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Let us take to-day's hand. South opens the bidding-with-ona" heart. The hand is not strong en- ough for an original forcing two or three bid: West passes one heart,

North does not drave one and one-half tricks, but he. doca have distribution: He has a five-card major ault and a four-card minor suit. It is true that neither is very strong, but certainly he does not want his partner playing the hand at one heart.

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Many players made the mistake of responding with a no trump with this type of hand, and that is wrong. The proper response, If thle you are going to bid with hand, is ene spade, even though

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With South's holding, he imme- diately should jump to four spades, That four-apade bid is a slam try,' At the same time it says, "Partner, if you have bid on nothing but five

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