Some great links … Part 7 of the Internet Search

Suppose you want to find some good bridge sites for one purpose or another.  Where do you go?  There are two very good sites for this purpose.  Great Bridge Links has been around for a long time but you wouldn’t know it by the design which is graphical and modern.  Without even looking at it I am going to guess that some links are broken.  It is inevitable that will occur.  But that is not the test of a good site of this type.  Can I find the things I want to find?  Do items catch my interest?  Things are organized by section and with some looking around you are likely to find what you are looking for.  I particularly like the front page which seems like a magazine with links to news items and interesting articles.  An

I see that Thailand will be the home of the 2011 women’s bridge festival.  Great Bridge Links hopes me over to the brochure on the WBF site.  Thailand in January, no nasty men to deal with.  Sounds good.

There is a link to what amount to an ad for Bridge Island , in app running on an iphone or ipad to play bridge.  Lots more ads too.  Woops links and ads can kind of blur.  I need to avoid the left side of the page  which on November 3rd (day after Democrats got slaughtered) seems appropriate.  Great Bridge Links is an A.

The second great website for links and a lot more is Claire Bridge. I have given this site glowing reviews twice before and I see that Clair Martel has kept links to my blogs.

Anyway I now find my way to the Gargoyle Chronicles.   Phillip Martin is writing a long series of articles about a simulated matchpoint tournament where he is the only human.  All the rest are Jack the winning computer bridge program.  It actually sounds like somebody’s nightmare.

At the moment he seems to be running at the pace of about 4 blogs a month.  I am pleased to find that he has a lot of interesting things to say about how he plans the defense and what he can deduce from the bidding, opening lead and play to trick one.  Hey this is good stuff.  Lots of stuff I wouldn’t have thought of.  I could learn something.  Definitely worth visiting.  Only negative there are large ads interspersed after a blog.  I have decided I like my ads on the LEFT side of the page.  (See above). An A.

Danny Kleinman is a Master Point Press author and an very talented bridge theorist.  His website (DannyKleinman.com).  If you start by looking at bids and conventions you will find many convention ideas.  Danny loves to give his conventions cool names like Baa Baa Black Sheep or Four  Flaunt or Four Strong Winds.  If you love bidding theory you will be in heaven.  Lots and lots of interesting ideas about defense and declarer play, hand evalution, rules, and more.

There are some other topics too including an article in defense of the American Ladies who expressed. their displeasure at former president George Bush during the medal ceremony in Shanghai.  A good solid B+.