In 1904 auction bridge was developed, in which the players bid in a competitive auction to decide the contract and declarer.
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The modern game of contract bridge was the result of innovations to the scoring of auction bridge made by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and others.
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Vanderbilt was also a card game enthusiast who, in 1925, helped develop the scoring system by which the game of contract bridge supplanted auction bridge in popularity.
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia took out a short-term $170 million bridge loan to escape the auction-rate market more quickly.
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia took out a $170 million bridge loan to escape the auction-rate market more quickly.
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Much of the complexity in bridge arises from the difficulty of arriving at a good final contract in the auction.