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''Bridge'', or more formally ''contract bridge'', is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance played by four players. This article consists of lists of bridge books deemed significant by various authors and organizations. ==History== Books on bridge and its predecessor games have spanned centuries with the earliest known popular book on the subject of Whist having been published by Edmond Hoyle in 1742〔 Page 1.〕 or 1743.〔 Bibliography, Section A.〕 The timelines in the evolutionary path to modern contract bridge books are generally as follows: * 17th century: the emergence of Whist from earlier games such as Ruff and Honours and Triumph * 18th and 19th centuries: Whist is widely played with many variants in scoring methods; similar games such as Vint and Khedive are also played * 1886: Evidence that Bridge-Whist has emerged with John Collinson's four page pamphlet entitled Biritch, or Russian Whist.〔(Alternate commentary on ''Biritch, or Russian Whist'' by John Collinson, 1886 )〕 (Earlier, in 1869, Christian Vanderheid, an Austrian writer about card games, published ''Gründlicher Selbstunterricht zur Erlernung des Jarolasch oder das russische Whist'' (Extensive Self-teaching of Yeralash (Jarolasch) or Russian Whist). The game described by Vanderheid is almost identical to Collinson's Biritch, with the exception that it is not played with a dummy.〔( ''Yeralash or the discovery of a missing link'' )〕) * 1903-1932: from the first known publication on Auction Bridge (also known as Royal Auction Bridge and simply, Auction) to the last publication of ''Laws of Auction Bridge'' by the Portland Club * c1915: Bridge Plafond emerges in France and Belgium and is essentially contract bridge without vulnerability * late 1925: a significant new scoring system was proposed by Harold Vanderbilt introducing the concept of vulnerability, large bonuses for slams and heavy penalties for undertricks. Within two years, "Auction was swept off the tables" in the dawn of modern contract bridge.〔 LOC 61-17743. Page 14.〕 * 1926-1935: numerous books on bidding are published and compete for status as the 'official system' of choice. Ely Culbertson rises to prominence in the USA as a self-promoting bridge player, challenging his English and European counterparts to international matches all the while building a business empire based on his bridge writing and related investments. In the early Thirties, Acol is fashioned by S. J. Simon and Jack Marx, and eventually becomes the most popular bidding system in Britain. * 1935: Culbertson publishes the first ''Encyclopedia of Bridge''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of bridge books」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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