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When a revoke is established, in general, if the revoking player wins the trick, that trick, plus one of any of the tricks won by the offending side subsequent to the revoke, are transferred. Otherwise, if the offending side wins the revoke trick or a subsequent trick, one of those tricks is transferred to the opponents.
Rubber Bridge Scoring Above the line In rubber bridge, the location on the scorepad above the main horizontal line where extra points are entered; extra points are those awarded for holding honor cards in trumps, for bonuses for scoring game, small slam, grand slam or winning a rubber, for overtricks on the declaring side and for undertricks on the defending side and for fulfilling doubled or ...
The most relevant change is Law 16C2 [4] (Law 16D2 in the 2007 Laws Of Duplicate Bridge [5]), which defines information gained from either side's legal withdrawal of a card as unauthorized for the offending side. (Note: although the revoking side may correct its revoke, a revoke has nevertheless occurred and therefore there is an "offending ...
In International Match Point (IMP) scoring, [a] the difference in total points scored (or "swing") is converted to IMPs using the standard IMP table below. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The purpose of the IMP table, which has sublinear dependency on differences, is to reduce results occurring from large swings.
A bidding system in contract bridge is the set of agreements and understandings assigned to calls and sequences of calls used by a partnership, and includes a full description of the meaning of each treatment and convention. The purpose of bidding is for each partnership to ascertain which contract, whether made or defeated and whether bid by ...
The rule can be generalized for all notrump contracts as follows: In a notrump contract, subtract from 'n' the total number of cards that declarer and dummy hold in the defenders' suit and duck their lead of the suit that many times; 'n' is equal to four plus the level of the contract.
An example for those wishing to abide by a published standard is The Laws of Rubber Bridge [50] as published by the American Contract Bridge League. The majority of rules mirror those of duplicate bridge in the bidding and play and differ primarily in procedures for dealing and scoring.
Opener responds 2NT with a minimum or at the three-level in his lowest four-card suit with a maximum. Responder may have one of two ranges: 11-12 points (looking for game in notrump) or 17-20 points (looking for slam in notrump or a minor suit). Similarly after a 2NT opening, 3 ♠ asks opener whether he is minimum or maximum, looking for a slam.