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Exclusion Blackwood or Voidwood. [7] was devised by Bobby Goldman [8] as an attempt to resolve the situation when the Blackwood-asker has a void. In that case, he is not interested in the partner's ace in the void suit, as he already has the first-round control; partner's ace would present a duplicated value in that case.
This is similar to Blackwood but the ace-asking bid is 4 ♣ rather than 4NT. The responses are 4 ♦ for 0 or 4, 4 ♥ for 1, 4 ♠ for 2, and 4NT for 3. Similarly, a 5 ♣ bid following an ace-ask asks for kings. Gerber is a jump bid to 4 ♣ used after a notrump opening bid and on other occasions by partnership agreement.
A mnemonic for a variant response structure to the Roman Key Card Blackwood convention. It represents "1 or 4" and "3 or 0", meaning that the lowest step response (5 ♣) to the 4NT key card asking bid shows responder has one or four keycards and the next step (5 ♦) shows three or zero. 1RF One round force. 2-under preempts
Blackwood (either the original version or Roman Key Card) How the partnership's bidding practices will be varied if their opponents intervene or compete. Point count required for 1 NT opening bid ('mini' 10–12, 'weak' 12–14, 'strong' 15–17 or 16–18) Stayman (together with Blackwood, described as "the two most famous conventions in ...
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Byzantine Blackwood is a bidding convention in the game of bridge. Devised by Jack Marx , it is a complex version of the Blackwood convention (by which a four notrump (4NT) call asks about partner 's honor card holdings). [ 1 ]