A biritch (also birich or biryuch; Russian: бирич, бирюч) in Kievan Rus' was a herald, an announcer of the will of a knyaz, sometimes his deputy in police or diplomatic affairs, or tax collector.

biritch, card game similar to bridge whist and a forerunner of auction and contract bridge. Apparently developed in the eastern Mediterranean region, where it was known as khedive, it became popular in Greece and Egypt and, under the name of biritch, on the French Riviera in the last quarter of the 19th century.

History and original rules of the card game Biritch, a late 19th century direct ancestor of Bridge from Constantinople.

The history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved through the late 19th …

May 25, 2014 · The game is of Russian origin. A treatise called Biritch or Russian Whist was published in England in 1886. This Russian game was played for the first time in 1873 by West Europeans active in Constantinople. It was introduced …

Jan 2, 2021 · In either case of the dealer or his partner declaring, the one declaring may, instead of declaring trumps, say "biritch," which means that the hands shall be played without trumps.

biritch (uncountable) A card game, a precursor to bridge. Synonym: Russian whist

Bridge Whist was a form of Russian Whist known as Biritch or Britch around the Eastern Mediterranean, where instead of a simple auction as in Yeralash, Dealer declared a trump suit or NT and played their partner's hand as Dummy.

Le biritch représente la première forme du bridge, un jeu où c’est le donneur qui choisit l’atout ou, s’il ne peut ou ne veut le faire, passe parole à son partenaire. Il n’y a donc pas d’enchères.

El Biritch (birich, biryuch en ruso, бирич, бирюч) en la Rus de Kiev era un heraldo, un locutor de la voluntad del kniaz, a veces el segundo del kniaz en asuntos políticos o diplomáticos, o recolector de impuestos.