The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
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BY WIN Z. MCKINNEY

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The next few articles will be de-
voted to the system using the guam
titative showing of tricks. The arti-
fetal conventions have been given to
you in previous articles. Under this
system of bidding you are required
to show the full strength of your
hand even on an original bid, there
fore a two or even three original
bid is not a forcing BID except two
club bid, as the users of this system
also use the artificial two club fore
ing bid which was described in our
tirts articles.
Two different methods of valu-
alton are used in this system-one
for no trump hands and one for
suit bids. We will first of all take
up the no trump bidding system
showing the strength required for
original bids and also the strength
required to support.
ORIGINAL BIDS
OF ONE NO TRUMP
Hands containing strong major
spuits are always bid in preference
to no trump. No trumps are not
advisable when a hand contains a
void suit, a singleton or a worth
less doubleton. The strength for
no trump bid should be distributed
in three SUITS and if the fourth
suit is very weak and the hand con-
tainS good four-card suit, the four
card suit should be bid in preference
to the no trump.
The advocates of this system use
the old pitch count system for
valuing high cards for their no
trump bids. This count is as fol-
lows:
Each ace held counts ....... 4
Each king held counts ...... 3
Each queen held counts ..... 2
Each jack held counts .......
Each ten spot held counts 80. u
Ten spots should not be counted
honor and no ten spots should be
counted if the hand does not con-
tain an ace.
The total count required to make
an original bid, which is the first bid
made of hand, is as follows:
Dealer Count required IL
Second Hand /" IL
Third Hand :" IA
Fourth Hand 50 is
If fourth hand contains a mini
mum count of Is, he should also
hold distribution that will assure
him that opponents will not go game
in either of the major suits.
Partner of the original no trump
bidder will raise to two no trump
when he holds sufficient count to
bring the total count of both hands
to % and shall raise OF three no
trump when the total count of both
hands shall be "a. e. &. First hand
bids one no trump and you hold a
count of 10. Your partner. first
hand, is required to hold 13, which
with your 10. makes a total count
OF 2S. This is insufficient to bid
three no trump, but enough to raise
your partner to two no trump. While
if partned had bid one no trump
third hand, he would be required
to hold a count of IA, which with
your TO- makes the combined count
of both handh "a, and wou should
raise your partner to three no
trump.
When the partner of the origi-
nal bidder has supported a no
trump, the ORIGINAL no trump bid
der will use the same combined
figures-22 ami 24-in arriving at u
game going declaration. e. 6. First
hand, holding a count of Is, bids
one no trump. Partner supports 20
two no trumps. The original bidder
now knows that partner holds a
count of at least Off and as he holds
count of Is GO plus Is equals 24),
he should so to three no trump.
Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, Incl
In the following articles we will
give you original bids of more than
one no trump and show how these
should be supported by partner.