ACBL Unit 500 Web Site, Home Page

Welcome to May, 2013. See our new month's calendar for special events such as club championships, unit games and STaC Games. May's Table Talk is now available on the web site, so catch up on all of our Unit 500 news. Plan for our next big unit game at Marina on June 7th at 11:30am with a salad bar! See details.

To see special events (i.e. higher rated games that pay more master points) please see the above "Upcoming 2013 Unit Games", our unit Special Events Calendar or our Special Games list.

All duplicate clubs in our unit have sanctioned ACBL games with web sites where game results can be viewed on-line. Here's a list of our duplicate ACBL bridge clubs.

Unit 500 of the ACBL (the American Contract Bridge League) is in District 21 (Northern California, U.S.A) which is part of the Western Conference (Districts 17, 21 and 22). Southern Alameda County has duplicate ACBL club games, a South County Sectional in August, local Unit tournaments and many special events. There are nearby Sectional and Regional tournaments that you can locate by visiting the District 21's web site or the ACBL web site. There are weekly duplicate games for players of all abilities from expert to novice, and bridge lessons for newcomers.

For inquiries about Unit 500, please e-mail President, Jan Hollowell at phil-jan@comcast.net

Interesting Bridge Web Sites

Miscellaneous
- Local Tournaments - District 21 | Western Conference
- MSN Gaming Zone - Play on-line for free
- Bridgebase.com - Play on-line for free and view Championship Tournaments in real time! New, for $1/session play and win ACBL masterpoints.
- Bridge Winners - A recent (as of 2010) web site with articles and commentary from top Bridge Players. Kitty Cooper, a bridge pro and professional Web Designer is the site author. It looks like a "consortium" of professionals put this together.
ACBL Sites
- ACBL Home Page
- District 21 Web Site
- Western Conference (D17, D21, D22)
- STaC Results - Western Conference
- Forum Newspaper Web site
- Explanation of Special Games
- Inter-Club Championships
Search Engines
- Yahoo - American Contract Bridge League
- Yahoo - Bridge
- Yahoo - Bridge Clubs and Organizations
- Bing - Maybe the 2nd best search engine on the internet
- Google - Arguably the best search engine on the Internet
Personal Sites
- Bridgeguys.com is a great reference site for all aspects of the game, especially conventions
- Bridgehands.com have fun learning bridge. There are videos, eMagazine newsletter and Michael Nistler's Blog that you can subscribe to
- Bridgewinners.com - A wonderful site, supported by the top bridge players in the world. Insightful articles and example hands.
- Cheung, Peter - Excellent Bridge Web Site by a Unit 500 Member
- Chris Clark - Unit 498 Web Site
- Jeff Goldsmith - Excellent 'technical' Web site
- Karen's (incredible) Bridge Library - Well written bridge teaching material - many elements of the game - free
- Richard Pavlicek - Bidding polls, play contests, quizzes, humor, puzzles, lessons, articles, bidding practice, systems, instant matchpoint games, calculators, duplicate forms, bridge utilities, and more
- Thomas Andrews Bridge Fantasia - Good SF Bay Area Site
- Fred Gitelman - He started BridgeBase.com - ViewGraph, columns, tournament reports and play Bridge. View Nationals Finals here. Free! Daily On-line Master Point games that are inexpensive (also listed above)
Bridge Organization Links
- Canadian Bridge Federation Bridge Links
- World Bridge Federation
- European Bridge Federation
Software
- Convention Card Editors and templates are available at http://www.acbl.org. Click on Play, then click on Tools and Supplies.
- Bridge Baron Website - A commercial site for the excellent Bridge Baron Program
- Program to create 30 Random Hands
Bridge Magazines
- The Bridge World Magazine - Instruction, practice, articles
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See also, Unit 499 (Diablo Valley), Unit 501 (Livermore Valley), Unit 502 (East Bay)