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Carrot 1NT
The Carrot 1NT is a contract bridge convention, in which a 1NT opening bid shows a balanced hand 13–17 HCP. With 13–14 HCP, the opener may not have a 4-card major. With 15–17 HCP, all balanced hands (including those with a 5-card major) may be opened 1NT. While originally developed for the Carrot Club system, this opening bid can be adopted by systems using 15–17 or 14–16 HCP ranges for their 1NT openings. It combines the preemptive advantage of a weak 1NT opening when opener lacks sufficient holdings in the majors, with the constructive effect of a strong 1NT opening. To manage the wide 5-point HCP range, the response structure has been designed to distinguish between ''weak'' invitational bids (7–9 hcp, inviting the 15–17 hand only) and ''strong'' invitational bids (10–11 hcp, inviting the 13–14 hand and game-forcing to 15–17). Responses to 1NT * 2/2 are natural ''weak'' (7–9) invitations with a 5-card major. * 2NT is a ''strong'' (10–11) invitation, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contract Bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among seniors. The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the governing body for international competitive bridge, with numerous other bodies governing it at the regional level. The game consists of a number of , each progressing through four phases. The cards are dealt to the players; then the players ''call'' (or ''bid'') in an auction seeking to take the , specifying how many tricks the partnership receiving the contract (the declaring side) needs to take to receive points for the deal. During the auction, partners use their bids to also exchange information about their hands, including o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hand Evaluation
In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands to each other so that they may reach the optimum contract. Key to this process is that players evaluate and re-evaluate the trick-taking potential of their hands as the auction proceeds and additional information about partner's hand and the opponent's hands becomes available. Hand evaluation methods assess various features of a hand, including: its high card strength, shape or suit , , fit with partner, quality of suits and quality of the whole hand. The methods range from basic to complex, requiring partners to have the same understandings and agreements about their application in their bidding system. Basic point-count system Most bidding systems use a basic point-count system for hand evaluation using a combination of high card points and distributional points, as follows. High card points First published in 1915 by Bryant McCampbell in ''Auction Tactics'' (page 26), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrot Club
Carrot Club (or ''Morotsklöver'' in Swedish) is a strong club system, developed in the 1970s and played in international teams championships by Danielle Nughes, Anders Morath and Sven-Olov Flodquist. They won the European teams championships in 1977 and placed third in the World teams championships in 1977 and 1991. Some features of the system are a natural 4+card 1 opening, canapé-openings with longer -suit, Carrot 1NT (a "wide" 1NT-opening showing 13–17 hcp; if 13–14, may not have a 4-card major), and the Carrot 4NT slam convention. References Further reading * Sven-Olov Flodqvist, ''Morotsklövern'' (Swedish title), Stockholm 1978. {{WPCBIndex Bridge systems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebensohl
Lebensohl is a contract bridge convention whose variants can be used in the following situations: * by responder after an opponent's overcall of a one notrump (1NT) opening bid in order to compete further in the auction without necessarily committing the partnership to game. * after opponents' weak-two bids and * in responding to a reverse by partner. Origins and spelling The origins of the convention are unknown and various views about its spelling have ensued. The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (OEB) first listed LEBENSOHL in its third edition published in 1976 and attributed its design to George Boehm; the fourth OEB edition, under the entry LEBENSOLD, states that George Boehm first described the convention and that Boehm had wrongly attributed it to Ken Lebensold; the fifth and sixth editions state likewise but under LEBENSOHL. In the seventh edition and for the first time, the OEB notes "Uniquely amongst bridge conventions, it should arguably be spelled with a lowercase firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
