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In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a bidding convention developed by Easley Blackwood in 1933 [1] and still widely used in the modern game. Its purpose is to enable the partnership to explore its possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps to judge whether a slam would be a feasible ...
One of the most popular of these is Kickback, in which the asking bid is 4 of the next strain above the trump suit, rather than always being 4NT, with the step responses identical to RKCB (e.g., 3 steps up shows 2 or 5 key cards without the queen). This conserves bidding space and lets the partnership sign off in 5 of the trump suit regardless ...
Commonly there is a follow-up to ask about the queen of trump ("Queen ask"), effectively the sixth keycard. Kibitzer A spectator who attends a game in person. Kickback An ace-asking or keycard-asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the apparent trump suit rather than uniformly by 4NT.
The forcing notrump is a bidding convention in the card game of bridge. In Standard American bidding, the response of 1NT to an opening bid of 1 ♥ or 1 ♠ shows 6 to 9 high card points (HCP) and is non-forcing. Opener, with a balanced minimum, may pass the 1NT response and, if the opponents also pass, that will become the contract.
The Grand Slam Force is a bidding convention in contract bridge that was developed by Ely Culbertson in 1936. [1] It is intended to be used in cases where the combined hands of a partnership are so strong that a slam (winning at least 12 tricks) is a near-certainty and a grand slam (winning all 13 tricks) is a possibility.
In contract bridge, an asking bid is a convention used to seek a slam accurately. There are two types - suit asking bids and notrump asking bids. Constructed by bridge pioneer Ely Culbertson in the 1940s, they have been superseded by other methods; however, one remaining commonly used asking bid is the 5NT Grand slam force.
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This situation calls for prior partnership discussion. For example, the cue bid in this context can be used to ask for a stopper, rather than to show one. In the US, the asking approach is known as a "Western cue bid", and in the UK, as a "Directional asking bid" (DAB). Sometimes, the delayed cue bid can be used as an advance cue bid (see below).