheduled for the Las Vegas Nationals on Wednesday evening. - [Happy Birthday John Lowenthal!! Rerelease of Borel](https://bridgeteaching.com/happy-birthday-john-lowenthal-rerelease-of-borel/) - Today would have been John Lowenthal's 75th birthday. Google may not have done a doodle for him but I will do a blog post in his honor. Plus, with his widow Celia's permission, I will rerelease the DOS version of his brilliant Borel hand generator (for the technically inclined only!) with instructions on how to - [Why Bridge Players Would Feel at Home Around Poker Tables ](https://bridgeteaching.com/why-bridge-players-would-feel-at-home-around-poker-tables/) - Subtle similarities of bridge and poker Poker and bridge are two different card games that have much in common. Both share a unique history and unwavering patronage that still make them popular today. From their list of enthusiasts to their present online setting, the trick-taking game and the “bluff” game are almost mirror images. Before - [The Bridge Documentary is looking for a title](https://bridgeteaching.com/the-bridge-documentary-is-looking-for-a-title/) - The current working title is "Lost in the Shuffle" - go to their web site at http://www.bridgedocumentary.com for more information or view the trailer from Utube here! - [Come and hear me talk about Opening Leads in Phoenix](https://bridgeteaching.com/come-and-here-me-talk-about-opening-leads-in-phoenix/) - The ACBL Fall National Championships are being held in Phoeniz, AZ starting the day after Thanksgiving. There are many events for newer players including two celebrity lectures a day. See the list of speakers at the ACBL. My talk on opening leads will take place Tuesday December 3 at 6:45 p.m. Get ahead - [World Championships are being played now in Bali](https://bridgeteaching.com/world-championships-are-being-played-now-in-bali/) - The vugraph starts every night at 8pm California time (they are 15 hours ahead of us so it is 11:00 am the next morning there). See my previous post on watching vugraph for information on how to watch. There are three main events, Open (Bermuda Bowl), Women's (Venice Cup) and Seniors (D'Orsi Bowl). For beginning bridge - [We have created a suit symbol plugin for wordpress!](https://bridgeteaching.com/we-have-created-a-suit-symbol-plugin-for-wordpress/) - I recently wrote a suit symbol plugin for Wordpress which is active on this site. Put an exclamation point in front of the suit letter: C, D, H, or S in your posts and comments to get a pretty suit symbol - !C !D !H !S . This plugin was originally written for JOOMLA - [Improve Your Game: Watch the Greats Play It](https://bridgeteaching.com/improve-your-bridge-game-watch-the-greats-online/) - How to use BBO and stored movies to watch the greats playing bridge - [The Future of Bridge](https://bridgeteaching.com/the-future-of-bridge/) - There is an interesting discussion over at the bridge winners site on the future of bridge. My thoughts on this are that teaching the game in a fun way is extremely important and miniBridge may well be the key to getting people started with the game (right Maggy?) When I was growing up we played - [Husband and Wife Bridge: A Special Thanks to Coach Matthew](https://bridgeteaching.com/husband-and-wife-bridge-a-special-thanks-to-coach-matthew/) - It is both difficult and rewarding to play with your spouse. Difficult because the emotions and anger tend to be overwhelming. "If you loved me you would have given me my ruff!" One tends to take partner's errors personally when you are married to him. The rewarding part of playing with your spouse is having - [Tournament Game Times, What’s Your Opinion?](https://bridgeteaching.com/tournament-game-times-whats-your-opinion/) - The use of morning and afternoon game times instead of the traditional afternoon and evening game times at the recent Philadelphia Nationals generated a heated debate on the Bridge Winners website at http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/philadelphia-schedule/ as well as many comments on Facebook and other social media. Please contribute your opinion if you have ever played in a - [MiniBridge in Raibidpura India](https://bridgeteaching.com/minibridge-in-raibidpura-india/) - Someone recently sent me a link to a blog about bridge in Raibidpura India. They have started a bridge club and are using miniBridge and, judging from the pictures BBO, to teach their children to play The blog also talks about what a successful town Raibidpura is because of the bridge playing. Quite fascinating. - [Suggestions for Teaching Kids Bridge](https://bridgeteaching.com/suggestions-for-teaching-kids-bridge/) - I recently received an email with a great suggestion from reader Erin for a game to use when teaching bridge to kids. I would love to hear other useful suggestions and experiences in the comments to this article. Share what worked for you with other teachers. Erin said "I came across a game a long - [More on Basic Bidding](https://bridgeteaching.com/more-on-basic-bidding/) - These days most of my bridge writings are published in the District 17 newsletter which my husband and I edit. Our columns from the newsletter are also online at the District 17 website. My Basic Bidding series there is mainly a reworking of the materials here without the drills. But there are several articles there - [New Years Resolutions](https://bridgeteaching.com/new-years-resolutions/) - Did you make any Bridge resolutions for the new year? Like respect your partner and the opponents at the table: no yelling, card slapping, or faces? Read some of the bridge resolutions over at Bridge Winners or leave a few here and then come back in a few months and see how you did! - [Happy Thanksgiving from the Seattle Nationals!](https://bridgeteaching.com/happy-thanksgiving-from-the-seattle-nationals/) - For serious bridge players, the arrival of Thanksgiving means that it is time for the Fall National Championships. This year they are to be held in Seattle; details available from the ACBL web site. There are plenty of bridge events for all levels of players, as well as lectures and entertainment. A national bridge championship - [USA loses World Championships!](https://bridgeteaching.com/usa-loses-world-championships/) - It is sad for us USA players to see our country losing its dominance in world bridge. We have the largest tournament bridge playing population (142,592 out of 312,520,000 or .045%) of any country. However as a proportion of the total population, both France (104,097 out of 63,396,000 or .164%) and the Netherlands (88,641 out - [How to get people playing Bridge? Ideas from Maggy ...](https://bridgeteaching.com/how-to-get-people-playing-bridge-ideas-from-maggy/) - Just found a wonderful bridge blog and ezine from Maggy Simony, a 91-year-old who is interested in bridge history and how to keep people playing our wonderful game. She has some very good ideas. Check it out http://bridgetable.net/e-zine/ Here is an excerpt from an email Maggy sent me which explains some of her thoughts on - [2NT in Competition](https://bridgeteaching.com/2nt-in-competition/) - Playing with a new partner the other night I bid 2NT in competition in this auction: RHO me LHO partner 1!C Pass 1!S Double 2!S 2NT Pass If you were my partner what would you think that meant? My general rule is that 2NT in competition is not natural except in a very - [Major Suit Raises - JACOBY 2NT](https://bridgeteaching.com/major-suit-raises-jacoby-2nt/) - I. Responding to partner's one of a major opening When partner opens one of a major and you have three cards or more in support then you know you have an eight card fit. When you first learned bridge your teacher undoubtedly told you to raise your partner immediately when you know you have a - [Splinter Bids](https://bridgeteaching.com/splinter-bids/) - I. Controls plus Tricks can produce slam on less than 33 points Point count is not very accurate with unbalanced hands that have a good fit. Tricks and controls, or controls with distribution and lots of trump are the hand types that make slam easily with less than 33 points. Here are the two hands - [Why Nine Never?](https://bridgeteaching.com/why-nine-never/) - Everyone knows the adage "eight ever, nine never" which refers to finessing for the queen of trumps. I recently received this question about it, which is answered below. Why do you play for the Queen to drop when you have nine trumps, isn't a 3-1 split more likely than a 2-2? It is true that - [Organizing a Schools Bridge program - Albuquerque-style](https://bridgeteaching.com/organizing-schools-program/) - In Albuquerque, NM, we started a Bridge lessons in the schools program in the Fall of 2002 with five schools, three middle schools and two high schools. So far, it appears to be easier to get into the middle schools. They need after-school programs and can give us an hour and a half every week, - [Teaching Adult Beginners](https://bridgeteaching.com/teaching-adult-beginners/) - I spent ten years in the 1990s teaching two or three club series a year (now called the ACBL Bridge Series) to adults in NYC (Greenwich Village) and really enjoyed it. I did it as a ten lesson series, stretching the first lesson into two lessons to add more play time and including point count at the - [Welcome to my new site, news on upcoming lectures](https://bridgeteaching.com/welcome-to-my-new-site-and-upcoming-lectures/) - I have moved all the free Bridge lesson material that was in the Bridge area on KittyCooper.com to this site. Well almost all of it. Let me know if you miss anything. It is all free to use, just credit me. For those of you who enjoy my lectures at Western regionals, my next one - [Social Site for Bridge Players](https://bridgeteaching.com/fun-new-site-for-bridge-players/) - Bridge Winners includes an online ACBL convention card editor! Articles on the nationals, pictures, beginner and intermediate articles and much more ... it is a social networking site for tournament bridge players with 3800 members as of today. And for those of you who did not know this, my other job besides bridge is web developer (I - [Competing over the Opponents 1NT](https://bridgeteaching.com/competing-over-the-opponents-1nt/) - I. Competing over 1NT only requires weak 2-bid strength What are your side's chances of making a game when an opponent opens 1NT? Well, there are only 24 high card points left, so even if your side has all of them, which is unlikely, some distribution points will be required to get your side up - [Balancing at the One Level](https://bridgeteaching.com/balancing/) - I. Definition of the Word BALANCING The term balancing means taking a bid other than Pass after two preceding passes. In other words, balancing is an attempt to prevent the opponents from playing the hand. For example, 1 !D Pass Pass and it is your bid Saying Pass here would be the final decision of - [BALANCING at the two level](https://bridgeteaching.com/balancing-at-the-two-level/) - When the opponents have stopped in a part score at the one or two level, should you pass it out or bid? The answer depends on what contract they have stopped in and what kind of hand you have yourself. Let's look at the classic situation where they are in two of a major: 1!H - [Slam Bidding Basics Over Notrump Openers](https://bridgeteaching.com/slam-bidding-basics/) - I. WHEN PARTNER OPENS 1NT- ADD THE POINTS UP It takes 33 points to make a small slam and 37 to make a grand. Do you have them? When you have a good balanced hand of your own, add your points to partner's possible minimum and maximum counts to see what the possibilities are. The - [Does a Negative Double of 1D show both majors?](https://bridgeteaching.com/does-a-negative-double-of-1d-show-both-majors/) - Another recent question was ... Does a negative double of 1♦ after partner opens 1!C show both majors? The standard treatment is that a negative double of 1♦ after partner opens 1!C shows both majors, usually 4-4. Longer and unequal lengths such as 5-4 or 4-5 are possible with a weak hand. Here is why - [JACOBY Transfers over Notrump](https://bridgeteaching.com/jacoby-transfers-over-notrump/) - I. Getting the Strong Notrump Hand to Declare the Major One of the primary objectives of bidding is to find an eight card major suit fit and play in it at the appropriate level. Jacoby transfer bids make it easier to describe hands with five and six card major suits when partner opens 1NT. This - [BASIC BIDDING REVIEW: -- Competition](https://bridgeteaching.com/basic-bidding-review-competition/) - . When the Opponents Open Annoying, isn't it? You had just decided that you were going to open the bidding with 1!D, when your opponent opens 1!S in front of you. What to do? When both sides are bidding, your objective is to get the best score possible. Game is unlikely, unless there is a - [BASIC BIDDING SUMMARY after 1 of a suit](https://bridgeteaching.com/basic-bidding-summary-after-1-of-a-suit/) - I. What Is Your Objective? One of the primary objectives of bidding is to find an eight card major suit fit to play in. The other main objective is to determine how many points the partnership has. These are the two questions you should ask yourself every time it is your turn to bid: Do ## Pages - [About Kitty](https://bridgeteaching.com/contact-us/about-kitty/) - I am a genetic genealogist, genealogist, dog lover, and World Champion Bridge player, living in Connecticut most of the year, with winters in San Diego. For more about my genealogy try my family history site. For more about my genetic genealogy and genealogy research see my blog at blog.kittycooper.com - this page is about my - [Books](https://bridgeteaching.com/books/) - My picks for recent best books is in my article - [For Students](https://bridgeteaching.com/for-bridge-students/) - Dear Bridge Student, I have completely redesigned this site using Wordpress. Please let me know how easy or hard the new site is to use and let me know what else you would like to see here. 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You have my permission to use any of my materials in your Bridge classes, just credit me. My previous site had forums but I have removed those for lack of use by any but spammers. I will publish some of the useful posts from the - [Coaching](https://bridgeteaching.com/contact-us/coaching/) - Yes we can coach you for $60 (USD) per hour. My husband Steve has more availability than I do. Here are some of the options: Play with you on BBO and then review the hands Go through the boards with you from a session you played with your regular partner Review your convention card - [Links](https://bridgeteaching.com/links/) - [widgets_on_pages id=2] We are always adding new sites to our list. This page has all our recommendations in the right-hand column. Fort Collins unit 363 has some wonderful lessons from Larry Matheny. The district 17 website has republished the columns my husband and have written for the district 17 newsletter. Contact us if you have other - [Borel](https://bridgeteaching.com/borel/) - BOREL support page BOREL is a very sophisticated hand dealing program written by John Lowenthal (1938-1999) and continuously refined by him from 1987-1998. It is really a programming language to describe bridge hands and one uses it to chose to include or discard hands from the generated random deals. Many of the best players in the - [About this site](https://bridgeteaching.com/contact-us/about-this-site/) - BridgeTeaching.com has two primary objectives: Assist other bridge teachers by providing free materials, tips, and discussions Help beginning and intermediate players learn bridge Another objective is to give me an outlet for discussing my thoughts on bridge and how to teach it with a focus on younger players (middle school). Everything on this site is - [Downloads for teachers](http://bridgeteaching.com/downloads/?category=1) - [Bridge Questions](https://bridgeteaching.com/for-bridge-students/bridge-questions/) - If you have a good question feel free to send it to me. Some older questions that I have answered can be found with the tag "Questions" on this site. 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