Gavin's Miscellany
Personal encyclopedia and learning curriculum119 entries

Topic

Bridge

Bridge bidding, scoring, and strategic tradeoffs worth being able to recall at the table.

Entries

  • New Minor ForcingNew Minor Forcing (NMF) is a responder convention used after opener rebids 1NT. Responder bids the unbid/new minor artificially to force opener to describe the hand further — especially threecard support for responder's fivecard major and four cards in the other major.
  • Vulnerability and Sacrifice ScoringA bridge sacrifice is worthwhile only if the penalty for going down is cheaper than the score the opponents would have earned making their contract. Vulnerability changes both sides of that comparison.