Handouts

These are handouts that Linda and Richard have developed for the Intermediate classes on Sunday afternoons at 1:30 and Tuesday evenings at 6:00.

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Linda's Handouts (Each opens to a new window.)
Contact Linda at linda@richmondbridge.net.

	2 Over 1 Basics: Forcing NT		The Law of Total Tricks (Walker)
	2 Over 1 Basics: Part 1		Lead Tips (Kantar)
	2 Over 1 Basics: Part 2		Lebensohl Chart
	2 Over 1 Basics: Part 3		Lebensohl Example Hands
	2 Over 1: Review and Conventions		Lebensohl over NT Interference
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (1)		Lebensohl over Reverses 1
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (2)		Lebensohl over Artificial or 2-suit Bids
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (3a)		Lebensohl over Reverses 2
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (3b)		Linda's List: Tips from Kibbitzing You
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4a)		Losing Trick Count
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4b)		Major Suit Openings-Part 1
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4c)		Minor Suit Jacoby
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4d)		More on Doubles
	4-way Transfers		Myths, Misconceptions, and Mistakes
	52 Facts of Bridge Life (Kantar)		Negative Doubles
	Assault on 1NT		Negative Doubles (Bergen)
	Back to Basics Quiz		Negative Double Point Count (Bergen)
	Back to Basics Quiz-Answers		Negative Doubles (Quiz)
	Balancing		New Minor Forcing
	Balancing Over One Bids		No-trump: Bidding 3 of a Suit
	Beginner Convention Card		No-trump Review
	Beginner Convention Card Translation		Partnership Game
	Bergen Drury		Play Advice
	Bergen Raises		Puppet Stayman
	Bergen Secrets		Puppet Stayman (ACBL Bidding Toolkit)
	Bidding Sheet		Rebids by Opener
	Bridge Tips		Redouble and Jordan 2NT
	Cappelletti		Reopening Double
	Convention Card		Requirements for Opening 2C
	Defense Advice		Responses
	Defense Problems		Responsive Double
	D.O.N.T.		Reversing
	Don't Depend on Probabilities		Roman Keycard 1
	Drury		Roman Keycard 2
	Fake Moves		Smolen
	Flannery		Splinters
	Forcing/Non-forcing		Splinters by Kitty Cooper
	Foundation of the House		Splinters in ACBL Bulletin
	Fourth-suit Forcing		Stayman
	Fourth-suit Forcing Example		Super-Accept
	Fourth-suit Forcing Example		Support Double
	Golden Rule of Bridge		Takeout Double
	Happened at the Table 8-10-08		Ten Common Errors
	Help Suit Game Try		Trouble with Doubles
	Jacoby 2NT		Trouble with Doubles Quiz
	Jacoby Transfer Example		Two Over One Overview
	Jacoby Transfer for Minors		Uppercut
	Inverted Minors		Using Your Judgment for 1NT Opening
	Inverted Minors 2		Weak Twos Revisited
	Inverted Minors: More		When Is 4C Gerber?
	Laws Quiz		When you are a defender
	Laws Quiz Answers

Richard's Handouts (Each opens to a new window.)
Contact Richard at rickdey_49@hotmail.com.

	Handout		Handout
	12 Days of Bridge Tips		Law of Total Tricks 2
	21 Rules for Being a Good Partner		LAWful Preemption
	A Little Bit of Fun		Lawrence: Double Dummy
	Baa Baa Black Sheep		Leading Against Blind No Trumps
	Balancing		Lebesohl: All Versions
	Balancing-Larry Cohen		Lebensohl over Reverses
	Basic Bidding: Competition		Lebensohl Over Weak 2
	Basic Defense Quiz		Let's Think About It
	Basic Tips Cheat Sheet		Major Suit Raises I Teacher's Manual
	Bergen Raises		Major Suit Raises II Teacher's Manual
	Bergen Raises 2		Mathe
	Bidding Over Partner's 2C Opening		Michaels Cuebids
	Bidding Practice--Pavlicek		Modified 4-way Transfers
	Bridge Basics--Pavlicek		Negative Freebids
	Bridge Chess Moves		New Minor Forcing
	Bridge Jeopardy		Opening Leads 1
	Bridge Properties (website)		Opening Leads 2
	Bridge Quiz		Opening Leads 3
	Bridge Tips--Playing		Opening Three Bids
	Cappelletti		Overcalls
	Card Sense Development		Patterns and Freakness
	Cool Conventions		Plan Your Play
	Coming Alive		Planning the Play
	Competitive Bidding		Play Inferences
	Counting		Play of the Hand: Lessons 1 and 2
	Cue Bid		Play of the Hand: Lesson 3
	Cue Bids for Slam		Play of the Hand: Lessons 4 and 5
	Defense 1		Play of the Hand: Lesson 6
	Defense 2		Play of the Hand: Lessons 7, 8, 9
	Defense: Trump Leads		Play of the Hand: Lesson 10
	Defensive Signals 1		Play Too Fast Series--Mike Lawrence
	Defensive Signals 2		Puppet Stayman
	DONT		Puppet Stayman by Richard
	Double Dummy		Quick Tips for Improving
	Doubles and Redoubles		Responding to 1H or 1S--Larry Cohen
	Disclosure vs Concealment		Responding to Weak 2 Bids--Cohen
	Dummy Reversal		Reverse by Opener
	Ecstasy		Roman Key Card
	Finesse		Rule of Nine
	Flannery		Rule of Twenty
	Flannery 2		Signals - Pick Some
	Free Bid		Simple Overcalls
	Global Warming		Smolen Convention
	Hand Evaluation		Squeeze
	Hand Evaluation 2		Stealing
	A Hand from the Bridge Center		Swiss Team Strategies
	Handling Small Hands		Title Would Give It Away
	Here Yee		Thinking at the Bridge Table
	How to Use the Enemy		Tips to Improve Your Bridge Game
	Imp Strategy		Toby Strite
	Initial Thoughts of Defenders		Transfer Lebensohl
	Interesting Hand		Trump Suit Contracts
	Jacoby or Texas with a 6-card Major		Two Over One: Review & Application
	Jeopardy 8-28-07		Two-Way New Minor Forcing
	Jacoby 2NT		Unusual NT
	Kokish Relay		Unusual Suit Combination
	The Law of Total Tricks (Turner)		Unusual vs Unusual/1-2-3 Stop
	Jump Cue Mixed Raise		Using Bidding Space
	Law of Total Tricks 1		Value of Fourth Trump
			Value of Fourth Trump 2
			Weak Major Suit Raises

Excellent Lessons by David Lindop :

Doubles by David Lindop
Minor Suit Openings by David Lindop
Major Suit Openings by David Lindop
No Trump Openings by David Lindop
Overcalls 1 by David Lindop
Overcalls 2 by David Lindop
Slam Bidding by David Lindop
Leads and Signals by David Lindop