''Bridge Magazine'' was a British monthly magazine devoted to the game of

contract bridge Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions ...

. It was the oldest such magazine having been established in 1926 by A. E. Manning Foster. It was not published during

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, so it had fewer issues than ''

The Bridge World ''The Bridge World'' (TBW), the oldest continuously published magazine about contract bridge, was founded in 1929 by Ely Culbertson. It has since been regarded as the game's principal journal, publicizing technical advances in bidding and the pla ...

''. The ''Bridge Plus'', a monthly magazine that was published between 1999 and 2008, was incorporated into Bridge Magazine. The magazine changed its title to ''Bridge International'' in 1984, to ''Bridge'' in 1990 and back to ''Bridge Magazine'' in 1992. In the June 2013 issue Mark Horton, the editor, announced that in future the magazine would only be published online because the paper version had been losing too much money. In the December 2017 issue Horton said that the current issue might be the last. It had been planned to relaunch the title in January 2018 as a free magazine, but the owners had said that they still required convincing that there would be enough subscribers and that a satisfactory business model was in place. In January 2018 it relaunched as a free magazine under the title ''A New Bridge Magazine'', with Horton remaining as the editor. It ceased publication after the February, 2020 issue.The New Bridge Magazine, February 2020 issue, page 2.
Retrieved 23 March 2020. A New Bridge Magazine became part of the Funbridge group which launched BeBRIDGE with Mark Horton as Editor.

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