| Club Reopening |
Keighley Bridge Club is now open again for face to face bridge on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, and Wednesday afternoons. The procedure is as described in Mike's letter, with the exception that there are hosts on Wednesday evenings Host List.
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| John Conquest's Funeral |
Freda Conquest has asked that those members of the club who were planning to attend her husband Johns' funeral be informed that it has been postponed until 29th July at 12.30 pm at Skipton Crematorium, due to a member of the family having to self isolate.
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| Malcom and Mavis Wood |
We were very sad to learn of the recent deaths of Malcolm and Mavis Wood, long standing members of Keighley Bridge Club for over 30 years. An obituary can be found on the In Memorium page.
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| 1NT Overcall |
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On board 17 from the Wed 13th Jan joint Keighley & Bradford event, North at my table opened 1♦ with their distributional hand and East overcalled 1NT showing 15-17 points and at least one stop in diamonds. West holds a good 9 points including 4 hearts so needs to find out by Stayman whether East also has hearts. There are 2 possible methods in this situation and partnerships need to choose which they prefer.
Method A – Bids have same meaning as opposite an opening 1NT, ie 2♣ is Stayman and other bids are transfers
Method B – Natural. All 3 suits [including 2♣] not bid by opponent are weak takeouts, a bid of their suit [2♦ in above example] operates like Stayman.
My personal preference is method B, but partnerships simply need to decide one way or the other.
John Spencer
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On board 17 from the Wed 13th Jan joint Keighley & Bradford event, North at my table opened 1♦ with their distributional hand and East overcalled 1NT showing 15-17 points and at least one stop in diamonds. West holds a good 9 points including 4 hearts so needs to find out by Stayman whether East also has hearts. ..........
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| Upgrade |
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Hand 3 from the Wed 23rd Dec joint Keighley & Bradford event was of interest both in the bidding and play. North opens 1♠ and South has to decide whether to upgrade their hand or not. We would not normally respond with just 4 points, but there is a good case for upgrading the South hand and raising to 2♠. This is primarily because we have both a fit and a singleton, but also what few points we have are useful as the ace of clubs is a definite trick. If South decides to raise to 2♠ then North's distribution justifies 4♠.
In the play, on the normal lead of the king of hearts, declarer wins and then ruffs a heart in dummy. Draw 2 rounds of trumps only, leaving the winning trump at large. Play diamonds - ace first - and persisting with diamonds we arrive at 10 tricks.
John Spencer
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Hand 3 from the Wed 23rd Dec joint Keighley & Bradford event was of interest both in the bidding and play. ..........
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| Bidding question |
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The bidding on board 1 from the Wed 2nd Dec joint Keighley & Bradford event is of interest. North opens 1NT and South bids 2♥ [transfer]. West bids 3♥ holding a good hand with six hearts and the question is whether East should pass or raise to 4♥.
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If West held only 5 hearts they would double the transfer bid to show this, also if they held a less strong hand with 6 hearts. Given that West has these alternatives with weaker hands, there is a good case for East to raise the 3♥ overcall to 4♥.
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| Minimum Opener |
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In the Wed 4th Nov joint Keighley & Bradford event East opened the bidding with this hand. Only 11 points but definitely worth an opening bid with a 5431 distribution and strength in the long suit.
Question – should East rebid 2♣, 2♥, or 2♠ when West responds 1♠ to the 1C opener.
Answer – East should rebid 2♠. We cannot be sure that West holds 5 spades, but because 4-card suits are normally bid upwards in reply to 1♣ there is a good chance that West holds 5 spades because they have bypassed 1♦ & 1♥. Note that it would be wrong for East to rebid 2♥ as this would be a reverse showing 16+ points. On the actual hand responder [West] held a very strong hand and many pairs reached 6♠. At my table Sandra Carroll & Tom Wiltshire scored even better by bidding 6NT.
John Spencer
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In the Wed 4th Nov joint Keighley & Bradford event East opened the bidding with this hand. Only 11 points but definitely worth an opening bid with a 5431 distribution and strength in the long suit.
Question – should East rebid 2♣, 2♥, or 2♠ when West responds 1♠ to the 1C opener. ..........
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| NT Rebids |
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How many points would you expect opener to have for the 1NT rebid in this sequence? 1♦ - Pass - Pass - Double - 1NT.
Answer: more than the 15/16 points normally associated with a 1NT rebid when partner has responded to the opening bid. This is because partner is known to hold very little. This occurred on board 9 in the Wed 21st Oct joint Keighley & Bradford event. Opener held KQ9, Q85, AKJ73, A9 and only 7 tricks could be made on a club lead despite holding 19 points - dummy had 4 points.
 On another deal - board 13 - West held a balanced 19 points: A3, AQ5, AQ94, K986. Whichever suit is opened East responds 1S. It is important that West now rebids 3NT to show the balanced hand rather than confusing matters by bidding their second suit. To introduce the second suit would mislead partner as it would imply that the first suit is five cards long.
John Spencer
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How many points would you expect opener to have for the 1NT rebid in this sequence? 1♦ - Pass - Pass - Double - 1NT. ..........
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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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| Members Subscriptions while the club is closed |
The Committee have decided that the club will not charge subscriptions while it is closed. Once we are able to re-open we will determine pro-rata subscriptions for the remainder of the year. If you normally pay by standing order then you can either cancel it or let it stand and we will credit you in the following year.
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| Online Bridge Mailing List |
I have set up a mailing list for members who are trying online bridge and want to find partners etc. If you want to be added then email me and I will add you. My email address is john at jbovey dot uk.
John Bovey
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| Online Bridge Sites |
Online Bridge Clubs
The main 3 sites are:
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