Thursday, April 26, 2007

LTPB 1& 2

This free software is presented in two volumes: Learn to Play Bridge 1, for beginners, and Learn to Play Bridge 2, for those who know the basics but want to develop their playing, bidding and defense skills. The end goal is to get you to a working knowledge level of SAYC, for all practical purposes - both online and offline. In my experience the two LTPB's manage to accomplish this rather ambitious goal, and on top of it all it is great fun going through the lessons and exercises, tests and practice deals. There is no pressure to hurry and no performance fear - try to solve the problem, until you get it right, or take a peak and check the answer if you give up (cos this might happen in the more advanced sections). No point beating yourself about it, either, as you always could (and maybe should) go back in a while and redo it all - for fitness purposes.
You can download both programmes here and practise offline, or log into BBO => Other Bridge Activities => Learn to Play Bridge (at the very bottom) and work on it online. In either case the software tracks your progress and bookmarks the last page which you have been working on.

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