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Lessons: Beginner These lessons are targeted at two groups of players: 1.  Players that have taken beginning duplicate bridge classes (Easy Bridge!, etc...) and are looking to continue to improve their bridge. 2.  Players that have played rubber bridge for many years and are interested in learning to play duplicate bridge. Bidding Lessons Notrump Bidding Major Suits Bidding Other Bidding Tools Balanced & Semi-Balanced Hands Responding to 1N & 2N Openings Example Notrump Hands Major Suit Responses & Conventions Major Suit Raises - Jacoby 2N New Minor Forcing Support Doubles Responding to Takeout X Keycard Blackwood Responding to Weak-Two Bids Michaels Cuebids Unusual Notrump Other Lessons Defensive Discarding Lessons: Advanced These lessons are targeted at more experienced players.  They are designed to help you learn new useful conventions, develop your partnership agreements, and improve you bridge judgement. Lessons: Quizzes Partnership Bidding Exercises:  These are bidding quizzes developed to help prepare partnerships for tournament play.  You and your partner should answer the quizzes seperately and see if you agree.  The most important thing about these questions is not that you or your partner gives the "correct" answer.  It is that you and your partner agree!