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2. Texas transfer - Wikipedia

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   Opener is obliged to bid the next available major suit, i.e. after a 4 ♦ bid by responder, he bids 4 ♥ and after a 4 ♥ response, he bids 4 ♠ setting the contract. The standard defense to the Texas transfer: double is one-suited and lead-directing, 4NT is for the minors, four of responder’s suit is a Michaels cuebid. A delayed double ...

3. Bidding system - Wikipedia

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   Each bidding system ascribes a meaning to every possible call by each member of a partnership, and presents a codified language which allows the players to exchange information about their card holdings. The vocabulary of bidding is limited to 38 different calls - 35 level/denomination bids [1] plus pass, double and redouble. Any bid becomes a ...

4. Contract bridge - Wikipedia

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   A bidding system is a set of partnership agreements on the meanings of bids. A partnership's bidding system is usually made up of a core system, modified and complemented by specific conventions (optional customizations incorporated into the main system for handling specific bidding situations) which are pre-chosen between the partners prior to ...

5. Gerber convention - Wikipedia

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   4 ♣ is Gerber if it is a jump bid or if a suit has been agreed as trump. 4 ♣ is Gerber if the immediate preceding bid by partner was in notrump. 4 ♣ is Gerber only if it is a jump bid over an opening bid or rebid of 1 NT or 2 NT. (Standard American Yellow Card) 4 ♣ is Gerber only when in response to opening bids of 1NT, 2NT or a strong ...

6. Jacoby transfer - Wikipedia

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   The Jacoby transfer, or simply transfers, in the card game contract bridge, is a convention in most bridge bidding systems initiated by responder following partner's notrump opening bid that forces opener to rebid in the suit ranked just above that bid by responder. For example, a response in diamonds forces a rebid in hearts and a response in ...

7. XYZ convention - Wikipedia

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   For example, on the sequence 1 ♣-1 ♠ (with or without opponent's interfering);1NT-2 ♣;2 ♦,2 ♥ will show an invitational hand with minimum five spades and four hearts, 2 ♠ an invitational hand with minimum five spades (in which case one does not have four hearts) or possibly six spades with or without four hearts. 2NT will show a balanced invitational hand, 3 ♣ typically an ...