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Jacoby Transfer is one of the most useful conventions in Bridge. A Jacoby Transfer is bid by responder after a Notrump opening bid or overcall to show a hand with five cards or longer in (hearts or spades) major suits.

How to bid a minor after partner's No Trump opener? Four Suit Transfers will solve those problem hands.

Drury is a bridge convention used to allow opener to open light in third and fourth chair with safety.

A companion guide for those interested in teaching beginning bridge to children. Walk through the order in which you should introduce topics day-by-day in 16 1-hour classes and some methods you can use in teaching children bridge.

A major suit raise structure designed around the advantages that can be realized when assured that responder has a four-card or longer raise in your major suit.

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 Take-out Double Family consists of Take-out, Negative, Responsive, Snapdragon, Balancing and Re-opening Doubles.

A method to refine your slam bidding, Key Card allows you to guarantee the quality of your trump suit before you commit to slam and the Specific King feature helps you find those grand slams you might otherwise find impossible to bid. A must for tournament players.

Your first steps in learning the techniques and mechanics of playing a bridge hand. Trumping, finessing, cross-trumping and establishing a long suit are some of the techniques you will learn.

Jacoby 2 Notrump is a bridge convention used to show a balanced, game-forcing raise after you have a major suit opening bid.

Accelerate your game by adopting the 2/1 Game force System. This volume provides a good basic start of the bids and conventions useful when adopting 2/1.

One of the most useful conventions in bridge, Splinter Bids help you find those elusive slams.

1NT Forcing is the keystone to the 2/1 Game Force system of bidding. It is the one convention you should learn going forward.

With Four-Suit Transfers available, traditional three level responses to 1NT have become obsolete. Try some new options.

Very strong hands are difficult to bid. When should you open 2C? After you open 2C what should you play. The answers are inside.