The Two-Over-One Game Force System
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- Título
- The Two-Over-One Game Force System
- Autor
- Timm, Neil H.
- Editorial
- Trafford Publishing
- Año de publicación
- 2018
- Estado
- New
- Encuadernación
- PAP
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1490786791
- ISBN 13
- 9781490786797
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- 1521 gramos
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The Two-Over-One Game Force System
With Chapters on Precision
By Neil TimmTrafford Publishing
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Contents
Acknowledgements, xix,
Introduction, xxiii,
Chapter 1 Hand Evaluation, Opening Bids, and Rebids, 1,
Chapter 2 Opening Two-, Three-, and Four-Level Bids, 121,
Chapter 3 Slam Bidding, 164,
Chapter 4 Third and Fourth Seat Openings, 219,
Chapter 5 Bidding with Interference, 224,
Chapter 6 Takeout Doubles, 242,
Chapter 7 Overcalls, 250,
Chapter 8 Conventional Doubles, 283,
Chapter 9 How to Interfere with Their Bidding, 288,
Chapter 10 Review of Common "Bridge Rules/Laws", 309,
Chapter 11 Defensive Carding, 330,
Chapter 12 Bridge Leads, 337,
Chapter 13 Completing the Convention Card, 352,
Chapter 14 Play of the Hand, 361,
Chapter 15 Other Bridge Conventions, 411,
Chapter 16 Wrap-Up, 467,
Chapter 17 Transfer Precision, 472,
Chapter 18 Meckwell Precision Bids, 495,
Chapter 19 Precision Simplified Overview, 555,
Chapter 20 Interfering over Precision, 578,
Chapter 21 Fantunes (Modified), 582,
Index, 597,
CHAPTER 1
Hand Evaluation, Opening Bids, and Reb ids
Hand Evaluation – Starter Points
The standard deck of cards for the game of bridge contains fifty-two cards. The cards are organized into suits - spades ([A]), hearts ([B]), diamonds ([C]), and clubs ([D]). The sequence spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs represent the rank order of the suits within the deck. Thus, spades is higher ranking than hearts; hearts is higher ranking than diamonds, etc. The major suits are spades and hearts and the minor suits are diamonds and clubs.
Each suit contains thirteen cards as follows:
A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
The Ace (A), King (K), Queen (Q), Jack (J), and 10 are called honor cards.
A bridge hand is created by dealing the fifty-two cards to four players, one at a time, so that each player has a total of thirteen cards. Partnerships at the game are the two persons sitting North-South and those sitting East-West. To evaluate the value of your hand, independent of rank, the standard/traditional method promoted by Charles Goren in the late 1940s is to assign values to the honor cards:
Honor Value
Ace 4
King 3
Queen 2
Jack 1
Ten 0
______________
10
The evaluation method is referred to as 4-3-2-1-0 point count system. Using this method, one observes that a bridge deck contains a total of 40 High Card Points (HCP). Hence, an "average" hand consists of 10 HCP. While the method of assignment is accurate, a computer analysis of bridge hands shows that the point count system (4-3-2-1-0) tends to undervalue aces and tens and to overvalue queens and jacks. Only kings are correctly valued. Using only HCP, a hand with at least 12 HCP is usually opened. More later!
To compensate for the over and under valuation using the Charles Gore standard or traditional method, Marty Bergen, ten-time national champion, developed the ADJUST-3 Method. His 2008 book, "Slam Bidding Made Easier" published by Bergen Books, devotes the first 100 pages to his proposed method. Why adjust three? Because the accuracy of the HCP in a hand depends on the difference of overvalued and undervalued honors by the value of three.
Let's see how the process works. With a dealt hand, one goes through six simple steps to employ the Adjust-3 Method:
Step 1: Add up your HCP using the table presented earlier
Step 2: Count the number of aces and 10s (undervalued honors).
Step 3: Count the number of queens and jacks (overvalued honors).
Step 4: Subtract the smaller number from the larger number.
Step 5: Evaluate the difference:
If between 0-2, make no adjustment If within the range 3-5, adjust by 1 point If 6+ (rare), adjust by 2 points Step 6: If the number of aces and 10s is more, add; If the number of queens and jacks is more, subtract
We next apply the method to a few examples.
Hand 1 Hand 2 Hand 3 Hand 4 Hand 5
[A]AKQ105 [A]AK9 [A]A67 [A]A104 [A]K78
[B]10982 [B]KJ3 [B]KQ54 [B]10543 [B]AQ9852
[C]6 [C]J105 [C]Q7 [C]KJ67 [C]A109
[D]J67 [D]5678 [D]J678 [D]K10 [D]A
Hand 1: 10 HCP
3 (undervalued) 10A10; 2 (overvalued) honors QJ
3-2=1; no adjustment
The adjusted total for the hand is 10
Hand 2: 12 HCP
3 aces and 10s (undervalued); 2 Js (overvalued)
3-2= 1 no adjustment, but skewed in undervalued honors
The adjusted total for the hand is 12
Hand 3: 12 HCP
3 queens and jacks (overvalued); 1 ace (undervalued)
3-1=2 no adjustment, but skewed in overvalued honors
The adjusted total for the hand is 12
Hand 4: 11 HCP
4 undervalued honors; 1 overvalued honor
4-1=3; add 1 HCP; more overvalued honors
The adjusted total for the hand is 12
Hand 5: 17 HCP
4 undervalued honors; 1 overvalued honor
4-1=3; add 1 HCP; more undervalued honors
The adjusted total for the hand is 18
Using the Adjust-3 method of hand evaluation, one may consider opening hands two- five. However, is there more to the story? Yes. Clearly, if a suit includes AKxxx and another suit contains Axxx, one may take two tricks with the first and only one with the second. Thus, in addition to HCP, one must consider suit length.
After the Adjust-3 process, you must apply the following rule to modify your points for suit length; provided the suit contains at least one honor card: A/K/Q/J/10.
ADD FOR SUIT LENGTH
1 additional point for a 5-card suit
2 additional points for a 6-card suit
3 additional points for a 7-card suit, etc.
In summary, add one additional point for each card in a suit over four that contains an honor.
However, in addition to suit length, one has to consider dubious honors since they are OVER VALUED.
Subtract ONE point for hands with the following doubletons or singleton honors
DOUBLETONS: AJ, KQ, KJ, QJ, Qx, Jx (Quick tricks = 1, ½, or 0) SINGLETONS: K, Q, J (½ or 0 Quick tricks) Note that AK, AQ, Ax, and Kx are excluded honor doubletons.
Lastly, you must adjust for QUALITY SUITS - a suit with 3+ of the top five honor cards.
ADD ONE ADDITIONAL POINT FOR EACH QUALITY SUIT.
In summary, one proceeds through the following steps to obtain the total value of a hand.
Step 1: HCP
Step 2: Adjust-3 (add or subtract)
Step 3: Suit Length (add for length)
Step 4: Dubious Honors (subtract)
Step 5: Suit Quality (add)
Step 6: Total Starting Points
Completing steps 1-4, one has what Mr. Bergen calls "Starting Points." To open the bidding in the game of bridge (one of a suit), a hand is opened if it has at least twelve Starting Points in the first seat. There is more to a hand than simply high card points (HCP).
One final comment, in a suit contract, if your shape is 4-3-3-3, 5-3-3-2, or 6-3-2-2, or 7-2-2-2, you should downgrade your hand by one point for "flatness."
If the shape is 4-3-3-3 and one is considering a notrump bid, also subtract one from the total Starting Points.
Returning to Hands 1-5, we apply the process outlined above.
Hand 1 Hand 2 Hand 3 Hand 4 Hand 5
[A]AKQ105 [A]AK10 [A]A67 [A]A104 [A]K78
[B]10982 [B]KJ3 [B]KQ54 [B]10543 [B]AQ9852
[C]6 [C]J105 [C]Q7 [C]KJ67 [C]A109
[D]J67 [D]5678 [D]J678 [D]K10 [D]A
Hand 1: HCP 10
Adjust -3 0
Suit Length add 1
Dubious Honors none
Suit Quality add 1
Starting Points 12
Hand 2: HCP 12
Adjust -3 0
Suit Length none
+ Dubious Honors none
Suit Quality none
Flatness -1
Starting Points 11
Hand 3: HCP 12
Adjust -3 0
Suit Length none
Dubious Honors subtract 1
Suit Quality none
Starting Points 11
Hand 4: HCP 11
Adjust -3 1
Suit Length none
Dubious Honors none
Suit Quality none
Flatness -1
Starting Points 11
Hand 5: HCP 17
Adjust -3 1
Suit Length add 2
Dubious Honors none
Suit Quality none
Starting Points 20
Counting only HCP, one would have opened hands 2, 3, and 5; however, using Bergen's method, one only opens hands 1 and 5. Also observe that the hands have at least TWO QUICK TRICKS.
BASIC RULE: Open a bridge hand one of a suit with at least 12-21 Starting Points and two quick tricks (in the first or second seat). The rule is relaxed in the third seat, more on this later.
The first step at the bridge table is that all players evaluate their hands; the process begins by the person designated DEALER. The person with twelve Starting Points opens the auction by bidding (there are exceptions called pre-emptive bids and strong two-level bids to be discussed later). As the auction progresses, the value of your hand may increase or decrease depending upon what you learn from your partner and your opponents. To keep the process simple at this juncture, suppose one person has a sufficient number of "starter points" to open a hand one of a suit with no interference.
Some players will open a hand with only 11 starter points (seats one and two). This is a modern day practice since it is important to get your bid in as soon as possible. However, one should have 2 quick tricks and a 5-card suit. Never open a balanced 11 point hand.
Another facet of the game one must consider when bidding is vulnerability. In general, there are four situations. The two pairs are non-vulnerable, two pairs are vulnerable, one pair is vulnerable, and the other pair is non-vulnerable. The value of tricks (won or lost) depends upon the vulnerability of your pair. More on this later!
Opening Notrump Bids
Having sufficient Starting Points to open, the first goal is to describe your hand to your partner. When you open, you may have a balanced hand, an unbalanced hand, or a semi-balanced hand. A hand with a singleton or a void is by definition unbalanced (35.7%). The patterns that do not contain a singleton or a void are 4-4-3-2, 5-3-3-2, and 4-3-3-3 (47.6%) and are called balanced hands; semi-balanced hands are hands with the following patterns: 5-4-2-2, 6-3-2-2, and 7-2-2-2 (16.7%). A frequency table of hand patterns follows.
When you open the bidding, you first want to communicate to you partner whether you have a balanced or non-balanced (unbalanced or semi-balanced) hand. However, if the semi-balanced hand has honor cards (AKQJ) in two of its doubletons, it may be considered balanced. When hands are balanced, one usually opens the hand with an opening notrump (NT) bid. Because roughly 50 percent of the hands dealt are balanced, many hands are opened using the notrump bidding scheme. In addition, it is used to describe rebids by an opener when bidding one of a suit. When bidding notrump you are saying to your partner, I have a balanced hand; suit bids often convey non-balanced hands.
Playing bridge the 2/1 way, the notrump ranges for NT bids and rebids follow.
Opening Notrump Bids Opener Notrump Rebids
1NT = 14/15-17 starter points 1NT = 12-14 starter points
2NT = 20-21 starter points 2NT = 18-19 starter points
Opener may make an artificial and forcing opening bid of two clubs and then rebid notrump with 22-24 Starting Points; more on this in Chapter 4. Interference is common over 1NT openings; bidding strategies are discussed in Chapter 9.
While some will open 3NT with 25-27 Starting Points, this will not be the case in this book. We will use the Gambling 3NT bid. Playing 2/1 the Gambling 3NT bid shows a solid seven-card suit and denies holding an ace or a king (in the third or fourth seat it may include an outside ace honor); more on opening 2[D] and 3NT in Chapter 4.
An opening bid of 1NT usually shows stoppers in at least three suits where a minimum stopper is defined as Qxx. However, never open 1NT with Jxx or less (xx) in a major.
When opening 2NT, you should have all suits stopped; however, some may open it with an honor doubleton, hoping his partner has the suit stopped. To reach game in a notrump contract, the bid is 3NT (for example, the bidding sequence may be simply 1NT-2NT-3NT), both hands combined usually require twenty-six Starting Points; however, with long suits and points balanced between the two hands, only twenty-four Starting Points may work. To make a game in notrump, you must take a minimum of NINE TRICKS out of thirteen.
If you take twelve tricks (the bid is 6NT), you have made what is known as a slam. To make a (small) slam usually requires 33 Starting Points in the two hands. And, if you take all thirteen tricks (the bid is 7NT), you have taken all of the tricks, a grand slam; to make a grand slam normally requires approximately 37 Starting Points. The goal of a partnership when bidding is to determine whether or not one has enough points for a partial notrump contract, a game notrump contract, a small, or grand slam contract.
Let's apply our methodology (yes, it applies when opening a major or notrump).
Step 1: HCP
Step 2: Adjust-3
Step 3: Add for suit length
Step 4: Subtract for dubious honor doubletons/singletons
Step 5: Add for suit quality
Step 6: Total Starting Points
A few more examples:
Example N1 Example N2 Example N3 Example N4
[A]KJ [A]KJ6 [A]K9 [A]98 [B]AQ4 [B]A104 [B]AQ5 [B]AKJ2 [C]A108 [C]AQ8 [C]K8 [C]102 [D]Q10854 [D]AK96 [D]K109874 [D]AKJ42
Example N1
Step 1: 16HCP
Step 2: [Undervalued Honors = 4 – Overvalued Honors = 3] = 1; no adjustment
Step 3: Add 1 for suit length
Step 4: Subtract 1 for dubious doubleton
Step 5: Add 0 for suit quality
Step 6: Total: 16 Starting Points
Open the bidding 1NT (balanced 5-3-3-2)
Example N2
Step 1: 21 HCP
Step 2: [Undervalued Honors = 4 – Overvalued Honors = 3] = 1; no adjustment
Step 3: Add 0 for suit length
Step 4: No dubious doubletons
Step 5: Add 0 for suit quality
Step 6: Flatness -1
Step 7: Total: 20 Starting Points
Open the bidding 2NT (balanced 4-3-3-3) Example N3
Step 1: 15 HCP
Step 2: [Undervalued Honors = 2 – Overvalued Honors = 1] = 1; no adjustment
Step 3: Add 2 for suit length
Step 4: No dubious doubletons
Step 5: Add 0 for suit quality
Step 6: Total: 17 Starting Points
Open the bidding 1NT (semi-balanced 6-3-2-2) Example N4
Step 1: 16 HCP
Step 2: [Undervalued Honors = 3 – Overvalued Honors = 2] = 1; no adjustment
Step 3: Add 1 for suit length
Step 4: Subtract 0 for dubious doubletons
Step 5: Add 2 for suit quality (hearts and clubs)
Step 6: Total: 19 Starting Points
With nineteen Starting Points, you should not open the bidding 1NT (if partner is a passed hand; some may open 1NT with eighteen starting point in the fourth seat). With twenty points, you would not open the hand 2NT when holding two worthless doubletons and good suits. You must open the bidding one of a suit.
Before discussing suit bids, one needs to understand what it means to "take tricks" in notrump. To set our ideas, suppose you open 1NT and all other players at the table pass.
You have won the contract (1NT), and to succeed, you must take seven tricks. The first six tricks are called your book; hence to make a 1NT contract you must take book plus one trick. Similarly, for a contract of 3NT, you must take book plus three tricks or nine tricks.
To capture tricks in notrump, each card in a suit is of decreasing value from the ace down to the 2 (A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). However, the values are only meaningful for the suit led. If you lead, for example a club, only clubs are played and four cards constitute a trick. The highest valued card in the club suit is the [D]A. When you are unable to follow suit, you may discard any card in your hand; however, if you get in the lead later, you must be careful when discarding. One generally discards cards in other suits with low value.
Because there are no trumps in "notrump contracts," they are the most difficult contracts to make. Tricks are only won with a suit led. To establish tricks in notrump, you want to take advantage of long suits since these are the source of tricks.
Let's look at an example. You have the following hand: [A]KQ [B]A10 [C]AKQ10753 [D]KQ
and your contract is 3NT. In this hand, you have one spade trick, one heart trick, seven diamond tricks, and one club trick or ten tricks (ten potential tricks without a heart lead); hence, you may make 4NT. Bidding only 3NT you can make your contract plus an overtrick. In duplicate bridge, 3NT is worth 400 points if your side is non-vulnerable and 600 points if your side is vulnerable. Each overtrick is worth a score of thirty so that you have made either 430 or 630 points for the contract.
If you fail to make your contract, the value of a trick lost depends on vulnerability. Fifty points if you lose a trick non-vulnerable and 100 points if you lose a trick vulnerable. And, if the opponents do not think you can make a contract, it may be doubled. This doubles the values of the tricks lost. Hence, when bidding a partial (1NT = score of 90 or 2NT = score of 120) game or slam contract, one must consider the "risk" of not making the contract. Conversely, if you make a doubled contract, it also has a higher value when doubled and made. And, a contract may be re-doubled; even more points if made. When bidding, you must consider vulnerability.
(Continues...)
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COLLECTION:
We will collect names, addresses, contact details, education and employment history, identity and other background checks (which may include appropriate criminal and financial checks and confirmation of the right to work in the UK), marital status and information on next of kin and dependents, financial information (such as bank details and NI numbers), date of birth, gender, a copy of your passport and driving licence, performance information and compensation history, recruitment information (including references), salary, benefits, pension and annual leave information, disciplinary and grievance information, photographs, information about your use of our information and communications systems and CCTV footage or other information obtained through electronic means.
We may collect and use special categories of personal data as required in the carrying out of obligations and exercising specific rights of us or the data subject in the field of employment. This may include information relating to matters such as health, racial origin, religious belief and offences or alleged offences.
Personal data may be collected from you during the selection process (for example via your application form and CV) and during your employment (including holiday forms, expense claims, performance reviews, any disciplinary or grievance processes), or from third parties, including referees, health service providers, background check providers.
USE:
Personal data of our people will be used for HR administration and management, both in respect of the selection of people to work for us (including suitability, eligibility and/or fitness to work), and those who do work for us, to include learning and development, disciplinary and security (of people, offices and data) requirements, providing and liaising with benefits providers, business management and planning (including accounting and auditing), paying you and dealing with tax and NI deductions, assessing and deciding on salary reviews and compensation, conducting performance reviews and managing performance, dealing with legal disputes involving you or others, preventing fraud, monitoring your use of our information and communications systems, ensuring compliance with our policies, and equal opportunities monitoring.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
In performance of a contract with you; and/or
compliance with a legal obligation; and/or
vital interests of the data subject; and/or
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be less common:
where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests);
where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.
In respect of special categories of personal data, we may process this in the following circumstances:
in limited circumstances with your explicit written consent; and/or
where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed in the public interest (such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our occupational pension scheme), and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.
Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your (or someone else’s) interests and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public. We may also process such information about our people (or former people) in the course of our legitimate business activities with the appropriate safeguards.
The special categories of personal data may be used in the following ways:
in relation to leaves of absence, to comply with employment and other laws;
in relation to your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to monitor, manage and administer benefits and absences;
in relation to your race, national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
DISCLOSURE:
Personal data may be transferred to service providers who support the operation of our business (such as payroll service providers), to other third parties reasonably necessary in the conduct of our business (including insurers, professional advisors, regulators). These third parties may be acting as processor, or controller of personal data in their own right.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.
RETENTION PERIOD:
We will keep personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. We will normally keep personal data of applicants who we do not employ for six months after we receive it.
We will keep personal data of employees throughout your employment and normally for a minimum of six years after your employment ends.
Changes to your personal data
It is very important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and current. Please tell us if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.
Data Security
We have put in place measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those of our people and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and the ICO of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Where we store your personal data
We principally store data, both electronically and on file, at our office.
Personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA by processors acting on our behalf. For transfers to countries not considered adequate by the EC, we will ensure that personal data is adequately protected, as required by the GDPR. This would include by use of the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the EC to protect personal data.
Your rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to request:
access to your personal data. This enables you to ask to receive a copy of the personal data that we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
erasure of your personal data.
object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
restriction of processing of your personal data.
transfer of your personal data to another party.
Links from our website
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties that we permit to make such links. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We recommend that you check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on our website, so please ensure that you are viewing the correct version.
Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy.
Last amended May 2021.