Welcome to “Bridge Game – WK2/7: Card Game I” course. This course is the fundamental of the bridge game and provides basic card play information for beginner and intermedaite players, which is also essential for advanced and expert players. The topics are:

- Game Plan for Suit Contracts (game plan, details, advices and examples)

- Game Plan for NT Contracts (game plan, details, advices and examples)

- Card Plays for Declarer (advices, when declarer or dummy leads, when defense leads, long suit play, finesse, finesse vs. collect, restricted choice, marked finesse, ruffing finesse, distribution probabilities, card combinations)

- Card Plays for Defense (strategy, lead preference, signals, advices, during the game, card play, pseudo finesse, analyse dummy)

- Opening Leads (rules, suit selection in suit/NT contracts, promising/non-promising leads in NT contracts, card selection in suit contracts)

- Discards (discard, roman discard, other discard systems)

- Other Signals (attitude, count, smith echo, trump echo)

After completing this course, you can start playing bridge among friends. This course is a kind of prerequisite to a series of bridge courses. When you complete this course, you may decide to keep learning bridge and attend following courses in the given order:

WEEK 3/7: Basic Bidding II

WEEK 4/7: Intermediate Bidding (You can start joining bridge tournaments.)

WEEK 5/7: Advanced Bidding (coming soon)

WEEK 6/7: Card Game II (coming soon)

WEEK 7/7: Expert Bidding (coming soon)

The last 3 courses are designed for advanced and expert players and will be published by the end of this year. You will not need them until you reach some years of experience.