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Contract requirements-- What you and your partner need in your two hands to make these contracts: Suit partscore (bid of 1, 2 or 3 in any suit) -- 18-24 points and at least an 8-card trump fit. Notrump partscore (bid of 1NT or 2NT) -- 20-24 points and preferably no 8-card major-suit fit.
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The ‘rules’ of bidding are easy for the beginner to forget, and easier still to misremember, since each decision in a bridge auction depends both on one’s own card holding and all previous bids (including pass!)
The rules of the game require you to play a card in the same suit as the led suit if you can. (This is called “following suit.”). Someone’s card will outrank everyone else’s, and that card wins the trick for the partnership (N-S or E-W). There are 13 tricks up for grabs in a game of bridge.
Contract requirements -- What you and your partner need in your two hands to make these contracts: - 18-24 pts. and at least an 8-card trump fit. Notrump partscore (bid of 1NT or 2NT) -- 20- pts. and preferably no 8-card major-suit fit. Major-suit game (4H. 4S) -- 25-26+ pts. and at least an 8-card fit.
Standard American is a bidding system for the game of bridge widely used in North America and elsewhere. Owing to the popularization of the game by Charles Goren in the 1940s and 1950s, its early versions were sometimes referred to simply as 'Goren'.
Bidding principles and hand evaluation rules including basic point count, The Law of Total Tricks, Losing Trick Count, and more. About Bridgebum began in 1999 and covers a large set of descriptions of bidding conventions, declarer play and defense, and more.
