We play time by time with my students and partners ACBL speedball tournaments. These are quick, still playable tournaments with a lot's of players, most of the time more, than 200 pairs are taking part. I played a very special …
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VS “Slam Cuebid or Artificial Bid Doubled Situations”
It happens very often, that our slam cuebid or artificial bid gets a double. The best pairs should be discussed in this situation, in order to discover, weather we still can play slam, having 1st or 2nd round control in …
Fanni Convention In Practice
I played this hand with Dani Tubak, a good friend of mine, member of the Hungarian Junior Team, who did great job lectoring this homepage. We agreed to play Fanni convention to handle forcing and semiforcing situations. Fanni convention is …
VS for “When Our Relay or Cuebid Is Doubled In Competition”
It happens very often, that we are strong in a competing situation, and we get doubled after our forcing cuebid or 4th suit forcing bid.
In order to function efficiently, a good partnership should be on common grounds in this …
VS When Our Stayman Is Doubled
I invented this convention to be as exact as possible, in order to decide, how strong we are in ♣, even playing 2♣ redoubled, and to play some suit contracts from the right hand, in case of 1NT-P-2♣ double is …
Defensive System to 2NT Both Minors Weak Opening of Opponent
Those payers who play Multicolor 2♦ opening with a strong 2NT in the 2♦, often use 2NT opening for both minors with a weak hand. The following defensive system is recommended against it:…
Special Slam Doubles Asking Agreed Opening Lead
There are several special situations, where double asks for a special lead. It worth using these doubles even when declarer wins sometimes redoubled contract or they escape to a lay down 6NT, because it will happen very rarely, and most …
VS for Forcing Situations: Convention Fanni 1. Normal Forcing Situations
Although there are more and more new applications of take-out doubles in the modern theory of competitive bidding, there are still lots of situations where even the very best partnerships use penalty double (e.g. in forcing situations, where we automatically …
VS for Forcing Situations: Convention Fanni Part 2. Half Forcing Situations
Sometimes we catch one opponent, but the other one runs away - these are mostly half-forcing situations, when opponents escape from a doubled contract of us. In those cases we cannot be sure, that we are stronger than the opponents …
VS for Forcing Situations: Convention Fanni Part 3. Forcing Situations in Game Level
If our game that was reached while establishing a forcing situation is saved by our opponents, we can still go four-ways to decide best. The main goal is to be able to distinguish whether they should be doubled or overbid.…