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Only bids in the agreed trump can abort a series of asking bids. Examples: After an opening of 1 ♠, partner's reply 3 ♠ establishes ♠ as trump. (explicit agreement) The bids 4 ♣, 4 ♦ and 4 ♥ are now asking bids. But also after a 1 ♥ opening, any double jump in a new suit is an asking bid, and ♥ agreed trump
Gerber is a contract bridge convention devised by William Konigsberger and Win Nye from Switzerland [1] who published it in 1936; John Gerber of Texas introduced it to North America in 1938 where it was named after him. [2] [3] It is similar to Blackwood but uses 4 ♣ instead of 4NT as a relay (asking) bid to inquire about the number of aces ...
An ace shown by a cuebid by either partner should not be counted in responding to the 4NT ace-asking bid. A 5NT bid after a response to a 4NT ace-asking bid, asks for kings. Partner's responses to the 5NT king-asking bid are made in step-wise fashion: 6 ♣ to indicate 0 kings; 6 ♦ to indicate 1 king; 6 ♥ to indicate 2 kings; 6 ♠ to ...
This is similar to Blackwood but the ace-asking bid is 4 ♣ rather than 4NT. The responses are 4 ♦ for 0 or 4, 4 ♥ for 1, 4 ♠ for 2, and 4NT for 3. Similarly, a 5 ♣ bid following an ace-ask asks for kings. Gerber is a jump bid to 4 ♣ used after a notrump opening bid and on other occasions by partnership agreement.
There is strong pressure upon responder to bid a four-card major even after an intervening bid, or to show it indirectly by a negative double. In some methods, 1 ♣ – (1NT) – 2 ♥ as first response may promise only four hearts. Opening bidder will not raise the 2 ♥ bid with only three hearts.
1 ♥ - 1 ♠ is forcing, with responder having 0-4 spades; 1 ♥ - 1NT is forcing with responder showing 5+ spades. One immediate benefit of this is that the correct major fit can be found. In standard forcing notrump, responder with five spades bids 1 ♠ over opener's 1 ♥ but if she also has 2 hearts she does not then know whether to rebid ...
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Fourth suit forcing (also referred to as fourth suit artificial; [1] abbreviated as FSF or 4SF) is a contract bridge convention that allows responder to create, at his second turn to bid, a forcing auction. A bid by responder in the fourth suit, the only remaining unbid suit, is artificial indicating that responder has no appropriate alternate ...