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Play contract bridge on Bridge Base Online (BBO), the world’s largest bridge site. Practice with bots or log in and play with other people. Compete in ACBL tournaments against players at your level. Watch the world’s finest players compete, or just kibitz at popular tables. – Practice a few hands against our bots. Just Play Bridge is a free solitaire bridge game. Live scoreboard. Robot partners/opponents. The robots play a basic 2/1 system with 5 card majors and strong no-trumps. Drop us an email at support@bridgebase.com and tell us what you think. Service unavailable. Please refresh page.
Team Matches - How to Play
The absolute best way to join a team game is to get seven of your friends together at Bridge Base Online (BBO)and form a match. This has the advantage of you being able to play when you want to without having to wait for an invitation that may not come at the most convenient time for you.
Remember that the web version of BBO has a very nice facility that makes it possible for a team match host to start a match without specifying all eight players. When this happens the host can subsequently invite players and, alternatively, players can ask permission to play. This facility has been severely underused, but we are hopeful that the following changes will make a difference:
There is a new option (either via the 'Options' button on the top, or within the 'Team Match' area of BBO) where users can select 'Notify me when a team match needs players.'
If this option is selected, users will receive notifications when a team match is created with the web version of BBO and is in need of players. The user can then visit the team match in question and click to see details about the match, players, etc, before deciding whether to join or not.
There are times when a team match you are kibitzing will have a player that disconnects. This is a good time for you to let the table know that you are available to sub for the disconnected player. If the table has been set up to allow chat from kibitzers, you will often find that the owner of the table will welcome your volunteering to sub.
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Once you are seated at a table the play commences just as it will during any bridge game on BBO, with the same commands to play or bid. A difference between playing a team match and playing a tournament, you will see, is your ability to see the results of already played hands from the other table.
To see the results and how you're doing (or how the team you are watching is doing), click on My Results at the top right of your screen. You will see your results on the hands you have played, and if you click on Other Table you will see how the other table did on the same hands played up to that time. Of course this option to see the other table's results is only available if the team game has been set up to have Barometer scoring.
Another advantage of team play vs tournament play is, there is no time limit to finish. This means you can take as long as you like (and as long as your teammates don't object), to think about the hands and your plays.
As you become more familiar with BBO and meet more friends you will find our team games to be an enjoyable way to get together with friends for an afternoon of bridge without having to worry about people coming and going from your table. Your match will be set.
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Our membership, made up of hundreds of thousands of bridge players from over one hundred countries, range from complete beginners to World Champions. BBO is alive twenty-four hours a day, every day, pulsing with life from the thousands upon thousands of players, tables, hands, bids and plays.
We offer various forms of free bridge to our members including all kinds of duplicate or Total Point games, casual or tournaments. We also offer a full suite of bridge education and training tools for free.
In addition to the standard free bridge offering, we have optional premium tournaments, like the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) tournaments that may cost an entry fee but will allow members to win ACBL masterpoints just like in bridge tournaments across North America.
Almost all of the world's premier bridge tournaments are broadcast live through our site. We call this facility 'Vugraph' and it is extremely popular. Leading experts augment the educational and entertainment value of these broadcasts by providing commentary and analysis. You may have never thought of bridge as a spectator sport, but our live vugraph broadcasts will convince you otherwise! As with most of BBO, access to vugraph is 100% free.
If you are a bridge player (or if you are thinking about becoming a bridge player), BBO has a lot to offer you. Please have a look around.