Polling You #57 – Partnership Agreements: Bidding Style

Good Bridge is all about partnership agreements.  Partnership agreements are built on bidding style.  And how about your Bridge – do you and your partner score “style points?”

On this survey, we give you the opportunity to ponder your opening bid and overcall style in 12 common situations.   Within each question area, you may select from 1 to 6 of the selections associated with each bidding topic.  Here’s a chance to analyze various bidding criteria that makes up your Bridge bidding DNA.  Better yet, you can compare your responses to your current and prospective Bridge partners.

Best yet, you can compare your bidding style to hundreds of other respondents that have previously completed the survey! Be sure to correlate and contrast your results with the rest of the pack, noting similarities and differences with your peers.

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Duplicate and Contract Bridge: Partnership Understandings

Among the prerequisites of great Bridge, no one would disagree it helps if you begin with great players, solid agreements forming a great partnership, and great cards. 

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And since our fair game is intended to pay dividends to the most skilled players, it’s only fair that the rules of Bridge clearly state that we are required to: disclose our partnership agreements and understandings to the opponents, have the ability and right to learn the agreements of the opponents calls, and to fairly provide redress to the non-offending side when a player have given mistaken or misleading information to their opponents.  Well that all sounds fair and good, but what about when a player makes a mistaken call or autonomously makes a call not in accordance with their partnership agreements?  Ah, that’s where the Bridge Laws start to become interesting, all very interesting – read more…

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