Jumping around — using splinters to show shortness. Splinter bids are unusual jumps to show trump support and shortness (a singleton or void) in the suit bid.
Locating a missing key card by counting the opponents' cards as they are played is one of the most satisfying experiences possible at the bridge table.
Assume you become declarer at four spades after West opens the bidding with....Photo: 1952 Spingold: John Crawford, Howard Schenken; George Rapee, Sam Stayman, B. Jay Becker
To be frank, there was not very much of interest in the whole of this set of 20 boards, except for one, which drew the attention of the Vugraph operators from the exquisitely technical point of view.
