A to Z guide - Bridge Guys

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ABTA
See American Bridge Teachers’ Association
ACBL (American Contract Bridge League)
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), a not-for-profit
organization, was established in 1937 and has been headquartered
in Memphis, TN since 1972. It is the main and largest
official sanctioning body for competitive and duplicate bridge
in North America. Each year more than 2.5 million tables of
bridge are played under ACBL auspices at clubs and tournaments
in North America, overseas, online, and even on cruise
ships.
The ACBL Bridge Series
The ACBL publishes five student textbooks and teacher manuals
designed to make bridge easy to learn and fun to play.
Each student text is coordinated with a teacher manual which
offers lesson plans for teachers. The series, written by Canadian
educator Audrey Grant, follows a spiral curriculum (each
course addresses bidding, play, and defense but with a different
focus) and presents eight two-hour chapters (lessons) per
book: Bidding (The Club Series), Play of the Hand (The Diamond
Series), Defense (The Heart Series), Commonly Used Conventions
(The Spade Series), and More Commonly Used Conventions (The
Notrump Series). Also available are sets of coded E-Z Deal
Cards which allow the student to deal out the practice deals
found at the end of each of the eight chapters in each of the
texts.
ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame
The ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame was founded in the 1960s
under the auspices of The Bridge World magazine. The Hall
honors people who have made outstanding contributions to
bridge. Now housed at ACBL Headquarters in Memphis TN,
the Hall displays portraits of all members.
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