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The Stayman Convention is useful in enabling your partnership to find a four-four major fit after a Notrump opening bid or overcall.

This is an important convention to master. It's a contract bridge bidding convention that's a continuation of the Jacoby Transfer idea, adding a way to show weakish or slammish hands with a long major. The interior of this book is printed in black and white so that we could make it available to our readers at a lower price. Enjoy.

Good/Bad 2NT is a bid developed to offset the advantage your opponents gain in competitive auctions where your partnership is forced to bid at the three-level to judge the proper level your partnership should play, whether it's in game or part-score. The interior of this book is printed in black and white so that we could make it available to our readers at a lower price. Enjoy.

Kickback Key Card is another bidding-level saving convention. Kickback permits a level of simplicity in minor suit slam, key card auctions. In general, it provides more room to gain additional information when trying to decide between a Slam or a Grand Slam.

Help Suit Game Tries is a bridge convention designed to help your partnership reach those borderline games which succeed when you have well-fitting hands. The interior of this book is printed in black and white so that we could make it available to our readers at a lower price. Enjoy.

A beginning guide to bridge written for children. The mechanics of bridge, counting your points, opening the bidding in a suit or in no trump, responding to the bidding, Jacoby Transfers, Stayman and Overcalls. Everything a beginning player needs to know.

Learn some bridge bidding tools that you can use in competitive bidding auctions.

Another Bridge bid-saving convention, Kickback allows greater ease in minor suit slam key card auctions. In general, it provides more room to share information with your partner when trying to decide whether to bid Slam or Grand Slam.

Fourth Suit Forcing Bridge Convention occurs after three suits have been bid and no major suit has been bid and raised. A bid of the fourth suit, the unbid suit, at the lowest level, is artificial and game-forcing. Learn what comes next, and what Opener is obligated to show about his/her hand.

Good/Bad 2NT is a bid developed to offset the advantage your opponents gain in competitive auctions where your partnership is forced to bid at the three-level to judge the proper level your partnership should play ... game or part-score.

Learn how to make it tough for your opponents to find their best fits when you hold long suits with weak hands.

One of the most useful bids in bridge, cuebidding in competitive auctions will give you that winning edge.

What do you bid after the opponents overcall your 1NT bid? Lebensohl Bridge Convention gives you the bidding structure needed to show weak and strong hands held by your partner/ responder.

Use Unusual vs. Unusual to combat the advantages that your opponents gain when using Unusual 2NT to interfere in your auctions.

A bridge bidding convention designed to help your partnership reach those borderline games which succeed when you have well fitting hands.

Michaels and Unusual 2 Notrump contract bridge conventions were designed to provide you with a vehicle to overcall weak, two-suited hands.

Learn how to use the Smolen Bridge Convention to bid those pesky 5-4 major suit hands after opening NT bids. The interior of this book is printed in black and white so that we could make it available to our readers at a lower price. Enjoy.

1NT Forcing is the keystone to the 2/1 Game Force system of bidding. It is the one bridge convention you should learn going forward. We've printed this book in black and white and made it available to our readers who want our same great material but at a more economical price. Keep learning and enjoy.

Your next steps in gaining a solid understanding of bridge defense: Rule of Eleven, Present Count, 2nd Hand Play and 3rd Hand Play.

Learn Intermediate Bridge conventions and the strategy behind Cross-ruffing, Endplays, Squeezes and Double Squeezes.

Your next steps in learning bridge; we'll review Overcalls, Take-out Doubles, Weak Two Bids, Preemptive Bids, Gerber and Blackwood Conventions, plus, Strong 2 Clubs with the 2 Diamonds Waiting Response. I've included additional notes and concepts for consideration when making weak bids. Scoring and vulnerability and come into play when considering your final bids. Review hands are included.

Inverted Minor Raises, a valuable competitive bridge bidding system that allows the responder to accelerate the auctions when holding five or more trumps and a weak hand.

Invented by Eric Rodwell, Serious 3NT is a valuable tool in exploring for slam. Every 2/1 Game Force partnership should adopt this convention today!

Maximal Doubles is a conventional double to make a game-try, after you and partner have found a major suit fit.

Show support for responder's major in competitive auctions.

Learn how to bid those pesky 5-4 major suit hands after opening NT bids. 23 pgs.