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

Автор: Andrew Robson

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Дом и Семья: прочее

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isbn: 9780008285609

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      The Rule of 14. Make a two-over-one response only if your high-card points added to the number of cards in your suit reaches 14.

       Deal 19

      The Rule of 14 tells the responder to a one-of-a-suit opener whether he has enough to make a two-over-one response (e.g. 1

– 2
). The crux is this: only respond in a new suit at the two-level if the number of high-card points in your hand added to the number of cards in your suit reaches 14. Otherwise, assuming you have no higher-ranking four-card suit which can be bid at the one-level, a responding hand that fails the Rule of 14 bids 1NT (or a single raise with three-card support). The 1NT response is not a genuine notrump bid – the hand may easily be unbalanced; rather it is an expression of weakness, a slowing-down manoeuvre. In practice, you will have six, seven, eight or occasionally nine points.

       What happened

      East led

2, the unbid suit, against North’s 3NT. Declarer played low from dummy and won
A. At Trick Two, he led
9 to
K and dummy won East’s
7 return with
Q. Declarer cashed
4), and led
2 to
Q and
K. Declarer cashed
3 to
10 and
A. Declarer led
J8. Down three.

       What should have happened

      Against 2

J to
3 and East’s
K. East switches to
10 to
Q and declarer cashes
K. He ends up with two spades, a heart, three trumps and two clubs. Eight tricks and contract made. Big difference!

      Do not make a two-over-one response when you fail the Rule of 14.

       Deal 20

      Imagine an opponent has opened the bidding. Do you now need opening points to enter? NO! There is only one opening bid in Bridge and it has already been made. If you bid, you do not promise opening points. But you do promise a good suit. What do I mean by ‘good’? I mean at least five cards headed by a couple of honours (remember the ten is an honour). With a lovely five-card suit, I encourage you to enter the bidding (at the one-level) with as little as six or seven points. If you have a five-card suit you would like partner to lead – one that can be introduced at the one-level – then bid it. Partner is not clairvoyant.

       What happened

      North-South sailed unopposed to 3NT and West naturally led

J, losing to
K. East continued with
9. Winning in dummy with СКАЧАТЬ