Transcription of A Beginners Guide to Contract Bridge
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A Beginners Guide to Contract Bridge January 16, 2009. 1. Contents 1 Introduction 6. Beginning a New Hand .. 6. Bidding .. 7. Legal Calls .. 7. Meaning of Bids .. 9. An Example Auction .. 9. Play of the Hand .. 10. Scoring .. 11. 2 Hand Valuation 14. High Card Points .. 15. Distribution Points .. 15. Long Suits and Short Suits .. 18. 3 Opening the Bidding 20. Opening Requirements .. 20. Order of Preference .. 21. Opening 1 NT .. 23. Suited Openings .. 23. Opening 1 / .. 23. Opening 1 .. 24. Opening 1 .. 24. Opening 2 .. 25. Final Thoughts .. 25. 4 Responding to the Opening Bid 25. 5 Overcalls and Doubles 25. 6 Conventions I: The Bare Essentials 25. Stayman .. 25. 7 Conventions II: Clever Additions 25. 8 Conventions III: Heavy Artillery 25. 2. 9 Defense 25. Leads .. 25. Signaling .. 25. False Carding .. 25. 10 Card Combinations 25. The Finesse .. 25. The Drop .. 25. Endplay .. 25. 11 Ethics 25. 12 Variations I: ACOL 25. 13 Variations II: Two Over 1 (2/1) 25.
1 Introduction Contract bridge is a four-handed trick-taking card game played with a stan-dard 52-card deck between two cooperative partnerships, each consisting of
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