[PDF] [PDF] Five-card Majors - BridgeWebs

[PDF] Five-card Majors Part I

Online Extra 59 February 2014 English Bridge The Five-card Major System WELCOME to a brand-new series of articles for your online magazine I propose to 

[PDF] Five Card Major Suits - Hastings Bridge Club

Bridge Base Online, and oh dear, oh dear, they all apparently play something called SAYC (Standard American Yellow Card) or sometimes Two Over One Forcing

[PDF] A modern five-cards majors bridge system - Infobridge

Aurelio Mascheroni: A modern five-cards majors bridge system 1 Table of major suit of the opening bid Mopp opponents' major 2NT= balanced 20+/22- ( possibly 5/6 cards in major) to publish online for free, in order to offer all bridge  

[PDF] Bidding Fundamentals Standard 5 Card Majors

Bidding Fundamentals Standard 5 Card Majors Opener's First Bid 13-20 pts ( HCP + LP) Generally open longest suit 1♤ or 1♥ (major suits), shows 5 + cards

[PDF] Five-card Majors - BridgeWebs

the system of Five-card Majors and Strong online version of the magazine (the full Most bridge players in Britain are when a major is opened can prove

[PDF] Five-Card Majors - BridgeWebs

26 juil 2016 · 'Four or Five' divides the bridge world on geographic and historical Opening a 4-card major on weak hands can steal the suit: after auctions 

[PDF] OPENING BIDS - No Fear Bridge

Pass if the response was 1NT 12-14 Open 1 of a suit (1♧ or 1♢ if no 5 card major) then rebid NT With 6+ card major transfer then bid three of the major, invitational With 5 card major transfer Learn more online at www nofearbridge com

[PDF] online laws complete - World Bridge Federation

Subsequently the interim report was sent to all the major Online Game Pack — The 52 playing cards with which the game of Contract Bridge is played

[PDF] Raising Responders Major with 3-Card Support

holding Toward that end, we raised partner's 5-card major suit opening bids 3- or 4-cards 1 Part of this lesson uses ideas from an online article by Jim Diebel

pdf Five -Card Majors - BridgeWebs

The Big Four Five-card majors strong no -trump Five-card majors weak no -trump 4CM / 12 -14 NT (Pluses) 1-Major is only ever four when opener has 15+ HCP* 4 -4-4-1s excepted terms and conditions apply This is ‘Majors First ’: a simple direct approach to solving the problem of finding major fits without recourse to artificiality

The Five-card Major System Five-card Majors Part I - BridgeWebs

1 FEWER PENALTIES You do not concede as many penalties (either doubled or undoubled) as are generated by the use of the weak no- trump 2 EASE OF RAISES The knowledge of at least five cards when a major is opened can prove invaluable

Searches related to 5 card major bridge online

(5-Card Major System) Point Count: Ace = 4 pts King = 3 pts Queen = 2 pts Jack = 1 pt There are 40 total points in the deck Suit Rank (lowest to highest): Minors: Clubs Diamonds Majors: Hearts Spades Notrump A good trump suit: A "fit" of 8 or more cards in one suit combined in your two hands in any way (4-4 5-3 6-2 etc )

[PDF] 5 card majors the scanian way

[PDF] 5 cast iron pipe

[PDF] 5 cent coin australia

[PDF] 5 chemical properties of carboxylic acid

[PDF] 5 components of culture

[PDF] 5 components of fitness

[PDF] 5 components of fitness examples

[PDF] 5 components of literacy

[PDF] 5 day bodybuilding workout

[PDF] 5 day bodybuilding workout plan

[PDF] 5 day bodybuilding workout plan pdf

[PDF] 5 day bodybuilding workout program

[PDF] 5 day bodybuilding workout routine

[PDF] 5 day bodybuilding workout schedule

[PDF] 5 day bodybuilding workout schedule with images

WELCOMEto a brand new series of

articles. I propose to explore thoroughly the ideas and techniques associated with the system of Five-card Majors and Strong

No-trump. I will also develop some ideas

in later articles on Two Over One game forcing. The series will be published in the online version of the magazine (the full version of this first article, complete with exercises, is on pages 59-62) and this page in the printed edi - tion is meant to serve as a taster.

Most bridge players in Britain are

brought up with Acol as their bidding base. There is therefore a certain degree of security in playing a system you know and are comfortable with. However, more and more people are now finding that the Five- card Majors Strong No-trump system (I will refer to it as 'Strong and Five" for brevity) provides a better framework for bidding accuracy. Globally this system is used far more than is the Acol system.

I intend to review all aspects of this

system. Let us start with some well perceived pros and cons of playing Strong and Five vsplaying Acol:

Advantages

1.You do not concede as many penalties

(either doubled or undoubled) as are generated by the use of the weak no- trump.

2.The knowledge of at least five cards

when a major is opened can prove invaluable. You can comfortably raise with three-card support and, perhaps even more importantly, you can more easily make use of the 'Level of the Fit" principle in competition. Just to recap this principle:

21February 2014English Bridgewww.ebu.co.uk

by Neil Rosen Bidding Systems

Five-card Majors

click link click link Read the full version (with exercises) of Neil Rosen"s first article in his Five-card Majors series in the online edition of this magazine. N

W E

S

With 8 combined trumps, bid to the

two level.

With 9 combined trumps bid to the

three level.

With 10 combined trumps bid to

the four level.

Note that this is a rough guide and

other factors must also be taken into account, such as vulnerability, point count, shape of hand etc.

3.Finding major-suit part-scores is much

more efficient. Here is an example hand from a recent pairs tournament:

Love All. Dealer East.

´Q 10 7

™J 4 2 tQ J 10 7

®Q 6 2

´K 8 5 4´A 9 6 3

™10 7 6 3™K Q 8 5 tK 6 5t9 2

®K 9®A 10 8

´J 2

™A 9 tA 8 4 3

®J 7 5 4 3

As East-West we were able to bid 1®

(short) - 1 ™-2™-Pass. The result was 2 ™+1 for +140, scoring 85% with the vast majority of the field (Acol play ers) opening a weak 1NT and making fewer tricks. This sort of thing happens a lot.Please realise that while you score more in no-trumps -if you make the same number of tricks - the vast majorityof the time you will make more tricks by discovering your 4-4 fit. click link

This fundamental truth is an integral part

of all bidding systems. Finding an eight- card fit (in particular a 4-4 fit) has always led to improved results. Consider the

Stayman convention, used by millions --

they cannot all be wrong!

4. The associated no-trump ranges

work better than they do for Acol: a)Rebidding no-trumps at mini mum level to show 12-14 HCP and jumping to show 18-19 HCP is very efficient and clear. b)The problem hands that Acol generates just do not occur.

Consider the following example:

´K 10 6´8 5 4

™A Q 10 2™K 7 tA K 7 4tQ 9 8 5 2

®6 5®A 6 3

Many playing Acol would bid 1™-

1NT -Pass. If playing a strong no-

trump, East would invite and West might well accept. This 9-count opposite a 15-16 rebid type hand is very poorfor Acol. I accept many of you might choose to respond 2 t instead because of the five-card suit (I agree!). However, without a five- card suit many 9-point hands will indeed respond 1NT and miss decent games because partner should only raise to 2NT with 17 HCP and not with 15-16 HCP.

Disadvantages

1.The pre-emptive effect of the weak

no-trump has some real advantages.

2.Needing to use 'prepared minors" or

'short club" creates difficulties - particularly in contested auctions.

3.Lack of familiarity with a new system

and all the nuances it carries. r N

W E

Squotesdbs_dbs14.pdfusesText_20