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Intermediate Bridge Bids Conventions: Advanced Bid Conventions to Enhance your game.
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About Intermediate Bridge Bids Conventions: Advanced Bid
Fundamental Bridge, usually referred to as Standard American Bridge or "5 Card Majors" provides a language for bidding that allows partners to communicate with each other, identifying their hands and potential for their best hand results. Often, the communication takes several bids to fully identify the hands and is subject to extensive information passed to the opponents. While bridge is an ethical game with no secret bids allowed, the more bids required to fully describe the hands the more information about your hands is transmitted to the opposition.New conventions are continually evolving, many becoming popular among the bridge world. These in most cases result in a sligh5t adjustment from the basic bridge meaning of bids. The intent is to show the key factors of each hand quicker. Remember, when using any of these conventions, the opponents must be made aware of the bids and their meaning. This is done by use of the convention card where the special bid is identified. Also, when a player makes one of these special bids, his partner is required to state ALERT before the net opponent would normally bid. If the opponent who is then to bid wishes, he would ask the player who stated ALERT what the bid means. The explanation must be made to the satisfaction of the opponent asking for clarification. Many times, the player whose turn to bid, after being alerted chooses not to ask for clarification, for whatever reason, In such a case, If the player whose turn it is to bid has a wrong interpretation of the bid meaning, he has no excuse when his bid assumption is wrong. Willful ignorance is no excuse!This book defines 34 frequently used conventions. They represent a small percentage of conventions added bridge lexigon. New players are advised to limit their use of conventions to the basic standard, with perhaps an added 6 to 10 newer conventions. The primary reason for this suggestion is to avoid confusion while bidding. The purpose of bidding is to notify your partner of the content of your hand (and he will in turn notify you of his hands values)The contents of "Intermediate Bridge Bid Conventions" is in ten chapters, the intent is to cover 1 chapter per lesson.Lessons 1. Openers with low point count. 1A. Pre-Emptive Bid (Rule of 1/2/3). 2. Rule of 20. 2A. Stayman 2B. Smolen. 2C. Transfers. 2D. Texas Transfer. 2E. Close out Bid. 2F. Exit Transfers. 2G. Quantitative Bid. 3. Major Suit Opener. 3A. Two over One. 3B. One No trump Forcing. 3C. Bergen Raise. 3D Jacoby No trump. 3E. Baby Blackwood. 3F. Splinters. 4. Minor Suit Openers. 4A. Montreal Relay. 4B. Inverted Minors. 5. Strong Openers. 5A. Two No Trump. 5B. Two Club Opener. 5C. Response to 2 Club Opener. 6. Competitive Bids. 6A. Michaels. 6B. Ghestem. 6C. Leaping Michaels. 6D. Unusual No Trump. 6E. Colorful Cue Bid. 6 F. Rosenkranz Double. 7. Doubles. 7A. Support Double. 7B. Stolen Bid. 7C. Lightner Double. 7D. Responsive Double 7E. Redoubles 8. Cue Bids. 8A. Cue Bid Limit Raise. 8B. Show Aces (New suit after trump). 9. Defense for opponents strong opener. 10. Balancing. 2
