The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-01
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nv WIN. F.. MCKINNEY

Secretary, American Bridge League
The advantages Of the one over
one forcing bid are many, the most
important of which are:
/. 1t can be made, even though
holding normal support in the orig
inal bidders suit, in an endeaVor 10
fill a missing suit for the original
bidder in case he desires to play the
hand at no trump.
The original bidders suit can De
s,nnorted on the next round of bid
ding. Let us say that the orlglna'
bid is one heart: partner blds one
SPADE. even though he holds support
for hearts. The original bidder now
bids one no trump, denying space
support, showing minimum manu-
and not a strong heart suit
Partner can now support the heaFt
suit if desired, even to making
siyn-off bid by simply bidding TWO
hearts. This shows Willingness 10
NAV the hand at hearts even with
the knowledge that the original bid
der's suit is only four cards in length
2 It allows you TO arrive at larger
partial scores.
3. 1t quickly and safely gets you
into successful no trump contracts.
It is quite. natural that, if the Or
ieinal bidder opens with suit olo
Of enc, he has that suit well pro-
tected and probably a second suit
protected. When partner makes
one over one he announces ahoIhei
suit we'll protected, and in the mai
crity of cases some side strength. -.
It quite naturally follows that II
partner has no support Tor the sun
named by the original bidder and the
original bidder has no support 1of
the suit named by partner either
they should play the hand IN the
second suit which will be named py
one or the other. or. II their sloe
strength is In different suits, the
proper declaration is no trump.
AS the one over one forcing old
can be used with power-house hanos
as safely as with minimum hands
due to the fact that the original bid
der is forced to keep the bidding
open. it is tremendous weapon
against the opponents.
* X !:
Under the ordinary system or con-
tract bidding. the original bidder, we
will saw. opens with one club. Ii
mariner overcalled with one heart, he
would be announcing a weak naAd-
one not strong enough to Jump to
two hearts. But when the one over
one forcing bid is used, bid OF one
heart over one club might signify a
minimum opposite minimum. or II
might mean two poWer-house hands
The left hand opponent OF the
player who has made the one over
one forcing bid is afraid to step IN
with a fair hand for fear that he
will be between these two power
house hands. 1t is not until the
second round Of bidding that he
knows whether or not the two hands
are minimum. and it is generally toe
late for him to bid as his partner
will naturally take his bid after
pass rs very weak bid.
5. DOUBTFUL slams will not be bio
due to the fact that the full strength
of the hand can be shown before the
bidding gets too high. A jump shit
: bid may even be made on the SECOND
round and still not force the contract
into the slam zone.
However, / want to warn the be-
ginner at contract bridge not tC
Jump to the conclusion that there is
game in the hand simply because
partner has made one over one
forcing bid This forcing bid simply
asks the original bidder to give more
detailed information about the hand
and minimum hands should make q
Sign-off bid at once