Last updated: 25th July 2016
Blue Book
The Blue Book is the handbook of of EBU permitted understandings, your first point of reference to find out what you can play in different events.
The Laws
The White Book
The White Book is the EBU Tournament Directors Guide. It also has useful information for tournament players.
Best Behaviour @ Bridge
The 70% rule for Master Points
League competitions
Articles for TDs
- Adjudicating Claims, by Gordon Rainsford
- Slow Play, by Gordon Rainsford
- Notes on polling & consulting, by Gordon Rainsford
- Scoring stratified events, by Gordon Rainsford
- Standard EBUScore settings, by Gordon Rainsford
- EBU TD ranks, by Gordon Rainsford
- IT & Scoring EBU events,by Robin Barker
- Recommended scoring methods used in EBU tournaments, by Frances Hinden. Includes a suggested scale for teams-of-eight matches where the four scores are added together.
- Web Mitchell Movements, by Gordon Rainsford
- What is a logical alternative?, by Jeremy Dhondy
- Weighted rulings, by John Pain
- Responding and defending to 1NT, by Max Bavin
- The Neuberg formula, by Max Bavin
- Scoring fouled boards, by Nick Doe
- EBU regulations, clubs and club players, by Jeremy Dhondy
- The EBU and players with disabilities
- Appeal Guidelines
- Bidding Box Regulations
- 2015 WBF Screen Regulations showing changes from previous version
- Uploading results to Pianola
Articles for players
- Defending against artificial systems, by Frances Hinden. Part One - Part Two - Part Three
- Doubling and alerting, by Jeremy Dhondy. Part One - Part Two
- Problems of discipline - call the director!, by David Stevenson
- The general approach - call the director!, by David Stevenson and Ian Spoors
- Pauses at trick one, by David Stevenson and Ian Spoors
EBU Appeals Booklets
2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000
Bridge Movements
- The mathematics of bridge movements, by John Manning
- A table of suggested movements for sessions to comply with the'70% rule'*
- Unusual (but useful) Movements for Clubs by Gordon Rainsford
* The '70% rule', comes in to effect from 1st January 2016. The regulation states that for a pairs session to be eligible for Master Points each player must play - or be scheduled to play - at least 70% of the boards in play. See here, or rule 3.1.4 in the Master Point & Licensing Handbook for more details.
International Publications
- Appeals from EBL and WBF events
- WBF systems policy
- WBF psychic bidding guidelines
- WBF code of practice
- WBF alerting policy
- WBF guide to completion of the WBF convention card