There are many ways to score the tournaments. If you play only at one table, you can play Chicago style – adding up the scores for each pair, or you can choose to play Rubber bridge, which is the original way of scoring bridge.

But the most interesting way is to compare the score with other players. That can be achieved by playing tournaments in the bridge club, national and international tournaments, or online.

There are several ways to compare the results:

• The most common comparison for pair competitions is the Match Points (MPs) scoring system. The scoring is straightforward. You receive 2 points for each pair you have beaten, 1 point for the same score, and 0 points if other players received a better score while holding the identical cards. The results are usually presented as a percentage – how many MPs you collected from the total.

  Example: 100 results mean 99 * 2 = 198 MPs possible to win. You have collected 120 MPs. 120/198 = 0,606 = 60,6%
  The final score is an average of the results in all deals played.

• The other frequent method of scoring is International Match Points (IMPs). It is mainly used in team matches where you compare only 2 results. In this scoring, it depends on the difference of the scores achieved on both tables. The difference is compared to an IMP table and the winning points are assigned to the team that has the better result.

  Example: Team A scored +150 points for 1NT +2. Team B scored +400 points for 3NT =. Team B has a better score and the difference is 250 which corresponds to 6 IMPs. 
  The final score of the match is usually recalculated to Victory Points (VPs). The team with the most VPs wins. Look at the oficial WBF VP scale.