{"id":24,"date":"2009-01-19T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2009\/01\/19\/forcing-pass-or-thy-opponents-shall-not-steal-intermediateadvanced-emagazine-1\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:50:09","slug":"forcing-pass-or-thy-opponents-shall-not-steal-intermediateadvanced-emagazine-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate &amp; Advanced #1: Forcing Pass, or Thy Opponents Shall Not Steal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Services\/eMagazine_Archive\/eMag_IA_1_0106.htm\">READ THE NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month we featured forcing bids and promised to delve into the Forcing Pass. If you haven&#8217;t discussed various scenarios or guidelines with your partner, hopefully this article will enlighten you.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we will check out the Grosvenor Gambit, an unusual play that seemingly forfeits a trick, but&#8230; sometimes even an expert pulls one off!<\/p>\n<p>The Michaels Cuebid is not a big deal, but even the professionals can get confused when the opener &#8220;could be short&#8221;. We&#8217;ll look at both the bid and what happens when when the Director is called to handle mis-information.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s hand comes from the Denver NABC Barometer game where Jim Krekorian both jumped into 3 Notrump (Bob Hamman style), then managed a nice double squeeze.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, we&#8217;ll take a look at Multiple Compression &#8211; every bit as painful as it sounds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ THE NEWSLETTER Last month we featured forcing bids and promised to delve into the Forcing Pass. If you haven&#8217;t discussed various scenarios or guidelines with your partner, hopefully this article will enlighten you. Next, we will check out the Grosvenor Gambit, an unusual play that seemingly forfeits a trick, but&#8230; sometimes even an expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}