At every crucial stage of the auction, you are given two to five bids to choose from. You will see what makes a bid right and what makes it inferior or wrong. In many cases, a convention will encounter competitive bidding. For conventions that are likely to involve competitive auctions, a number of hands are included to show you how to handle the opponents' bidding. If you try to follow rules by rote, you will find that the rules are often inadequate.
Judgment plays a major role in the use of conventions.
The list that follows included the major topics but most of the headings include variations which are too numerous to mention. Trust me that the topic headings do not do justice to everything that you will find here. Various ways you can play this bid. Three of a major. Various ways you can play this bid.