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 (opens to a new window)
Contact Linda at linda@richmondbridge.net.

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

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

	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
	Bidding Over Partner's 2C Opening		Mathe
	Bidding Practice--Pavlicek		Michaels Cuebids
	Bridge Chess Moves		New Minor Forcing
	Bridge Jeopardy		Opening Leads 1
	Bridge Quiz		Opening Leads 2
	Bridge Tips--Playing		Opening Leads 3
	Card Sense Development		Opening Three Bids
	Cool Conventions		Overcalls
	Coming Alive		Patterns and Freakness
	Competitive Bidding		Plan Your Play
	Counting		Planning the Play
	Cue Bid		Play Inferences
	Cue Bids for Slam		Play Too Fast Series--Mike Lawrence
	Defense 1		Puppet Stayman
	Defense 2		Quick Tips for Improving
	Defense: Trump Leads		Responding to 1H or 1S--Larry Cohen
	Defensive Signals 1		Responding to Weak 2 Bids--Cohen
	Defensive Signals 2		Reverse by Opener
	Double Dummy		Roman Key Card
	Disclosure vs Concealment		Rule of Nine
	Dummy Reversal		Rule of Twenty
	Ecstasy		Signals - Pick Some
	Finesse		Simple Overcalls
	Flannery		Squeeze
	Flannery 2		Stealing
	Free Bid		Title Would Give It Away
	Global Warming		Thinking at the Bridge Table
	Hand Evaluation		Tips to Improve Your Bridge Game
	Hand Evaluation 2		Toby Strite
	A Hand from the Bridge Center		Trump Suit Contracts
	Here Yee		Two Over One: Review & Application
	How to Use the Enemy		Unusual NT
	Imp Strategy		Unusual Suit Combination
	Jacoby or Texas with a 6-card Major		Unusual vs Unusual/1-2-3 Stop
	Jeopardy 8-28-07		Using Bidding Space
	Jacoby 2NT		Value of Fourth Trump
	Jump Cue Mixed Raise		Value of Fourth Trump 2
	Law of Total Tricks 1		Weak Major Suit Raises