Contract bridge is a trick-taking card game developed from auction bridge in the 1920s. The major difference is that only the tricks bid are counted as odd tricks, for completing a game, unlike in auction bridge that all tricks taken above the initial six are counted as odd tricks. This change encouraged bidding as far as possible for completing a game, or to a slam. Moreover, the concept of vulnerability was introduced to reduce sacrifices.
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| - Contract bridge is a trick-taking card game developed from auction bridge in the 1920s. The major difference is that only the tricks bid are counted as odd tricks, for completing a game, unlike in auction bridge that all tricks taken above the initial six are counted as odd tricks. This change encouraged bidding as far as possible for completing a game, or to a slam. Moreover, the concept of vulnerability was introduced to reduce sacrifices.
- The bidding ends with a contract, which is a declaration by one partnership that their side will take at least a stated number of tricks, with a specified suit as trump or without trumps. The rules of play are similar to other trick-taking games, with addition of the feature that one player's hand is displayed face up on the table as the "dummy".
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| - Contract bridge is a trick-taking card game developed from auction bridge in the 1920s. The major difference is that only the tricks bid are counted as odd tricks, for completing a game, unlike in auction bridge that all tricks taken above the initial six are counted as odd tricks. This change encouraged bidding as far as possible for completing a game, or to a slam. Moreover, the concept of vulnerability was introduced to reduce sacrifices. Nowadays, contract bridge are played in two main formats: rubber bridge, which is the original form and is the format left over from auction bridge and its predecessors, and duplicate bridge, which exactly the same deal in the same condition are played by more than one table, with no carry-over from the previous deals.
- The bidding ends with a contract, which is a declaration by one partnership that their side will take at least a stated number of tricks, with a specified suit as trump or without trumps. The rules of play are similar to other trick-taking games, with addition of the feature that one player's hand is displayed face up on the table as the "dummy". Much of bridge's popularity owes to the possibility that it can be played in tournaments of an arbitrarily large number of players; this form is referred to as duplicate bridge. Competitions in duplicate bridge range from everyday ones in numerous small clubs to World Championships and Olympiads.
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