Contract Bridge: Scoring Part 1 - Rubber Bridge

[@ashbake]

Your video is baller. Thanks for "bridging" the gap between Australia and the USA. You are a hero in America.

[@TonyPAT40]

Very helpful - thanks

[@mariac.basiewicz7526]

Excellent! Easy to understand!

[@melodymonies9481]

Wonderful. Thank you!

[@argonwheatbelly637]

Brilliant, this. I do enjoy rubber, since it's more convivial in play than the staunch duplicate and IMPs. Those you can play over a computer.

[@11huntw]

this was a very well made and helpful video. thank you!

[@ankemeny]

thank you William

[@amarendrasaha5868]

Very good explanation. Helpful video

[@freddypro1238]

I like brigde more than any game. First bridge that I ever played was the contract bridge and I tought that is enough for me. But then i wanted to try something new like rubber bridge. Today I like it much more than the contract bridge.

[@anupamchhatik]

Thanks.. amazing .. to declare its game.. depending on opening

[@johnholmes912]

rubber is a much better game than duplicate you get a heck of a lot more deals in a session plus you get to make some cash btw there are no boards, only deals

[@ankemeny]

Yep, there are two types of rubber players: good ones and rich ones!

[@freddypro1238]

Great explained!

[@bymohit]

Great explanation

[@lorraineglover1683]

thank you AGAIN AND AGAIN

[@satyabanukil779]

Sir, today i participated in a bridge tournament. It was conduct in Mitchell movement which is player up and board down format. But ranking of result was done in combining both EW and NS points. But so far in know in this format scores are compared separately between all EW and NS pairs and NS and EW will get prizes separately. My question is combination of players from both direction allowed as per bridge law. It was matchpoint scoring system.

[@ankemeny]

Normally EW and NS are scored as separate fields in a Mitchell movement. But it is possible to score everyone in one field if a few boards were played "arrow-switched". To learn about how this works, do a Google search for "arrow switch bridge movement".

[@thesudstar6236]

well done!

[@ankemeny]

thanks.

[@rbplaymartyn2066]

What happened to the Partscore of 50 points for They; when they bid and made 2 NT?

[@ankemeny]

You get an extra 50 points for making a part score when you play duplicate bridge in a club. But here 70 points were scored below the line for making a contract 2NT (and 30 points above the line for the overtrick). However in rubber Bridge there is no 50 points added for making a part score contract. Only if you had decided to end the game because you had run out of time, or whatever other reason, would 50 points be added to whichever side had a part score, and even then only if the part score hadn't been wiped out by the other side making a game later, as happened in the first rubber I showed. The 50 points is just a recognition that you were some way towards making a game at the time the game stopped. In a club duplicate, each hand is considered like a mini rubber, that's why 50 points are added to a partscore at duplicate so 2NT scores 120.

[@rbplaymartyn2066]

@@ankemeny Thank you Alex. The 50 points for a part score is talked about in so many sources; the fact that it's only used in duplicate bridge is something I must have missed. Thank you for that explanation. We usually only play with four players in a family setting; so... simple scoring should work for us. Thanks again.

[@jellyfish-hunter428]

thank you

[@ankemeny]

Glad you found it useful.

[@jhank6211]

How do you score a single game if Team A scores one game of 100 points. Then Team B completes the next two games. Team B receives 700 points for a rubber of 2 consecutive games. Does Team A receive 300 points for the first game they completed or not? Thank you.

[@ankemeny]

No, if you are playing rubber bridge it is the first side to score 2 games that wins the rubber. If it is 2 games to 0 games then the bonus for winning the rubber is 700 points. If it is 2 games to 1 game, then the bonus for winning the rubber is 500 points. The side that loses the rubber gets no bonus points. If the score is 1 game to 0 games and you decide to stop playing, maybe because you ran out of time, then the side that has one game scored gets a bonus of 300 points, I suppose as recognition that they were the favourite to win the rubber had it continued to completion. Hope that helps. It's also the reason that we have a 300 point bonus when playing duplicate Bridge or teams Bridge for a non vulnerable game and a 500 point bonus for a vulnerable game.

[@jhank6211]

@@ankemeny Thank you so much!! We have been inconsistent on this topic (but we are playing for fun!) so we decided we needed to research the answer Again, Thank you!!

[@50snow50]

I thought an unfinished rubber, part score was 100 points?

[@ankemeny]

No, an unfinished rubber is 50 points added to the side that has a part score in. And 300 points added to any side that has a game towards the rubber. That is why in bridge clubs we add 50 points for a part-score and 300 points for making a non vulnerable game.

[@shahraifhossain5945]

What does LS & GS point mean?

[@ankemeny]

Please specify the minute and second in the video where you saw that. Then I will try to reply.

[@shahraifhossain5945]

I haven't found it in the video , when a team gets 12 bids then they got a 50 points for LS and when they get all 13 bids then they got a 100 points for GS. But i don't know the meaning of this LS and GS that's why asking

[@ankemeny]

@@shahraifhossain5945 GS grand slam... taking all the tricks after bidding to the 7 level. LS little slam aka small slam. Bidding to 6 level and taking 12 tricks.

[@shahraifhossain5945]

Yeah! That's all i was asking thank you very much 😊

[@Therradican]

What is one off again. First timer.

[@ankemeny]

4H making 9 tricks is one off. 1NT making 6 tricks is one off. 7C making 12 tricks is one off. When you make one trick less than you bid for.

[@Therradican]

@@ankemeny Thank you, my friend!!!