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Bidding
Conventions
Defense
Declarer Play
System Notes
Miscellaneous

The Fifth Chair's Archives are an expansive resource on many bridge topics.  These documents are designed to be viewed online or printed by using the Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible software.

If these pages won't open for you or you do not have the Acrobat reader, please click on the button below to download.

Some other documents available offsite but produced by our own Anna Marsh, one of our board members, provide very expansive notes on SAYC and 2/1 Game Forcing systems and are highly recommended.

annam/sayc.htm (this is the main "frontpage")
annam/sayc01.htm (the web version of the main system)
annam/sayc02.htm (the Part2 Optional Conventions)
annam/2-1.html (2/1 done with John Hoffman)

Bidding
 

Are Reverses Forcing?	Bidding after originally passing
Bidding against Preempts	Bidding Competitively vs Silent Opps
Bidding Partner's Values	Cuebids to show a raise in partner's suit
Defensive Bidding after Hamilton	Defensive Bidding after Unusual NT
Defensive bidding over weak two-bids	Doubles after 1NT opener
Fit jump with Mini Splinters	Forcing Bids
Game Tries	Inverted Minors
Inverted Minors (another)	Law of Total Tricks Method
Length Points Counting Method	Losing Trick Count
Modern Bridge Bidding of 5 Card Majors	Modern NT Bidding
Opening 1NT vs 1M with a 5 Card Major	Preemptive Bids
Responses to 1NT Openers Quiz	Rules of 7, 10,11, 12, 15, 19, and 20
Weak Two-Bids	Responder's Reverses
Captain of the Hand	Multi 2D
Defense to Multi 2D	The Importance of Accurate Bidding

Conventions
 

Bergen Raises	Checkback Stayman
DOPI, DEPO, PODI & ROPI	Four Suit Transfers
Four Suit Transfers (another)	Fourth Suit Forcing
Gambling 3NT	Jacoby 2NT
Jacoby Transfers	Jordan (aka Dormer)
Lebensohl	Lightner Doubles
Michaels Cuebids	Mini-Roman
Mini-Splinters	Minor Suit Stayman
Negative Doubles	New Minor Forcing
Ogust	Puppet Stayman
RKC for Minor Suit Openings	Roman Keycard Blackwood (RKC)
Flannery	Takeout Doubles
Unusual NT	Unusual NT Quiz
Drury	Smolen
SOS Redouble	Stayman + Quiz
Balancing No Trump	Unusual No Trump (another)
Crash	BART
Astro and Pinpoint Astro

Defense
 

Introduction to Defensive Strategies	Journalist Leads
Signals and Discards	Which Suit to Lead
Rusinow Leads	Smith Echo
Trump Suit Echo	Rusinow Leads (another)
Journalist Leads (another)	Counting at Bridge

Declarer Play
 

Finesses	When to Draw Trumps
Trump Management when Declaring

System Notes
 

SAYC System Notes	Short SAYC Test
ACOL

Miscellaneous
 

21 Rules of Being a Good Partner	Bridge Abbreviations
How Cards Split	Tournament Scoring - MP vs IMP
Yarborough	Scoring at Team Games
Four Things about Partnerships	Alerts

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