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Fractions of points are awarded for certain categories, resulting in scores that are not whole numbers. Candidates with the highest numbers of points, up to the promotion allowance in each career field, are promoted. The score of the last person promoted is known as the cutoff. The cutoff can gauge how narrowly a given candidate missed a promotion.
Contract points, assigned to each odd trick bid and made; Overtrick points, assigned for each trick taken over the contracted number of odd tricks; A slam bonus for a small slam or grand slam contract bid and made; A bonus, colloquially known as 'for insult', is received at the end of any deal in which a doubled or redoubled contract is bid and ...
Zar Points (ZP) is a statistically derived method for evaluating contract bridge hands developed by Zar Petkov. The statistical research Petkov conducted in the areas of hand evaluation and bidding is useful to bridge players, regardless of their bidding or hand evaluation system.
25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know is a book on contract bridge co-written by Canadian teacher and author Barbara Seagram and British player and author Marc Smith.It was published by Master Point Press in 1999.
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The convention was first published in The Bridge World in January 1957. [7] Murray's presentation of the original convention included the following features: The Drury 2 ♣ is an artificial one-round force by a passed hand responding to partner's third or fourth-hand major suit opening bid
The distributional points show the potential of the hand to take low-card tricks including long-suit tricks or short-suit tricks (ruffing tricks). Opener's DP count are less valuable as responders because usually trumping in the long side does not add tricks to the total number of tricks.