I World Bridge Series si svolgono negli anni pari non Olimpici e consistono in una serie di campionati ed eventi sussidiari sia a squadre che a coppie suddivisi in 4 categorie
L'evento nasce nel 1990 ed incorpora i precedenti campionati a coppie maschili e femminili che venivano disputati fin dal 1962 e viene arricchito con la categoria mista nel 1966 e con quella senior nel 1990
Lo squadre open nasce nel 1974 come evento transnazionale, seguito dalle coppie senior nel 1990 e dallo squadre femminile e seniores nel 1994
Lo squadre miste, che esiste fin dal 1962 è stato più volte spostato nelle gare olimpiche ma oggi è definitivamente parte integrante dei World Bridge Series
The World Bridge Series takes place in the even-numbered, non-Olympic years (i.e. not leap years), that is, 1990, 1994 and so on.
It consist of a series of championship and subsidiary events which include the World Open, Women’s and Senior Pairs, and the World Open, Women’s and Senior Teams Championships and, more recently the World Mixed Pairs and Teams Championships.
The World Senior Pairs was introduced in 1990, while, in 1994, the first World Women Knockout Teams (for the McConnell Cup) and the first World Senior Knockout Teams were played, run on similar lines to the Rosenblum Cup.
These Championships are now the biggest of all WBF Championships in terms of entries. They began, however, on a modest scale, simply as World Open Pairs and a corresponding Women’s event with, in the early years, a Mixed event of one kind or another to round out the program. Today, the program includes team and pairs competitions in all categories (open, women, seniors, mixed).
It should be noted that the World Mixed Teams Championship, contested at the same time as the World Pairs Olympiad in 1962 and 1974, was moved, as from 1996, to the site of the World Team Olympiad but has now returned to the World Bridge Series.
