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CRASH convention. In the game of contract bridge, CRASH (an acronym for C olor- RA nk- SH ape) is a defense against a strong 1 ♣ or a 1NT opening that first appeared in 1976 in an article by Kit Woolsey in The Bridge World. [ 1] Within the CRASH framework, intervening calls after the 1NT opening denote either (a) two-suited hands of the same ...
Rubber Bridge Scoring Above the line In rubber bridge, the location on the scorepad above the main horizontal line where extra points are entered; extra points are those awarded for holding honor cards in trumps, for bonuses for scoring game, small slam, grand slam or winning a rubber, for overtricks on the declaring side and for undertricks on the defending side and for fulfilling doubled or ...
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]
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 convey information about the player's card holdings. Calls may be "natural" (that is, are based on a holding of the suit bid, or a balanced distribution in the case of a notrump bid) or ...
ISBN. 978-1-894154-07-9. 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know is a book on contract bridge co-written by Canadian teacher and author Barbara Seagram and British player and author Marc Smith. It was published by Master Point Press in 1999. The book is aimed at beginners, with each chapter outlining a single convention, including takeout doubles ...
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a plain trick-taking card game played with a standard 52-card deck. It is played by two pairs competing against each other, with the partners facing each other as in Whist . Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and socially, making it one of the world's most popular card ...
The Culbertson 4-5 notrump is a slam-seeking convention in the game of contract bridge. It was devised in the early 1930s by Ely Culbertson. Most four-notrump conventions ( Blackwood and its variants being the best known) demand that bidder's partner define their hand using agreed codified responses. In contrast, the Culbertson 4-5 describes ...
Bidding system. A bidding system in contract bridge is the set of agreements and understandings assigned to calls and sequences of calls used by a partnership, and includes a full description of the meaning of each treatment and convention. The purpose of bidding is for each partnership to ascertain which contract, whether made or defeated and ...