Aalice.284 net.rec.bridge utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!alice!ark Sat Dec 19 17:38:10 1981 A Bidding Problem AKQxx x Axx AQxx You are dealer, all vulnerable, IMPs. You are not playing a forcing club system and you are a little light for a game forcing opening, so you open 1S. Partner bids 2S. Now comes your first problem. The best bid is probably 3C, which is forcing since you've agreed on spades. Partner bids 4C. You try 4D, showing your Ace. Partner says 4S. You make one more try with 5C, and are rewarded to hear 5D, showing the King. At this point, partner might have xxxx xx Kxx Kxxx in which case 6S goes down, or xxxx xxx Kx Kxxx in which case 6S is cold. What do you do? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.