Online Bridge Lessons

Online Bridge Lessons


______ On this site you can have the "answers and prepared remarks" version of these lessons emailed to you. Typically, this would be done after you have taken the course. If you are planning to take any of these courses click here to go to the http://www.firesides.net/lessons.htm site. There you can get the version which doesn't give away the answers yet.

______ Should you prefer to take either the Rainbow or Spectrum 2/1-GF lessons interactively online, click on the one of your choice of these links:

Rainbow Series
Spectrum 2/1-GF Series

______ To have these lessons emailed to you just fill out the information below, click on those lessons you'd like, and then scroll down to enter your email address before hitting "Email Me the Lessons, Please".

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All 12 lessons of the Rainbow Series
#1. Opening Bids
#2. Responding to Opening Bids
#3. Rebidding Strategies
#4. Dealing with Interference
#5. Simple Overcalls and Takeout Doubles
#6. 2-Suited Overcalls
#7. Pre-Empts
#8. Doubles
#9. Lebensohl
#10. Defensive Signalling
#11. Defence
#12. Declarer Play

All 5 lessons of the Spectrum 2/1-GF Series
#1. System Overview
#2. Minor Suit and No Trump Bidding
#3. The Forcing 1NT Response to 1H or 1S
#4. The 2-Over-1 Game Forcing Response
#5. System Notes

All 6 lessons of the KaleidoScope Series
1. Bidding Light
2. Maximum Flexibility
3. Defensive Doubles
4. Law Of Total Tricks
5. Squeezes
6. IMPs versus Matchpoints

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