Laws & Regulation Publications

Rules and Regulations

Announcements and Alerts

Blue Book

The Blue Book is the handbook of EBU permitted understandings, your first point of reference to find out what you can play in different events.

Skyblue Book

The Skyblue Book was the supplement to the Blue Book and White Book for online bridge, but it has now been absorbed into those two books. The document below provides links to the relevant parts of the Blue Book and White Book for online regulations.

The Laws

Recent Updates: (10th January 2024)

The WBF have announced that the Laws of Duplicate Bridge have been amended, effective from 1st January 2024.

The WBF website has an announcement of the changes and the revised Laws.

LAW 73 – COMMUNICATION, BEHAVIOUR, TEMPO AND DECEPTION – has been rewritten; and there is a new LAW 89 – PROHIBITED BEHAVIOUR AND REPREHENSIBLE CONDUCT.

The EBU Laws and Ethics committee will meet next week and there will be guidance on the revised laws for TDs and clubs on the EBU website.

The White Book

The White Book is the EBU Tournament Directors Guide. It also has useful information for tournament players.

Best Behaviour @ Bridge

Competitions

League competitions

Tournament Directors (TDs)

Articles for TDs, Scorers, Referees

Players

Articles for players

Appeals

EBU Appeals Booklets

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Appeals Focus

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Scoring and points

How to Score

The 70% rule for Master Points

Bridge Movements

* The '70% rule', came into 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.