AUCTION BRIDGE.

Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1104, 10 March 1930, Page 2

AUCTION BRIDGE.

L- EASY LESSONS. | : (Special to Record) t . No. IV. The requirements of 2 quick tricks h for dealer and second hand, .24 for third, and 3 for fourth hand to make an initial bid must not be departed from. If you make an attacking bid on less, you are deceiving your partner, and playing with 13 cards instead of 26. Memorise the quick trick table given in the last lesson. §’ You will appreciate it later on. In these lessons, South is always the dealer, if he held Spades (Q.J.10) 9.8.7.5, (A); Hearts (K.2), (A); Clubs 9.5.5.4.; total, 1 quick trick, he would not be entitled to bid one Spade. Sort out the above cards and place them on the table in front of you, and do the same with every & r hand given in the lessons. Length does not remove the necessity for holding the required 2 quick tricks. Such a hand is called a “ freak,” and the odds are that other “ freak ” hands will be held and bid. If no v v bid is made, you could not get game because the high cards will be evenly distributed, and bidding Spades originally will probably allow your opponents to show suits to their mutual advantage. Don’t bid unless you have the necessary quick tricks. There is plenty of time to bid hands with 1 or more quick tricks after ?v someone else makes a bid. By not malting an initial bid as dealer with the above hand and bidding on the second round, you say | , to partner, ‘I haven’t two quick tricks, but I have q biddable suit and e-.; 1 quick trick.” Give partner as much information as possible, but not deceive him by making wrong bids. This brings us to the next requirement for a suit bid, i.e., a biddable ' , suit. Assuming you have the quick tricks required for a bid, you must have certain cards in a suit before yoli 'can bid it. With this hand, although it has 2 quick tricks, a bid cannot be made because it does not contain a biddable suit. Spades (A.) 9.6.3. (1), Hearts Q.2., Clubs (A) 8.3.21 (1), Diamonds J. 10.9. A biddable suit consists of four cards with 3 honours or 5 or more cards with Z" g*/ honours. Examples of 4 card biddable suits. The figures in brackets give the quick trick values of the bracketed Evcards: (A.K.Q.) 5 (2 h), (A.Q.J.) 4 (2), (A.K.) J. 5 (2), (K.Q.J.) 8 (1£). Examples of 5 card biddable suits: (A.K.) X.X.X. (2), (K.Q.) X.X.X. , (1), (A.Q.) X.X.X. (14), (K.J.) 1 X.X.X. (A), (A.) J.X.X.X. (1),! i:.i (Q.J.10) X.X. (i), (A.) 10.X.X.X. j U: (i). ! If the suits are stronger than the I

examples and contain 4 or more hon--1 ours like (A.K.Q) J. (24), or (A.K.Q.) J.lO (24), the honour score must also be taken into consideration. Holding 5 honours in Spades, total, 81 points, would justify you overbidding your hand to the extent of 1 i-Wck. If you go down 1 trick, the honour score will be compensation. Now deal a number of hands, work out the quick trick values and decide if they contain biddable suits, and whether they are strong enough for an initial bid or too w.eak for an initial bid, but strong enough for a defensive bid. Remember that after ( an attacking bid (showing 2 or more quick tricks) has been made, only 1 quick trick is required to make a defensive bid. What is a biddable suit? What is an initial bid? When is a defensive bid made, £nd what is the requirement for such a bid? . What is the quick trick value of these hands, and what would you bid as dealer ? Spades, K. 5.4., Hearts Q. 7., Clubs A.Q.J.8.2., Diamonds 7.3.2. Spades K.Q., Hearts A. 10.8.5.3. Clubs 8.4., Diamonds J. 10.8.6. Spades 8.6.3., Hearts 10.9.7., Clubs A.K.Q.4., Diamonds 9.4.2. Spades A.Q.8.7.3.2., Hearts 4, Clubs 8.4.3.2., Diamonds J.B. Spades A. 8.5.3., Hearts J.8.,--Clubs A. 9.8.7., Diamonds 10.3.2. To obtain the greatest benefit’from the lessons, two or more players should read them together and ask each other questions.

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