designed to make it difficult for the opposing team to bid and find their optimumcontract even if they have the bulk of the points. This hand is nearly...
The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (5th ed.). Memphis, TN: American Contract Bridge League. p. 278. ISBN 0-943855-48-9. LCCN 96188639. Richard Pavlicek...
The history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with...
Par, or par score On a given deal, the score that results from best bidding and best play by both sides. See optimumcontractandparcontract. Par contest...
High card by suit and low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit. When suit ranking is applied...
bid and subsequent rebids by responder and notrump opener "is designed to help partnerships reach the right contract", i.e. their optimumcontract. In...
forcing system and can be used either to fill in for one or more players or to provide advice. In partnership with the American Contract Bridge League...
of 52 cards in four hands in the game of contract bridge. Each hand is designated by a point on the compass and so North–South are partners against East–West...
information which one's partner may employ in order to arrive at an optimalcontract while concurrently contending with the opponents' attempts to do likewise...
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest...
XYZ is a bidding convention in contract bridge. After opener's one of a suit (X), partner's one of a suit response (Y) and opener's 1-level rebid (Z) (a...
responder can set the contract. There are many variants to the Ogust convention. Some partnerships reverse the meaning of 3♦ and 3♥, which is Ogust's original...
Cappelletti (also called Hamilton and Pottage) is one of many defensive bridge bidding conventions used in the card game contract bridge to compete or interfere...
about the strength and distribution of the overcaller's hand, potentially enabling improved declarer play should they secure the contract. In his seminal...
the opening major). The Jacoby 2NT may use cue bids and/or slam conventions to find the best contract if the bidding suggests a possibility of a slam. The...
Programming for Equilibrium Problems Optimumcontractandparcontract – Bridge scoring terms in the card game contract bridge Self-confirming equilibrium...
confirmed a full opening hand and the following rebids by the Drury bidder enables opener to judge the best final contract: 2♥ - I have a minimum Drury...
Lebensohl is a contract bridge convention whose variants can be used in the following situations: by responder after an opponent's overcall of a one notrump...
This article describes the contract bridge bidding convention. Meckwell is a method for defending against an opposing strong one notrump (1NT) opening...
their hand and to arrive at a suitable contract at which to play the hand (or to prevent the opponents from arriving at a suitable contract). Although...
game contract bridge. It is used by a partnership to find a 4-4 or 5-3 trump fit in a major suit after making a one notrump (1NT) opening bid and it has...
partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a bidding convention developed by Easley Blackwood in 1933 and still widely used in...
Gerber is a contract bridge convention devised by William Konigsberger and Win Nye from Switzerland who published it in 1936; John Gerber of Texas introduced...
In contract bridge, a cue bid (also, cuebid or cue-bid) is either a bid of the opponents' suit, or "slam seeking": a slam-investigating bid made during...
This list is a compilation of contract bridge players, writers, administrators and personalities who have been recognized for their skills, achievements...
In contract bridge, Bergen raises are conventional treatments of responses to a major suit opening in a five-card major system. Developed by Marty Bergen...
becomes a guess. In American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) tournaments, support doubles must be indicated on the convention card and must be Alerted. Additionally...
In the card game contract bridge, DONT is a conventional overcall used to interfere with an opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening bid. DONT, an acronym...
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