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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two. " The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information " [ 1] is one of the most highly cited papers in psychology. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It was written by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller of Harvard University 's Department of Psychology and published ...
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 ...
Hand evaluation. In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands so that they may reach the optimum contract. Key to this process is that players evaluate and re-evaluate the trick-taking potential of their hands as the auction proceeds and additional information about partner's hand and ...
Bridge scoring consists of six to eight elements, depending on the variant. The method of accumulation of contract points toward a "game" varies, too. However, a "game" is always triggered when 100 contract points are reached, a "partial game" or "part-score" refers to 10 to 90 contract points, and once either side reaches a game, both sides ...
Pivot. 1) (Adjective) Of the suit that both defenders must guard in a double squeeze. 2) (Verb) In party bridge, to change partners while remaining at the same table. 3a) (Verb) In duplicate bridge, to play one round in a given direction, and the next round in the opposite direction at the same table.
Rule of 11. In contract bridge, the Rule of 11 is applied when the opening lead is the fourth best from the defender's suit. [1] By subtracting the rank of the card led from 11, the partner of the opening leader can determine how many cards higher than the card led are held by declarer, dummy and himself; by deduction of those in dummy and in ...
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 ...
Gerber convention. 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 ...