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BIDDING

Please select your option from the list below.


(O1)         Opener's first bid

(newR1)    Responders First Bid

(O2)       Openers Second Bid

(R2)         Responders Second Bid

(E)             Hand Evaluation

(C)              Conventions

(P)     Competitive Bidding

(T)      Preemptive Bidding

(G)                 Big Hands

(W)              The winning trick count (closely related to the law of total tricks)
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Historical snippet

The most publicised case of alleged cheating at bridge occurred in 1963 when Terence Reese and Boris Shapiro were the subject of an accusation by the American team they were playing. The allegation was that Reese was indicating to his partner the the number of cards in the heart suit that he was holding in his hand. It was alleged that the number of fingers on the back of the cards in the hand that was holding them equated to the length of the heart suit. Try it! Having been found guilty by the British Bridge League, the case went to the House of Lords on Appeal when they were acquitted.

Reese had always argued that if he had wanted to cheat (which was highly unlikely), he would certainly have found a better method than the one with which he was accused.