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The bridge is a sport played with cards. It making use of complex mental skills, but also have a great role in improving this skills. There is need of logical way of thinking, memory, strategy, tactics and a serious and considerable competition only with good condition can be played successfully. Because of his role in improving this skills in many universities of the North-American and the Western-European countries the bridge is educated like a subject. In the most of the Scandinavian countries in high school on the optional courses of maths the bridge is also educated. In these countries the consensus is that the bridge have a vital role in the improvement of the students’ mental skills like decision making, logics and others. For these reasons it would be important to implement these practics also in Hungary.

Apart from Warren Buffet, one of the world most wealthy and well-known investors, other famous people also have a passion for this sport. Some of them is Bill Gates, the founder of the Microsoft, who nowdays usually participate in bridge competitions. Omar Shariff who now leads a quiet life have two main hobbies, the horses and the bridge.
The well-known hungarian writer, Géza Ottlik is the co-author of the most successful and popular bridge book (Kalandos hajózás a bridzs ismeretlen vizein). He wrote this book in English in cooperation with Hugh Kelsey. Bobby Wolf a manifold world champion wrote about Ottlik: Somebody who can wrote a so sophisticated book, must be come from another planet.