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Bridge is the world’s most popular card game and there are many bridge software options for students wanting to improve their game. Among the most popular are Vu-Bridge and Jack Bridge.
Vu-Bridge is a suite of online products that use an interactive teaching format to explain key points for bridge students. Its flagship product is a twice monthly newsletter called V-Green. Each newsletter contains five sets of six hands from some of the world’s leading writers, teacher and players such as Eddie Kantar, Barry Rigal, Marti Ronemus, David Bird and Paul Bowyer.
The user is shown their hand and asked to bid the hand out as the computer bids the other three hands. There is only one proscribed auction, meaning the system will not accept any attempt by the player to make what the author considers to be a wrong or inferior bid. That forcibly teaches the player or student what the right bid is at the right time, before they go down the wrong path. At critical points in the auction, the system will pop up teaching notes that describe what is right and what is wrong and what the student should be looking out for and considering.
A similar product, but for newcomers to bridge is called V-Blue. These hands are easier and each newsletter tends to focus on just one topic, such as finessing or Stayman or Blackwood. Finally Vu-Bridge also offers specialised Playbooks which are adaptations of books but in Vu-Bridge format. The content and hands from the original books are the same but this time the reader or user gets to go through the hand interactively.
Another very popular bridge software is Jack Bridge from The Netherlands. Jack Bridge is considered the strongest bridge game on the market and has won the World Computer Bridge Championships an astonishing twelve times. At the these events, the makers and developers of all the best bridge software play each against each other over matches of 32 boards and the top qualifiers then move into semifinals and finals. The standard of the computer bridge is quite high and the best are usually the standard of a good national player.
Jack Bridge has lots of great features for the bridge player. You can just play random hands or play a set match against the computer. Of particular note is that if the user enables Professor Jack, the computer will provide the user with an analysis of how the user played the hand with advice on how this could have been improved. This is great for the up and coming player. As well, the user or player can ask for advice during the bidding and play by selecting the Help function and Jack Bridge will calculate the best bid or the best play at that point in time.
Also included with Jack Bridge is membership to the online Jack where users can play against others from all corners of the world. This is a fun way to meet other bridge players and make friends.















