Magee's Acol Bidding Quiz DVD Series

BRIDGE
Number One Hundred and Thirty-One
Bernard Magee’s Acol Bidding Quiz

November 2013
You are West in the auctions below, playing ‘Standard Acol’ with a weak no-trump (12-14 points) and 4-card majors.
1. Dealer West. Love All. 4. Dealer East. Love All. 7. Dealer West. Love All. 10. Dealer North. E/W Game.
♠ 9 8 7 6 5 ♠ K Q 6 5 ♠ 2
♠ 4 2
♥ A K 5 4 N ♥ K Q 6 2 N ♥ A Q J 5 4 3 2 N ♥ K Q 8 6 5 N
W E W E W E W E
♦ A J ♦ 7 6 5 ♦ J 8 7 6 ♦ K Q 3
S S S S
♣ 8 3 ♣ 4 3 ♣ 5 ♣ 9 7 6
West North East South West North East South West North East South West North East South
? 1♠ Pass 3♥ 3♠ Dbl Pass 1♣ 1♠ Pass
? ? ?

2. Dealer West. Love All. 5. Dealer West. Love All. 8. Dealer East. Game All. 11. Dealer West. Love All.
♠ 4 3 2 ♠ A K 7 5 4 ♠ A 8 7 6 5 ♠ A K 8 7 6
♥ A 7 N ♥ A K 4 2 N ♥ 7 2 N ♥ A K N
♦ K Q 4 2 W E ♦ Q 7 3 W E ♦ Q 8 3 W E ♦ A K 5 W E
S S S S
♣ A J 6 2 ♣ 2 ♣ 9 7 6 ♣ Q J 3
1NT Pass 2♣ Pass 1♠ 2♣ Pass Pass 1♥ Pass 2♣ 2♥ Pass Pass
2♦ Pass 2♠ Pass ? 1♠ Pass 2♦ Pass ?
? ?
3. Dealer East. Love All. 6. Dealer West. Game All. 9. Dealer West. Love All. 12. Dealer East. E/W Game.
♠ 4 2
♠ 2 ♠ A K 8 5 4 ♠ A K 8 4 2
♥ A K 7 6 ♥ K Q 9 3 2 N
♥ A 9 3 2 N
♥ 4 2 N
N
♦ A K 7 6 W E
♦ A 2 W E ♦ A 7 6 W E ♦ 7 5 W E
♣ A 4 3 S ♣ A 9 8 6 5 S ♣ 2 S ♣ A K 4 3 S
1♠ Pass 1♥ Pass 2♥ Pass 1♠ Pass 1NT Pass 1♦ Pass
? ? 2♥ Pass 3♣ Pass 1♠ Pass 2♣ Pass
? ?
Answers on page 11 Answers on page 15 Answers on page 19 Answers on page 23

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1 Ruffing for Extra Tricks 7 Leads 13 Hand Evaluation
This seminar deals with declarer’s Bernard takes you through all the Going beyond just the point-count
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tricks and then looks at how the your choice of lead. If you start to Reaching 3NT on 24 HCP and making
defenders might counteract this. think not just about your hand, but it; and avoiding 3NT on 26 HCP when
about your partner’s too, then you there are only seven or eight tricks.
2 Competitive Tricks will get much better results.
This seminar focuses on competitive 14 Pre-Empting
auctions from the perspective of the 8 Losing Trick Count The art of pre-empting is so important
overcalling side to start with and A method of hand evaluation for in the modern game. Understanding
then from the perspective of the when you find a fit. Bernard deals the right types of hand to bid up
opening side in the second part. with the basics of the losing trick on and realising the importance of
count then looks at advanced position and vulnerability.
3 Making the Most methods to hone your bidding.
of High Cards 15 Splinter & Cue-Bids
This seminar helps declarer to use 9 Making a Plan Take your slam bidding to another
his high cards more carefully and as Declarer level. Splinter bids are a vital tool to
then looks at how defenders should Bernard explains how to make a plan have in your bidding armoury and try
care for their precious high cards. then expands on how to make the your hand at Italian style cue-bidding.
most of your long suits. The first half
4 Identifying deals with no-trumps, the second with 16 Avoidance
& Bidding Slams suit contracts. As declarer, an important tactic is
The first half of this seminar is about to be in control of the defenders:
identifying when a slam might be on 10 Responding to 1NT avoiding a particular defender getting
– one of the hardest topics to teach. This seminar deals with Transfers the lead. As a defender, you can try to
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having a good, accurate system of
5 Play & Defence responses is paramount. 17 Pairs Play & Defence
of 1NT Contracts Duplicate Pairs is the game most of
This seminar looks at the most 11 Signals & Discards us play and getting used to the tactics
common and yet most feared This seminar deals with Count, will make a lot of difference to your
of contracts: 1NT. The first half Attitude and Suit-preference signals: performance. Making more overtricks
looks at declaring the contract and aiming to get you working as a and making sure you do not give
the second part puts us in the partnership in defence. away tricks as a defender.
defenders’ seats.
12 Endplays 18 Thinking Defence
6 Doubling & Defence Bernard takes you through the basics By far the hardest aspect of bridge,
against Doubled Contracts of the technique before showing some but if you can improve your defence
The first half of this seminar magical hands where you take extra your results will quickly improve.
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second half discusses the defence half, Bernard looks at how to avoid defence and get your mind in gear for
against doubled contracts. being endplayed as a defender. the decisions that await you.
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(Answers on page 16)
Y ou are East in the defensive positions below. It is your turn

to play. Both sides are using Acol with a 12-14 1NT.
1. ♠ 10 8 6 3 2 3. ♠ A Q
♥ J 9 5 ♥ 5
♦ 5 ♦ A J 9 4 3
♣ A K Q 10 ♣ A K 9 4 2
♠ A J 9 7 5 K 10 5
♠
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End Distributional Hands
Partner leads the ♠3, won
Full Board
Partner leads the ♦J, by your ♠A. What do you Full Board
No Single Supplement
covered by the ♦K and ♦A. return? No Single Supplement
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Answers to Bernard Magee’s
Bidding Quizzes 1-3 on the Cover
spades. Your partner should hold a weak your partner has promised to make an-
1. Dealer West. Love All. hand with five or more spades, with four other bid if you change the suit.
♠ 9 8 7 6 5 ♠ J 10 4 hearts as well. He used Stayman in the Bid 2♦ and then, over 2♠, bid a new suit
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♥ A K 5 4
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♥ 7 6 hope of finding a heart or spade fit, but at the three-level: once again this would
♦ A J S ♦ K Q 8 4 without that he settles for playing in 2♠, be forcing. Then, when your partner bids
♣ 8 3 ♣ A K 7 2 which you must pass. 3♠, you can be pretty sure that spades is
the best denomination and head towards
a slam. 4NT is key-card Blackwood and
West North East South your partner shows two key-cards. Al-
? 3. Dealer East. Love All. though your side has all the key-cards,
♠ 4 2 ♠ A K 9 7 5 3 it seems unlikely that a Grand Slam will
1♠. Open your longest suit: you are ♥ A K 7 6 N ♥ Q 5 4 make since your partner has suggested lit-
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not balanced and with both majors you ♦ A K 7 6 S ♦ Q 2 tle extra strength with his repeated spade
should start with your five-card suit. ♣ A 4 3 ♣ 8 6 bids. You might have one spade loser, but
‘Length is strength’ is one of the oldest hopefully his cards outside spades will be
and truest sayings in bridge. By bidding helpful. 6♠ will make comfortably as long
spades first, you will allow your partner West North East South as the trumps break 3-2.
to identify that you have five spades and 1♠ Pass
he will choose a 4♠ contract. ? West North East South
You will have to lose the ♠A-K-Q, but 1♠ Pass
that is all you will lose. At first glance, you 2♦. 18 HCP and your partner has 2♦ Pass 2♠ Pass
might not want to play in 4♠ with such a opened the bidding. 3♥ Pass 3♠ Pass
ropey trump suit, but all you have to lose There can be a temptation to jump 4NT1 Pass 5♥2 Pass
are the ♠A-K-Q and the game makes around excitedly, but generally you do 6♠
comfortably. In 3NT, there are only eight best to take your time unless you are sure 1
Key-card Blackwood
tricks as you will not have the time to of your denomination. Remember that 2
Two key-cards ■
establish your spades.
Five-Card Majors with a Strong No-Trump

2. Dealer West. Love All.
♠ 4 3 2 ♠ A 9 7 6 5
The Interactive Way of Improving Your Five-Card
♥ A 7
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Contents (20 hands each)
♣ A J 6 2 ♣ 8 3
l Opening Bids & Responses l Opener’s & Responder’s Rebids

West North East South l No-Trump Openings l Pre-empting
1NT Pass 2♣ Pass l Support for Partner l Doubles
2♦ Pass 2♠ Pass
l Slams & Strong Openings l Overcalls
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l Minors & Misfits l Competitive Auctions
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Julian Pottage answers your Frequently Asked Questions
Why Does Counting Points

Not Work Sometimes?
A
ssessing a hand by counting 10-9 combination is more useful in in the same suit. If you each have a
four points for an ace, three conjunction with other honours (as it doubleton club and each count a point
for a king, two for a queen is in the spade suit in Hand C) than for the doubleton, you will overvalue
and one for a jack should be the start it is on its own (in hearts in Hand the combined trick-taking potential.
of how you look at it rather than the D). Secondly, the doubleton queen
end. If you were buying a car, you is of unproven value. If partner has
might start by looking at the purchase a collection of low clubs, Q-x may be Hand G Hand H
price. However, you would not expect worth no more than x-x. For offensive ♠ A K J 5 4 2 ♠ A K J 5 4 2
that alone to tell you whether to buy purposes, honours are better in long ♥ A 5 ♥ A 5
it. Likewise, the Milton 4321 count is suits and together. ♦ A 8 ♦ A 8 2
merely one way of looking at a hand. Suppose that you have opened 1NT, ♣ 10 3 2 ♣ 10 3
Let us start with an extreme example. replied 2♠ to Stayman and seen partner
raise to 3♠. With Hand C, you would
advance to 4♠. With Hand D, you Suppose you open 1♠, the next hand
Hand A Hand B would probably pass. Although other overcalls 2♣, partner raises to 2♠ and
♠ A 10 6 2 ♠ A K Q J 10 9 valuation methods would differentiate the next hand bids 3♣. With Hand
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 the hands, if you simply deduct a point G, you should count points for your
♥ K 9 5 ♥ Void for the unguarded queen, that would length or shortages (but not both) in
♦ Q 8 4 ♦ Void be a simple adjustment to make. the way you usually do. You should
♣ J 7 3 ♣ Void So far, we have looked at just your jump to 4♠. With Hand H, you should
hand. In reality, bridge is a partnership anticipate that partner probably has
game. How two hands fit together a doubleton club as well and content
Both hands have 10 points. Moreover, makes a big difference. yourself with a game try.
both hands have the same spot cards Finally, possibly the easiest
(we will come back to intermediate adjustment to make is for intermediate
cards later). Hand A is a poor 10-point Hand E Hand F cards. The average hand contains one
hand, with honours all over the place ♠ K Q 9 5 4 ♠ A K J 9 4 ten and one nine. If you have no tens
and an unproductive shape (4333). ♥ A 7 4 ♥ Q 7 4 or nines, deduct a point. If you have
With Hand A, you might expect to ♦ K 5 ♦ K J a couple of both tens and nines, add
make only a couple of tricks if partner ♣ A 7 4 ♣ Q 7 4 a point.
has very little. Hand B is an incredible
10-point hand. What is more, no mat- In Summary:
ter how many points you usually add Suppose partner opens 1♦, you re- 1 Point count may fail on freak hands.
for length or for shortages, no point spond 1♠ and partner raises to 2♠. If 2 Honours in long suits are worth
count method is going to tell you that you simply count points, you will value more than those in short suits,
the hand will produce a grand slam. the two hands as the same and make especially if the honours in short
Now some more mundane cases: the same bid. In fact, you need to treat suits are unguarded. Deduct a point
Hand F the same way you would if one for a doubleton queen or singleton
or both of your queens were double- king, but consider adding a point if
Hand C Hand D ton. Partner, with most likely five dia- your long suits are strong.
♠ A K 10 9 ♠ A K 3 2 monds and four spades, may well have 3 Beware of counting lower honours
♥ 7 3 2 ♥ 10 9 7 a doubleton heart or a doubleton club, (queens and jacks) at full value in
♦ A Q 6 3 ♦ A 7 6 3 perhaps both. A queen facing a dou- suits where you know partner is
♣ 7 3 ♣ Q 3 bleton is a duplicated or wasted value. short, but give extra value to high
In both hands, the king of diamonds is cards that fill in partner’s long suits.
a great card, solidifying partner’s suit, 4 If your hand contains a couple fewer
Hand C and Hand D both have so worth counting as an ace. or a couple more than its share of
13 points. Hand C is better than Another form of duplication occurs tens and nines, subtract or add a
Hand D on two counts. First, the when you and your partner are short point respectively. ■

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♠ A Q J 8 3 ♠ 9 2 Full Board – No Single Supplement
♥ A 7 3 2 ♥ A Q 10 7 5
Booking Form on page 8.
♦ K 5 ♦ A 5 3
♣ 7 3 ♣ K Q 10
You are declarer in 6♠ You are in 4♥. East over- Ardington Hotel
after West opens a weak called North’s 1NT opening
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2♦ (5-9 points). West leads with 2♠. West leads the ♠8,
the ♣J. How do you plan East wins the ♠Q and plays
the play? the ♠K, West playing the
♠5. East then plays the ♠A.
How do you plan the play?
2. ♠ 9 6 5
♥ K 8 6 5 4. ♠ 7 4
♦ A 10 9 3 ♥ K 9 7
♣ 7 5 ♦ A 9 7 5 4 3
♣ K J BRIDGE EVENTS
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early in an auction, doubles at low West North East South

4. Dealer East. Love All. levels tend to be for take-out. A double 1♥ Pass 2♥ Pass
♠ K Q 6 5 ♠ A J 9 8 2 would suggest that you have shortage ?
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♥ K Q 6 2
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♥ 4 3 in clubs and can cope with any suit that
♦ 7 6 5 S ♦ Q J 10 2 your partner chooses to bid. This call 4♥.
♣ 4 3 ♣ A 2 suits quite well too because you have Your partner has made a weak response,
reasonable support for diamonds as but he has shown support. With a fit you
well as both majors. But the best reason can evaluate your hand fully. Two five-
West North East South for choosing double over any other bid card suits, a singleton and a doubleton,
1♠ Pass is that it opens up the option of your along with 13 HCP. Using the traditional
? partner being able to pass for penalties. method of point count evaluation,
If East is sitting with long and strong you have 13+2+2=17 points; 2 for a
3♠. clubs, he would love to hear a take-out singleton and 1 for each of the five-card
You have four-card spade support and double from you because he would be suits. This would suggest just bidding 3♥.
less than an opening hand, so you should able to pass for penalties. This is exactly The losing trick count makes things a
make a direct raise, but to what level? what happens here and you might be little easier: 5 losers, which is two better
10 HCP and no five-card suit, singleton able to take 2♣ four off for 800 points. than minimum so you bid two more: 4♥.
or void so you should simply raise to 3♠. 5-5 hands are my favourite type of
Using the losing trick count, your hands: when you find a fit, you should
first count amounts to 7 losers, but you bid boldly, so I prefer going for game.
must take into account that you have an 6. Dealer West. Game All. It is your distribution that gives you a
aceless hand. ♠ 2 ♠ 9 8 7 chance of success: two ruffs in dummy
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The LTC assumes that you have a ♥ K Q 9 3 2 ♥ A J 10 5 and then hopefully an established club
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fair spread of honours (aces, kings and ♦ A 2 S ♦ J 8 4 3 for your tenth trick. Notice that your
queens) so if you find yourself aceless, ♣ A 9 8 6 5 ♣ 7 2 partner is absolutely minimum, so he
you must be wary and downgrade your would not accept a game try. ■
hand.
After the downgrade, you should
choose a 3♠ response.
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Answers to Julian Pottage’s
Defence Quiz on page 9
Partner leads the ♦J, covered by the ♦K to cash the ♥A, allowing you to hold the
1. ♠ 10 8 6 3 2 and ♦A. What is your plan? lead, this would be a mistake.
♥ J 9 5 The bidding warns you that partner will
♦ 5 This time, dummy has a doubleton rath- be short in trumps. If you cash the ace,
♣ A K Q 10 er than a singleton. All the same, you the jack (or queen) in partner’s hand will
♠ Q 4 ♠ A J 9 7 5 can envisage a possible spade ruff in fall under the king on the second round.
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♥ A Q 6 ♥ 4 dummy. Since, ideally, you are looking You should bide your time and switch to
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♦ K J 9 8 4 S ♦ 10 7 3 to remove all of dummy’s trumps, you the ♥4. After the trump switch, declarer
♣ 9 6 3 ♣ 8 7 5 2 should switch to ace and another trump. may win and try to set up dummy’s clubs.
♠ K You do not want to block yourself by The 5-2 break in the suit will scupper that
♥ K 10 8 7 3 2 holding on to the ace. While this leaves plan.
♦ A Q 6 2 dummy with one trump, partner can re-
♣ J 4 move it by playing a third round when in
with ♠A.
Why do I not suggest trying to set up 4. ♠ Q
West North East South a third-round club ruff for partner? If ♥ J 10
1NT Pass 2♥1 3♥ partner has the entries needed, the ♣A or ♦ A Q 10 6 4 3
Pass 4♥ End 1
Transfer the ♥K, declarer has precisely ♠A-K-Q, ♣ K 9 4 2
which is unlikely. ♠ K 7 6 3 ♠ A J 9 5 2
Partner leads the ♠Q. You win with the ♠A, ♥ 9 5 2 N ♥ K 4
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dropping South’s ♠K. What do you return? ♦ 9 7 S ♦ K J 8 2
♣ Q 10 7 6 ♣ J 3
With the singleton diamond on view, you 3. ♠ A Q ♠ 10 8 4
can guess that declarer plans to ruff a ♥ 5 ♥ A Q 8 7 6 3
diamond or two in dummy. To thwart ♦ A J 9 4 3 ♦ 5
this, you switch to your trump. This al- ♣ A K 9 4 2 ♣ A 8 5
lows partner to win and play two more ♠ J 9 6 3 2 ♠ K 10 5
rounds. The switch would also work if ♥ J 7 N ♥ A 10 4
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partner had the ♦A-Q and the ♥K. ♦ Q 10 7 6 S ♦ K 8 West North East South
♣ Q 5 ♣ J 10 7 6 3 1♠ 2♥
♠ 8 7 4 2♠ 3♦ Pass 3♥
♥ K Q 9 8 6 3 2 Pass 4♥ End
2. ♠ 7 2 ♦ 5 2
♥ 10 9 5 ♣ 8 Partner leads the ♠3, won by your ♠A.
♦ K Q 7 3 What do you return?
♣ K Q 10 2
♠ A 9 6 4 ♠ J 10 8 5 West North East South Once again, you can see the threat of
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♥ 7 6 3 W E ♥ A 4 3♥ a ruff in dummy. As in the previous
♦ J 10 9 6 S ♦ A 8 4 Pass 4♥ End deals, dummy’s long suit poses less of a
♣ 8 5 ♣ J 9 7 3 threat.
♠ K Q 3 Partner leads the ♠3. You capture the ♠Q Do you want to switch to your low
♥ K Q J 8 2 with the ♠K. What do you return? trump? The snag is that declarer has
♦ 5 2 no option but to hope the ♥K is onside
♣ A 6 4 Assuming the ♠3 is fourth highest, the (which, on the bidding, it is likely to be).
lead is from a five-card suit (at most), After dummy wins this and later ruffs a
which means that South started with spade, your ♥K will fall under the ♥A.
West North East South three spades. With more spades in the Declarer makes a spade ruff, six trumps
1♥ closed hand than in dummy, a ruff is and three top tricks in the minors.
Pass 2♣ Pass 2NT in the air. Since dummy has only a sin- You need to switch to the ♥K, forcing
Pass 3♥ Pass 4♥ gleton trump, you can easily prevent a out the ♥A. Partner’s ♥9 will become
End spade ruff. While it might seem tempting good. ■

The Diaries of Wendy Wensum
Episode 19: A Sicilian Jaunt
Part 3: Winners and Losers
Wendy, Spouse, Millie and Justin are on the island of Sicily sightseeing and playing bridge. The story continues.
F
rom the hotel, a local service bus busy day that we had forgotten the continued North, ‘Can you explain
conveyed Millie, Justin, Spouse evening events were gender pairs. The that?’ ‘I can,’ asserted South. ‘Well, why
and me to the picturesque fish- tournament director had organised the haven’t you then?’ demanded dummy
ing town of Cefalu a short distance field into two sections: one for ladies with increasing vigour. ‘I didn’t want
down the coast. There, we investigated and the other for gentlemen. Naturally, to bore you,’ lamented South. ‘Your
the famous medieval laundry situated I played with Millie, leaving Justin and eyes have glazed over; have you lost
near the sea front and walked through Spouse, who had never played together, interest?’ continued North. ‘I was only
the ancient arch leading to the har- to enter the men’s event. Both fields feigning interest in the first place,’
bour where small fishing boats bobbed played the same boards and Spouse admitted declarer as they trooped off
gently in the clear water beside the re- and Justin were particularly interested moodily for the next round. In the
stored white stone quay. After a sedate in this deal afterwards. men’s event, the bidding was more
stroll through the narrow streets of circumspect; Justin and Spouse were
the old town, we visited the splendid given an easier time in the auction as
Norman Cathedral, admiring its or- Dealer West. Love All. there was no intervention from their
nate architecture. By this time, it was ♠ 10 9 4 3 opponents.
quite hot and Millie announced that ♥ A 10 8 2
she was, ‘absolutely exhausted.’ To re- ♦ Q 8 West North East South
vive her, we lunched in a nearby café ♣ Q 9 3 Spouse Justin
where, naturally, a bottle of wine was ♠ Q 8 ♠ K 2 1♥ Pass 2♥ Pass
an essential ingredient. Afterwards, ♥ K Q 7 6 5 N ♥ J 4 3 3♦ Pass 3♥ All Pass
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Millie declined my invitation to ex- ♦ A K 4 3 S ♦ J 10 9 5 2
plore the giant cliff towering over the ♣ K 6 ♣ J 10 4 Rather carelessly, North led the ace of
town. Millie and Justin stayed at the ♠ A J 7 6 5 trumps and Spouse made his contract
café while Spouse and I set ourselves ♥ 9 with an overtrick, losing only the
the challenge of conquering the great ♦ 7 6 three aces, for a complete top. In spite
rock. As we departed, I thought I ♣ A 8 7 5 2 of, or perhaps because of, their hastily
heard Millie mutter something about compiled system, Justin and Spouse
‘silly burgers,’ to Justin, but I doubted did extremely well, coming first in
whether she could possibly consume When Millie and I played the hand, their section. I thought that Millie
anything else. We followed the path the bidding went: and I had played competently enough
past a ruined temple dedicated to Di- overall and I was surprised and rather
ana and eventually, after much huffing West North East South disappointed to discover we finished
and puffing, reached the castle domi- Millie Wendy some way down the field. In the post-
nating the summit. It was well worth 1♥ Pass 2♥ 2♠ mortem Millie blamed me for our
the effort; we had wonderful views of 3♦ 3♠ Pass 4♠ poor results, citing my climb up the
both the town beneath and the ultra- All Pass rock as the main cause of the lack-
blue Tyrrhenian Sea stretching north- lustre performance. I protested that
wards towards Sardinia, Corsica and The contract was doomed from the exercise was good for both mind and
the Italian mainland. Not surpris- start. Millie led the ♥K and declarer body and consolidated my defence by
ingly, the descent was considerably won with the ♥A. Game was never on. noting that Spouse had also climbed to
quicker and we soon joined Millie and We took two diamonds, a trump trick the summit and he and Justin had won
Justin back at the café for a few beers and the ♣K, defeating the contract by their event. It was to no avail. ‘In their
before returning to the hotel for din- one trick for a top our way. Dummy case, it was beginners’ luck,’ Millie
ner and bridge. was not amused and accused declarer decreed dismissively. Nevertheless,
As we entered the bridge room, crossly, ‘You overcalled at the two level we had all enjoyed the day and a visit
Millie observed, ‘It’s very dark in here.’ on only nine points. Did you know to the bar soon revived our flagging
‘Sunglasses!’ bellowed Justin, Spouse that?’ ‘I did know that,’ was the simple spirits. At least Spouse and Justin had
and I in chorus. It had been such a riposte. ‘And you still bid game,’ something to celebrate. ■

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Always remember that, when you better denomination. A bid of 2♠ would

7. Dealer West. Love All. open with a pre-empt, you make life suggest a strong six-card suit, so that is
♠ 2 ♠ Q J 10 8 4 difficult for your opponents and they will certainly out.
♥ A Q J 5 4 3 2 N ♥ 7 sometimes be forced to ‘guess’ what to False Preference is the name given to
W E
♦ J 8 7 6 S
♦ A K 5 bid. Here, North guessed to bid 3♠ and the solution of this question: although
♣ 5 ♣ A 8 3 2 unfortunately found your partner with the your diamonds are better than your
wrong hand. hearts, you choose hearts because a 5-2
fit tends to play better than a 4-3 fit when
West North East South you have two weak hands. Furthermore,
3♥ 3♠ Dbl Pass hearts score more than diamonds if both
? 8. Dealer East. Game All. contracts make.
♠ A 8 7 6 5 ♠ 2
N
Pass. ♥ 7 2
W E
♥ A K J 10 3
It is important to have a simple set of ♦ Q 8 3 S ♦ K 5 4 2
doubling rules: when your side has bid ♣ 9 7 6 ♣ A 5 4 9. Dealer West. Love All.
no-trumps or made a pre-emptive bid, ♠ A K 8 5 4 ♠ 3
then any doubles are for penalties. ♥ A 9 3 2 N ♥ 8 6
W E
Your partner has made a penalty West North East South ♦ A 7 6 S ♦ 9 4 2
double and you should trust him. You 1♥ Pass ♣ 2 ♣ K Q 8 7 6 5 3
have a relatively normal hand, which 1♠ Pass 2♦ Pass
your partner will expect. Do not feel your ?
partner will be disappointed: you have West North East South
an ace, which will please him very much 2♥. 1♠ Pass 1NT Pass
because he will expect to get 3♠ down You have a very weak hand, so your job 2♥ Pass 3♣ Pass
without any help from you at all. is to slow the auction down as soon as ?
As it is, you might take 3♠ four off, possible. You should choose which of
which would be worth 800 points. your partner’s suits is likely to be the Pass.
As an auction goes in to a third round,
understanding can get clouded. So often,
The Inn on the Prom

the right final contract can be found by
clear thinking.
You have described your hand neatly:
St Annes-on-Sea FY8 1LU showing five spades and four hearts.
Why has your partner ignored your two
27-29 December 2013 suits? Furthermore, why did he not bid
2♣ on the previous round? As long as
Bernard Magee you trust your partner, you should be
Signals & Discards able to predict his hand: he did not have
£245 enough strength to bid 2♣, so he must be
pretty weak. Then, to overbid your two
21-23 March 2014 majors, he must have a very long suit:
six or seven cards. He is showing a long
Bernard Magee suit and a weak hand: he wants you to
Doubles pass. Trusting your partner, you do pass
and you finish in the correct final contract
£245
of 3♣.
By bidding 1NT first, your partner
Full Board. No Single Supplement.
slows the auction down, then when he
Booking Form on page 8. bids a suit he is showing a very long suit
in a very weak hand. ■

Answers to David Huggett’s
Play Quiz on page 13
You are declarer in 3NT and West leads just discard one of that suit from hand on
1. ♠ K 7 6 4 the ♠4. East plays the ♠Q. How do you the third round of spades. Now dummy
♥ K 8 4 plan the play? can take care of any further spade leads.
♦ Q 6 2 You are in grave danger of losing four
♣ A K Q spade tricks once you have lost the lead
♠ 9 ♠ 10 5 2 and, with only six tricks immediately
♥ Q 10 N ♥ J 9 6 5 available after the lead, you have to 4. ♠ 7 4
W E
♦ A J 10 9 4 3 S ♦ 8 7 determine whether to take the club ♥ K 9 7
♣ J 10 9 2 ♣ 8 6 5 4 finesse and hope for five tricks from that ♦ A 9 7 5 4 3
♠ A Q J 8 3 suit, or take the diamond finesse. If that ♣ K J
♥ A 7 3 2 is successful, you will make one spade, ♠ K Q J 6 3 ♠ 10 8 5 2
N
♦ K 5 two hearts, four diamonds and two clubs. ♥ 10 8 3 W E ♥ Q J 4 2
♣ 7 3 Rather than put all your eggs in one ♦ K J 8 2 S ♦ Q 10
basket, combine your chances by playing ♣ 2 ♣ 7 6 5
off the two top clubs first. On a good day, ♠ A 9
You are declarer in 6♠ after West opens the queen will be doubleton and then you ♥ A 6 5
a weak 2♦ (5-9 points). West leads the will not need to take any finesses at all. ♦ 6
♣J. How do you plan the play? ♣ A Q 10 9 8 4 3
It looks as though you have a heart
and a diamond to lose but appearances
can prove deceptive. 3. ♠ J 10 4 You are declarer in 7♣ and West leads
Win the club lead, draw trumps ♥ K 8 6 3 the ♠K. How do you plan the play?
noting they split 1-3 and then lead a low ♦ K 8 6 You are in a good grand slam but
diamond from hand. What can West do? ♣ A J 5 there is work to be done. With only
If he rises with the ace, you have twelve ♠ 8 5 ♠ A K Q 7 6 3 eleven top tricks, you have to establish
N
tricks via five spades, two hearts, two ♥ J 9 2 ♥ 4 two more and they can come only from
W E
diamonds and three clubs; while if he ♦ J 9 7 2 S ♦ Q 10 4 the diamond suit. So play a diamond to
ducks, you win with the queen in dummy ♣ 8 6 4 2 ♣ 9 7 3 the ace at trick two and ruff a diamond
and discard your king of diamonds on ♠ 9 2 high. Now play a club to dummy and
the third club. ♥ A Q 10 7 5 ruff another diamond high and repeat
Ultimately, you will be able to ruff a ♦ A 5 3 the process if there is still a diamond
heart in dummy and then you make ♣ K Q 10 out. Finally, you will be able to draw
twelve tricks via five spades, two hearts any remaining trumps, enter dummy
and a ruff, one diamond and three with the king of hearts and throw your
clubs. You are declarer in 4♥ after East has losing heart and losing spade on the two
overcalled your partner’s 1NT opening winning diamonds. Note that, if you had
with 2♠. West leads the ♠8, East wins played a trump to dummy earlier, before
with the ♠Q and plays the ♠K with West ruffing the diamonds, you would have
2. ♠ 9 6 5 following with the ♠5. East then plays the found yourself an entry short. ■
♥ K 8 6 5 ♠A. How do you plan the play?
♦ A 10 9 3 Assuming hearts do not break 4-0,
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W E
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which might give you the chance to intro- would bid 3♣, you would bid 3NT and
10. Dealer North. E/W Game. duce your own suit. East might continue with 4♣. 5♣ is the
♠ 4 2 ♠ A K 8 7 5 However, on this hand, 1♠ might well only making game and the only chance
N
♥ K Q 8 6 5
W E
♥ 3 2 win the contract and will probably scrape of reaching it is if you take your time
♦ K Q 3 S ♦ A 4 2 home. and allow your partner the room to bid
♣ 9 7 6 ♣ 10 8 4 clubs twice, thereby suggesting at least
six clubs.
Once you have opened 2♣, you rarely
West North East South 11. Dealer West. Love All. need to show your strength again, as
1♣ 1♠ Pass ♠ A K 8 7 6 ♠ 2 long as your trust your partner: he will
N
? ♥ A K
W E
♥ 9 8 2 remember that you have 23+ points or
♦ A K 5 S ♦ 9 4 3 game in your own hand.
Pass. Responding to overcalls is very ♣ Q J 3 ♣ 10 8 7 6 5 2
different from responding to an opening
bid. You have no obligation to keep the
auction open because the overcaller West North East South 12. Dealer East. E/W Game.
is rarely extremely strong. With 16+ 2♣ 2♥ Pass Pass ♠ A K 8 4 2 ♠ 6
N
points, the overcaller will usually make a ? ♥ 4 2 W E
♥ QJ3
stronger call: doubling or making a jump ♦ 7 5 S ♦ A K 9 6 4
bid. This means that with 10 or fewer 2♠. You open with the strongest bid ♣ A K 4 3 ♣ Q J 5 2
points there is no need to make a call. Of available: 2♣. However, North bids 2♥
course, if you have support you certainly and your partner passes, so the bidding
should show it, but without support you is back with you. First thing to note is that West North East South
should bid with care. your partner will have a weak hand: his 1♦ Pass
There is a temptation to bid 2♥ with a pass is equivalent to a negative response. 1♠ Pass 2♣ Pass
hand like this, but often that will simply Second thing to note is that you do not ?
push the level of the auction up unneces- need to jump: you have already said you
sarily. Bearing in mind that your partner have a super-strong hand, so that your 2♥. Your partner has bid two suits:
could be very weak, it is most sensible to partner will not pass. Just show your five- showing five or more diamonds and at
pass. North might choose to bid again card suit by bidding 2♠. Your partner least four clubs, but he might have a
minimum opening hand. You have the
strength for game: 14 HCP is plenty
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fourth suit. A bid in the fourth suit is rarely
Just Duplicate required as a natural bid, so experts have
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Bridge fourth suit forcing. A bid of 2♥ in this auc-
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The problem with raising to 3♣ is that,
with a minimum hand, your partner
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Better Hand
Evaluation
Things You
Bernard Magee
Introduction Should
Know About . . .
Better Hand Evaluation is
aimed at helping readers to
add greater accuracy to their
bidding. It deals with auctions
in which you and your partner,
against silent opponents, can
describe your hands fully to
each other and, by evaluating
them accurately, find the best
final contract. The emphasis of
by Andrew Kambites
all good, accurate bidding is on
hand evaluation.
M
There are two general types of
auction: a) a fit is found and b)
r Bridge has you not to reinvent the Third Criterion
no fit is found.
invited me to wheel: the large number of
write a new series homegrown systems that In real life, does it gain or
When you do not have a fit,
entitled, ‘Things you should I see at club level have the lose? I am afraid that Gerber
you are aiming to describe the
strength of your hand as soon know about . . .’ I have disadvantage of bypassing fails my test.
as possible, most often using started with 12 articles on the accumulated experience In real life, people regu-
no-trump bids. This book be- the most important aspects of experts over many years. larly have misunderstand-
gins by discussing balanced
of the uncontested auction. Other articles will feature ings about when 4♣ is or
hand bidding in Acol, as it
is very important that both Some of my articles will be common conventional bids. isn’t Gerber. Bridge is a
members of a partnership on basic bridge knowledge. I have criteria I apply to game played by fallible hu-
have an accurate knowledge of The emphasis will be on conventions. man beings and any con-
how to show hands of different
explaining why something vention which does not rec-
strengths.
is the recommended path, ognise this is flawed.
When a fit is found, there is
much re-evaluation of the
rather that just telling you First Criterion Whatever the merits of a
hand to be done; point count, what to do. Too many convention, do understand
though still important, needs people decide on a system Any convention invariably that all conventions need
to be evaluated together with as though it is a series of replaces a natural bid. discussion and such discus-
distribution. The best way of unconnected decisions. sion can only take place in a
For example, the best of
reaching an accurate assess
ment is to use the Losing Trick Any good system is all conventions, Stayman, regular partnership.
Count; this is an important an integrated whole, put prevents you from signing If you sit down for a casual
method of hand evaluation and together as a result of many off in 2♣. Is that a price session opposite somebody
takes up a number of chapters. years of experience by strong worth paying? The answer is you hardly know, you might
Finally, we move on to different players. One part affects the a very strong Yes. Finding a both agree to play red suit
forms of evaluation including rest. For example, I will be 4-4 major suit fit is far more transfers, but that does not
game tries and splinter bids.
You can never know enough
recommending that you important than signing off necessarily mean you mean
methods of hand evaluation; open all balanced hands in in 2♣. the same thing.
the more you learn, the better the 12-14 point range with My articles try to
you get at judging your hand. 1NT, even if you have a weak anticipate problems, for
Although the Losing Trick doubleton. There are huge Second Criterion example, if 1NT is doubled,
Count is used more easily in hidden gains by doing this, is 2♣ still Stayman? If you
tandem with your partner, a
large proportion of the ideas
for example, if you open 1♠ How often does it occur? If and your partner both
in this book can be used by an and rebid 2♥, you guarantee the answer is every week, study my ideas and accept
individual. For example, eval- five spades. Of course, you it is worth the effort in them, you should find them
uating your hand to be worth may decide not to accept learning it and you won’t helpful.
an extra point is going to help
anyone you partner – as long
my recommendation about forget it at the table. If it I will also try to advise
as you get it right. opening 1NT with a small occurs once a year, then you whether your partner’s
doubleton, but then you inevitably one of you will bid needs announcing or
£14 including postage must accept that there are get it wrong. Of course, alerting under current EBU
See Mail Order Form drawbacks that you might the more you play with a rules.
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would strongly advise you can be in your system. your bridge. ■

Things You Should Know About by Andrew Kambites
Red-Suit
Transfers
O
pposite a 1NT opening the objective of concealing the strong raised 2♥ to 3♥.
bid, a response of 2♦ hand has more validity opposite a West could have any of these hands:
shows at least 5 hearts 2NT opener. The main advantage of
and requires opener to bid transfers is the huge amount of extra
2♥: a response of 2♥ shows at sequences they create. Hand A Hand B
least 5 spades and requires If you don’t play transfers, then ♠ K J 6 5 ♠ K J 6 5
opener to bid 2♠. the sequence 1NT-2♦ has only one ♥ J 6 ♥ J 6
meaning: a sign off in 2♦. Playing ♦ A Q 7 6 ♦ A Q 7 6
This message cannot be rescinded; for transfers you can respond 2♦, opener ♣ J 9 2 ♣ K 9 2
example, the sequence: 1NT-2♦-2♥-3♦ rebids 2♥ and you can continue in a
shows at least 5 hearts and at least 4 variety of ways. For example, common
diamonds and is game forcing. continuations are: pass, 2♠, 2NT, 3♣, Hand C Hand D
It is legal, but not good practice, to 3♦, 3♥, 3NT and 4♥. ♠ K J 6 5 ♠ K J 6 5
play this sequence as a take-out into Each of these continuations passes ♥ J 10 2 ♥ J 10 2
3♦. If you do choose to play this, then a different and precise message to ♦ A Q 7 ♦ A Q 7
you must not describe the original partner. Most are considered later in ♣ J 9 2 ♣ K 9 2
2♦ bid as a transfer because the this article.
word ‘transfer’ guarantees at least 5
hearts and opponents will have every ♣♦♥♠ West has to make two decisions:
justification for complaining to the i) With a maximum 1NT, he chooses
A
director if they are put off bidding fter responder’s second to play in game: with a minimum
hearts and find subsequently that your bid, opener usually has 1NT, he chooses a part score.
2♦ transfer did not guarantee a heart a good picture of his ii) With 3-card heart support or
suit 100% of the time. hand and should use common better, he chooses a heart contract:
Using red-suit transfers, there are a sense to determine the final with only a doubleton heart, he
number of ways of signing off in clubs contract. settles for no trumps.
and diamonds at the three level, for Therefore:
example using the now redundant 2♠ For example, consider this sequence: With Hand A (12 points and a
bid, but these are outside the remit of doubleton heart), West passes 2NT.
this article. West East With Hand B (14 points and a
1NT 2♦ doubleton heart), West raises 2NT to
♣♦♥♠ 2♥ 2NT 3NT.
With Hand C (12 points and 3-card
T
he main advantage of When East bids 2♦, West has little heart support), West signs off in 3♥.
transfers is not that they idea of his intentions. But when East With Hand D (14 points and 3-card
get the contract played by continues with 2NT, the full picture heart support), West jumps to 4♥.
the right (ie strong) hand. emerges. East has 11-12 points and
exactly 5 hearts. The 11-12 points ♣♦♥♠
If you play a 12-14 1NT opening, comes from removing the 2♦-2♥
I
a lot of the time you transfer, the round of bidding, leaving 1NT-2NT. f responder transfers and
responder will be at least as strong as The 2♦ transfer promised 5 hearts: then raises the suit, he guar-
the 1NT opener. Transferring with with 6 hearts, responder would have antees 6 cards in the suit.

About Transfers continued leaving it to partner to choose the
Layout H final resting place. You should not be
♠ Q 5 2 ♠ K J 7 6 4 ruled by fear. Yes, a weakness in hearts
♥ A J 8 N ♥ K 9 6 5 may be a problem but partner may
W E
Auction E Auction F ♦ K 7 6 S ♦ A Q be strong in hearts, or the defenders
West East West East ♣ A 7 5 3 ♣ 6 2 may not find a heart lead. A far more
1NT 2♥ 2NT 3♥ likely problem is having too many
2♠ 3♠ 3♠ 4♠ inescapable losers in 5♣. Generally,
West East your priorities for game contracts are:
Consider the above sequences. In 1NT 2♥1 i) An 8-card major suit fit.
each case, East guaranteed 5 spades 2♠ 3♥3
2
ii) 3NT, requiring only 9 tricks.
with his first bid. East might pass 3♠4 4♠5 iii) A distant third is five-of-a-minor.
West’s forced spade rebid, leaving the 1
2♥ promises 5 spades.
partnership in a 5-2 fit, but when East 2
As instructed. ♣♦♥♠
bids on, he should seek to convey new 3
3♥ is game forcing, showing 4 hearts
I
information, not repeat information as well as 5 spades. f you have invitational values
already given. 4
Spades will be trumps. Note that with 5-4 in the majors, you
So suppose West starts with 2NT because 3♥ is game forcing, West has can show this by bidding
and East has this hand: no need to jump to 4♠ even though Stayman and if the response
he is maximum for 1NT. Keeping the is 2♦, bidding your 5-card
bidding lower might be helpful if East major at the three level.
Hand G wants to start cue bidding for slam
♠ K J 7 6 5 investigation.
♥ Q 3 2 5
No slam ambition. Layout L
♦ 7 ♠ A 5 4 ♠ K Q 6 3 2
♣ 9 6 5 4 There is just one sequence that needs ♥ K 4 3 N ♥ A Q 9 5
W E
thought: 1NT-2♦-2♥-2♠. This shows 5 ♦ A K 4 2 S ♦ 7 3
hearts and 4 spades. The second suit is ♣ 9 5 4 ♣ 7 2
East shows his 5-card spade suit by bid at the two level. You should discuss
transferring with 3♥. West dutifully with partner whether it is forcing for
rebids 3♠. East’s correct continuation one round or (as I would recommend) West East
is 3NT, not 4♠. Note that East is not that you play it as game forcing. 1NT 2♣
deciding that 3NT should be the final 2♦ 3♠
contract. West will decide the final ♣♦♥♠ 4♠
contract in the knowledge that East has
S
5 spades: with 3-card spade support, ometimes it is not possible 3♠ is not forcing, showing 5 spades
West will certainly convert to 4♠: with or desirable to show a sec- and 4 hearts. If West is minimum, he
only doubleton spade support, West ond suit after a transfer. may have to pass and possibly play in
will pass 3NT but then you are almost a 5-2 fit. If East was stronger with the
certainly better off in 3NT. same shape, eg with the ♦Q instead of
Note that it would not be sensible Hand J Hand K the ♦7, he would start with a transfer
for East to offer clubs as a possible ♠ K J 7 6 5 ♠ A Q 7 6 5 bid of 2♥ and then bid a game forcing
contract (by continuing with 4♣ over ♥ 8 ♥ 8 and natural 3♥ over West’s 2♠ rebid.
3♠). First, this leaves 3NT behind and ♦ A Q 7 ♦ A Q 7
second, the hand and the clubs are ♣ J 6 5 2 ♣ J 6 5 2 ♣♦♥♠
very weak so contracting for 11 tricks
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is likely to be too much. f 1NT is doubled, you should
Suppose your partner opens 1NT abandon transfers.
♣♦♥♠ and you have Hand J. You transfer to
spades, but what then? The hand is You need to be able to escape into any
A
transfer followed by a not strong enough for a game forcing 5-card suit at the two-level.
change of suit is game 3♣. Your best continuation is an If you transfer with 2♦ and the next
forcing. invitational 2NT. opponent enters the bidding with
Even if you make the hand a little a double (ie 1NT-Pass-2♦-Dbl), it is
Most such sequences are covered by the stronger so that game is correct, with normal for the opening 1NT bidder to
general principle: in an uncontested Hand K, you are ill advised to suggest complete the transfer with 2♥ if he has
auction, a new suit at the three level trying to make 11 tricks with a 5♣ 3-card or better support, but to pass if
after a one level opening bid is game contract. Best is to show your 5 spades he has just a doubleton heart. This is
forcing. by bidding 2♥ and then jump to 3NT, possible because responder has

About Transfers continued
Things You Should Know
About Red-Suit Transfers Quiz Mr Bridge
another bid and it helps
if the auction becomes
by Andrew Kambites
2014
competitive. The pass
doesn’t mean opener likes
diamonds, only that he has
1 (i) You are West playing red-suit transfers. You open
1NT and your partner bids 2♥. What do you rebid
Bridge
Players’
just 2 hearts. with Hands A and B?
(ii) What would you rebid with Hands A and B if your left
♣♦♥♠ hand opponent doubled your 1NT opening and your
partner bid 2♥?
Diaries
Y
ou should play
transfers oppo-
Hand A Hand B
site partner’s
♠ 8 7 ♠ K 8 7
1NT overcall and also ♥ K Q 6 ♥ A 7
opposite his 2NT ♦ A 7 6 2 ♦ A Q 6 5
opening bid. ♣ K J 5 2 ♣ J 10 7 5
Layout M 2 You are East, playing red-suit transfers. The bidding

♠ K 9 4 ♠ Q J 10 7 6 starts as shown.
♥ A 10 7 N ♥ 8
W E West East
♦ A Q J 2 S ♦ K 10 6 5
♣ A 9 8 ♣ Q 6 2
1NT 2♦ Contents include
2♥ ?
♦ Acol Summary
What is your next bid with Hands C, D, E, F, G and H? by Bernard Magee.
West North East South
♦ Guide to the Laws.
1♥
1NT1 Pass 2♥2 Pass Hand C Hand D Hand E ♦ Scoring Tables for
2♠3 Pass 2NT4 Pass ♠ A 8 7 ♠ A 8 7 ♠ A 8 duplicate and
4♠5 All Pass ♥ A J 8 6 5 ♥ A J 8 6 5 ♥ A J 8 6 5 2 rubber bridge.
♦ Q 10 7 ♦ A 10 7 ♦ Q 8 7
1
16-18 points. ♦ Distributional odds.
♣ 7 6 ♣ 7 6 ♣ 7 6
2
At least 5 spades.
3
Completing the transfer. ♦ Hand patterns and
fascinating figures.
4
Exactly 5 spades: enough Hand F Hand G Hand H
for a game try opposite a ♠ A 8 ♠ A 8 ♠ A K 7 ♦ Cover colours remaining:
16-18 1NT overcall. ♥ A J 8 6 5 2 ♥ A J 8 6 5 ♥ A K J 6 5 Red, Navy, Tan and
5
Maximum with at least 3 ♦ A 10 7 ♦ Q 10 7 2 ♦ A 10 7 2 Burgundy.
spades. ♣ 7 6 ♣ 7 6 ♣ 7
♦ All covers printed in
gold-coloured ink.
♣♦♥♠
3 You are West, playing red-suit transfers. The bidding ♦ Individual diaries £6.95
I
starts as shown. each including p&p.
f you play that 2♦ op-
posite a 1NT open- West East
♦ Special concession
to clubs and teachers.
ing bid guarantees 1NT 2♥ 10 for £35,
at least 5 hearts, the 2♠ 2NT thereafter £3.50 each
1NT opener announc- ? including p&p.
es, ‘hearts,’ rather
What is your next bid with Hands I, J, K and L? ♦ Luxury version with super-
than alerting 2♦. soft kidrell cover, gilded
page edges and
2♦ must be alerted, if for a ball-point pen attached,
Hand I Hand J Hand K Hand L in ruby red, navy blue
any reason, it does not ♠ 8 5 ♠ 8 6 ♠ 8 5 2 ♠ Q 5 2 or bottle green.
guarantee at least 5 hearts. ♥ A Q 7 6 ♥ A Q 7 6 ♥ A Q 7 6 ♥ A Q 7 6 £14.95 each including p&p.
A transfer opposite a 1NT ♦ 9 8 6 ♦ Q 8 6 ♦ 8 6 ♦ 8 6
overcaller or a 2NT opening ♣ A Q 4 2 ♣ A Q 4 2 ♣ A Q 4 2 ♣ A Q 4 2 See Mail Order
bid should be alerted by the Form on page 7.
no-trump bidder. ■

Julian Pottage answers your bridge questions
Support
Immediately
With 4-Card Fit
Q
This hand came slam with confidence. this is the worst possible you have already passed)
up at our club. Nicholas Beswick lead for the defenders. is forcing for one round.
The players were Brynmawr, Blaenau, Gwent.
using fourth-suit forc- ♣♦♥♠ ♣♦♥♠
A
ing and Blackwood. With four-card
Q Q
support for partner’s Playing Acol The hand on my
major, you should with a 12-14 right opened
♠ A K 8 4 raise the suit immediately. If no-trump, my 1♦. I held this
♥ A 10 7 you wait until later, partner partner opened 1♠. shapely 6-point hand:
♦ K 6 will assume you have only
♣ K J 8 3 three-card support. To be fair,
N South faces a tricky rebid. ♠ 9 6 ♠ J 10 9 8 7
W E
S
The losing trick count (six ♥ A J 10 8 ♥ K Q 10 9 8 7
losers) suggests giving a jump ♦ 8 7 6 3 ♦ 5
♠ J 10 7 3 raise to 3♠, while point count ♣ K Q 9 ♣ 8
♥ K J 9 6 3 might suggest a simple raise.
♦ A Q 7 3 If South jumps to 3♠, North
♣ Void will surely drive the auction I know you should have I passed. The oppo-
to a slam. If South raises to five hearts to bid 2♥ over nents said I should
2♠, as most people would, 1♠. I also understand that have bid 2NT, showing
West North East South you are unlikely to reach 1NT (the dustbin bid) is both majors. I did not
1♥ a slam. I suppose North 6-9 points, so should I know their system.
Pass 1♠ Pass 2♦ might bid 3NT over 2♠ and bid 2♦ with a hand like Doreen Parrington by email.
Pass 3♣ Pass 4♠ South, rather than making this and 10 points?
A
Pass 4NT Pass 5♦ a simple correction to 4♠, John A Ward by email. Many people play
Pass 6♠ Dbl End cue bids one of the minors. that a 2NT overcall
A
On your actual auction, While I agree that 2♦ shows the minors. I
East held all the remain- East’s double of the slam does not describe the have not come across playing
ing points. The slam should be lead directing, hand terribly well, 2NT as showing the majors.
made with an overtrick asking for an unusual lead. nothing else fits the bill. You It is common to play that a
when declarer guessed Holding the ace-queen of cannot bid 1NT because if cue bid of the minor opened
both majors well. clubs, East does not want partner has 15-16 balanced, shows the majors (Michaels
Should South support to deflect West from a club you will play there and miss cue bid). If you are playing
spades at his second lead. Since hearts is dummy’s game. Nor, as you point Michaels, you bid 2♦. With
bid? As it was, his bid- main suit, the double should out, can you bid 2♥ because such great shape and good
ding showed his three- ask for a heart lead. As a partner will place you with intermediates in your suits,
suited shape and al- heart lead solves declarer’s five hearts. Remember, 2♦ you do not need to worry
lowed North to bid the two-way guess in the suit, is a new suit and so (unless about having only 6 points.

Ask Julian continued beat 6♠, which I admit West North East South (spades and clubs), while
might happen as East has 1♥ Pass 4♣ would be a splinter
so little in the other suits. 2♣ 2♠ Pass Pass (spade support and short
3♦ clubs), so those bids would
Q
I made a mistake ♣♦♥♠ not be an option for me.
during the West’s 3♦ means more or You could bid 5♣, I
Q
bidding here; I How do less the same as it would suppose. That seems
forgot which way round intervening have done if North had rather wild. 5♣ makes
we were playing RKCB. bids by the passed and East had rebid but only because East
opponents affect 2♥, usually game-going unexpectedly has the ♣K.
‘reverse’ bidding (by values (because the bid is
Q
♠ K J 9 8 5 2 opener or responder)? at the three level) with at North thought
♥ K Q 9 5 Stephen Whitaker, least five clubs and at least he had shown
♦ 3 Sherborne, Dorset. four diamonds. Being under 6+ hearts and
♣ 4 3 the spade bid, double from probably 4 spades
A
N In general, the West should be for take-out, here, which is why
W E
S
opposing bidding so there is less possibility he passed 3NT.
does not make that West has invented a
♠ A Q 10 3 a lot of difference. diamond suit to create a
♥ A 10 force than there would be ♠ K Q 8 3
♦ 8 5 West North East South in an uncontested auction. ♥ A K Q 9 7 4 2
♣ A K Q 9 7 1♣ Pass 1♥ 1♠ ♦ 3
2♦ ♣♦♥♠ ♣ 10
Q
N
W E
West North East South West’s 2♦ means the same as What should S
2♦1 Dbl it would have done without South bid
Pass 4♠ Pass 4NT2 the 1♠ overcall, about 17-20 on the hand ♠ A 4 2
Pass 5♦3 Pass 5♠ points with at least 5 clubs below? Some have ♥ J
End and at least 4 diamonds suggested 4♣ or 5♣. ♦ K 6 5
1
Multi, here a weak two in (more clubs than diamonds). ♣ Q 8 7 5 4 2
hearts.
2
RKCB. West North East South ♠ A Q 9 5 4
3
Zero key cards (1430), 1♣ Pass 1♠ 2♥ ♥ 9 7 6 West North East South
so denying the ♠K. 3♦ ♦ A 10 9 8 1♦ Pass
♣ 2 Pass Dbl 2♣ Pass
If I had bid correctly, Here the overcall does push ♠ K J 10 7 ♠ 8 3 2 2♦ 3♥ Pass 3NT
how would South know the bidding higher. With a ♥ A Q J 5 N ♥ 8 4 End
there were not two quick hand of reversing strength, ♦ K Q W E S
♦ J 7 6 5
losers in diamonds? clearly West cannot pass. 4 3 2 3NT went down after a
Howard Webb, Rotherham. However, on some hands ♣ 7 6 5 ♣ K club lead and diamond
with only 4-5 in the minors, ♠ 6 return, when the opener,
A
Assuming that West would look for some ♥ K 10 3 2 unexpectedly, did not
partner’s double rebid other than 3♦, such ♦ Void hold the ♦A. South said
shows either a as 2NT, double or 3♥. ♣ A Q J 10 9 8 4 3 North should have taken
weak no-trump or a good her 3NT out into hearts.
hand, your 4♠ is a strong West North East South What do you think?
move, showing the wish 1♣ Pass 1♥ 2♦ West North East South Catherine Howard, Lambeth.
to play there facing the 2♠ 1♥ 1♠ Pass ?
A
weak no-trump hand. With a seven-
In this case, partner can South’s overcall does not Ruth Letcher, Bath. card suit and two
reasonably assume that you suddenly make 2♠ a reverse. singletons, North can
A
have something apart from That said, 2♠ does show With the misfit judge that 3NT is unlikely
the ♠K, in which case it extra values (say 15+). for spades and to be the best spot. Double
would be unlucky if there This is because, with a reasonable followed by 3♥ showed a
were two fast diamond minimum opening bid and defence against West’s hand with hearts too good
losers. Even if there were no assurance of a fit, it would hearts, a simple 2♣ to for a re-opening 1♥ overcall.
two fast diamond losers, be usual for West to pass. start with seems fine. It did not promise a 7-4
the opponents might have You ask about the effect I play that 3♣ would shape. North should have
to lead the suit initially to on responder too. be a fit-showing jump taken 3NT out to 4♥.

Ask Julian continued
Denham The Olde
good hand, so I think North
is well worth a reverse of
Grove Barn 2♥. If North rebids 2♥ and
South raises to 3♥, North
Q
Denham,
Bucks, UB9 5DG Hotel I think North
might have
might reasonably jump to
5♥. When your side has bid
Marston,
Lincs NG32 2HT opened 1♦ three suits, a jump to five of a
here, though a slam major says you want to be in
1-3 November £169 still seems reachable a slam if partner can control
Just Duplicate Bridge after opening 1♥. the fourth suit. Holding the
8-10 November £245 ♠A, South would cue bid 5♠.
NEW
Bernard Magee TOPIC
North would then cue bid
10-13 Jan 2014 – £299 Better Leads & Switches
♠ J 8 6♣, but give up on a grand
Filming Weekend 22-24 November £169 ♥ A Q 7 5 3 slam when South is unable
Bernard Magee Just Duplicate Bridge
♦ A Q J 6 5 2 to bid 6♦ to show the ♦K.
7-9 February 2014 – £199 17-19 January 2014 £169
♣ Void
Just Duplicate Bridge Just Duplicate Bridge
N ♣♦♥♠
28-30 March 2014 – £199 21-23 February £179 W E
Q
Just Duplicate Bridge Stayman & Transfers S
Danny Roth,
14-16 March £169
4-6 April 2014 – £169 ♠ A 3 in his book,
Rubber / Chicago ♥ K 8 4 2 ‘The Expert
Diana Holland 25-27 April £179
♦ 10 7 Beginner’ says:
Will Parsons
4-6 July 2014 – £199 Further into the Auction ♣ A Q J 4 3 1. A 2♥ response
Just Duplicate Bridge to a 1♠ opening indi-
9-11 May £179
Gwen Beattie – Overcalls cates five hearts.
Full Board
16-18 May £169 West North East South 2. A 1NT response to
No Single Supplement
Just Duplicate Bridge 1♥1 Pass 2NT2 an opening of 1♦, 1♥
Booking Form on page 8. Pass 4♦3 Pass 4♥ or 1♠ shows 6 to 8 or 9
6-8 June £245
Bernard Magee NEW End points, but you would
TOPIC
Bidding 1
Playing 5-card majors and a require 8 to 10 points
Distributional Hands strong NT, possibly a mistake. to respond 1NT to 1♣.
RUBBER / 13-15 June £169
2
Game forcing heart raise. Why is this so?
3
A good second suit. Peter Higgins by email.
CHICAGO 20-22 June £245
A
Bernard Magee
EVENTS Finding Slams
With the ♦K onside,
13 tricks rolled in.
1. A wide range
of systems, includ-
27-29 June £169 How should the bid- ing Acol, require a
Chatsworth Hotel Just Duplicate Bridge
ding have gone? 5-card suit for a 2♥ response
Worthing BN11 3DU 11-13 July £169 Trevor Howard, to 1♠. Playing the response
7-9 February 2014 Just Duplicate Bridge
Bushey, Herts. as showing five hearts helps
with Sheila Rogers 1-3 August £169
in finding 5-3 fits. Responder
A
With a full value 2NT does not need to bid hearts
29-31 August £169
Denham Grove Jacoby bid and aces to uncover a 4-4 fit because,
Diana Holland
Bucks UB9 5DG Rubber / Chicago facing both North’s with 5-4 in the majors,
4-6 April 2014 short suits, South’s sign off in opener will be planning to
12-14 September £169
with Diana Holland Just Duplicate Bridge 4♥ was a little cautious. That show the hearts anyway.
26-28 September £179 said, North has a 4-loser 2. When the opening bid
Stan Powell hand so might have risked is 1♣, responder has more
The Olde Barn Declarer Play taking the auction to the room, with space to show
Marston, 10-12 October £245 five level. If North continued any suit at the one level, than
Lincs NG32 2HT Bernard Magee with a cue bid of 5♣, South over other suit openings. To
29-31 August 2014 Endplay & Avoidance would have to look favour- justify the space-consuming
with Diana Holland 14-16 November £179 ably on the ♠A (first-round and possibly wrong-siding re-
Will Parsons – Doubles control in the unbid suit). sponse of 1NT, you therefore
If North opens 1♦, as you need a slightly better hand
£169 Full Board Full Board suggest, you get a completely than you do over the other
No Single Supplement No Single Supplement
different auction. From the suit openings. Again, what
Booking Form on page 8. Booking Form on page 8. description of the system, a Danny Roth suggests is more
2♣ response shows quite a or less standard.

Ask Julian continued at the game level (4♠ rather Bridge and Travel Tips
than 3♠), partner would be
more likely to leave in the
double. Even in that case,
LEAVE THEM OUT
Q
What bidding your double would show
would you rec- strength rather than spades. Bridge tip from Sally Brock:
ommend on the
following (West) hand? ♣♦♥♠
Keep your agreements about bidding
and defensive carding simple
Q
If partner
I
♠ 10 opens 1♦ and play against many aver- signals on partner’s lead (i.e.
age club players. When high=encouraging), count
♥ A Q 10 8 rebids 2♥ over
they alert a bid and I ask on declarer’s lead (high-
♦ A K 9 6 a 1♠ response, is this a
what it means, they might low=even) and straightfor-
♣ K Q J 10 reverse? I am familiar
give me a name proudly: ward suit preference. Learn
with a reverse when McKendrick or Smolen or to defend by using logic to
you bid 1♥ then 2♠. Kickback or Birthright. And work out the hand.
West North East South John Shingler by email. they are surprised – disbe- Don’t forget that any in-
1♣ 3♠ Pass Pass lieving even – that the name formation given to partner,
A
Dbl End If partner opens 1♦ means nothing to me and when in the bidding or the
and rebids 2♥, that that I don’t have a clue what defence, can also be used
My partner had is a reverse, just like they are talking about. by declarer. There is a lot to
♥K-J-x-x-x. 4♥ was cold. opening 1♥ and rebidding Believe me that these be said for just raising 1NT
She thought my double 2♠ as you suggest. In each conventions will not add to 3NT, or one of a suit to
to your performance at the game. That way, the oppo-
was for penalties be- case, opener is rebidding in
table. Rather they will give nents know nothing and do
cause North’s overcall a higher-ranking suit than
you more scope for misun- not have the opportunity to
was pre-emptive. She the suit opened and in such derstandings. If you have double an artificial bid for
also thought I should a way as to take the bidding no understanding in the first the lead. In similar fashion,
have opened 1♥. past two of his first suit. place, then you can’t have painting a picture of your
Lena Morgan, Swansea. a misunderstanding. None hand to partner also gives
♣♦♥♠ of these conventions are a declarer information too.
A
While 4441 hands substitute for judgement and Make sure it is your partner
Q
are often awkward, My part- good hand evaluation. who benefits.
your opening bid ner opened When I am declarer and It is tempting to take up
and re-opening double 2♣. I held: want to understand my op- complicated agreements in
ponents’ agreements about the hope that they will offer
look fine to me. By open-
signals and discards, I am you an instant ‘fix’, but that
ing your lowest suit, you
often told, ‘revolving dis- just doesn’t happen.
maximise your chance of ♠ 10 5 3
cards’, ‘American leads’, ‘a Keep it simple until you
finding a fit. You also give ♥ K 9 4 foster echo’. I don’t really are an expert and only then
yourself rebid options. If ♦ J 8 6 3 know what they all mean ei- add these little swirls and
you opened 1♥, you would ♣ J 7 4 ther. Give me simple attitude flourishes. ■
have to rebid in no-trumps
if partner bids spades. With
a hand of this strength, I responded 2♦. Some Travel tip from Emma Thomson:
H
there is too much danger suggested I should bid ands up. Who always sits on their suitcase to
of missing a good contract 2NT or show a suit. make it shut? Over-packing is a common prob-
in a minor if you open 1♥. Mary Collett, Kings Ripton. lem for most travellers: we overestimate how
When only two opposing Cambridgeshire. many clothes, shoes and beauty products we need
players are bidding, dou- when abroad. Instead of straining backs and suit-
A
bles are for take-out. This Giving a negative case belts, try eliminating ‘what if’ items, chances are
you’ll never use them; buy miniature versions of your
applies whether you are response with 5
toiletries from the supermarket, or use the shampoo,
over or under the bid and points seems entirely conditioner and shower gel provided by most hotels;
whether the opposing bid is normal to me. Usually, you and cut down on clothes. Most establishments have a
pre-emptive or not. I suppose need 8 points or so to give a laundry service – make use of it and for a two-week
that if the overcall had been positive response. ■ trip you need only bring five pairs of pants, three pairs
of socks, two pairs of trousers (one casual, one smart),
two pairs of shoes (walking and evening), and three
T-shirts.
E-mail your questions for Julian to:
julianpottage@mrbridge.co.uk

David Stevenson answers your questions on Laws and Ethics
Can You Refuse

to Penalise
a Revoke?
Q
If declarer somewhat unreasonable. realised and admitted 3. I understood from
revokes and If you allow revokers to get that he had revoked. a bridge rules seminar
it becomes no penalty, they will not He played out the hand that in a no-trump
established, can the try too hard to follow suit and transferred two contract the revoke
opponents refuse to in future and may spoil a tricks to the opposition trick could never incur a
accept that the declarer board for someone else. after some discussion, penalty as it could never
should be penalised I find the idea of not so he ended up with win the trick. Is this
if they believe: getting satisfaction from 10 tricks, making his correct, as the offending
a) That the mistake opponents’ mistakes a contract exactly. The player could not win the
was a mechanical error strange one. If you were director was called trick, but it could be won
from which declarer did playing football and an and he said he would by his/her partner?
not gain in any way and opponent scored an own look at the situation Janet Betteridge, Pannal BC.
b) they are certain that goal, would you not want to when he was scoring.
A
the revoke did not affect accept it? If your opponents I am asking your Whenever there is an
their defence at all? miscount trumps and opinion, even though established revoke
I, for one, would get you can ruff as a result, I was not the director at least one trick
no satisfaction from do you refuse to ruff? on duty at the time, is transferred to the other
benefiting under the but because I act side, unless the revoking
above circumstances. ♣♦♥♠ as director on other side wins neither the revoke
I accept fully that occasions and would trick nor any subsequent
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declarer cannot try At our bridge really like to know what ones, ie tricks won before
to avoid a penalty if club recently we the ruling should be. the revoke trick are safe
the opponents wish had a revoke In the yellow book and are never transferred.
to enforce the rules. which caused a lot of (DBRS 2008) on page The revoke penalty is two
John Martin by email. disagreement about 39, it says that, ‘if tricks only if the revoker
whether penalties Declarer revokes and won the trick. Apart from
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The director may should be imposed and Dummy wins the trick some very obscure positions
waive a penalty for tricks transferred. Declarer is deemed which basically never
cause if the non- Declarer was in 4NT. NOT to have won that happen, this applies only
offending side request it. About halfway through trick for the purposes of when the revoke card is a
That would be reasonable playing the hand (at assessing a penalty.’ trump. In the case you give,
if declarer is elderly or which stage he had won 1. Does this mean that declarer revoked. Since the
infirm or the non-offending all the tricks but one), he declarer’s revoke in the trick was won in dummy it
side felt it was their fault, entered dummy and led instance described does is not a two trick revoke,
for example if they had the spade suit from the not incur a penalty? but a one trick revoke.
distracted declarer. But note top (the spades were all 2. In leading the The director is required to
the words ‘for cause’. Just to winners at this stage). next card from dummy, restore equity, so if a revoke
refuse to accept the penalty On the first spade from which is also a winner, costs the other side two tricks
for no reason except that you dummy, he discarded a does declarer incur or more, they will get them
disagree with the laws is not diamond. On the second a penalty by winning back as an adjustment, not
enough, being illegal and spade from dummy, he another trick? as a penalty.

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Ask David continued bidding 4♠ over pass? thought and partner has not There has been no
Not in my view. Despite called, thus you should have change whatever
East’s complaint, this is been allowed to change this. to the Stop rules.
a position where it is not It clearly was a mechanical However, both you and
Q
North bid 1♠ and, obvious whether South had a error and the fact that you your opponents have
after a noticeable choice between 2♠ and 3♠, were made aware of this misunderstood them. Before
hesitation, South or a choice between 3♠ and only by partner does not any jump bid, a player
bid 3♠. North had a 4♠, therefore the hesitation, stop the law from applying. has to put the Stop card
marginal choice between that is the unauthorised Note also that, even if out, make the bid, leave it
4♠ and pass. He chose information, does not suggest you had not been allowed out for about ten seconds,
to bid 4♠ which made. one choice rather than the to change it, the bidding then replace it. The next
East complained that other. So I would not adjust. should have proceeded opponent may not call until
North had inferred Consider a different and it is not right to give the Stop card is replaced,
that his partner held scenario. Suppose North an average of any sort. nor should he call until
extra values from the had passed, he makes only ten seconds have elapsed
hesitation and had nine tricks and gets a top ♣♦♥♠ even if the player does not
bid 4♠ on the strength because everyone went leave the Stop card out.
Q
of this. South had down in game. Now, I could Can you please A call is not made until
hesitated while deciding imagine East complaining, clarify the stop the bid itself is taken from
between 2♠ and 3♠. The ‘that North had inferred from card rules? the bidding box, so may be
contract made due to an the hesitation that his partner The other evening, changed until that happens.
extremely favourable held minimal values and the bidding went: 1♥, So, if a player bids 2♦ after
distribution. N/S got a had passed on the strength Pass, Stop 2♦. I, as fourth showing the Stop card, then
top on the hand. How of this.’ So be careful when player, queried the Stop 2♦ is the bid made; it is not
should the director rule? there is a hesitation and a as it was not a jump bid. a jump and there is no rule
I am sure that North successful result – that is I suggested that it ought (nor has there ever been
was not guided by the not enough to adjust. The to be corrected to 3♦ and, such a rule) that his partner
hesitation in this case director must be clear that if not, then their partner is not allowed to bid nor that
but as a general rule, if a the unauthorised information could no longer bid. the bid must be changed.
player takes advantage really did suggest the action The 2♦ bidder said that Is that all? Not quite.
of a hesitation but chosen and he must be the rules had changed Sometimes, the Stop card
has made a wrong careful not to rule against and that an apology was clearly a mistake, but
inference and therefore the player automatically was acceptable. At this sometimes it is obvious
acted on ‘unauthorised because of his success. point, the director was that the player nearly did
information’ which does called and agreed with make a jump bid. That is
Q
not exist, how should the I intended to the 2♦ bidder that his unauthorised information
matter be dealt with? open 1NT when partner was still allowed to his partner, who must
Leonard Macauley by email. my partner to bid. They went on to take no advantage from
announced, ‘strong’. make game in 3NT. that knowledge, though his
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If a player chooses This alerted me to the Was the ruling correct? opponents are free to use the
between logical fact that the 2♣ bid was Ann Holderness by email. knowledge.
alternatives, one showing: it had attached
suggested over another by itself to the 1NT card.
the unauthorised information I asked to change my
and the choice is more bid. The director was
successful, then the director
adjusts. That (paraphrased)
called and, after some
time, ruled that as I
DUPLICATE BRIDGE
is what the law says.
Now, when South hesitated
was made aware of my
error only by my partner
RULES SIMPLIFIED
there was unauthorised announcing, it was not
(otherwise known as the Yellow Book)
information, since hesitations a mechanical error and
basically show doubt, ie the awarded my opponents
hesitater was considering an average plus. only
by John Rumbelow and
alternatives. Pass was a
logical alternative, because
John Dodds by email.
revised by David Stevenson £595
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you say it was a marginal The law allows
choice between 4♠ and pass. you to change an
But did the unauthorised unintended call, so
Available from Mr Bridge ( 01483 489961
information suggest long as you do not pause for

Ask David continued by naming the card, after
Bernard Magee’s Tips which dummy picks up
the card and faces it on
for Better Bridge the table. In playing from
Q
What is the dummy’s hand declarer
65 invaluable tips in 160 pages
correct procedure may, if necessary, pick up
and relevant the desired card himself.’
Bidding Tips 33 A low lead usually promises
1 Always consider bidding length and an honour requirements after The words ‘if necessary’
spades if you can 34 When declaring 1NT, an offender opens 3♥, do not mean that declarer
2 Bid more aggressively try to be patient when his partner is may pick the card up if
when non-vulnerable 35 Duck an early round when
3 Always double when the you are short of entries dealer? The EBU White he feels like it, but only if
opponents steal your deal 36 Lead up to your Book, effective from there is a real need, the
4 A takeout double shows two-honour holding August 2013, refers most common one being
shortage in the suit doubled 37 Do not always assume
5 ‘Borrow’ a king a suit will break well only to when it was that dummy has gone off
to keep the auction open 38 Drop a high card the offender’s RHO’s to the toilet or to have a
6 After a penalty double, to put off the defence
turn to bid and Law 31 smoke or get a cup of tea.
don’t let the opponents escape 39 Play your highest card to tempt
7 Halve the value of a singleton a defender to cover ‘Bid out of Rotation’, to A second possibility is if
honour when opening 40 Draw trumps first unless you which Law 29 refers, dummy has a disability,
8 Only add length-points for a have a good reason not to
has inexplicably which would make the
suit that might be useful 41 Do not waste your trumps
9 Isolated honours are bad 42 Consider leaving a lone defen- been left blank. normal method too difficult.
except in partner’s suit sive trump winner out Geoffrey Cassen by email.
10 Use the jump shift sparingly
Defence Tips ♣♦♥♠
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11 Consider passing and letting
partner decide 43 Keep four-card suits intact Simple book rulings
Q
12 You need two top honours whenever possible are best dealt with A good friend of
for a second-seat pre-empt 44 Give count on declarer’s leads
45 Keep the right cards by being read direct mine informed
13 Put the brakes on if you have a
misfit rather than signal from the law book and, if me that when
14 Strong and long minors work 46 Take your time that is done, this is what you asked what a discard
well in no-trumps when dummy is put down
47 High cards are for killing will find: The director will means it is insufficient to
15 One stop in the opponents’ suit
can be enough for no-trumps other high cards tell the next player he may reply, ‘McKenney,’ which
16 Keep your two-level 48 Do not waste
accept the 3♥ bid, which I accept. He went on to
responses up to strength intermediate cards
17 Use your normal methods in 49 Pick two key suits to then becomes legal and the state that current rules
response to a 1NT overcall concentrate on during the play bidding goes on from there; require you to say what
18 Don’t overcall just because 50 If in doubt, cover an honour
or, if the next player does not suit the card asks for –
you have opening points with an honour
19 Overcalls can be quite weak, 51 If a lead is from two honours, it accept it (and he must be told and this I disagree with.
so be prudent when responding is best not to cover all the options before being If quizzed about part-
20 Weak overcalls must be based 52 Keep your honour to kill
dummy’s honour
allowed to decide), the 3♥ ner’s discard, I say, ‘If
on strong suits
21 6NT requires 33 points 53 Try to show partner your bid is removed. His partner, you consider it is a high
not 4 aces and 4 kings solid honour sequences the dealer, will have to pass card, he wants the high-
22 Raise immediately, if weak 54 Lead the normal card when
leading partner’s suit throughout the hand and er ranking of the other
with four-card support
23 In a competitive auction, 55 Never underlead an ace at trick there will be lead penalties two suits; if you consider
show support immediately one in a suit contract if the offender becomes a it is low card, he wants
24 Bid to the level of your fit 56 Be wary of leading from
four cards to only one honour defender unless he has bid the lower ranking of the
quickly with weak hands
25 With strength and support, 57 Lead a higher card from hearts in the ensuing auction. other suits.’ Am I right?
use the opponents’ bid suit a suit without an honour Geoffrey Tremlett by email.
58 Lead through ‘beatable’
♣♦♥♠
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strength and up to weakness
Declarer-play Tips 59 Cash your winners before try- Essentially, you are
Q
26 When your contract depends ing for a trump promotion
on a finesse, think ‘endplay’ In the October correct. Names are
60 Be patient when defending
27 Consider what a defender 1NT 2011 edition inadequate for two
might be thinking about 61 Trump leads can be safe of BRIDGE, in reasons. First, the opponents
28 Always take your time throughout the play
at trick one answer to a question, may not know the conven-
29 Establish extra tricks before General Tips you stated that touching tion. Second, some people
cashing your winners 62 Do not put important cards dummy’s cards at play conventions differently.
30 Use your opponents’ at either end of your hand
bidding to your advantage 63 Avoid being declarer when duplicate was illegal. Therefore, you should
31 Avoid the ‘baddie’ you are dummy Which rule covers this? describe your agreements
gaining the lead 64 Before you lead, ask for a David Dunn by email. – and your spiel above is
32 Use the Rule of Seven when review of the auction
holding up in no-trumps perfect. Indeed, it is not up
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65 Enjoy the Game!
Law 45B says, to you to tell him the suit the
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Ask David continued may a player ask for an
explanation of a bid?
Susan Russell,
Buckingham.
Mr Bridge
Festive 2013/2014
Q A
I opened a You may ask for an
pre-empt of 3♦. explanation of any
LHO started call (or defensive
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Don’t Believe Everything
the Books Tell You
by Ian C Kemp
Y
ou sit down with a new partner which opener must pass. take it out. Leaving it in can be very
at the club night. Sensibly, you Hardly any bridge books or teachers expensive.
agree to play standard Acol – warn you about this. They give the If you bid 3♦ and partner meant it
maybe with a couple of tweaks, but impression that there are two ways to for penalties, you may still make 3♦,
nothing too complicated. bid – my way and the wrong way. This or partner may convert to 3NT. If
After a few boards, it’s going well, is fine, until you find that partner read you pass and partner intended it as
then you pick up the following lovely a different book. take-out, you’ve doubled them into
hand: Acol is an ‘approach-forcing’ game and there’s every chance that
system. This means that whether a their 2♠ will make – maybe even with
bid is forcing to game, forcing for one overtricks – for a huge score. Or you’ve
♠ K 8 round or non-forcing depends on the missed game yourself. Or both.
♥ A Q 7 3 previous bidding sequence. This is a With a new partner, you need a
♦ A K J 9 6 2 fruitful source of mix-ups, as practice survival kit. Here’s some typical
♣ 5 has varied over the years. 1♥-1♠-2♦ is things worth agreeing quickly before
always non-forcing and 1♦-1♠-2♥ (a you start:
reverse) is forcing, but some players
17 points and 4 losers. While you’re nowadays would consider 1♥-2♣-2♦ l Four or five card majors? Weak,
thinking about what to bid, partner as forcing, others would not. Likewise, strong or variable no trump?
surprises you by opening 1NT. Now some players play an Acol Strong Two l Stayman and transfers over 1NT?
you can see game and maybe a slam, as forcing for one round, others as Including after 2NT openings,
but which one? No-trumps, diamonds, non-forcing. sequences like 2♣-2♦-2NT and no-
maybe even hearts? You start by If confusion can occur in natural trump overcalls?
forcing with 3♦. To your horror, sequences like this, what about l Negative doubles? Including after a
partner passes. Down goes: conventions and artificial bids? 1NT opening?
A sensible approach is to play only l Do you play unassuming cue
as many conventions as you and bids and pre-emptive raises when
♠ A 9 4 partner both feel comfortable with raising partner’s overcall? (If they
♥ K 10 5 2 and are sure you can remember. Every haven’t heard of them, it’s a fair bet
♦ 7 3 new gadget brings the potential for they don’t use them).
♣ A J 8 6 misunderstandings and disaster – l Strength of 2-over-1 change of suit
even apparently simple and common responses (eg 1♠-2♣) and the 1NT
methods like negative doubles and response?
You make an easy 12 tricks but get a transfers. Have you worked out l Fourth suit forcing? Forcing to
resounding bottom, as everyone else what to do after the possible rebids game or just for one round?
has made 3NT, 5♦, 6♦, 4♥, 6♥ and even and continuations? What happens l Strong Twos, Benji or three weak
7♥. Whose fault was it – yours or your if opponents interfere? Virtually twos? Are your strong twos forcing
partner’s? everyone plays Stayman, take-out or non-forcing? With Benji, what
The answer is, neither. You both bid doubles and some form of Blackwood; ranges to use for 2NT openings and
correctly, based on your understanding anything else is optional. rebids?
of Acol. But Acol is an unregulated One sequence that many l What sort of leads and discards?
system and has changed over the years. partnerships don’t discuss until after a
As the EBU put it, ‘my Acol isn’t the nasty accident – when it’s too late. With a regular partner, try to get the
same as your Acol.’ Traditional Acol You are North: same bidding book, or share your
uses the 1NT-3♦ sequence as a slam try system notes. Standard convention
in diamonds. But a few books give it as West North East South cards aren’t enough, as they don’t
an invitational hand with about 8-10 1NT 2♠ Dbl show what may happen in later rounds
points and a 6-card minor, which you Pass ? of bidding.
convert to 3NT with a good hand or So before you tell partner off for that
diamond support and otherwise pass. Is partner’s double for penalties or strange-looking bid, hold your fire
A few players using transfers even use take-out? What do you do if you’re – they may simply have been taught
it as a weak take-out in diamonds, not sure? In this case – if in doubt, differently! ■

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READERS’ by modern technology, of
which we should take full
advantage if the investment
is to be justified.
be about 12.5 HCP. A
double, perhaps 15.5. If
the remaining 12 HCP are
evenly divided, 1NT may
LETTERS
East, who usually checks well make and if it doesn’t
the score entered by North, the opponents may have
should make it easily seen had a better part score of
by South and West. Too their own. If the no-trump
often East presses the ‘OK’ bidder’s partner has most
button casually and moves of the 12, the double is
UNQUALIFIED New members and visitors the display to the next probably mistaken, especially
Alex Brown raised an are always welcome, with round, without showing the if Helvic is played when 1NT
interesting and common or without partners. Call others the recorded result. will be redoubled to game.
problem in BRIDGE 129: me on ( 01308 425298. It is vital that everyone If the no-trump bidder’s
unqualified directors. Roy Tarsnane, checks the score entered partner is weak, he can
I am a member of two Bridport, Dorset. into the Bridgemate. TDs wriggle, using Helvic.
bridge clubs who have no should refuse to accept Looking back over 400
qualified directors and we ALWAYS CHECK complaints about wrong computer-shuffled hands
manage very well with the Many TDs insist that at least scores unless, of course, all from Orpington Bridge Club,
use of the EBU Rulebook, a one player in a partnership at the table are given the I found just two where third in
lot of goodwill and the advice writes out a score card for chance to agree at the time. hand had a weak no-trump
of experienced players. each deal, even though However, TDs should hand after two passes and
Your magazine, BRIDGE, fully functional Bridgemates accept complaints about the fourth hand had enough
is eagerly awaited. David are in use. They say that South and West not to double. Once, 1NT
Stevenson’s articles on Laws in the event of a dispute being allowed to see the doubled made, for a poor
and Ethics are read first, the card can be useful in Bridgemate screen and then result as 3NT was makeable.
then discussed at length. We resolving the situation. issue advice or warnings to The other time, it went off for
find his advice invaluable, so This argument depends East if this has happened. 100, but the opponents had
the suggestion that a book entirely on the score card Mr Neville Layhe, a better part score. Would
of Decisions on the Laws being correct which it Penycae, Wrexham. any readers care to generate
of Bridge is a good one. frequently is not because it more evidence? On this
I would go further. We find has only been checked by NO BETTER sample, varying the no-trump
it impossible to get players to one pair of eyes. On the Most people who receive your can’t be worth the bother.
train and qualify as directors, other hand, the Bridgemates magazine belong to bridge Mr Tom Smith, Orpington.
even with a financial subsidy. should have been checked clubs. I would have thought
EBU courses are too long, by four pairs of eyes. In my it would give you a larger SUPER PLUG
too expensive and too far. view, the keeping of score readership if you sent say six Following the printing of my
The two bridge clubs in cards should be voluntary copies to each bridge club in first catalogue, which went
Bridport to which I belong and not compulsory, because the UK and allowed them to better than I had expected,
meet on Wednesday and they are inherently unreliable loan them out to members I am producing a second
Thursday evenings at 7pm. and have been replaced to read and then return for one in October. If any of
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Catching Up
by Sally Brock
A
fter a lovely break in Ireland, which was really only a result of a
we returned home to the good player getting careless in the ♠ 9 6 5
celebration of my grandson other room. I will give it to you as a ♥ A K 7 6
Hayden’s fourth birthday. single-dummy problem: ♦ K 10 6 5 2
On the Saturday, there was a small ♣ Q
family birthday party at their home ♠ J 8 4 ♠ A 7 3
in Waltham Abbey. Then, on the Dealer South. East-West Game. ♥ Q N ♥ J 10 9 5 4 3 2
W E
following Monday, the family plus ♠ 9 6 5 ♦ Q 9 8 7 S ♦ Void
maternal grandparents went camping ♥ A K 7 6 ♣ 9 7 5 4 2 ♣ 10 8 3
in Oxfordshire. Briony and I went to ♦ K 10 6 5 2 ♠ K Q 10 2
join them for the day on the Tuesday ♣ Q ♥ 8
(after I had attended an AA Driving ♦ A J 4 3
N
Awareness course in order to avoid W E
♣ A K J 6
three points for a minor speeding S
offence – not the first time I have had
to do this). ♠ K Q 10 2 Do you see where declarer went wrong?
But I guess the really exciting news ♥ 8 After cashing the ♦K, he should have
in this period has been to do with ♦ A J 4 3 played a diamond to his ace and a low
Briony. ♣ A K J 6 diamond from hand. West can win the
To start with, she got herself a full- queen, but when East plays a heart, de-
time, 40 hours a week, job in Marks clarer can ruff with the jack, then cross
& Spencer Simply Food. She started West North East South to the ♣Q to draw West’s last trump.
that while I was in Ireland. The plan 1♦ On the Tuesday, Briony and I set out
was to work until roughly Christmas Pass 1♥ Pass 1♠ on our own little holiday – to Slovenia.
and earn lots of money to go on her Pass 2♣ Pass 2NT We flew to Ljubljana, picked up our
gap year travels. However, when she Pass 5♦ All Pass bright red, soft-top, VW Beetle and
got her A level results, she changed drove into the city to stay for a cou-
her mind and within a couple of North’s hand was too good for a non- ple of nights. I loved it. The old town
hours had got herself a place at Queen forcing three diamonds on the second is really pretty with a great atmos-
Mary’s College, London, to do Maths, round, so she used fourth-suit forcing phere. Then we drove to Bled where we
Business Management and Finance. to create a game-force. Then, when she stayed for two nights in a hotel built
She is really excited about the course jumped to five diamonds, she showed a by Tito for his own residence. I can
which seems to suit her down to the real minimum and South, reluctantly, thoroughly recommend this area for a
ground. So the time between then and called it a day. holiday. We had a night in Lipica on a
now has been spent sorting out the West led the ♥Q and declarer won stud farm where they train Lippizaner
details. with the ace. Declarer then played the horses, before moving on to Trieste for
I played in the Brighton teams ♦K from the dummy and East showed a couple of nights. It was really good
with Nicola and team-mates Frank out. What now? Not really pausing to fun to spend the week together.
To and Barry. We started off OK, think things through, declarer played When we got back, Briony was work-
despite playing against a succession of carelessly and was punished. He ing most of the time and I had to catch
internationals in the first few matches played a low diamond to his jack. West up with some Bradt work. Unfortu-
(starting with Zia), but narrowly won the queen, played a spade to East’s nately, there is very little interest in the
failed to make the B final, followed by ace and now a second heart promoted house so I’ve instructed another agent.
further deterioration on the Sunday. another trump trick for West because At least their optimism is infectious for
This was one of our better boards, this was the full deal: a little while. ■

Seven Days by Sally Brock
Saturday Monday Note how much better it would work
out if South started by showing his
After a pretty indifferent Friday Today we have our Round of 16 Gold hearts.
evening duplicate at the new YC, I set Cup match at Chris’s house in Bath. Luckily, Barry is not working
off from Barry’s at about 11am. First First we meet for a pub lunch (note tomorrow as it’s a long slog back to
stop is a lunch date with my brother- how much food has been featuring High Wycombe.
in-law, Martin. After a lot of catching over the last few days) and then go
up, I move on to Swanage for a reunion
with old schoolfriends. One of them,
back to his splendid house with its
fantastic views for the match, against Tuesday
Bella, is renting a fantastic house set Warner Solomon’s team from Devon. Briony and I go out early to Waitrose.
back on the hill overlooking the beach We struggle a bit early on and are Then she takes Barry to the station
area. There are five of us who get only 9 IMPs up with eight boards to on her way to work. I make a chicken
stuck into some wine and champagne play, but then we put our feet on the casserole in the slow cooker to have
before walking down the hill to get an accelerator and eventually win by 43. when she comes home at nine o’clock. I
excellent pizza. We then stroll on the This deal is instructive: have plenty to do just dealing with the
beach and listen to a band celebrating various emails that have come in over
the last night of the season. It seems the past few days. In the early evening,
that the band would probably sound Dealer East. North-South Vul. Barry and I bid some hands on BBO
better at a distance so we return to ♠ K J 8 7 5 3 which is something we both enjoy.
our roof terrace for more champagne ♥ Q 10 9 4
before retiring for the night. I don’t
know what it is about old friends. Two

♦ 10 5
♣ 4
Wednesday
of them I only knew for two years; the ♠ A Q 10 ♠ 9 6 4 2 A new Bradt book arrives so I spend
N
other two I was with at primary school. ♥ 6
W E
♥ K 8 3 most of the day working on Iran. In
Somehow, it is just so easy to wind ♦ 8 7 4 2 S ♦ K Q 9 3 the afternoon, I have a teaching ses-
back the clock and get on really well. ♣ 9 7 6 3 2 ♣ A 8 sion with Richard and Gerry. Barry
♠ Void isn’t working so he plays with me
Sunday

♥ A J 7 5 2
♦ A J 6
against them and we get murdered.
They do have the majority of the cards,
After breakfast, I set off for my par- ♣ K Q J 10 5 but handle them very well. I then drive
ents’ house in north Wiltshire, first to Barry’s for a cup of tea and leave the
picking Barry up from Chippenham car while I go to meet Nicola and her
station. My father takes us out for West North East South husband Jonathan for a Thai meal.
lunch to Jack’s, a pretty upmarket local 1NT Dbl We then go to the new YC at Queen’s
restaurant where we have a traditional 2♣ 3♠ Pass 3NT Tennis Club for the first Super League
Sunday lunch. My mother seems to be All Pass match of the season. Not a distin-
improving steadily every time I see guished start for the season as we lose
her. She has managed to get upstairs This is the auction at our table. It is 16-4. Nicola plays this hand nicely:
a couple of times and the next target is generally not a good idea to double
to start sleeping upstairs again. a 1NT opening with a distributional
We hardly have time to get back to hand unless you are sure you can Dealer South. East-West Vul.
my parents’ and fall asleep in a chair control the auction. And here, South ♠ A 10 8 5
before we’re off again, out with my pays the price. What would you lead ♥ A 6 4 2
siblings and their spouses. We first go from the West hand? Barry tries a ♦ Q 10
to pick up my brother John and his diamond. Declarer wins the ace over ♣ A K 7
wife Sally and then drive into Bath my queen and plays a low heart. I ♠ J 9 7 6 ♠ K 4 3
N
where we join my sister Kate and win the king and clear the diamonds. ♥ K 5
W E
♥ J 10 8 3
her husband John (names get quite There is no way for declarer to avoid ♦ K 9 7 6 S ♦ J 5
confusing in our family). We try to the further loss of two black-suit aces. ♣ J 3 2 ♣ 10 9 6 4
do justice to our Indian meal but it’s In the other room, the contract is ♠ Q 2
hard going. We linger, catching up on the same after a similar auction but ♥ Q 9 7
news about nieces and nephews. They this time South is not punished as ♦ A 8 4 3 2
are pretty much grown up now and all West leads a club. Declarer now has ♣ Q 8 5
doing interesting things. time to establish both his suits.

Seven Days continued
Friday be more confident of that being the
right contract), it looks to me as if 5♣
This is Briony’s last day at Marks & is likely to be just as good. After the
Spencer and therefore the last day she two major-suit cue-bids, Barry’s 5♣ is
West North East South gets her 20% staff discount. So we go less encouraging than 4NT would be
Pass to our nearest branch and stock up on (we don’t play any sort of Blackwood
Pass 1♣ Pass 1NT* various essentials, even buying our in minor-suit auctions).
Pass 2NT Pass 3NT Christmas chocolates. West, Anne Rosen, does well to
All Pass Then she drops me at the station lead a trump. East wins the ace and
*Best bid as the lead will come round to the and goes off to work. Barry is working returns a trump. I win, cash the ♠A,
queens. in Manchester today (he went up last ruff a spade and play the ♦K. East
night for a university reunion) but first wins the ace and plays another spade.
I am currently trying out a tip given to I go to the flat to drop off my laptop I win the king and run my trumps. If
me by Colin Simpson. His idea is that which is a bit heavy to lug around. squeeze play is ever easy this should
at teams scoring, you should not open Then I go to the Mole Clinic for a have been it. Don’t ask me how I lost
1NT when you are maximum and 4-4 check-up. A good friend has just had a my way. I know that East must have all
in the majors. The theory is that if you melanoma scare which has prompted the missing high cards (particularly as
open 1NT, you will miss a major-suit me to get checked over. They are West has shown up with ♠Q-J-x). If I
game in a 4-4 fit too often. It worked pretty sure I am OK, but there is one run off all my trumps but one, this is
well for me in the Lady Milne earlier they think needs a further check, so it the position:
in the year so I intend to persevere proves worth the trip. By the time I get
with it for a while. Here, it causes a bit back, Barry is home and we have a cup
of a problem. Usually, I would raise of tea before setting off for Finchley to ♠ Void
the 1NT response to 3NT with 18-19 play in the NICKO (National Inter- ♥ A Q
balanced, so Nicola expects a bit less Club Knock-Out) semi-final against ♦ Q 10
with only a semi-balanced hand for Neil Rosen’s team. For some reason, ♣ Void
my raise to 2NT. Still, she is likely to we (both pairs) have something of an ♠ Void ♠ 9
bid on when it is right to do so. off day and lose heavily. This was me, ♥ 10 8 N ♥ K 9
W E
She ducks the spade lead round to South, being a complete idiot: ♦ 9 8 S ♦ J 6
East’s king and when he switches to ♣ Void ♣ Void
the ♥3, puts in the nine. She wins the ♠ 6 5
♥K with the ace and runs the ♦Q. West Dealer South. Game All. ♥ 4
wins and continues with a second ♠ 10 ♦ Void
heart. Nicola wins with the queen, ♥ A Q J 6 3 ♣ 8
crosses to a club and plays the ♦10, ♦ K Q 10 2
covered by the jack and ace. Now she ♣ 5 3 2
cashes her black suits, hoping that the ♠ Q J 7 ♠ 9 8 4 2 Note that East has one more card than
N
♠J will fall. However, when it doesn’t ♥ 10 8 7 5 2
W E
♥ K 9 everyone else. That is because he can’t
she has a second string to her bow and ♦ 9 8 7 5 S ♦ A J 6 3 afford to discard one. In the event, he
exits with a spade, forcing West to give ♣ 4 ♣ A 10 6 discards a heart and it should be an
her the ♦8 at trick thirteen. ♠ A K 6 5 3 easy matter to now drop his singleton
Barry is playing in the duplicate ♥ 4 king. A perfect triple squeeze.
with Bernard Teltscher. They are ♦ 4 I am so annoyed with myself for
practising because they are playing in ♣ K Q J 9 8 7 missing this, I just feel like giving up the
a tournament in Pula, Croatia, which game and never touching a card again.
starts on Sunday. We go back to his flat Oh well, I’ve got some time to recover
and go through our sets of hands. West North East South before the world championships.
1♣
Thursday Pass
Pass
1♥ Dbl 1♠
2♦ Pass 2♠
♣♦♥♠
When I stay over at Barry’s, the first Pass 2NT Pass 3♣ The next few days are going to be a bit
decision to be made is whether to leave Pass 3NT Pass 4♣ strange: Barry will be in Pula, I will be
by nine o’clock or go and feed the meter. Pass 4♥ Pass 4♠ rushing around getting ready to go to
This time, I leave early and get home in Pass 5♣ All Pass Bali for the world championships and
time to spend a couple of hours with Briony will be getting herself ready to
Briony before she goes to work. Then I like our sequence. When partner go to university. Her 18th birthday is
it’s pretty solid work as I break the back shows some doubt about 3NT (by not on September 18th while I am away, so
of Iran. When she gets home, we have a bidding it immediately – 2♦ is game- we are having a pretend birthday for
beef stir fry and watch TV. forcing so an immediate 3NT would her on Wednesday. ■

Answers to Transfers Quiz on page 29
1 (i) You are West playing red-suit 2 You are East, playing red-suit transfers. 3 You are West, playing red-suit trans-
transfers. You open 1NT and your The bidding starts as shown. fers. The bidding starts as shown.
partner bids 2♥. What do you rebid
with Hands A and B? West East West East
(ii) What would you rebid with Hands 1NT 2♦ 1NT 2♥
A and B if your left hand opponent 2♥ ? 2♠ 2NT
doubled your 1NT opening and ?
your partner bid 2♥? What is your next bid with Hands C, D, E,
F, G, and H? What is your next bid with Hands I, J, K
and L?
Hand A Hand B
♠ 8 7 ♠ K 8 7 Hand C Hand D The first step is to understand the auc-
♥ K Q 6 ♥ A 7 ♠ A 8 7 ♠ A 8 7 tion. Partner has 5 spades, otherwise he
♦ A 7 6 2 ♦ A Q 6 5 ♥ A J 8 6 5 ♥ A J 8 6 5 would not have transferred with 2♥. If he
♣ K J 5 2 ♣ J 10 7 5 ♦ Q 10 7 ♦ A 10 7 had 6 spades, he would have continued
♣ 7 6 ♣ 7 6 by bidding spades again over your 2♠.
How strong is he? Take away the 2♥
(i) Partner’s 2♥ shows at least 5 spades. transfer bid and the 2♠ response and you
He expects you to bid 2♠. Hand C: 2NT. You have already shown have: 1NT-2NT. 11-12 points. So what
5 hearts with your 2♦ transfer. Now does he want you to do?
Hand A: 2♠. As instructed. Please note you are completing the picture: 11-12 He wants you to decide to play in game
that you cannot pass because you like points. if you are maximum for the 1NT open-
hearts but don’t like spades. You have no ing or a part-score if you are minimum.
idea what partner intends to do next. He Hand D: 3NT. At least 13 points. Partner He wants to play in spades if you have 3
might be weak with long spades and a will choose between 3NT and 4♥. or more spades. Otherwise, he wants to
void in hearts. He might be very strong, play in no-trumps. Whatever you do will
intending to bid game next time. end the auction. Therefore:
Hand E Hand F
Hand B: 2♠. Your hand is very prom- ♠ A 8 ♠ A 8
ising: maximum for 1NT, good 3-card ♥ A J 8 6 5 2 ♥ A J 8 6 5 2 Hand I Hand J
spade support and a doubleton which ♦ Q 8 7 ♦ A 10 7 ♠ 8 5 ♠ 8 6
might allow you to ruff a heart in hand. ♣ 7 6 ♣ 7 6 ♥ A Q 7 6 ♥ A Q 7 6
However, partner may be very weak, us- ♦ 9 8 6 ♦ Q 8 6
ing 2♥ to sign off in spades. ♣ A Q 4 2 ♣ A Q 4 2
Hand E: 3♥. You have already shown
(ii) With Hands A and B you should pass. 5 hearts with your 2♦ transfer. Now you
After the double, 2♥ is natural, a are completing the picture: a sixth heart Hand I: Pass. Minimum 1NT opening
weakness take-out. and enough points to invite game. bid and only two spades.
Hand F: 4♥. 6 hearts and enough for Hand J: 3NT. Maximum 1NT opening
Bridge Tie
game even if partner is minimum. bid but only two spades.
£15 Hand G Hand H Hand K Hand L

including ♠ A 8 ♠ A K 7 ♠ 8 5 2 ♠ Q 5 2
postage & packing ♥ A J 8 6 5 ♥ A K J 6 5 ♥ A Q 7 6 ♥ A Q 7 6
♦ Q 10 7 2 ♦ A 10 7 2 ♦ 8 6 ♦ 8 6
From Mr Bridge ♣ 7 6 ♣ 7 ♣ A Q 4 2 ♣ A Q 4 2
( 01483 489961
Hand G: 2NT. As with Hand C, you are Hand K: 3♠. Minimum 1NT opening bid
See Mail Order
not strong enough for a game-forcing 3♦. but 3-card spade support.
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Hand H: 3♦. Game forcing. You have Hand L: 4♠. Maximum 1NT opening bid
high hopes of a slam. and 3-card spade support. ■

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