Featured Bidding Systems
"Big Bang" system - Bocchi-Madala and some other pairs play this; key
feature is difference in structure when NV and V; highly-detailed relays
(and Gazzilli) as would expect from an Italian system; and moving the Mexican 2D
to 2C allows better auctions for those (at the cost of some GF hands); huge text file
only, no illustrative hands from real tournaments, about 80 pages - their 2013
convention card
Welland-Auken system - 74 pages of this new exciting system - high-octane, no holds barred - "bid early, bid high, bid often"
Now available - a summary of openings, followed by an in-depth tree of the whole structure, and some discussion of slam-bidding followed by some examples - warning, very complex, but you can simplify it to taste - their 2014 convention card
Tarzan Club
- symmetric relay system with Meckwell tendencies, by one of the most successful Dutch pairs in history, Simon de Wijs and Bauke Muller
42-page text file with bidding tree, like many of my notes; does not include defensive structure or carding
Polish Club 2010 (
WJ2010
)
available now for a reduced price! reviews
here and
here
Standard Modern Precision - Getting From Here to There - a new 34-page e-book
by me helping 2/1 players to learn Meck Lite, the system of the future in the
US, played already by the best; modern expert precision is
described in detail, with many examples to help learn
Standard Modern Precision II - Further Discussion and Advanced Topics
- a new 29-page e-book by me helping beginning
Meck Lite players discover how to handle more situations and add standard expert Precision conventions to their arsenal
; assumes knowledge of first book's topics
Both Meck Lite for Beginners books (I and II) - just $30 (25% off)
Lauria-Versace - Win the Italian Way
- a
new 40-page e-book by me that describes the Lauria-Versace system that has
won so many championships around the world - I added my own
interpretation in areas that were undocumented - unsurprisingly, it is a
Garozzo-infused 2/1 system; it is presented with an introduction,
summary, explanation of some themes, and then the system with every
relay and bid in tree formUltimate Canape
- 40-page textfile with a bidding-tree of the whole system as played by Verhees - van Prooijen during their career which included a Bermuda Bowl title; 
originally from Granovetter-Ekeblad (who have progressed on to a new system, GUS); canape openings with strong club and custom relay structure; here is their convention card
Bocchi-Duboin System (2010)
- just
a 45-page textfile with a bidding-tree of the whole system in English
translated
from the book (much like my free notes
below); Bocchi changes systems/partners so frequently but this is
a good snapshot of another modern Italian system with Garozzo-themesCool Bidding Systems
Check out these bidding systems links:- "Ambra" - write-up based on Garozzo's 2/1 system for the Italian 2000 World Junior Champs; why this structure hasn't dispersed out of Europe yet, I don't know; edited further by Gijs Haarlem; FD file
- An Unassuming Club - Polish with a weak NT; an improved version with Kokish after 1C; survival tree for on-the-fly use; hyperlinked version from Bill Campbell
- "Assiste" - by Romolo Napoletano
- Blue Team Club - Franco's modern rewrite; FD card - or check out a characteristic Austrian version
- Brink-Drijver - short club with many NT ranges, lots of takeout doubles
- Burgay Diamond - strong diamond, 2-way club, orig. 1973 version
- Caroline Club - a canape precision
- Dwururka - transfer opening 4-crd majors but no artificial strong opening, from Boguslaw Pazur (WBF convention card)
- ETM Victory - excellent 5-card major, standardish system from Glen Ashton; warning: Dan-complexity level; a slightly-more-followable condensed write-up, and FD card; a different optimized (strong NT) standard is Sher-Umeno Supernatural, with GF relay;
- F-club - hearty Scanian strong club
- Fantoni-Nunes - mainly from the Vugraph Project's .lin files (updated but doesn't change much now); there is a readable version of my observations by Bill Jacobs;
- Garozzo-DuPont - notes from observations of "papi" and "snabu" on OKB; similar to Ambra
- IMprecision - symmetric relay strong club that starts off with a twist
- Incision - a micro-precision from Aviv Shahaf
- Janus - 1C is strong balanced or weak unbalanced, while 1D is strong unbalanced or weak balanced; from Fried Weber
- Kokish-Kraft notes - Kokish's own full weak NT system, 300+ pp; posted with express permission of authors, a text tree (abridged)
- MAF - by Chiel Verwoest, a master html-artist, and magic acol f***er
- Magic Diamond - strong diamond, medium club, lite openings
- Millenium Club - Polish club (subsets all strong) with transfer responses; just 1C/1D opening modules
- Mirror Diamond - strong diamond and some offbeat side gadgets
- Marston's Moscito 2005 - introductory booklet off of Australian Bridge website
- MOX-NT - attractive writeup (a la Ambra) of optimized 5M system with many strong/weak multi openings
- Nail - 4M system from Pazur with heart-sensitive strong 1C/1D openings, weak NT
- Neapolitan Club - like Blue Team Club but the original off of which it was based; more explanation; best viewed in Notepad with wordwrap
- Nightmare - or maybe "Kok-mare"; Canadian juniors Grainger-Lavee got the lowdown from Burzarotti in prep for 2005 World Junior Teams and consult science-man Kokish; good detail, about competition too;
- NTC - very fun; Dynamic NT, lots of transfers, relays; from Misho Nedyalkov
- OKB 2/1 - OKB puts the "O" in "My G*D what a horrible software"; system is important in web bridge history; another writeup
- Polish Club versions - see what is affecting Polish bridge (alert
regulations in Poland [Polski])
- Balicki-Zmudzinski - their WJ
- Kości - standard with a Precision 2C, played by Pazur-Jagniewski, try this summary;
- Polish Club (Matula) - the first English text on the Polish club, from 1994
- Strefa - Polish played by Kwiecień-Pszczoła of UNIA Winkhaus Leszno, with optional Brown Sticker openings; a Jassem-Tuszynski writeup
- WJ XXI - a more complex WJ pushed by expert Władysław Izdebski; a must-try for WJ aficionados; handy-dandy summary (in Polish), and constituent articles;
- WJ2000 (Polish Standard) - like SAYC for Poland (Polish Club); full detail FD card
- WJ2005 - an improvement over WJ2000; summary pdf; more complete FD card than BBO's; my translation has become a book in English; Jassem's new website;
- Polish Club International - a.k.a. WJ2010 - the world turns, as does WJ - get the official 189-pg e-book here from me at reduced price (licensed by author) ; see top of page
More Stuff
- 2H Multi - as 2D, but higher; used at one point by Versace-Lauria and Helgemo; brief write-ups
- Overcall Structure - suggest only when NV;
- Prism Signals - The Dark Side of the Moon signals
- Obvious Shift Principle - carding method from the Granovetters, used by experts
- System details - of top current partnerships; browse to your content; from Ecats
- Rough Two's openings - 4+m and 4M, weak; Ben Cowling has updated the site nicely;
- Crypto-raises - designed to keep at least two (maybe three) of your opponents in the dark
- Jump-Bidding - nice 1990 overview of the development of bidding, by Francesco Sallustio, using the jump-bid to demonstrate what makes a good convention;
- Gazzilli - solves the 16+ HCP 1M openers in standard systems; major component of Garozzo's new Ambra-like systems; the link is one way of playing it
- Combine, a.k.a. Slawinsky, Leads - treatise describing Fantoni-Nunes leads, why they cover the most important situations
- Robson/Segal's "Partnership Bidding in Bridge" - the best study of competitive bidding; with permission from the authors
- Burgay 1N response structure - Dano used to play (plays?) this with Burgay; emphasis is on showing shape, setting suit for cue-bidding
- Chris Ryall's Acol description - good snapshot of the current state of Acol and its handling for non-Acol players
- Equality - from Misho Nedyalkov and Ben Riddles; handling competitive auctions in a better way
- ACBL Mid-Chart defense database - ACBL requires downloading and presenting these defenses for opponents to peruse
- Kantar's Roman Keycard system - from the html pages that once were up; most of the modules are independent so can be added to taste
- 2-bid structure - two-level scheme with one-level accuracy
- All systems - from 1995, all systems analyzed for 'aggressiveness'; summaries of openings too
- Basic Italian cue-bidding methods - from Claudio Petroncini; does not include Turbo (described in BTC above);
Cool Bridge Links (in no particular order)
- Bridge Winners - forum for top players, including the controversial issues not allowed in magazines
- Światem Brydża - the Polish bridge magazine; years of pdf back-issues for free; lots of pics, reports, WJ, different systems, contests, quizzes, etc.
- Jeff Goldsmith's page
- Great Bridge Links by Judy Goodwin-Hanson.
- Mark Abraham's page
- lots of articles - mirrored by Frank van Wezel
- Polish bridge organization (Polish) - great news, results, things in Polish bridge
- Ted Muller's page - cute bridge-related cartoons and musings
- Glen Ashton's page
- Neapolitan Club magazine - good world bridge news, concentrates on Italian news but has English translations of everything
- Adam Meyerson's lab
- Video interviews with top players - ACBL, BridgeUnion
- some free Mike Lawrence articles
- shape counting exercise - from Fred Gitelman, very handy for tune-ups
- Pics of Nationals - awesome, copious, from Jonathan Steinberg; also pics of other bridge events he attends
- Chris Ryall's page - great index of preemptive two-bid structures!
- The Vugraph Project - Nikos Sarantakos' collection of BBO .lin files from their broadcasts of events all over the world; good for system-watching but no explanations of alerts
- BDI Archive - the Italian Bridge Federation has put 10+ years of magazine articles online for free
- NABC casebooks - good reading for ACBL misdirectors-to-be
- Jari Böling's page - EHAA (rare online writeup), weak NT, J-Moscito
- David Stevenson's bridge page - laws authority, articles
- Claire Martel's site - very enjoyable; including the systems page
- Norberto Bocchi's columns (italiano) - current events; informative and interesting articles; loaded archive; email your bridge questions
- archived bulletins - Frank van Wezel and Hans van de Konijnenberg archiving all bulletins ever; awesome; the NABC's
- Larry Cohen articles - and homepage