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At first glance the declarer seems to be losing a spade, a heart, maybe a diamond if the finesse fails and a club or maybe more. However, if the opening lead is the ♥ 2 (a safe lead) Declarer will find it much easier to make the contract because he will have time to set up the diamond suit.
Here, the 2 ♠ bid denotes a four card spade support and a hand too strong for a fast-arrival bid of 4 ♠. This assumes the partnership are playing all FSF bids, at 2 or 3 level, as forcing to game. If playing that a 2 level FSF bid is forcing for one round only, responder will need to jump to 3 ♠ on the third round to create the game force.
The first Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge were published in 1928. [1] They were revised in 1933, 1935, 1943, 1949, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1997, 2007 and 2017. [2] The Laws are effective worldwide for all duplicate bridge tournaments sponsored by WBF, zonal, national and subordinate organizations (which includes most bridge clubs).
Let ′ (,,,) be the probability of an East player with unknown cards holding cards in a given suit and a West player with unknown cards holding cards in the given suit. The total number of arrangements of (+) cards in the suit in (+) spaces is = (+)!
In the Swiss convention, in response to an opening 1 ♥ or 1 ♠, a bid of 4 ♣ or 4 ♦ shows four-card support for partner's suit, about 13–15 points, and two or three aces respectively. Alternatively, the bids of 4 ♣ and 4 ♦ can be used to show trump quality; the specific meaning of the two bids varies between partnerships.
Suction is a contract bridge bidding convention used to intervene over an opponent's 1NT opening. [1] Using the suction convention, a suit overcall of a 1NT opening is conventional and denies the suit actually bid. It shows either: a one-suiter in the next higher ranking suit or; a two suiter in the other two suits.
4 ♣ is Gerber if it is a jump bid or if a suit has been agreed as trump. 4 ♣ is Gerber if the immediate preceding bid by partner was in notrump. 4 ♣ is Gerber only if it is a jump bid over an opening bid or rebid of 1 NT or 2 NT. (Standard American Yellow Card) 4 ♣ is Gerber only when in response to opening bids of 1NT, 2NT or a strong ...
There are several considerations in determining the fairness of a bridge movement. A complete movement, in which each entrant plays against all of the other entrants or in which all entrants in each scoring field play against all of the same field of opponents, is inherently the fairest choice. The worst scenario is a movement that is one round short of complete: one entrant does not play ...