Bridge game glossary - A

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ACBL

American Contract Bridge League

Agreement

An understanding between partners as to the meaning of a particular bid or play. The set of all the agreements in a partnership forms the Bidding system and the Signals.

Alert

An indication to the opponents that the partner’s bid is artificial (or that its meaning might be otherwise unexpected). An alert is made by pronouncing “alert”, displaying an appropriate card from the bidding box, or sometimes by just knocking on the table. Use of alert (alert procedure) is regulated by sponsoring organizations.

Artificial

1) A call or play that is not natural.

2) A bidding system that contains many such calls.

Autobridge

A non-digital game for one person, designed to teach bridge (see image).

Auction

1) see bidding.

2) Auction bridge, an older form of bridge, now replaced by Contract bridge.

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