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A bridge convention is an agreement about an artificial call or a set of related artificial calls. Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge game ...
Slam-seeking conventions are codified artificial bids used in the card game contract bridge. Bidding and making a small slam (12 tricks) or grand slam (13 tricks) yields high bonuses ranging from 500 to 1500 points. However, the risk is also high as failure to fulfill the slam contract also means failure to score the bonus points for a game ...
The oldest bridge still in existence in China is the Anji Bridge, constructed during the years between 595 and 605. During the infrastructure boom of the past two decades, bridge-building has proceeded at a rapid pace on a vast scale.
Blackout is a bridge convention for responding to a reverse bid after a one-over-one beginning, whereby the responder can show whether or not he has better than a minimum response. Responder makes the cheapest bid from either the fourth suit or 2NT to show a hand that has no game interest.
The book is aimed at beginners, with each chapter outlining a single convention, including takeout doubles, negative doubles, and cuebid raises. [1] All chapters are followed by a quiz. Since its publication, the book has sold over 300,000 copies, [ 2 ] and won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year (Student) award. [ 3 ]
In games regulated by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), this is generally done using a form with a standard format. [3] The ACBL General Conditions of Contest specify that "Each member of a partnership must have a completely filled out convention card available for the opponents." [4] Convention card formats may vary by jurisdiction ...
In the Blackwood convention family, aces (and in many variants the king of the agreed suit also) are treated as equal. The San Francisco convention uses a different approach. Responder to four notrump allots three points to each ace held and one point to each king, adds those values up, and bids thus:
The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body for contract bridge.. Emulating the organizational concepts of the Olympic movement and its signature five rings, the World Bridge Federation encompasses the five continents (America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) represented by eight geographic Zonal Conferences.