I have posted several new chapters of Bridge in the Wildwoods at http://pennvalleyco-op.net/BridgeInTheWildwoods/.  Please come and view all the latest happenings and give me your feedback.

Apologies to those of you who might have tried to view Bridge in the Wildwoods using Internet Explorer -- (Firefox, Opera, and Chrome were fine).  I found a glitch in the HTML that kept the Chapters from being displayed correctly by IE and I've since corrected the problem.  Again, my apologies.

Chapter 3 has been added to the website at http://pennvalleyco-op.net/BridgeInTheWildwoods/.  

The Geeky Gopher has written Chapter 2 in the Bridge in the Wildwoods book.   To read that chapter, and future chapters, please visit The Wildwoods home page at http://pennvalleyco-op.net/BridgeInTheWildwoods/

Perhaps the best bridge columns ever written were written by Victor Mollo under the titles of Bridge in the Menagerie  and Bridge in the Fifth Dimension. Victor's characters  were always entertaining, mostly endearing, and frequently educational.  Victor's untimely passing in 1987 was a blow to the bridge world.

Now some of you may argue that Alan Truscott wrote a better technical column for the New York Times.  I can't disagree, but in my opinion, Alan's columns were not nearly as much fun to read as Victor's.

One of Victor's characters, Rueful Rabbit, had a childhood cousin who lives in The Wildwoods, located in Penn Valley, California.  His cousin's name is John Rabbit -- known to all his friends and family as "JR".  A few of JR's exploits have been published in the American Bridge Teacher's Association Quarterly, but I have been looking for a venue that would allow a wider sharing of the happenings in The Wildwoods -- perhaps someday to be published as Bridge in the Wildwoods.

This is my first shot at this, partly out of curiosity and partly to open a dialogue with members here of a similiar interest.

One area of bridge that fascinates me is computer bridge and bridge programming. I do not mean playing bridge with others over the internet, although that's tons of fun. My interest is in bridge playing computer programs, and programming of this nature in general.

I have played around with several of the games commercially available and have made a few stabs at writing my own, although I quickly came to realize how difficult this is. One needs to be an expert (or nearly so) in both disciplines, programming and bridge, and I fell short of this in bridge. And programming.

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I love to play duplicate bridge. I am easy to play with and have about 300 points.

View Quiz D below or download the full PDF file here.

You can download the answers to Quiz D here.

View Quiz C below or download the full PDF file here.

You can download the answers to Quiz C here.

View Quiz B below or download the full PDF file here.

You can download the answers to Quiz B here.