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888 Te Rahu Rd., Te Awamutu,
P.O. Box 538 Te Awamutu
Welcome to the Te Awamutu Contract Bridge Club website. Hopefully there is much here that will interest you. Check our our "Bridge Tips" to help you improve your bridge, or read about our history and enjoy our "oddities" section.
If you have played social bridge and would like to extend your circle of bridge friends you will find details of our club and how we operate.
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Who Were Howell and Mitchell
These movements according to the Encyclopaedia of bridge were invented by the following
John T Mitchell, known as the "Father of Duplicate Whist" and author of the first book on the subject (Duplicate Whist 1892). He invented many schedules for individual, pair and team contests, notably the Mitchell Movement. He helped to adapt matchpoint scoring, used whist for the purposes of duplicate auction and was a director of the American Whist League.
Edwin C Howell was professor of mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). He was born in 1860 and credited with the invention of the Howell Movement in 1897.
An historical question answered
Why is this game called "Bridge"? Almost certainly it derives from the Russian whist game called "biritch". For more on this check out the following