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Brozel
Brozel is a contract bridge bidding convention used to intervene after an opposing one notrump (1NT) opening bid. It features the following calls: *Double – shows any single suit; advancer bids 2, after which intervenor corrects to his actual suit (or passes with clubs). This was originally played as requiring either a solid suit or a very good suit and an entry, leaving advancer the opportunity to pass with a couple of side-suit stoppers, though many partnerships now allow a weaker suit. *2 – shows clubs and hearts *2 – shows diamonds Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of electricity, and insol ... and hearts *2 – shows hearts and spades *2 – shows spades and an unspecified minor suit *2NT – shows clubs and diamonds Brozel is named loosely after its creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Defenses To 1NT
This is a list of defensive conventions used in the game of contract bridge to compete in the bidding after the opponents have opened with a one notrump (1NT) bid. * ANTI * Aspro * Asptro, a hybrid of Astro and Aspro * Astro, Modified Astro, Pinpoint Astro, Grano-Astro, Roth-Stone Astro * Astrolite * Becker * Bergen over 1NT (see DONT) * Blue Club transfers (see Transfer overcalls) * Brozel * Cansino, Modified Cansino * Canape transfers * Cappelletti, Modified Cappelletti, Revised Cappelletti * CDH Buchanan * CHASM * Comfy Canapé or CoCa * CRASH (aka CRO) * Crowhurst convention * DONT, Revised DONT * Exclusion bids (aka Super Convention) * Feathertson * Feel Away Notrump (FAN) * Feel Oriented Notrump Destroyer (FOND) * Gates adjunct * Grano-Astro (see Astro) * Hamilton * Hello * Kelsey * Landy * Lionel * Maestro Double * Meckwell * Meyerson * Modified Astro (see Astro) * Mohan * MONK * Multi-Landy * Nilsland * Pinpoint Astro (see Astro) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contract Bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking game, trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two Team game, competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, bridge tournaments, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among Old Age, seniors. The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the governing body for international competitive bridge, with numerous other bodies governing it at the regional level. The game consists of a number of , each progressing through four phases. The cards are to the players; then the players ''call'' (or ''bid'') in an seeking to take the , specifying how many tricks the partnership receiving the contract (the declaring side) needs to take to receive points for the deal. During the auction, partners use their bids to exchange infor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trump (card Games)
A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a ''trump suit''; these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump) suits. In other contexts, the terms ''trump card'' or ''to trump'' refers to any sort of action, authority or policy which automatically prevails over all others. The introduction of trumps is one of only two major innovations to trick-taking games since they were invented; the other being the idea of bidding. Trump cards, initially called '' trionfi'', first appeared with the advent of Tarot cards in which there is a separate, permanent trump suit comprising a number of picture cards. The first known example of such cards was ordered by the Duke of Milan around 1420 and included 16 trumps with images of Greek and Roman gods. Around the same time that Tarot cards were invented with the purpose of adding a trump suit to the existing four suits, a similar concept arose in the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing Card Suit
In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by the color printed on the card. The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it, except on face cards. Ranking indicates which cards within a suit are better, higher or more valuable than others, whereas there is no order between the suits unless defined in the rules of a specific card game. In most decks, there is exactly one card of any given rank in any given suit. A deck may include special cards that belong to no suit, often called jokers. While English-speaking countries traditionally use cards with the French suits of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds, many other countries have their own traditional suits. Much of central Europe uses German suited cards with suits of Acorns (Clubs), Leaves (Spades), Hearts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clubs (suit)
Clubs () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. The symbol was derived from that of the suit of Acorns (suit), Acorns in a German-suited playing cards, German deck when French suits were invented, around 1480. In Skat (card game), Skat and Doppelkopf, Clubs are the highest-ranked suit (whereas Diamonds (suit), Diamonds and Bells (suit), Bells are the trump suit in Doppelkopf). In Contract bridge, Bridge, Clubs are the lowest suit. Name Its original French language, French name is which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf. The Italian language, Italian name is ("flower"). However, the English language, English name "Clubs" is a translation of ''basto'', the Spanish name for the suit of batons (suit), batons, suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented. In Germany, this suit is known as ("cross"), especially in the International Skat (card game), Ska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hearts (suit)
Hearts (, ) (, ) is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of French-suited playing cards, French-suited and German-suited playing cards. However, the symbol is slightly different: is used in a French deck while is used in a German deck. This suit was invented in 15th century Germany and is a survivor from a large pool of experimental suit signs created to replace the Playing card suit#Origin and development of the Latin suits, Latin suits. The standard German-suited system of Leaves (suit), leaves, Acorns (suit), acorns, hearts, and Bells (suit), bells appears in the majority of cards from 1460 onwards. There is no evidence for this system prior to this point. The French design was created around 1480 when French suits were invented and was a simplified version of the existing German suit symbol for hearts in a German-suited pack. In Swiss-suited playing cards, the equivalent suit is Roses (suit), Roses, typically with the following suit symbol: . Name In Contract bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamonds (suit)
Diamonds () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. Diamonds along with the other French suits were invented in around 1480. It is the only French suit to not have been adapted from the German deck, taking the place of the suit of Bells. There was one early French pack that used crescents instead of diamonds, which may explain this anomaly. Rough coloring techniques on the red stripe on the German bells may have caused the circles to appear as irregularly shaped dots, and French cardmakers may have decided to drop the details and straighten out the sides. Name The original French name of the suit is ; in German and Polish it is known as . In older German-language accounts of card games, Diamonds are frequently referred to as ("cornerstone"). In Switzerland, the suit is still called ''Egge'' (''Ecke'' i.e. "corner") today. The term "Karo" went into the German language in the 18th century from the French , which goes back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spades (suit)
Spades () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the Leaves (suit), leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black Hearts (card suit), heart with a stalk at its base. It symbolises the Pike (weapon), pike or halberd, two medieval weapons, but is actually an adaptation of the German suit symbol of Leaves (suit), Leaves created when French suits were invented around 1480.Dummett (1980), p. 22. In Contract bridge, bridge, spades rank as the highest suit. In Skat (card game), skat and similar games, it is the second-highest suit. Name The word "Spade" is probably derived from the Old Spanish ''spada'' meaning "Swords (suit), sword" and suggests that Spanish suits were used in England before French suits. The French name for this suit, ("pike"), meant, in the 14th century, a weapon formed by an iron spike placed at the end of a Pike (weapon), pike. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Zeller
Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It has West Germanic origin and is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brave, hardy". Its native Old English cognate was ''Beornheard'', which was replaced or merged with the French form ''Bernard'' that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name ''Bernhard'' was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers. Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). In Ireland, the name was an anglicized form of Brian. Geographical distribution Bernard is the second most common surname in France. As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bernard'' were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,221) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
