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Jacoby transfer. The Jacoby transfer, or simply transfers, in the card game contract bridge, is a convention in most bridge bidding systems initiated by responder following partner's notrump opening bid that forces opener to rebid in the suit ranked just above that bid by responder. For example, a response in diamonds forces a rebid in hearts ...
Barbara Seagram (born 1949 in Barbados, West Indies) is a Canadian Registered Nurse and contract bridge writer, teacher, and administrator. She is co-author of thirty-two published bridge books, including co-writing with Marc Smith 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, which received the American Bridge Teachers' Association (ABTA) Book of the Year award in 1999.
2 ♣ : transfer to diamonds 2 ♦ : transfer to hearts 2 ♥ : transfer to spades (a support bid too strong for a natural raise) 2 ♠ : natural support bid. When partner's overcall does not skip any suits, the Rubens advances reduce to the standard treatment in which new suits are forcing and the cue bid promises support. For instance:
A hand that has no card of entry, usually in reference to the dummy. A hand that has a suit consisting only of low cards of no significance. For example, two dead spades. Deal. One particular allocation of 52 cards to the four players including the bidding, the play of the cards and the scoring based on those cards. Also called board or hand.
Precision Club. Precision Club is a bidding system in the game of contract bridge. It is a strong club system developed in 1969 for C. C. Wei by Alan Truscott, and used by Taiwan teams in 1969. Their success in placing second at the 1969 Bermuda Bowl (and Wei's multimillion-dollar publicity campaign) launched the system's popularity.
Lebensohl is a contract bridge convention whose variants can be used in the following situations: by responder after an opponent's overcall of a one notrump (1NT) opening bid in order to compete further in the auction without necessarily committing the partnership to game. after opponents' weak-two bids [1] and.
978-1-897106-33-4. Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand is a book on contract bridge co-written by the Canadian teacher and author Barbara Seagram and the British author David Bird. It was published by Master Point Press in 2009. The book teaches novice bridge players some basic techniques of declarer play, including suit establishment, ruffing ...
List of defenses to 1NT. This is a list of defensive conventions used in the game of contract bridge to compete in the bidding after the opponents have opened with a one notrump (1NT) bid. ANTI. Aspro [ 1][ 2] Asptro, [ 1][ 2] a hybrid of Astro and Aspro. Astro, [ 1][ 2] Modified Astro, Pinpoint Astro, Grano-Astro, Roth-Stone Astro. Astrolite [ 1]