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Contract Bridge: The Past and the Present

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Contract Bridge is a member of the family of trick-taking games of Whist. Contract bridge is the leading Whist game enjoying loyal players for centuries. Bridge is the English pronunciation of a game called Biritch, also known as Russian Whist.
The oldest acknowledged rule book for Biritch was from 1886. It documents a lot of significant bridge-like progress from whist. [...]