If you have a good question feel free to send it to me. Some older questions that I have answered can be found with the tag “Questions” on this site. These days I answer the most interesting questions with my husband in the District 17 newsletter column called “Consult the Coopers”
Click here for a few questions answered on on this site:
Recently I have received a number of questions about the rules aka laws of rubber bridge so here is the official set of rules:
http://www.acbl.org/acbl-content/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Laws-of-Rubber-Bridge.pdf
Gloria sent me a question but her email bounced (probably mistyped) so I will answer here:
Gloria: Opponent open. Your overcall is insuffient. What are the rules, for example: 1spade, 1 heart
Kitty: No penalty if you make the bid sufficient i.e. you bid 2
If you choose any other call your partner is barred from the bidding for the rest of the auction
see law 27 in the rules listed above
Hi Kitty,
I came across your site when I accessed the site that follows. It is nice that you have a place like this for players who would like answers. Regards, Rod
http://greatbridgelinks.com/gblclass/learning-sites/
This link is new to me and I am asking a question for Bridge game: What is an inverted minor?
I really would appreciate your response.
Thanks in advance,
Stewart
Hi Stewart –
Inverted minors are where responder to one of a minor bids two of the minor with a limit raise, rather than three, leaving plenty of room to explore for the likely contract of 3NT.
With a weaker hand, responder jumps to three of the minor with five or more as a preemptive raise (or as some prefer just less than a limit raise so that 3NT will make when partner has a 2NT rebid).
That leaves 1NT as the usual catch all bid for a hand of 6-10 points and no major.