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| How to bid the Grand Slam from Wednesday's Session |
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There were 13 top tricks available on board 12 this week in the joint Keighley & Bradford pairs event, but no pair managed to bid 7NT
West is the dealer and opens 1♣. The auction is likely to start 1♣ - 1♦ - 1NT [showing 15-16] or 1♣ - 2♦ - 2NT. This is now a suitable hand for Roman Key Card Blackwood [RKCB]. When two suits have been bid naturally a common arrangement is for the key suit to be the one most recently bid before 4NT. The key suit is the one for which the king of that suit is a fifth ace for answering 4NT, and the queen is also of importance.
My preferred version of RKCB is known as 1430, with responses to 4NT as follows:
- 5♣ 1 or 4 keycards
- 5♦ 0 or 3
- 5♥ 2 without key queen
- 5♠ 2 plus key queen
So, East can now bid 4NT over opener's rebid. The response is 5♦ showing three keycards. East can now count 13 tricks if West holds Queen of Diamonds. An extension to RKCB is for the next bid up over the Blackwood response to enquire whether the key queen is held, providing that this bid is not a possible final contract. The first step denies the queen, second step shows the queen. A possible full bidding sequence could be: 1♣ - 1♦ - 1NT - 4NT - 5♦ - 5♥ - 5NT[showing DQ] - 7NT
John Spencer
8 October 2020
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There were 13 top tricks available on board 12 this week in the joint Keighley & Bradford pairs event, but no pair managed to bid 7NT
West is the dealer and opens 1♣. ..........
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