duplicate bridge

duplicate bridge
a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
[1925-30]

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▪ game
also called  Tournament Bridge,  

      form of Contract Bridge played in all tournaments, in Bridge clubs, and often in the home; it is so called because each hand is played at least twice, although by different players, under the same conditions, with the same cards in each hand and the same dealer and vulnerability. Duplicate Bridge was designed to counter the major obstacle of Rubber Bridge—i.e., that a run of good cards can nullify any difference between skillful and poor players. Since in Duplicate Bridge all players sitting in the same position will play the same cards throughout the course of a night, the object of play is not to amass the largest number of points, as in Rubber Bridge, but rather to bid and play the hands better than all the other pairs who play them; thus, it is immaterial whether one holds good or bad cards.

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