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Ready for some brainstorming? This bidding contest is going to put your bridge skills severely to the test! Rules of the game Here are 6 deals. You have to find the best bid for each of them. Send us your answers by 23 October 2022. On 26 October, the three players who suggest the best bids (according to a panel of bridge experts) will receive 1,000 Diamonds ♦️ each! Note: The Comments section of this article has been deliberately disabled to prevent cheating.

This Sunday evening, it’s Clothilde who reaches out to me. She is without doubt one of the very best girls in my group. She evolves in a very bridgesque environment. Her family and friends all play bridge and they talk about bridge a lot. As a consequence, she is technically stronger than most of the others. This weekend, she played a training match against the polish girls team. “Hey coach. Can I talk to you about a deal?” she asks me. “Sure, Clothilde, tell me.” “OK, so I had 8 HCP and six Clubs, and my partner opened 1NT. West…

An intervention with a two-suiter “eats up” space and forces the opener’s side to work out a rigorous system that is based on conventional bids that require a certain amount of memorization. Moreover, the role of the Double becomes complex. Our columnist reviews all the possible answers – as well as some developments – to help you bid better in this delicate situation. The opener’s partner has several options, and they all have to be specified: · Double. · Cue-bid one of the suits of the two-suiter. · Make a natural bid, raise the opening bid or use the fourth…

When one of the partnership opens 2NT, he already gives a precise description of his hand. But even so, his partner has many bids available to ask him to refine his description Deal 1 Dealer East. With 6 HCP, it goes without saying that West intends to impose game facing his partner’s 2NT opening. In order to most accurately describe his 5-4 in the majors, he starts with Stayman. Then, after East’s negative answer, he employs a useful convention, called Smolen. His 3♥ bid guarantees five Spades and four Hearts and allows the strong hand to play the contract. Here,…