Opener's rebid
Introduction Once you open 1m, it is very likely that your partner will respond and you will have another chance to describe your hand....
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
1 minor opening and its responses
Introduction Once you have decided that your hand is worth an opening bid, we now turn to what to open. Our first priority is to open...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
1 major opening and its response
Overview Once you have decided that your hand is worth an opening bid, we now turn to what to open. Our first priority is to open 1NT, as...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Defensive guidelines
Introduction Defense is one of the toughest areas of bridge since, unlike the declarer, your combined partnership assets are not visible....
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
The strong opening bids: 2♣ and 2NT
Introduction When we open 2♣ and 2NT, we are showing very strong hands. These bids will handle the hands that are too strong to open at...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
Preempts
Introduction A preempt is a high-level bid with a weak hand. It takes up valuable space from the opponents. This will make it much more...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
1NT opening and responses (the 1st encounter)
Introduction Recall that the purpose of bidding is to communicate aspects of your hand to your partner and reach a favorable contract....
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
Hand evaluation
Overview During the bidding, we want to figure out what is our hand’s trick-taking potential to decide whether to bid for the game/slam...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
Trump trick-taking techniques
Introduction You are playing in trump, but you have too many losers. How can you reduce the number of losers to make your contract? There...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
Notrump trick-taking techniques
Overview You are playing in Notrump, but you do not have enough sure tricks. How can you develop more tricks to make your contract? There...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
Making a plan
Introduction We will first discuss various topics regarding the playing phase of bridge (we will deal with bidding later). After the...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Feb 21, 2021
- 3 min
Basics of bidding
Introduction From the in-depth rules of bridge article, you learned what a contract is: a number between 1 to 7 and a “suit” (Clubs,...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
Beginner Bridge Class Lesson 4
Last Saturday we had our fourth lesson where we talked about 1 major (1H and 1S) opening bids and responses. Remember, a 1M opening...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Nov 4, 2020
- 1 min
Beginner Bridge Class Lesson 3
Last Saturday we had our third lesson where we talked about 1NT opening bids and responses. Remember, a 1NT opening bid is very specific...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Oct 28, 2020
- 1 min
Beginner Bridge Course Lesson 2
Last Saturday we had our second lesson where we talked about various trick-taking techniques in both notrump and suit contracts. Don't be...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Oct 22, 2020
- 1 min
Beginner Bridge Course Lesson 1
Last Saturday we had our first lesson where we talked about the basics of bridge, including how to take tricks, different contracts, and...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
Beginner Bridge Course Lesson 7
We had our seventh lesson where we talked about preempts and 2C openings. Remember that preempts are intended to make bidding hard for...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
Introduction to Bridge Workshop
We had our first online bridge workshop this Saturday, and it was a great event. We had around 35 participants from cities all over the...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Sep 20, 2020
- 1 min
Beginner Bridge Course Lesson 6
We had our sixth lesson where we talked about opener's second bid after opening a major. Remember that the main idea is to show something...
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Youth Bridge Association
- Sep 14, 2020
- 1 min
Beginner Bridge Course Lesson 5
We had our fifth lesson where we talked about 1 minor opening bids and responses. We also talked about responder's priorities after...
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