Commonsense Bidding
The Most Complete Guide to Modern Methods of Standard Bidding
1st Edition
Published on 10. November 2010
232 pages
978-0-307-77448-4 (ISBN)
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The most complete guide to the modern methods of standard bidding for bridge, from one of America's leading players, teachers, and authorities. With a logical, easy-to-follow style, William Root covers all the bidding essentials.
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William S. Root (1923-2002) was an American professional bridge player who was also a noted teacher and writer about the game. He was inducted into the American Contract Bridge League Hall of Fame in 1997, and was author of several acclaimed books on bridge, including Commonsense Bidding: The Most Complete Guide to Modern Methods of Standard Bidding and How to Play a Bridge Hand: 12 Easy Chapters to Winning Bridge by America's Premier Teacher.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 - How to Value Your Hand
- The Point-Count System
- Quick Tricks
- The Point-Count Requirements to Bid Games and Slams
- Using Your Judgment
- 2 Opening Notrump Bids
- Balanced Hands
- Point-Count Requirements
- Stoppers
- Notrump Opening Bids with a Five-Card Major Suit
- Semibalanced Hands
- Responses to Opening Notrump Bids
- Responses to 1 NT Opening Bids With Balanced Hands
- Responses to 1 NT Opening Bids With Unbalanced Hands
- Rebids After Opening 1 NT Bids
- Responses to 2 NT Opening Bids
- Responses to 3 NT Opening Bids
- Responses to 1 NT After an Enemy Overcall
- Responses to 1 NT After an Enemy Double
- 3 The Stayman Convention
- Stayman After 1 NT Opening Bids
- The Opening 1 NT Bidder's Reply to Stayman
- Using Stayman with Weak Hands
- Rebids by the 2 Bidder
- The Opening 1 NT Bidder's Third Bid
- How to Bid When You Have a Real Club Suit
- Stayman After 2 NT and 3 NT Opening Bids
- Stayman After Enemy Interference
- 4 Opening Suit Bids of One
- Point-Count Requirements
- Five-Card Majors and the Short Minor
- Which Suit to Bid First
- Third- and Fourth-Seat Opening Bids
- 5 Responses to Opening Suit Bids of One
- When to Pass
- Weak Responses
- Suit Responses at the One-Level
- Suit Responses at the Two-Level
- Strong Responses
- Responses with 11 or 12 Points
- Which Suit to Bid First
- Weak Jump Responses
- Responses to Third- and Fourth-Seat Opening Bids
- 6 Rebids by the Opening Bidder
- Raising the Responder's Suit
- Rebidding Your Own Suit
- Rebidding Notrump
- Bidding a New Suit
- The Jump Shift
- The Reverse Bid
- After a Two-Over-One Response
- After Partner has Raised Your Suit
- After Partner has Jumped the Bidding
- After You have Opened the Bidding in Third or Fourth Seat
- 7 Rebids by the Responder
- After Responder's Suit has been Raised
- After the Opener Rebids 1 NT
- After the Opener Rebids His Suit
- After the Opener Bids a New Suit
- After the Opener Reverses the Bidding
- After the Opener has Jumped the Bidding
- After Responder has Raised the Opener's Suit
- After Responder's First Bid was a New Suit at the Two-Level
- After Responder has Jumped the Bidding
- 8 Opening, Preemptive Bids
- Responses to Opening Preemptive Bids
- Rebids After Opening with a Preemptive Bid
- 9 Opening Suit Bids of Two
- Strong Two-Bids
- Responses to Strong Two-Bids
- Rebids After an Opening Strong Two-Bid
- Weak Two-Bids
- Responses to Weak Two-Bids
- Rebids After an Opening Weak Two-Bid
- The Strong Artificial Two-Club Opening Bid
- Responses and Rebids After a Strong Artificial Two-Club Opening Bid
- 10 Overcalls
- Overcalls at the One-Level
- Overcalls at the Two-Level
- Responses to Overcalls
- The Direct Cue-Bid
- Weak Jump Overcalls and Preemptive Overcalls
- Responses to Weak Jump Overcalls
- Rare Situations Where Weak Jump Overcalls Do Not Apply
- 1 NT Overcalls and Responses
- The Unusual 2 NT Overcall and Responses
- 3 NT and 4 NT Overcalls
- 11 Takeout Doubles
- Responses to Takeout Doubles
- When to Pass Your Partner's Takeout Double
- Rebids by the Doubler
- Rebids by the Responder
- More Takeout Doubles
- 12 Penalty Doubles, Lead-Directing Doubles, and Rescue Bids
- Penalty Doubles of Overcalls
- Direct Doubles of 1 NT Opening Bids
- Doubles of Artificial Bids
- Doubles of Games Bid in Notrump
- Doubles of Games Bid in a Suit
- Doubles of Slams
- Rescue Bids and the S-O-S Redouble
- 13 Balancing
- When One of a Suit is Passed
- When the Opponents have Shown a Fit
- When the Opponents have not Shown a Fit
- 14 Bidding Over Preemptive Bids
- Suit Overcalls of Preemptive Bids
- Notrump Overcalls of Preemptive Bids
- Doubles of Preemptive Bids
- Bidding over Weak Two-Bids
- 15 Responses and Rebids in Competitive Auctions
- Responses After an Opponent Overcalls
- Rebids by the Opening Bidder After an Opponent Overcalls
- Rebids by the Responder After an Opponent Overcalls
- Responses After an Opponent Doubles for Takeout
- Rebids by the Opening Bidder After an Opponent Doubles for Takeout
- Rebids by the Responder After He has Redoubled
- 16 Sacrifice Bids
- Using Your Judgment
- After Your Side has Made a Preemptive Bid
- Getting Your Side into the Bidding
- The Unusual Notrump
- When Your Opponents have Made a Sacrifice Bid
- 17 Slam Bidding
- The Requirements to Bid Slams
- The Right Approach to Slam Bidding
- The Control-Showing Bid
- The Voluntary Bid of Five in a Major Suit
- The Blackwood Convention
- The Gerber Convention
- When Is a 4 NT Bid not Blackwood?
- The Quantitative Notrump Raise
- The Grand Slam Force
- 18 The Scoring and the Strategy
- Part-Score Bidding
- Match-Point Strategy
- Rubber Bridge Scoring
- Chicago Bridge Scoring (Four-Deal Bridge)
- Duplicate Bridge Scoring
