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INTRODUCTION PART ONE: ONE-LEVEL OPENING BIDS 1 The opening bid of One No Trump 2 The opening bid of One Club 3 Sequences after the response of One Diamond 4 Sequences after the response of One Heart 5 Sequences after the response of One Spade 6 Sequences after the response of One NT 7 Sequences after the response of Two Clubs 8 Loose ends after a One Club opening 9 Opening One Heart 10 Opening One Spade 11 Opening One Diamond 12 The Awkward Squad: 4441 PART TWO: TWO-LEVEL OPENING BIDS 13 Two Clubs 14 Two Diamonds 15 Two Hearts or Two Spades PART THREE: OTHER MANOEUVRES 16 Disruption 17 Countermeasures 18 Fourth Suit Bids APPENDIX: THE EBU CONVENTION CARD 20B |
FORWARD INTRODUCTION PART ONE: THIRD-HAND OPENING BIDS 1 The opening bid of One No Trump 2 The opening bid of One Club 3 Sequences after the response of One Diamond 4 Sequences after the response of One Heart 5 Sequences after the response of One Spade 6 Sequences after the response of One NT 7 Sequences after the response of Two Clubs 8 Loose ends after a One Club opening 9 Opening One Heart 10 Opening One Spade 11 Opening One Diamond 12 Two level openings PART TWO: OTHER THIRD-HAND MANOEUVRES 13 Third Hand disruption 14 Third Hand countermeasures 15 When Second hand overcalls 16 Major suit raises 17 Minor suit raises |
1 YOU LEAD AN ACE
Against a No Trump Contract
Leading against a trump contract
Attitude
Count
Suit preference
Signaling with the Queen
Partnership agreement
Upside down signals
2 YOU LEAD A KING
Followed by the Ace
Leading against No Trumps
Leading against a trump contract
3 LONG SUIT LEADS
Against No Trumps
Fourth highest [The rule of eleven]
Has anyone here seen Kelly?
Odd Card leads [another rule of 15]
Very long suits
Attitude leads
Against suit contracts
The Foster Echo
4 SHORT SUIT LEADS
Against No Trumps
Leading an unbid suit
Leads against trump contracts
5 MID-FIELD SIGNALS
Signals when declarer is leading the trump suit
Signals when declarer is setting up a suit
McKenney or Lavinthal
Coffin’s uppercut signal
When it does not matter which card you lead
Nuances, nuances
6 JOURNALIST and RUSINOW
Leads against No Trumps
Against trump contracts
7 DISCARD SIGNALS
Attitude signals
Count signals
Odd/Even signals [Roman Discards]
Revolving Discards
Dodds Discards
Silence is Golden
8 CINCINNATI
9 YOUR METHODS
10 EXERCISES
11 COMMENTARIES
APPENDIX: DECEPTION
..........1...........The Deal
..........2...........Dealer's Questions
..........3...........Unbalanced Hands
..........4...........Forcing Opening Bids
..........5...........Playing to the Score
..........6...........Second Position
..........7...........Third Position after Two Passes
..........8...........Responding to 1NT
..........9...........Suit Auctions
........10...........An Initial Response of 2NT
........11...........No Trump Rebids
........12...........When Opponents Overcall
........13...........Fourth Position Bidding
........14...........Slam Questions
........15...........Doubles
........16...........Your System
...Appendix 1......The Third Hand Club
...Appendix 2......The Weak No Trump Revisited
...Appendix 3......Some Vital Statistics
...Appendix 4......The Fifth Column
..........1...........Lest we forget.
..........2...........Cashing Winners.
..........3...........Establishing winners by force.
..........4...........Finessing: Find the lady.
..........5..........."If you can walk without Kings..."
..........6...........Wot! No Bullets?
..........7...........Double Trouble.
..........8...........The Case for the Defence.
..........9...........Epilogue.
......Appendix........Final Solutions.
..........1...........Introduction
..........2...........Whose idea was it anyhow?
..........3...........Basic strategy
..........4...........No Trump hand evaluation
..........5...........Suit contract evaluation
..........6...........Before you enter the fray
..........7...........The language of bidding
..........8...........Suit-bidding concepts
..........9...........No-Trump Bidding concepts
..........10.........No Trump auctions beginning 1NT
..........11.........Conventional responses to 1NT
..........12.........NT auctions with stronger balanced hands
..........13.........Major Suit auctions
..........14.........Minor Suit auctions
..........15.........Rebidding on unbalanced hands
..........16.........Interpreting the language of bidding
..........17.........Tactical bidding
..........18.........Constructive skip bidding
..........19.........Avoiding unmakeable slam contracts
..........20.........Destructive bidding
..........21.........Overcalling an opponent's opening bid
..........22.........Undercalls
..........23.........When opponents overcall
..........24.........Full circle: Tying up some loose ends
..........25.........Final Thoughts