Cuebids vs Bridge

Practice bridge bidding with the partner you actually play with, on your own schedule. Pick the auction you want to rehearse, bid it, and get instant feedback on the contract you reached. Bidding is the half of bridge you cannot rehearse alone. The auctions that cause trouble are rare — you meet one at the club, get it wrong, and it does not come round again for months. Cuebids gives you the same decision as many times as you need it. WHY BRIDGE PLAYERS USE IT You are never both online at once. The auction waits for whoever is next to call and notifies them when it is their turn, so a session can take ten minutes or a week. Nobody has to book an evening. Practice exactly what you want. Pick a deal type and every hand in the session produces that situation. A session on slam bidding is slam decisions the whole way down, not one slam in twelve random deals. Instant feedback. Each board is simulated many times to find the best result available, then your contract is scored against it from zero to three stars. Find your weaknesses. Leak Finder reports on the areas you can improve with a given partner — slams, games, competitive auctions, opening shapes — so you practice the leak instead of guessing at it. Compare with the professionals. Everyone bids the same deals in the Daily and Weekly, so the comparison is like for like. Professional players carry a PRO badge, and on any board you can see what they bid on the hand you got wrong. Follow the ones you want to learn from. Competitions, if you want them. Daily and Weekly events, challenges against friends, ranked challenges, and a leaderboard you can narrow to Friends or Pros. PLAY THE SYSTEM YOU ACTUALLY PLAY Cuebids does not make you pick from a list. With your own partner you bid whatever the two of you have agreed — your system, your conventions, the notes on the back of your card. Nothing is enforced. 2 over 1, Standard American, Acol, Precision Club, Polish Club, Blue Team Club, Swedish and French standard, Forum D, Kaplan-Sheinwold, Carrot Club, or whatever else you have agreed. NO PARTNER AVAILABLE? A robot partner can take the seat. It is the one place there is a list, because it has to know what your bids mean: 2 over 1, Advanced 2 over 1, Standard American, Acol, French standard, Swedish expert, Basic Swedish, both of Gavin Wolpert's master series, or a convention card you build yourself. A partner who never forgets an agreement is the one to rehearse an agreement with. Advanced robots can also sit East-West, so you can practice auctions where the opponents interfere. WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS SAY "The perfect tool to practice bidding methods until they become second nature." — Gavin Wolpert, pro and coach "Great hands, an intuitive interface, and a fun competitive edge." — Sjoert Brink, World Champion "I use Cuebids every day. Essential for both pros and beginners." — Ola Rimstedt, World Champion WHAT IT COSTS Cuebids is free. You and your partner can bid together for as long as you like, on as many boards as you like. It is not a trial and there is no board limit. Tickets cover the two things that are more than the two of you: a robot in a seat, and competition. A free account gets 48 a month, and your first sessions with a robot are free. A subscription is optional. It adds deal types, custom scenarios, private groups, four-player mode and a deeper Leak Finder. The top tier covers your partner as well as you, so one subscription can carry a partnership. WHAT THIS IS NOT Cuebids is a bidding trainer, so there is no card play. If what you want to improve is your dummy play, this is the wrong tool. A robot partner is not a real partner either: it bids its convention card exactly, every time, where a human hesitates and misremembers. Sign in with Google, Apple, or your ACBL account. One account works on iPhone, iPad and at cuebids.com. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Bridge Trainer is a comprehensive training app for Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC) bridge players. Whether you are learning the fundamentals or sharpening your competitive skills, Bridge Trainer gives you structured practice with instant feedback and detailed explanations on every question. TRAINING MODULES Bidding SAYC Opening Bids — 5-card majors, strong notrump, weak twos Responding to 1NT — Stayman, Jacoby Transfers, game invitations Reverse Bidding — Power reverses and how responder should react Weak Two Bids — Preemptive openings and responding Free Bids — Negative doubles, free raises, and cuebids in competition Response After Takeout Double — Raises, redoubles, and penalty doubles Transfers to Minors — Transfer to clubs or diamonds after a 1NT opening Conventions Checkback Stayman — Find major suit fits after a 1NT rebid Michaels and Unusual 2NT — Two-suited overcalls and responses Inverted Minors — Strong single raise of 1 Club or 1 Diamond Bergen Raises and Jacoby 2NT — Bergen raises and game-forcing raises over 1 Heart or 1 Spade Card Play Suit Combinations — Direct finesses, safety plays, and the hold-up Opening Leads — Sequences, fourth best, active versus passive strategy "Is it a Forcing Bid? - Master the critical distinction between forcing and non-forcing bids "Third Hand Play" module for defensive skill-building. Bridge Scoring — Calculate duplicate scores including slams and doubled contracts HOW IT WORKS Each module presents real bridge hands with multiple choice questions. Submit your answer and instantly see whether you were right, along with a clear explanation of the bidding or play logic. Every module links to BridgeBum for deeper reading on the topic. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Your results are saved locally on your device. The Statistics screen shows your overall accuracy, a breakdown by category across Bidding, Card Play and Conventions, and your completion progress for every module. Bridge Trainer is free, contains no ads, and requires no account or login.