Talk:Contract bridge
Hi folks
I keep getting confused about uppercase and lowercase conventions for cards and suits. I have the feeling that we mixed them up (or was that just me :-( ). Any help would be appreciated, as I am not a native speaker I do not dare suggesting a convention, but I defenitly hope somebody will.
Cheers Robert_Dober 21:06 Oct 17, 2002 (UTC)
Card suits are not really "titles" or "proper nouns", so I don't generally capitalize them. When "East", "West", etc., are used like names, they should be capitalized. Card ranks like "four" and "queen" should be spelled out and not capitalized in running text when mentioning a single card or two. When mentioning combinations of cards, it's probably OK to abbreviate the faces with capital letters and user numerals, so one might say, for example, that "East led the eight of hearts from his K-Q-10-8-5." --LDC
Maybe this should be broken up into a couple of sub-pages. There's a large page for rules, but not much on bidding or strategy.
- We may be getting close to that point. It depends on how deeply we want to get into the different conventions and techniques etc. Eclecticology 22:10 Oct 17, 2002 (UTC)
- We need to merge Contract bridge playing technique back in here (because that's just a middle tier), and maybe split off all the things on scoring to a new page. -- Tarquin
What different sections are needed?
- basic rules (just enough to start playing)
- detailed rules
- basic bidding strategy
- advanced bidding strategy
- basic declarer play
- advanced declarer play
- basic defense
- advanced defense* tournament play
I think it's important to distinguish between the basics and stuff only an advanced player would care about.