The Times Improve Your Bridge Game. Andrew Robson
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Название: The Times Improve Your Bridge Game

Автор: Andrew Robson

Издательство: HarperCollins

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isbn: 9780008285609

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СКАЧАТЬ rel="nofollow" href="#fb3_img_img_6c954117-5e9c-5ad8-b366-0ce62a70a253.jpg" alt=""/>6 to East’s
Q (declarer and dummy discarding clubs). East then switched to the
2. Declarer tried the
K but West won the
A, cashed
Q, then led to East’s
J9. The defence took four spades, three hearts and a diamond. Down two.

       What should have happened

      Declaring 2

3 lead (the unbid suit) with
A and plays to
A and emerges with eight tricks: a heart, four trumps and three clubs. Contract made.

      Do not open 1NT with an unbalanced hand.

       Deal 7

      It’s time to move on from opening 1NT to responding to it. The basic principle is for responder to decide on the best contract available, and simply to bid it! Note that responder does not need six points to bid, as he would if partner had opened in a suit. The 1NT opener is not going to bid again unless responder makes a strong bid. Bidding two-of-a-suit is a rescue operation – consistent with no points at all – and will always be passed. Are you listening North? Incorrectly leaving South to stew in 1NT, he saw the following carnage take place:

       What happened

      West led

2) and then led
8 (East discarding
2).

      Discarding a low card in a suit is a signal of disinterest so at Trick Six West switched to

7. East won the
Q and, rather than cash his
AK, astutely switched to
5. East won
K, cashed
A (West discarding
6. West beat declarer’s
K with
A, cashed
10, then
4. Declarer finally won a trick, the very last, with a club, but the contract was six down!

       What should have happened

      North should remove 1NT to 2

. His partner would read it as a terminal bid, a so-called ‘Weakness Take-out’. Declarer would probably end up scoring two trump tricks and four clubs – that’s five more tricks than in a notrump contract!

      The responder to a 1NT opener can usually place the final contract immediately.

       Deal 8

      Last deal we noted that the responder to a 1NT opener can generally place the final contract immediately. Bids which invite or force the 1NT opener to speak again are 2NT (invitational) or jumps to three of a suit (forcing). Other bids are terminal.

      The 2NT response is an invitation for the 1NT opener to bid 3NT with a maximum. Jumps to 3

/3
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with three(+) cards and bidding 3NT with just two. What about jumps to 3
? Because five-of-a-minor is such a hard game to make, responder should only jump to 3
when he is very distributional and is genuinely interested in playing five (or six) of that minor. There is no point in jumping to 3
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