We want bridge to march successfully through the 21st century. We believe that competitive bridge is best played at the table. We believe that technology is to serve people. We provide clean and reliable solutions that make bridge tournament organiser’s lives easier.
Why do players like LoveBridge?
We offer all the advantages of the digital age, while the players still play in the clubs.
At LoveBridge Vugraph spectators can follow all the tables playing at a tournament. Since there is no human interface (operator), every single detail of the play is correctly recorded.
Statistics of bidding and play. Players can receive feedback on their performance via the LoveBridge statistics page. Based on the system data players can measure their bidding, declarer play, and defense compared to other players and pairs playing at the same tournament.
Declarers do not name the cards from the dummy; the door of the screen is always closed; players cannot chat across.
No technical mistakes disturbing the flow of the play (such as revokes, bad seating, insufficient bids, opening lead from the wrong side…).
“I’ve heard my peers say they don’t play as well without cards in their hands – and I believed it. Until I tried it. If in just 9 days, I was comfortable, imagine how I’d be after 90 or 900.”
Larry Cohen
Bridge player, writer and teacher
(Source: bridgewinners.com – Face-to-Face versus Electronic – yet again)
“And not only does collusive cheating become much more difficult, many of the everyday problems of Unauthorized Information or Misinformation are reduced or eliminated.”
Adam Wildavsky
WBF Executive Council
(Source: bridgewinners.com – Useful statistics available to LoveBridge players)
“I think we should collectively want to have Vugraph Operators be a thing of the past. It’s so much better to know that the bids and plays that are shown are the ones actually made.”
Michael Rosenberg
Professional player
(Source: bridgewinners.com – Security Holes at the Bermuda Bowl)
“Some of the main reasons for tablets are well documented: anti-cheating, accurate records, slow play monitoring”
Sartaj Hans
Professional player
(Source: bridgewinners.com – The Case for Tablets)
“I think using tablets for bidding and play is the future, and I am confident that using them for bidding is the right thing to do now.”
Jan Martel
Former president and COO of the USBF
(Source: bridgewinners.com – Bidding on tablets at Youth Euros)
“The LoveBridge IS AMAZING.
I think that for big events it is a perfect program.”
Andrzej Knap
(Source: bridgewinners.com – Table Feel with Tablets at the Budapest Festival)
“I haven’t played much on BBO, I myself initially found the concept of playing without cards as strange, but there are so many benefits, that nowadays I’m genuinely disappointed when I have to play with real cards. ”
Szabolcs Udvari
(Source: bridgewinners.com – The Case for Tablets)
“Every aspect in life eventually evolves. Like it or not, bridge must too. ”
Nikolay Demirev
(Source: bridgewinners.com – Useful statistics available to LoveBridge players)
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We are thrilled to share that the LoveBridge Bid + Score App was used for the second time by the WBF during the knock-out stages of the 46th World Bridge Teams Championships in Marrakesh. Overall, the Championship is considered to be a great success, with minor...
We are proud to share that our Bid + Score app was successfully utilized during the knockout stages of the 10th European Transnational Championships held in Strasbourg. This means that the bidding and the scoring were on our tablets, but physical cards were in use...
For an entire week in May 2023, the captivating city of Budapest was the host of the 46th International Budapest Bridge Festival, a prestigious event that was part of the renowned World Bridge Tour. This extraordinary event brought together talented players from 10...
The United States Bridge Championships was held in May ’23, leaving a lasting impression on bridge enthusiasts nationwide. The USBC has been using the LoveBridge system for three years now, but this year marked a significant change as Chromebooks were in use,...
After the debutation of LoveBridge Bid+Score at the 28th European Youth Bridge Championships in Veldhoven last year, the EBL decided to use the advantages of LoveBridge again at the 4th European Winter Games in Tignes. Although the broadcast feature is not...
After a seemingly endless break in live play due to the COVID-19 pandemic finally there was a bridge tournament in Hungary. The 50th Miners’ Cup was held in Tatabánya, and for better safety the organizers decided to play the competition on tablets. The organizers...
There are some events where the participants must meet some special criteria to register, such as mixed, senior etc. There is a tournament in Budapest with a very special criteria: to have at least a 20 years age gap between the players in the same pair. It is a...
During the summer we have worked on making LoveBridge more accessible. We are ready with our cloud-based system. This allows organizers to run tournaments without using a local server. Our system has now a simplified interface designed for clubs. With this version,...
The 43rd International Budapest Bridge Festival was held successfully with a much higher participation than expected. The bridge tournaments in the past years in Hungary had less and less participants. This tendency seems to have turned around at the IBBF, with the...
After eight exciting weeks the Budapest MP Championship has come to an end. The two top divisions were played on LoveBridge, let’s see the results and a little insight into the details. The top three finishers in the I/A division: Miklós Dumbovich - Gábor Winkler...
The penultimate round of the Budapest MP championships didn’t cause many changes on the leaderboard. In the I/A division still Miklós Dumbovich – Winkler Gábor, Dienes Ödön – László Harangozó and János Gellér – Dániel Tubak are the top three units. In the I/B...
Two weeks, that is, two rounds are left from the Budapest MP Championships. In the I/A division the first two pairs have a small lead, but the rest of the field is quite close. An extreme result can cause more than ten place difference on the leaderboard for almost...
On the 14th of January the fifth round of the Budapest MP championship was played and in both divisions, the daily winners were expected to perform better in the earlier rounds. The winner of this Tuesday in the I/A division is the László Szilágyi - Péter Talyigás...
After a couple weeks of holiday, the Budapest MP Championship continues. The fourth round was played this week, so we are exactly halfway through the championship. Miklós Fris and Gergely Kovács won this week’s session in the I/B division with 68% and with this...
The last round before Christmas was played in the Budapest MP Championship on Tuesday. The winners of this week’s session are currently in the first place on the overall leaderboard in both divisions. In the I/A division Miklós Dumbovich and Gábor Winkler have the...
After the second round of the Budapest MP Championship every pair played against every other in their division. In the I/A division Péter Hodosi achieved the highest percent with his substitute partner Csaba Konkoly, in the I/B division Botond and László Kelen had...
As the teams championship finished, the Budapest MP Pairs Championship has started. This is the one-year anniversary for the Hungarian federation using LoveBridge, the very same championship last year was the first one ever played on tablets. The I/A and the I/B...
Almost all matches are finished in the Budapest Teams Championship, there is only one week left for the teams to decide the final rankings. In the I/A division team VISOFT is on the first place and their last match will be against the currently second team, GALIM....
The 9th round of the Budapest Teams Championship is behind us and there are only two weeks left till the end. In the I/A division team VISOFT increased its lead to almost 14 VPs over GALIM and GAMAX on the third place trails them by only 2. In the major group...
When team GALIM is playing against team GAMAX, it’s something that most of the Hungarian players want to see. This was one of the matches that everyone could follow on our vugraph site this week in the Budapest Teams Championship. GAMAX won this time, but they are...
It was an important week in the I/B division of the Budapest Teams Championship: the groups played their last matches. Based on their previous results, they will be separated into the Major and the Minor group for the rest of the championship. Here are the results...
More than half of the Budapest Teams Championship is over and there is only one week left from the qualifier in the I/B division. In group A team CSILLAGVIRÁG can already relax, they will surely qualify to the major group while in the other group the 3 best teams...
Already 5 matches has been played in the Round Robins of the Budapest Teams Championships. The qualifier in division I/B is getting closer to the end, while division I/A is almost at the halftime. After the last round the rankings in I/B did not change, but the...
The fourth week of the Budapest Teams Championship is over. Now that we know more than 1/3 of the I/A round robin’s and more than half of the I/B qualifier’s results, we have a better idea about the shape of the teams in each group. In division I/A six teams’...
This week the 3rd round of Budapest Teams Championship was held, and all the group leaders kept their place. In I/A team Galim lost for the first time - by 1 IMP against team Elastron – but they are still almost 10 VPs ahead of the 2nd. In the Group A of I/B team...
The second round of the Budapest Teams Championship was just as interesting as the first one. In division I/A the 12 teams will play a full round robin and after the second week team GALIM is leading, with two big wins they are 12 VPs ahead of the second team. In...
The Budapest Teams Championship has started, and you can follow everything that’s happening in the divisions I/A with 12 teams and I/B with 16 teams. We were excited about the first week, because this was the first time for the I/B division to play on tablets as...
The 6th World Youth Open Championships were held in Opatija, Croatia and we had the honor to host the BAM tournament with the LoveBridge system. The 3-day event started with a qualification round on the first two days which began with 34 teams playing 28 boards. On...
The summer is not completely over yet, but our Summer Series has finished. 21 pairs played on the last day and they were not only competing for the first place of this competition, but also for the cumulated championship through the whole summer. The winners of the...
The Kajaani Bridge Club in Finland started to use LoveBridge in the end of May. Recently the club celebrated its 50th anniversary with a Finland-wide bridge festival and they invited us to celebrate with them. We hosted a LoveBridge tournament, the results can be...
The seventh competition of the Summer Series is over and we have new winners. Out of the 22 pairs Ödön Dienes and László Sztrapkovics reached the highest percentage but there was a close fight between the best pairs until the end of the tournament. This week’s...
The 2019 European Universities Mindsports Championship took place in Budapest. 14 universities sent their players to compete in the bridge team’s championship. After four days of playing with a tight schedule the Kozminski University’s team (Warsaw, Poland) won the...
New week, new winners. Or we should rather say new winner, because one of the players from the victorious pair has already won a couple weeks ago, so she is not really new at winning. This time Brigitta Fischer won with Marcell Surányi. Fischer is a member of the...
We are already halfway trough our summer series, and the fourth week was full of great boards. 29 pairs showed up to compete for the first place and for the points to win the individual prize at the end of the summer. Now it’s almost a tradition that the last board...
Another week passed again and we held the 3rd round of our eight week long summer series. This time 20 pairs arrived to compete and with them, more than 60 players participated in the past 3 weeks. At the end of the series we will give individual prizes to the best...
The second competition of our Summer Series is over and it was just as interesting as the first one. This time 21 pairs entered and in the end Brigitta Fischer and Gábor Macskásy became the happy owners of our victory bears. There was a close race between the top...
The Palatinus bridge club started to use LoveBridge as soon as it was available and they’ve been regularly using it ever since. There is a tournament every Wednesday played on tablets with the main goal – besides playing bridge and having fun – of supporting...
On the last week of June we held the first Tuesday tournament of the Summer Series ‘19. Sixteen pairs have played 26 boards, you can see the final results here. Zsófia Bekő and Laura Érsek started well in the first round and were amongst the top pairs all the way...
On the 17-18th of June 2019 was the first BAM competition played on tablets. On Monday there was a qualifier round robin with 13 teams and on the next day the best four teams played the in finals while the rest of the field played on the consolation event. The...
In 2019’s spring the first division of the IMP championship in Budapest was played on tablets. The eight weeks long event started in April and 32 pairs have participated. The Gábor Winkler – Miklós Dumbovich pair (on the pictures) was unstoppable during the...
On the 5th of May 2019, we held an exhibition in a bridge club in Munich. The main reason for the event was to introduce the system to the German Bridge Federation, from where two vice-pesidents were present, the leader of the sport department, Ulf Schäfer and the...
Everybody knows and loves the Pula Bridge Festival in September, but some people might be unaware that there is another, smaller bridge festival in Pula in spring. Thanks to the organizers, LoveBridge had the opportunity to introduce itself in Croatia. Here you can...
In 2019 the finals of the Hungarian MP pairs championship were played on tablets. In the semifinal - on the first day of the two-days tournament - 28 pairs have been competing to qualify to the finals. The first twelve pairs had the opportunity to play in the “A”...
In February 2019, the 42nd International Budapest Bridge Festival was completely played on tablets. It was a five-day event, with mixed pairs, teams and open pairs tournaments. In the diverse field there were participants from 7 different countries. Thanks to the...
In 2018/2019 the first division of the MP championship in Budapest was played on tablets. 32 pairs every Tuesday for eight weeks were competing using LoveBridge. For the first time, it gave the players from lower divisions the opportunity to watch the best...
The first national championship played on tablets were the finals and the semifinals of the 2018’s Hungarian IMP pairs championship. The winners of the finals are Dániel Gulyás and Balázs Kotányi, the players of the second-best pair are Gyula Argay and Gergely...
In 2018 we had a chance in Orlando (15th Worlds Bridge Series) to show LoveBridge to some of the best bridge players in the world. It was a small 10 board tournament, where the players could experience how the system works and how does it feel to play without...
During the 54th European Bridge Team Championships in Ostend we held a small exhibition, a ten-board tournament. Here, amongst the players some members of the WBF could have tried LoveBridge as well. In the video you can see, what a small tournament looks like on...
In the summer of 2018 we have organized our first two LoveBridge tournament series, to present the system to the Hungarian bridge community. Both series were supposed to have 8-8 occasions during the span of eight weeks, one of them at the Böszörményi road, where...
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