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	Major suit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the card game contract bridge, the major suits are spades (♠) and hearts (♥).
		The major suits are of prime importance for tactics and scoring as they outrank the minor suits while bidding and also outscore them.
		Much of the tactics of bidding in bridge revolves around the attempt by partners to find a "fit" in one of the major suits that will allow them to easily make a game contract.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_suit (104 words)

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		Raise of trump suit = one of top three in trump, no outside A. Opener's suit has to be good enough to guarantee at most one loser opposite a void (must have 2 of top 3).
		Failing that, bid 6 of the trump suit with the A or K and 6C without either of those (if the suit is clubs you can't differentiate).
		Double is either a 4 card major plus a longer minor, or a balanced hand with a 3 HCP range starting at 1 HCP higher than the upper limit of the NT (for a 10-13 NT would be a 14-16 HCP hand),or a strong minor suit, or could be long, weak diamond suit.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/1285/precisn.txt (7893 words)

	Major Suit Openings
		the raise of the bid suit is invitational, new suits are non-forcing unless the suit could have been bid at the 2 level.
		Fourth suit by a passed hand is forcing 1 round.
		New suits are invitational after the relay if the suit could have been bid at the 2 level.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~mjg/bridge/chiesa.html (2329 words)

	AUC: The Major-Suit Openings
		Almost everyone opens the hand 1NT if the long suit is a minor (although that was not necessarily the case 40 years ago, and in Roman, for instance, 5332 was not considered balanced).
		When you open a strong notrump and partner has 4 of your major, there is a good chance partner also has enough values to bid.
		The simplest is for minimum suit bids to show shortness, 3M to show 6+ cards without shortness, and 3NT 5332 or 5422.
	www.hq.ro /vang/bridge/from_the_net/bidding_systems/Auc/majors.html (1165 words)

	15.4 the voluntary bid of 5 in a major suit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		when you and your partner have agreed to play in a major suit, a ``voluntary'' bid of 5 in that major asks your partner if he has 1st- or 2nd-round control in a specified suit.
		if your side has bid all of the suits except 1, a bid of 5 of the agreed major asks for control of the unbid suit.
		if an opponent has bid a suit, a bid of 5 of the agreed major asks for control of the opponent's suit.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /~huanga02/bridge/node44.html (160 words)

	Major Suit Openings and Responses
		If they are both the same strength and one is a major suit (H,S) and the other is a minor (D,C) then open the major.
		If both suits are majors, open spades first, unless you have 17+ points, in which case you'll open hearts and bid spades (this is called Reversing and shows a hand of at least an ace better than regular opening hands).
		Which suit you bid is the same as if you didn't have a fit, except you are more likely to have to bid a 4 card suit.
	www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /usr/gc00/bidding/lessons/1major.html (1330 words)

	Strengths, Weaknesses of Major Suit Raises
		In addition to Constructive Raises and the Forcing No-trump, there are several additional methods of supporting partner's major suit opener.
		suit, and either a singleton or void in the bid suit.
		suit, under many circumstances that suit can be safely bid at the three level.
	home.earthlink.net /~zebulonhsd/articles/blum/2.10.99.html (644 words)

	Responding in bridge
		For minor suit openings a new suit is always forcing raise: Don't worry about partner's pass when you show a new suit with so much points...
		If you are holding at least three or four cards of your partner's major suit, you can single raise your partner's opening suit one level (Remember that your partner has 5+ cards in that suit).
		This new suit is not necessary to be in major suit.
	www.bridge7.com /xbric3.aspx (3265 words)

	Bridge: rules and variations of the card game
		The dummy should arrange them neatly in suits, the cards of each suit arranged in rank order in an overlapping column, pointing towards the declarer, so that all the cards are clearly visible.
		Because of the difference in score, clubs and diamonds are called the minor suits and hearts and spades are the major suits.
		For example, if I double a suit contract, either opponent may, at their turn ask my partner what the double means, and my partner must answer according to any agreement we may have about the meaning of the double - for example that it is for takeout or for penalties.
	www.pagat.com /boston/bridge.html (8748 words)

	Bridge Conventions and Bidding Systems - AnnAM Co.UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A new suit at the 2 level is invitational and forcing for 1 round by an unpassed hand (the logic here is that a negative double is often available for hands that are not good enough to force to game.
		12-14 or 18-19 bal, stoppers in unbid suits.
		Therefore, when an opp's suit overcall is followed by 2 passes, opener should try to re-open with a double, if he has 2 or less cards in the opp's suit, since partner may have passed with a good hand for penalties.
	www.annam.co.uk /2-1.html (6318 words)

	Bridge Conventions
		But if you bid your long major suit, you will be declarer and 1 NT opener's hand will be dummy..
		A new suit by responder is natural and forcing and shows 4+ card in the suit.
		A new suit by responder is natural and forcing.and shows 4+ card in the suit.
	www.bridge7.com /xbric8.aspx (1803 words)

	Lesson 10: Five card Major suit openers - Part One
		A reverse is a bid at the 2-level in a suit which is higher in rank than the suit you bid first.
		Jumps to NoTrump usually indicate that you had a five-card major, but everything else is good for NoTrump (stoppers in all the other suits) and a fairly balanced distribution (usually 5 cards in the major suit with the other suits being 3 cards, 3 cards and 2 cards: known as 5332 distribution).
		If you are rebidding the suit you opened because you hold more than five cards in the suit, you can jump to 3 of that suit.
	www.fifthchair.org /school/lesson10.htm (2451 words)

	Goren System
		Other features is opening the lower of 4-4 in the Minor suits, jumping to 2 Notrump or 3 of the opening suit, if the point count is 13 to 15 support points.
		The thought behind this calculation is to increase or promote each honor in the bid suit of the partner by 1 point, unless the honors already exceed 4 points.
		If the opponents open the auction with a bid suit first, then a Takeout Double requires that the doubler must possess a holding which would normally be an opening, which signifies 13 high card points or more.
	www.bridgehands.com /Conventions/Goren_System.htm (1177 words)

	AUC: The Major-Suit Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That is, notrump rebids show balanced hands, new suits show values in the suit bid (with an exception or two), and the usual plobs ("Petty Little Odious Bids"), 4th suit forcing and new minor forcing, can be used.
		With game values, responder should bid 3D, which sounds like a raise but is actually fourth suit forcing.
		We tend not to skip over a spade suit with 4, unless specifically 4-3-3-3.
	www.hq.ro /vang/bridge/from_the_net/bidding_systems/Auc/1c1M.html (456 words)

	Bergen Raise - Bergen Raises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This conventional method was originally called Bergen Major Suit Raises, because they were only used after one partner opened a Major suit.
		In the case that the responder has only 3-card support for the opened Major by his partner and also 10-12 good support points, the partnership agreement is that a response of 1 No Trump is forcing for one round.
		Any cuebid by the opponents of the opener's Major suit promises the second unbid Major suit and the second unbid Minor suit by partnership agreement.
	www.bridgeguys.com /Conventions/BergenRaises.html (916 words)

	Pavlicek System
		After a third suit force, if responder bids the fourth suit this is game forcing and implies the ace in that suit.
		After our opening bid of one of a suit and some action by responder, a cue-bid in the enemy suit by opener or responder is game forcing.
		Any suit bid by opener, whether responder has acted or not, is forcing below game unless opener bids the same suit twice, in which case responder may pass with nothing.
	www.rpbridge.net /7g19.htm (4407 words)

	Major Suit Raises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most systems require opener to hold five cards in a major suit to open that suit.
		responder bids at the next level of the same suit partner opened, it is called a raise.
		to hands where this bid is followed by a raise or jump raise in partner's major suit.
	home.earthlink.net /~zebulonhsd/articles/blum/2.3.99.html (618 words)

	major suit definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		major suit definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Search for "major suit" in all of MSN Encarta
		high-scoring suit in card games: in bridge and some other card games, spades or hearts, owing to their greater scoring potential
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861693283/major_suit.html (87 words)

	Lesson 11: Responding to a Major suit - Fifth Chair Foundation
		When the partnership has found a suit fit and one or both partners know it, it is common to slightly change how you add up the points in your hand.
		It tells your partner that you have a fit for her suit and that you have enough points to get to game if she has more than a minimum opening hand.
		Partner knows that you have a fit for her suit.] Also note that partner has a very good idea of how many points (or the maximum number of losers we have), so she can make an intelligent guess as to how high to play the hand.
	www.fifthchair.org /school/lesson11.htm (1554 words)

	Major suit raises
		The structure is based on Bergen Raises, Garozzo Mini-Splinters, the Martel-Stansby Jacoby 2NT structure and Kokish GameTries.
		The structure assumes a standard, 5 card major framework with a semi-forcing 1 NT response and reasonably strong 2/1 responses.
		The order in which short and long side suits are bid may look a bit weird at a first glance.
	www-zeus.desy.de /~uijter/bridge/bidding/major.html (619 words)

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