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147-US ruits of equal strength, call the mora erpensics (the suit of higher value).

Diamonds, A; Clubs, J, & Yarborough never remembers to have made an original Two call in a major suit. Munning (despite his approval of Bluet's convention supra) ays (2-M. p. 58) Don't have anything to do with a suit call of two?- 1-Do not call Two in a MINDS huit unless

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The Fundamental Bule" the strength is in one suil only bid all the hand is worth, at once: ip in fioo_ana, declare 081 and re-hid later." (Filter: ̈pp. 68, 37, -100; 166,) This, says Foster, is conventional' and the rule. For ita importâtics on '%. 10.

See also Foster's Anction made Easy ** you have agreed to play the American Convention, or the score has made all PT and Manning, p. 68. It is n great suits equal, callost only if you cannot mistake to call high at first, when * call FOUR OF FIVE

you have hand of such a charactor that you can without danger, advance. The Minorant Two-call Convention: "A the bidding later (be gives an example two call by Dealer in a ruinor suit means Yarborough S. T

April 2nd, 1922); *This that feclarer has a No-trump in the other So Dalton, p. 28; Fergholt, p. 39;, Foster, three suits, but is weak in this one. If part.one of the things that look better on paper) Eighty Offices are established in the Principal than in actual practice It seems a very Cities of the World to provide Commarm. 2. p. 06; Gillies, p. 9 Irwin, p.1201 Pachianer can stop this suit twice he, partner, reasonable thing to say that it is so important Organisations and Private Individuals with a. bo, p. 40: Emmet, p. 16.

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a distinctly different modo of calling minor suit (e.g. A, 5, 4, 8, 4) with a certain But I very soon found it impossible BY

Amount of side strength but not sufficient Work, p. 20, applies this well-known to just Notrumps; he does nostural, principle

thin this as a conventional, but as bidding-to call higher value first-to No-trumps invitation to No-trumps feum Partner. well as to suit. He demonstrates the Anthony, p. 34, holding overpowering soundness of the principle (p. 48) showing strength in a winor suit, start in with how declarer's partner can when strong a two-trick bil... It is a pressing invita (a) advance the suit which seens more apt tion to your partner to call No-trumps." to produce a game (b) bid a No trump if

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Butler, p. 31, says that when the two suits ace Clubs and diamonds, Clabs should be ailed first. Owen, p. 33, call the lower

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is the better able to assist." He when a scientific bidder names a valged raided wait after starting

"Yarbbrough' (Sanday Times, April 17th, lower, he announces that his strength 12t): I use Two Clubs or Two Diamonds is in the lower, lut that he has in the strictly conventional meaning of a length in the higher, and, is bidding solid suit with some little outside support: it on the chance that bis partner and am quite willing that my partner has strength in it'

So Foster, Auct

Auction maile Pay 1 Where the two suits (being both of the same class, major or minor) art! equally long bus differ considerably in strength (H, A, K, Q, J, x; S, A, Q, 10, 5) Foster (p. 9) will admit that the lower ranking suit may be calle. (He not al ways consistent.)

| Ta-Decture Two, is a Mason suit, of you hare a suit of it is than air, headed by three are tricks, and nothing eine in the hand.

calls of Three or Four in Clube and

Diamonds at love, I regard them not only as futile, but as positively injuries-inusnisch

they deter partner from bidding. If I have a very strong a band, and wish to pro-empt the declaration, I call Aire straight

away.

Work, p. 58, the initial two bid of a ninor is now used to show a hand with great strength both for a No Trump and for the Minor It does not ware partner away from a No-tramp (as woull two in a major) but urges him to make that declar

suit. But Dalton (E. S. 13.71) An originsi two-trick call should never be made in a minor suit at the score of love. 17. Pre-emptive"

Dr *Shut-out bidr Declare THREE in a major suit, if you harr SEVEN ours in that mit headed by tro-sure tricks, and assistance (if any) only in a minor suit.

The object in declaring more than two tricks se a free hid is chiefly for the purpose of shutting out a suit that the bidder is afraid If he is not afraid of any particular

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Foster 110, a two call ina major suit is a conventional bid of six carda or not8ation if he can take care of the missing with two sure tricks at the top, regardless of other tricks (p. 13); It invariably shows greater length than five cards. He would not disapprove (p. 188) of a call of two from a th card major, suit that is not headed by two sure tricks, provided it requires no more than a King (in another. Suit

to fill up the hole. (Eg, A. Q, 10: A, 3, 10: K, Q10; with in each case four small.) He would call fro whether there is outside support (p. D) or not (p. 167) though the call in the former case contravenes his Fundamental Bule,ser | of s. 10.)

sait, or is strong enough to over-call it, there THE JEDUSTEGAL AND COMMEROR Anthony, p. 31, says the call 'implies is no object in the shut-out (Foster, B. 87). So Irwin, p. 193. The latter devotes a whole length and breadth in the suit, with no catchapter (vi) to inducing players to give up side strength to back it up; it warna your partner not (see s. 37). So Bascule, p. 40: would call two on a six-card suit headed by any three honours. Dalton, p. 28, the Work, p. 61, defines a pre-emptive two-triek bid is tho

exually useful in either of declaration as no initial bid of more than suit the other? He good reason to expect that he will.win the i hen you are vet, convention that a sane shooki the suit named be the trun!! Vancouver, B.C., Honolula, Singapore, Penang, stigmatises the olt call means great length without command- (b) that the bidder is very weak in Borne as stupid d impossible. (Sp Bergholt

olt other direction and is trying to shat out p. 54; Irwin, p. 104; and Manning, p. 1). some particular bit. With g

general #1, considers the call to be pre-empting is

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pre-emptive bids" (by which she means any. thing higher than a one call).

Spades to. It indicates (a) that the ladder has

is not necess

But Emuselton for informing the partner The-hand must contain 12.

the

that the caller has a long wait healed atul the Queen, and that he can tell by five tricks if he gets the declaration."

Hingley, p. 24, says that the call means absolute corazand except one round; "to call two from 6 or 7 headral by Ace or King or less, not in sequence, is bad Bridge. He would call two from ice, if hendel by K, Q, (and in any suit except Clubs). Bergholt, p. 73, would call two from containing the fuar tup honours. To this Foster (p. 169) demurs: over-calling a suit just because there are four honours in it; is quite unnecessary,'

other

great length all strength in the suit bid; if made in weakness in the Major; if tande in A Minor, the main assistance is in the other Minor. He considers (p-58) that the pro-empting bids have become a most important part when it is advisable to pre-empt at all, it of the game, and players have learnt that should be done to the limit.'

Pachabo, pp. 16-23, extolls the pro-emptive- bid: Basculo (v. p. 115) favours it you would, as the game is now played, simply never win a rubber at all unless you were. prepared to bid up to three or four some- times.

Pachabo, p. 39, would cll'two 'if you have a hand in hearts or Spades that is useless The three bid. Hingley, p. 25, this call unless that suit is trumps;' p. 94, 'the suit means absolute command of the entire suit must contain at least six cards headed br with at least four honours, and, one of the three top honoura p.64, to justify an original call of Tol, possible, six in the suit; or from A, K,

Two in and four small. Owen, p. 13, if you have a hand in which you are prepared to call three' without a call from your pract call three at once. Maaning disagrees (p. 78). Foster, p. 87, with s seven carvis.in suit hended by two aure tricks, the Owen, p. 17, considers that a call of to proper bid is the Two Rure tricks (apparently in all suits) denotes a long suit are A. K; A, Q, without top honours, c. 5. or 8 of a suit ay (p. 95)

a suit the hand must be good for sie tricks:" the bid in a major suit is 'n definite instruc tion to partner not to interfere: in a minor suit (nee a 16) it naturally invites to No-

trump

50 K, Q.10, 9, Jaba J, 10, D, etc. The good for nothing at object of a Two call is to show your partner

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Q.

3). The bid, he

that the hand is this last Gillies as the trump With that your hand is not useful to him in a no- why a pre-en disrecs: "I do not sce

trap declaration.

Call should mean an hand. (So Bergholt). Pa bid of t three shows seven

De weak?

*if you have a good hand in addition,

K, QA, J, 10.

Work, p. 57, to warrant an initial bid of tricks and potent possibilitie. Manning, two in a Major, the hand should contain six tricks provided the initial bid be

the

I cannot son any advantage to be gained by trump; it is But a No Trump invitation.starting with a bid of three.' He considers that experience has shown Pachaba, p. 20, would call three on se that it is not the best policy for ton frd, 10ns well as on seven to A, un initial declarer warts to 2 J, 10 NuD-Bluet, p. 67, An honest, bird of, thrut our character (say, ix Q. ported by a minor A, Q to first pass and then bid on the next round: To avoid being shut out by a pre-emptive bid, it is wise to bid on the first round.'" But (p. 10) *it is mistake for a declarer to open with B bid of two or more in one Major when he lins strength in the other ;' and'(p. #1) *with a-two-suit hand a pre-emptive declaration should never be mande. (Foster's funda- mental rule, a 18, 'covers this).

Irwin, p. 7, 'distinctly disapproves of an opening bid that is higher than me A two-bid on a four-card suit is almost pro- hibited' (p. 30).

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be made on A, K, Q, 5, 4, 3, without out side strength, and a useful rule for making the bid in a major suit is "eaven tricks and seven trumps. The tricks may be in the other suits. The rule about top honours

no longer necessary because the bid is intended, not to give your partner inforue tion, but to stop all further conversation."

The advantage of a pre-emptive call of Three (on seven Spades to K, Q, 3, 10) over

One call, is illustrated in Berghult's Game xxxiii (which should be studied).

18,–Derlum roun in any suit, major or win- or, if you have mine aura tricke; declare PIVE you hare tan inre tricks. Bluet, p. 67, keep this bid' (of two) for a suit of six beaded by Aco and King.

Work, p. 64, a bid of four alowe nine This convention can be used squally insure tricks and at least one more probable; major and minor suite. Manning (Daily Mail,

ail, a bid of five shows eleven practically sure July 23rd, 1921) concurs, but Pachabo, P. p. tricks Foster, p. 67, with eight cards in 164) thinks this convention istabsurd in the a majorl sait headed by two sure tricks, extreme. His view is (p. 153), ‘in

major all

For Buit the proper bid is four; p. 76, if there are the bid of two denies assistance to any call eight or nine cards in the suit headed by the partner might wish to make, more es. two or three mare tricks, the player might pecially the other major suit, and it an~- as well bid five clubs or diamonds át únus nounces a long suit headed by une of the

the and be done with it. Emmet, p 21 three top honours or even by the Knave objects to calls of three in minor suits, (p

42).

He would not recommend pas unless there is a partial score. Yarborough ing first round' with the idea that when (es. 16 supra) demura Also to an initial call you declare the auit as an overeali on the next round of the bidding it would not of four in such suits--a call which Foster does not (p27) explicitly condemn. deceive your

(See S. 47 o Pachabo, P. partner.

with A, K Tecondary-bidy').

Clube, and nothing elue, bid Four Clubs With the

same holding in

Dalton (E. & 1.721) 'the one and only right them in les necessity to preempt."

legitimate meaning, of an original; two trick call is great length in the declared A good working ruis: Count the sure suit but very little outside it. This rks in your opinion he has since modified, for he would partner with now (E S. 22.3.82) call Two Spasics on deduct Spades Q1, 8, 7, 5, 4, Herts K, 10, 6 the remainder,

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