Bridge Bidding - Standard American Yellow Card

This book present some of the most important bridge bidding systems used in duplicate bridge tournaments, detailing the most known bridge bidding system, Standard American Yellow Card, by using a logical sequential order for openings, answers, competitive bids and defensive play in order to help the players during the games.
Much of the complexity in bridge arises from the difficulty of arriving at a good final contract in the auction.
A bidding system in contract bridge is the set of agreements and understandings assigned to calls and sequences of calls used by a partnership, and includes a full description of the meaning of each treatment and convention.
Standard American Yellow Card is a specific set of partnership agreements and conventions, using Standard American as a base. Standard American Yellow Card is a very specific collection of agreements, which can, of course, be modified and augmented by partnership agreement. In practical use, the term is often mis-used to refer to Standard American in general, or it could refer to a system that used SAYC as a base and made additional augmentations or changes to the base agreements.

CONTENTS:

Contract Bridge
- Game play
- - Dealing
- - Auction or bidding
- - Play of the hand
- - Scoring
- Laws of contract bridge
- - Laws of duplicate bridge
- - Laws of rubber bridge
- History
- Tournaments
- - Bidding boxes and bidding screens
- Game strategy
- - Bidding
- - - Bidding systems and conventions
- - - Basic natural systems
- - - Variations on the basic themes
- - - Advanced bidding techniques
- - Play techniques
- - Techniques by declarer
- - Advanced techniques by declarer
- - Techniques by defenders
- Example
- Playing on the Internet
- Computer bridge
Bidding Systems
- Classification
- - Natural systems
- - - Specific systems
- - Artificial systems
- 2/1 game forcing
- - Normal 2/1 game forcing auctions
- - Exceptions to 2/1 game force
- - 1NT response forcing or semi-forcing for one round
- - Other 2/1 features
- - Example sequences
- Acol
- - Bidding system structure
- - Variants
- - Standard Acol
- - - Opening bids
- - - Responses to 1 of a suit
- - - Responses to 1 NT
- - - Responses to 2 NT
- - - Responses to 2 clubs
- - - Responses to 2 of a suit
- - - Opener's suit rebid after one-level opening
- - - Opener's NT rebid after one-level opening
- - - Fourth suit forcing
- Blue Club
- - Advantages
- - Disadvantages
- Boring Club
- - The 1 club opening
- - The 1NT opening
- Bridge Base Basic
- - Key points of BBO Basic Bidding
- - Opener approximate hand strengths
- - Responder approximate hand strengths
- - - Responding with a minimum hand
- - - Responding with a medium hand
- - - Responding with a maximum hand
- - - Responding with Balanced Hands
- - Opener's response to partners search for a fit
- EHAA
- - The EHAA two-bid
- - The Mini Notrump
- - Other Opening Bids
- - Defensive Bidding
- - Other Preempts
- Fantunes
- Little Major
- OK bridge 2/1
- - 5-card majors
- - The “two over one” game force
- - Walsh
- - Forcing One No-trump
- - New Minor Forcing
- Polish Club
- - 1 club opening
- - - 1 diamond response
- - - 1 heart/spade responses
- - - 1NT response
- - - 2 clubs/diamonds responses
- - - 2 hearts/spades responses
- - - 2NT response
- - - 3 clubs/diamonds response
- - - 3 hearts/spades responses
- - 1 diamond opening
- - 1heart/spade openings
- - 1NT opening
- - 2 clubs Opening
- - 2 diamonds opening
- - 2 hearts/spades openings
- - 2NT opening
- - 3NT opening
- - Conventions in an uncontested auction
- - - Jump shift
- - - Fourth suit
- - - Third suit
- - - Forcing 2NT
- - - Odwrotka
- - - 2 clubs – check back
- - - En passant
- - Slam bidding
- - - Roman Key Card Blackwood 1430
- - - Exclusion Key Card Blackwood (1430 responses)
- - - Hoyt
- - - 5NT
- - - Cue bids
- - - Splinter bids
- - - AutoSplinter
- - - Six in the Splinter suit
- - - Interference after Blackwood
- - Competitive bidding
- - - Over opponent’s takeout double
- - - Over opponent’s overcall
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