{"id":35,"date":"2009-01-19T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2009\/01\/19\/newcomer-novice-7-aye-aye-captain\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:22:25","slug":"newcomer-novice-7-aye-aye-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer &amp; Novice #7: Aye-aye, Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Services\/eMagazine_Archive\/eMag_NN_7.htm\">READ THE NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this issue, we will discuss the much maligned Bridge principle known as captaincy. Indeed, you are the captain when your partner has made a signoff bid. When this happens, it\u2019s up to you to steer the partnership to the best contract. Thus, it\u2019s paramount the partnership be able to differentiate between signoff, invitational, and forcing bids.<\/p>\n<p>The Rule of 4 is a nice reminder to consider when finding the best trump fit with your partner. It turns out on some occasions the longest suit in one hand does not always make the best contract \u2013 after all, Bridge is a partnership game.<\/p>\n<p>BridgeHandshas joined the \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d crowd, adding multimedia audio and an interactive blog (that\u2019s short for a weblog) to our site. We hope you will find these additions useful and enhance your stay at our site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ THE NEWSLETTER In this issue, we will discuss the much maligned Bridge principle known as captaincy. Indeed, you are the captain when your partner has made a signoff bid. When this happens, it\u2019s up to you to steer the partnership to the best contract. Thus, it\u2019s paramount the partnership be able to differentiate between [&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\/35"}],"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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}