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Bridge is a four-player card game played all around the world both socially and in serious tournament competitions. The usual form of bridge, and the one played at Yahoo! is rubber bridge. Other forms of the game, such as duplicate bridge and team of four, have been developed for club and tournament play. The object of bridge is to score points. A game is won by the first team to score 100 or more points.
Introduction
At its core, bridge is a game of skill played with randomly dealt cards, which makes each deal a game of chance. This is conducive to play as a "friendly game" among four players.
Despite
this, the chance can be eliminated by comparing pairs' results in identical
situations. This is achievable when there are eight or more players and the
deals from each table are preserved and passed to the next table, thereby
duplicating them for another 4 participants to play. At the end of a
competition, the scores for each deal are compared against each other, and most
points are awarded to the players doing the best with each particular deal. This
measures skill despite the initial chance of the deal.
Game Play
Two partnerships of two players each are needed to play bridge. The four players sit around a table with partners opposite one another. The compass directions are often used to refer to the four players, aligned with their seating pattern. Thus, South and North form one partnership and East and West form the other.