The Coolidge examiner., 1932-08-26
Modern Contract
EFIdSe By Leila HattersIeY
NJ.
Rebidding After a Forcing
Take-Out
No. IA.

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\ITHEN you have opened with
w a suit bid Of one or a no
trump bid of one or two and your
partner, taking out with a new
suit, has jumped the bid one more
than necessary, the flag is up for a
game (perhaps a slam) and must be
kept flying.
AS explained in a preceding ar
ticle this jump take-out in a new
suit is a forcing bid, undoubtedly
the most important forcing bid Of
the forcing system. 1t calls on you
to rebid whether or not you have
shown the full value of your hand
in your original declaration. You
are not free to pass.
If you have no additional value,
no assistance for partner and no
second suit which is biddable, you
have simply to over-call with just
the sufficient number Of no trumps
TO cover his bid. Assistance for
him, especially If his take-out is in
a major, may be shown even though
it lies only in distributional values
Of trumps or trumps to a queen
or better. But full support is re-
quired to raise a partners forcing
take-out.
Naturally, a second biddable suit
must be revealed when your part
ner commands you to rebid. Fail
Ing a second suit, or support for
your partners bid, If your own
suit holds sufficient additional
strength or length it may be rebid.
Sometimes, in responding to your
partners forcing take-out you find
yourself with an honor-trick more
than originally shown. but with no
other values for a rebid. In this
case your response should be three
no trumps. When, with the three
honor tricks indicated by your part
ner's jump take-out you can count
sufficient honor strength TO put
your partnership in or near the
slam zone, you must show the pow
er Of your hand with jump bid If
forced to take-out at no trumps.
Suit take-out should be bid up grad
ually because in a forcing take-out
the slogan of all forcing bids holds
good: "Once a forcing bid. always
a forcing bid until game is reached" !"
a partners jumped take-out must
never be confused with his jump
assist. While jump take-out
forces you TO rebid no matter how
reluctant you may be to do so, a
jump assist leaves you the option
OF rebidding, or of passing If the
full value Of your hand has already
been shown.
Various responses when you have
bid one heart which partner has
taken out with two spades:
S-J43 H-AK65 D-K654 C-J2
Bid Two No Trumps
S-J432 K65 D-K65 C-S3
Bid Three Spades
81 KQ65 D-K653 C-J32
Bid Three Hearts
S-J5 H-AK X Q65 Dc KQ65
Bid Three Clubs
ISLAM caliber can be shown later {;
bid has not reached game)
SIS H-AK6532 D-K54 CA Q
Bid Three Hearts
ISLAM caliber can be shown later /;
bid has not reached game)
SIS H-AK65 D-K542 C-AQ6
Bid Four No Trumps
Ito show slam caliber; three no
trumps might close bidding)
When you have opened with a
suit bid of one on a hand Of un-
usual honor-trick strength, at least
4 or more honor-tricks, and your
partner has given you minimum
take-out, to show that your hand
contains IL or more honor tricks
than indicated by your initial bid,
you should, whenever possible,
make a forcing rebid" Of one
more than necessary, in a new suit.
After a forcing rebid, the partner
Is compelled to speak and his re-
sponses follow the same line as
the responses previously given for
forcing take-outs.
When in doubt as to whether or
not your partner is making a fore
ing take-out or a forcing rebid, re-
member this rule Of the forcing sys-
tenn: ANY jump bid in a new suit
by either partner, provided one of
them previously opened the bidding,
Is forcing"
q, 1882, by Leila Hattersley.)
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