| Basic Bridge Course Objectives |
YCBC Basic Bridge—Course Objectives
Basic Bridge—Beginners
At the end of the course, students will:
- Understand the mechanics of bridge, be able to play out a bridge deal and know how many tricks have been taken by each partnership
- Be able to evaluate a hand and decide whether and how to enter the auction with an appropriate bid at the appropriate level
- Be able to choose the best response to an opening bid
- Be able to describe an opening hand accurately through the choice of rebid
- Understand the concept of trumps, the importance of an eight‑card trump fit
- Understand the concepts of part‑score, game and slam contracts and be aware of the importance of the major suits in bidding
- Know how to cash tricks, take simple finesses and establish winners in a suit.
Basic Bridge—Next Step
At the end of the course, students will:
- Be able to complete an uninterrupted auction to reach the optimum contract
- Understand and know when to use basic techniques of declarer play, including setting up winners, finessing, drawing trumps and ruffing losers
- Be able to identify the best opening lead from common suit holdings
- Be able to respond to no trump openings using the Stayman convention and transfer bids and understand when to use which
- Understand when and how to enter the auction with an appropriate overcall or double.
- Be able to choose the appropriate opening bid for very strong hands and be able to use the Blackwood convention as an aid to slam bidding.
Basic Bridge—Improvers
At the end of the course, students will:
- Be able to conduct a competitive auction to the optimum contract
- Understand how to respond to, and defend against, higher‑level opening bids
- Be able to plan the play effectively in both suit and no trump contracts
- Understand the concept of signalling and be able to use signals in defence
- Have an appreciation of different systems and agreements likely to be met at the bridge table and have some general rules for coping with them
- Understand the etiquette of the game and be able to participate effectively in a duplicate game in any bridge club
- Receive a certificate of achievement as a club player.
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Page last updated 5 January 2023
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