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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Box President’s Message Hodel 6
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ABTA Online Activities Sparrow 9
Book Reviews Berry 12
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A Dispatch from the Trenches of
Teaching 2 Over 1 Game Force Nellissen 16
Call for 2014 Applebasket Entries Montague 17
Don’t Lose Your Diamonds! Hodel 18
No Time Like the Present to Think About
UT the 2014 Teacher of the Year Abbott 19
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6 Carolyn Pinto; Debbie Wagner; Sam Marks; Carol T. Griffin;
om Carol Hargrave; John Pain; Gordon Markham; Carol Lee Erbeck;
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President’s Message
Chuck Hodel
The time has arrived for my sec-
ond message to the ABTA member-
ship. My first message centered on
the preparations made before I took
office. Now I want to report on sev-
eral things that have transpired in the
interim.
I have nearly filled all committees
and they are working
on your behalf. The
main job was to find a
Las Vegas contact that
could help organize
details for the summer Conference.
With the help of President-Elect Patty
Tucker we have a local Las Vegas
contact that is helping to organize our
Wednesday evening activity. The
discussions so far promise an inter-
esting evening including a moder-
ately priced dinner.
Another activity that must be
taken care of soon is the arrangement
for our annual New Attendee lunch-
eon. Patty is in
charge of this
activity and will
plan a moderately
Fall 2013 AB
priced luncheon for first- or second- is
time attendees. The purpose of this yo
event is to help new attendees be-
come aquatinted with Board members
and the program for the week, so they
will receive the maximum benefit the
from the event. Details of these two ing
events will be printed in the winter ro
Quarterly. joi
se
I have written a short far
article for inclusion in on
this issue [see page 18]. of
I did this to encourage br
members to submit arti-
cles to editor Charlie Williams. I
think the subject I have chosen will ba
find members with different points of gu
view but we should all be encouraged fo
to express what we think. After all, na
there are different approaches to cle
playing bridge and teaching. Send a fo
short article to Charlie at:
charlie.williams@verizon.net
The officers have been investigat-
ing the subject of a general liability
insurance policy to cover teachers
that are required to have such a pol-
icy by the facility in which they
teach. It has been suggested that
ABTA purchase a policy that would
cover all teachers. Many feel that it is
the responsibility of the
individual teacher to pur-
chase a policy if required, o
in other words, “the cost l
of doing business.” I e
don’t know how many p
teachers are faced with a requirement o
such as this. It is hard to justify
spending dues money if only a few
benefit. Let me know by email if this
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nd- is an important topic for you and how

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joins for 2014. We have
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bridge teachers. Keith McMahan
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Auburn, CA 95604
will basket suggestions to Brenda Monta-
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of gue. Please see her article on page 17
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nations are also in order. See the arti-
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ABTA Online Activities
By Maggie Sparrow, Ontario
Be sure to stay connected
with other teachers through
our online activities.
Welcome!
ABTAhome. Check our website regu-
larly at www.abtahome.com Are you
listed on the teacher page, so that pro-
spective new students may find you?
ABTAdiscuss. Join our email discus-
sion list and send in questions and
comments by email. This is a great
way to discuss bridge teaching with
others. Sometimes the list is very quiet,
other times there is a flurry of activity.
Once you have joined the group you
can read all the past messages, and
we’ve had some interesting discus-
sions. There are also some very useful
things for you to find in the files.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/
group/ABTAdiscuss
ABTAchat. Come to our once-a-
month chat (usually the fourth Sunday
evening) at Bridge Base Online.
Download the windows-based BBO
program ahead of time from
www.bridgebase.com
Topics are pre-set and you will receive
an email reminder a few days in ad-
vance. But don’t be fooled, we get
through a surprising amount in just one
hour, so feel free to jump in if you
have a pressing question. Here’s are
the next few Chat dates and topics:
Sunday, January 26th, 2014. Are you
lucky enough to teach at a bridge club?
If not, how do you find good teaching
space? Do you have to carry your sup-
plies around? How much rent do you
pay and how do you structure your fees
to cover this? Come and chat about the
Fall 2013
practicalities of teaching.
Sunday, February 23rd, 2014. Land
cruises? What are they? Could you do
it? If you have run a land cruise, come
and tell us about it. If you haven’t yet,
come and chat about the possibility.
Sunday, March 23rd, 2014. Photo-
copying...are you allowed to? Using
other material...can you? Suppose you
find a good hand in a book, may you use
it in a lesson? Come and talk to pub-
lisher Ray Lee of Master Point Press
about copyright, and exactly what the
ethical teacher can and can't do.
Sunday, April 27th, 2014. Those begin-
ners who started with you back in the
fall, what are they doing now? Have you
retained them all? Are they still playing?
Come and discuss with others the meth-
ods you use with beginners to keep them
interested, learning and playing.
If you are NOT receiving regular
monthly reminders by email about the
Chats it’s probably because Maggie
Sparrow doesn’t have your correct email
address. Send it to her if you would like
to receive reminders.
Many of the reminders are bounced
back because Maggie’s email is not al-
lowed by the recipients (mostly AOL
users). If you believe this applies to you,
putting Maggie’s email in your address
book will often solve the problem.
If you miss a Chat you are particu-
larly interested in, you can email Maggie
for the transcript at:
msparrow@csolve.net
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Book Reviews
By Dee Berry, Washington
Diamonds Are the
Hog’s Best Friend
A New Collection of Original
Menagerie Stories
By Victor Mollo, Collected and
Edited by Mark Horton, © 2013
Victor Mollo, who died in 1987, is
“one of the best loved authors ever to
write about bridge,” says the back
cover piece about the author, and
suggests that “Bridge in the Menag-
erie,” among Mollo’s first, is “on any
list of the all-time top ten on the
game.” This collection of Mollo sto-
ries has never before appeared in
book form and represents consider-
able research by Mark Horton as well
as Ron Tacchi for Master Point Press.
Diamonds... is one of
four new collections of
original Victor Mollo Me-
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available in 2014 and the final vol- Do
ume, Last Call in the Menagerie, will Ca
appear the following year.
Illustrations by Bill Buttle enliven D
the card games starring the Hog, with
a supporting cast of the
Rueful Rabbit, the Secre-
tary Bird, Walter the
Walrus, Charlie the
Chimp, Papa the Greek, Timothy
Toucan, and Oscar the Owl.
Mollo’s tongue-in-cheek humor
should appeal to teachers and stu-
dents alike. For those who haven’t
been exposed to it, this excerpt is
from a chapter entitled “A Visit from
the Americans.” Oscar the Owl, the
kibitzer, explained, “The Hog is try-
ing to sell the Americans a patent for
a pocket computer which will tell a
player, in every situation,
exactly how many points
he should have for his
bid, in less than two-fifths
ge
of a second after he’s made it. Walter
pla
is financing it.” “Are the Americans
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interested?” asked someone doubt-
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swered O.O. reassuringly, “is a grant-
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he Killing declarer’s communications
ry- receives a chapter.
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on, thors spotlight deal 36 (“One of the
nts most instructive hands you will ever
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This soft-cover 158 page book is
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A Dispatch from the Trenches of
Teaching 2 Over 1 Game Force
By Amy Nellissen, New Jersey
“But you said if your partner
opens and you have 13 points, you
have to bid at the
two level to show
your strength,” my
student explained earnestly.
She had five spades and fourteen
points. Her partner had opened 1♣,
and she was absolutely certain I had
taught her to respond 2♠.
“Never,” I replied.
“Yes you did. We took a
whole class on that. Two
over One Game Force.”
“Oh, that.” I cringed,
wondering how many other
students were walking
around with the same idea.
I’m sure we can all
relate to the experience
of discovering that what
we taught and what the
student learned were
two completely differ-
ent things.
I had just finished teaching Aud-
rey Grant and Eric
Rodwell's 2 over 1
Game Force.
And here was an-
other student who
knew she must jump
to show points.
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we
sp
wo
A practical problem with too
wh
teaching 2 over 1
ple
The very first lesson of any 2 over
1 course talks about which auctions
are affected. As usual, Audrey's book ha
is crystal clear on this: there are only tha
six auctions where 2 over 1 applies: sp
1♠-2♣, 1♠-2♦, 1♠-2♥,
1♥-2♣, 1♥-2♦ or 1♦-2♣.
The very first page in
the text and the very first the
lesson in the class cover ate
this clearly. tio
And I covered it clearly too.
The problem is that from there, we
then go on for the next few weeks
playing hand after hand based on the
six 2 over 1 auctions.
Never again in the remainder of de
the course do they have an auction tio
that starts 1♣-1♥. No
we
No wonder they leave with the res
impression that you must respond on ing
the two level to set up a game force. rei
What to do about it?
if
My 2 over 1 class is organized in
the typical way: the stu-
dents make up the hand,
bid and play it. Next we
turn all the cards face-up dummy- [A
style. We discuss the bidding, open- thi
ing lead, play and defense. AC
3 ABTA QUARTERLY
Should I throw in a hand each
week that starts with a one-level re-
sponse? That would
work, but class time is
h too valuable to waste a
whole hand on such sim-
ple concept.
ver
ns Then it hit me: I have loads of
ok hands already made up on the table
nly that will reinforce one-level re-
sponses! I just need to…
Ask one more question
Now, instead of putting
the cards away immedi-
ately, I ask one more ques-
tion:
“With your tablemates
and using your bid boxes,
we please bid the hand again,
ks this time with East as
he dealer.”
Originally when West
of dealt, it was a 2 over 1 auc-
on tion. For example, 1♠-2♦.
Now with East as dealer
we have an opening bid of 1♦ and a
he responder with five spades and open-
on ing strength. Exactly what we need to
. reinforce that responder doesn't jump.
It takes very little class time, and
if necessary I can do on every hand.
in
Let me know if it works for you.
Amy@TheBridgeTable.com
y- [Amy was kind enough to share with us
n- this article which also appears in the
ACBL Teacher Newsletter.—Editor]
PAGE 17 Fall 2013
Attention
All Teachers!!
Our popular Applebasket con-
test will take place again at our
Conference in Las Vegas in July.
Please submit the method you use
to interest your
students in a par-
ticular concept,
hand or a dilemma
that they frequently encounter. An
entry may be a way that you pre-
sent a concept, things you do in
class to hold their interest, or any
other way that you make their
learning experience memorable.
Remember that your successful
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Don’t Lose Your Diamonds!

By Chuck Hodel, California

I am a strong advocate of bidding usually to our advan-

four cards suits “up-the-line”. If part- tage. It also allows for other se-
ner opens the bidding 1♣ and I hold quences which I find useful to de- CO
four diamonds and scribe our hands. 20
four of a major I pre- 15
fer to bid my diamond If I hold a five-card major and a
suit. It seems that this four- or five-card minor it
method is no longer is easy to let partner wi
in vogue but it has know this. If he opens 1♣ as
certain advantages that I find useful. I and I bid 1♠ followed by pu
teach my students to use this method. a bid of 2♦, partner pa
knows right away that I hold a longer the
If our partnership has a four-four spade suit than diamond suit. stu
fit in a major we will find it. It also AB
allows the opening Of course the question of oppo-
hand, which is usually nent interference comes up. As long
the stronger one of our as we play negative doubles, either
partnership, to declare partner or I can show the unbid suit inc
the hand. We all know that this is and we again are in the action. an

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the hand and so cannot prevent West back to the Jack, and ruff a club.
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2013 Applebasket Contest

Honorable Mentions tur
By Brenda Montague, Massachusetts mo
sti
as
Carolyn Pinto “When partner now bids three
Fort Worth, Texas hearts, they are saying, ‘Partner, I
know you have a bad hand. But is it a tha
Give Them Hands BAD-BAD hand or a GOOD-BAD pr
One thing that I have learned hand?’ ” my
when teaching conventions, is always mi
Spoken with appropriate empha- ing
give them hands before you teach the sis, it helps students learn that a nine-
convention. This allows them to get point hand can indeed be good.
excited about learning the conven-
tion.
Carol T. Griffin
Walnut Creek, California
Debbie Wagner
Athens, Georgia Marketing
A marketing tip: offer beginner
Visual Aids students a free repetition of the be- ea
When describing a bridge hand, I ginner class or at least a discounted sm
hold up colored carnations (silk-not amount. wa
real) to represent suits. A five-four gr
hand would have 5 red ones for an
hearts and 4 blue ones for spades. Carol Hargrave
This is helpful on the lesson for trans- Weeki Wachee, Florida
up
fers and/or Stayman. Other colors are Use Cover Stock tea
added for the other two suits.
and Large Type co
stu
This might be helpful to some
Sam Marks teachers who find themselves without
be
Atlanta, Georgia to
a podium or a place to put their lec-
Teaching Game Tries tures while giving them.
When I teach game tries, it is very I work a lot on cruise ships and I
difficult to get students to appreciate also like to move about the
that the right 8 points is enough to go room. Typically I might not have a
to game. microphone, so I like to move among
the few tables I have (the number
So I try and explain it this way: varies on cruise ships from to 3 to
“When you raised to two hearts, 8). I also might have a small number me
you told partner you had a bad hand. at our bridge club. It
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I like to print all my teacher’s lec- for “learning” and I am responsible

tures on cover stock (stiff paper that for “time management.”
most printers can handle nicely). The
stiff paper allows me to see my notes Since the students are in charge of
as I move around. their learning they should ask any and
ee all questions, anytime a question oc-
I I have also found as I get older, curs to them. They needn’t
a that I like to print my lectures in bold worry about whether the
AD print in a larger size—it’s easier on question is appropriate or
my aging eyes. Just a thought that whether it might take too
might help others dedicated to teach- long to answer.
a- ing bridge in their silver years.
ne- They can ask the questions and
since I am in charge of time manage-
John Pain ment, I’ll assess if I will answer the
Aylesbury, England question immediately, defer the ques-
tion to later in the class period, or
Individual answer it after class.
Dry Erase Boards
er I give individual dry erase boards, Carol Lee Erbeck
e- each supplied with a marker and a Pearce, Arizona
ed small eraser, to each student. That
way, when I ask a question to the Offer Index Cards
group, they can quickly write their After I have taught a class on a
answer down on the board. particular subject, I offer a 5x3 index
Then you can say to them “hold card highlighting the key points of
up your boards.” That way the the class.
teacher can see at a glance who gets it Of the classes I have had, I am
correct. It also stops the over-eager almost always asked—at the begin-
student from calling out the answer ning of the class, “Will there be a
me
before the others have had a chance card available?”
ut
to think about it.
c- I don’t offer the card at the begin-
ning of the class, because
dI Gordon Markham I have found (in the past)
he Sun Lakes, Arizona that attention is drawn
a Be Responsible for more to the card than to
ng the class.
er
Time Management
This works for me; hope it might
to As part of my introductory com-
help others.
er ments at the start of every new class,
I tell the students they are responsible
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(Continued from page 23)
Pam Farrar
Richmond, Virginia
A New SUIT by
an unPASSED . . .
Not one of my students (to my
knowledge) has ever, ever, ever
passed her partner’s forcing new suit.
I attribute this miracle to the power of
the following chant. Here it is, with
the accompanying gymnastics.
Stage one: I twist to the left, rais-
ing my hands high above my head,
and chant: “A new SUIT” (clap on
SUIT ); I twist to the right, raising
my hands, and chant: “by an un-
PASSED” (clap on PASSED); twist
left “responDER” (clap); twist right
“is forCING” (clap); twist left
“unless . . . (dramatic pause) someone
at the table has said no trump.” Say
this last part as fast as you possibly
can so it sounds like a grownup mys-
tery.
Stage two: Have your
class do the same thing with
you. Repeat ad libitum that
day and any other, particu-
larly when a new student
joins the class.
Stage three: You can ease off on
the twisting and clapping. But now,
when you do the chant give the class
only the initial word or syllable so
they have to fill in the blanks.
Example: “A new ___, by an
un___ respon___ is for___ unless
someone at the table has said _____.”
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I think, although I am not going to
put it to a public test, that all my stu-
dents can say the whole chant by
heart with no coaching. But we do it
again every so often just to make
sure.
Incidentally, they all like the
chant, and I like how it makes subse-
quent, more advanced lessons so
much easier to teach.
Mimi David •
Palm Desert, California
Suggested Play
of the Hands in •
a Beginner Class
Give the students simple in-
structions for bidding, such as you
must have 12 points to open the
bidding, and you must have 6
points to answer your partner.
We’re not concerned with correct
levels of contracts at this point. In
the first hand the students merely
follow suit, and the highest card •
wins the trick. In the second hand,
we bid and play with a dummy.
Suggested play of the hands
in a beginner class:
• Place table mats showing NS/EW
and playing cards on each table.
Assign one pair as N/S partners,
and the same for E/W partners. •
Spread the cards, and the player
picking the highest card is as-
signed as dealer. Dealer distrib-
utes the cards clockwise around
the table to each player.
• For the first hand, the students do
 3 ABTA QUARTERLY PAGE 25
to not bid. Instruct the left hand op-
u- ponent of the dealer to lead any
by card (call this player the left
it hand opponent) and have all
ke players follow suit by playing
cards clockwise around the table.
Tell the students they are play-
he
ing a “no trump” contract with
se-
no trump suit. The player with
so
the highest card in the suit led
wins the trick. We use no
dummy for this hand.
• Remind the students to place
winning tricks vertically in
front of them, and losing tricks
horizontally.
• We use bidding in the next hand.
Ask the students to count the
n- points in their hands. Instruct the
ou students they must have at least
he twelve points to open the bidding
6 for their partnership, and pass
er. without the necessary points. Re-
ect mind the student who opens for
In his partnership that he is called
ely the opening bidder.
rd
• Instruct the responder of the
nd,
opening bidder that he needs six
or more points to answer part-
ner’s opening bid. As responder
he may bid his own suit, no
trump, or agree with partner’s
W suit. I remind this player that he
le.
is called the responder.
rs,
• Each player announces their
rs.
point count, bids if they have an
yer
as- opening count, or passes. The
b- opening bidders bid their best suit
nd or no trump and the responders
either agree with opener’s suit or
bid their own suit or no trump.
do
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• The players must bid according
to the ranking of the suits.
• One partnership will select a
trump suit or declare a no trump
contract. Again, we are not con-
cerned with correct levels of con-
tracts at this point.
• Remind the students that the
player first naming the suit or no
trump bid that becomes the con-
tract is called the declarer and
his partner is called the
dummy. Remind the students
that the last suit or no trump bid
becomes the contract when fol-
lowed by three passes.
• After the opening lead, instruct
the partner of the declarer to
place his hand in rows of suits on
the table with the trump suit on
dummy’s right.
In my experience, I found the
above exercise to be very good for
new students, and
throws them right into
the “pool” (game). I’m
always amazed at how
quickly students learn the fundamen-
tals of the game by using the above
format.
Carol T. Griffin
Walnut Creek, California
Bidding Choices
In reference to bidding choices:
“When choosing a bid, don't keep
secrets from your partner.”
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(Continued from page 25) Breezy Salmon Al

David Glandorf
Houston, Texas
“If You Don’t Know
Where You’re Going,
Don’t be in a Hurry to
Get There!”
This is a comment I often use
when responder makes a jump shift in
a new suit as their first response to
partner’s opening bid.
It is usually made by an “old
school” player who is in my begin-
ning bidding class to learn modern
bidding styles. The problem is that
they seldom have the strength or suit
requirements for a strong jump shift.
They will typically have just an open-
ing bid and a four-card suit.
I point out that they have taken up
valuable bidding space with no idea
of what the final strain or level
should be. I remind them that the
simple bid of new suit is forcing for
one round so that they will have a
much better idea of where they are
heading after opener’s rebid.
I actually teach my beginners to
NEVER make a jump shift in a new
suit since there is no modern standard
for this bid—it might be strong, weak
or conventional depending on part-
nership agreement. I suggest that they
wait until they become more experi-
enced and then decide how they
would like to use it. As a beginner
they will be able to get along quite
well without it.
Nashville, Tennessee De
on
Bidding Teams
#3
In a bidding class, teachers are cla
constantly faced with the problem wh
that students want to play the hand ba
after they bid it. This is not what the
lesson is about! I found a way to
ity
avoid it. Teachers can make the bid-
ding itself into a competitive game.
What I did in my last class (16
students) is I had 4 teams. I put sev-
eral card tables together—like 9 of
them—with 4 chairs on each side,
and they bid in teams after the lec-
ture. Every time a team made it all
the way through the auction without
error, they received a poker chip.
Teams were mixed and matched
evenly each week. I kept a tally on
each player.
At the last class there was one per-
son who had earned more poker chips
than anyone else, and she received a
prize.
#4
Carol T. Griffin de
Walnut Creek, California bid
Helping Students
with Bidding
en
#1. We tend to forget how important
pa
and informative the Pass bid is, so I
remind my students with a simple #5
statement/sign of “A Pass is a good the
bid too.” be
mo
#2. When the students feel over-
ve
whelmed by all the rules/guidelines
on
of bidding I try to remind them that:
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All bidding boils down to two things: in one suit it is worth 10 points and 4
Describing the Strength and Shape of tricks. On the other hand, if one has
one’s hand. the Ace in one suit, the King in an-
other, the Queen in yet another and
#3. Sometimes a visual chart helps
are the Jack in the 4th suit, you still have
clarify/simplify the choices we make
em 10 points but only one trick!
when opening the bidding. There are
nd basically 3 choices, in order of prior- ♠A K Q J = 10 HCP and 4 tricks!
he ity: vs.
to ♠A, ♥K, ♦Q, ♣J = 10 HCPs
d- Hierarchy of Opening Bids but only one trick.
(13-21 pts.)

16 Dave Poriss
v- Burlington, Connecticut
of
de, 1 NT The Reverse
ec- 15-17 pts.
Balanced One of the most difficult concepts
all
in the labeling and explanation is
out
the word: “reverse” (also known as
ip. Longest Suit (5+) the “dreaded reverse”). So why that
ed 5/5, bid the particular word, and is there a
on Higher Ranking “better” way to define and explain
it?
er- Longest (3+) Minor If we have an even amount of two
ps If both are equal: suits in our hand, we are taught from
da (4/4, bid ♦)
basic bidding to always bid the
(3/3, bid ♣)
higher-ranking suit first. But we were
never given the entire explanation
#4. I find short phrases help the stu- why.
dents decide where to go with the
bidding choices. For example, Of course (given suits of equal
length), if we have a choice between
“One who knows, goes.” i.e.:
opening in a 5-card major suit or a
1♣, Pass, 1♠, Pass, 4♠ = showing
minor, we are told to always open in
enough points (19-21) for game with
ant the major suit. This is
partner possibly having only 6 points.
oI sound advice, but begs the
ple #5. When I talk about points and issue of the reverse. By
od their range, I mention that one point teaching students with
between friends doesn't matter. It is equal length to bid the major first, the
more about judgment. Good points point of reverses does not normally
er-
versus poor points. For example, if come up (with even length suits.)
nes
one has the Ace, King, Queen, Jack
at: (Continued on page 28)
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(Continued from page 27)
To repeat for emphasis, this is the
“natural” order of bidding structure
today. We no longer introduce hands
with 4 cards in the majors and 5 in
the minor by opening in the ma-
jor. Note that ”old fashioned” 4-card
majors did not have this prob-
lem. Even die-hard Kantar, now re-
luctantly concedes to 5-card ma-
jors, but with a 4-card major and a 5-
card minor and a minimum hand, he
still suggests you “mentally” slip an-
other card into the major suit.
But because of the structure of
bidding, when we eventually have
MORE cards in the lower-ranking
suit, we SHOULD bid the lower-
ranking suit first. In essence, by bid-
ding the lower suit FIRST, with the
intent of bidding the higher-ranking
suit on the next bid, we have RE-
VERSED the “natural” order of bid-
ding structure.
And by “reversing the bidding
structure,” we eventually force the
bidding to a higher level than we
might want to. Ergo, you need a me-
dium hand or better to “reverse the
natural bidding structure.”
Note the reverse should be ex-
plained as the first, not the second
bid. Heretofore, every explanation
that we see about the reverse, is
about the second bid. Because the
second bid in this type of bidding
sequence is not the reverse, per se. It
is simply a follow through of the first
bid!
Try explaining the word reverse
as the first bid in this sequence. And
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when you say it specifically that way, •
the word “reverse” is finally put into
correct context and better compre- •
hended!
Patty Tucker •
Dunwoody, Georgia
BINGO! •
Everyone likes to be recognized
for their accomplishments, no matter
how old they are. I came up with a
“Bridge with (name)! Bingo” for •
my students.
I awarded stars for students when
they “got something.” For some it
was keeping count of trumps; for
some, remembering how Stayman
went; and for some, finding a
squeeze. Stars were awarded based on
the student’s level. Straight line
“Bingos” were awarded with a small
prize.
What I found, however, was that
the excitement created just in the
competition of winning stars was fun
and exciting for the students and in-
creased their desire to study and
learn.
How to Play
Win stars and cash
in your card for prizes!
Complete a straight line bingo for a
surprise gift. Fill your card with stars
and win a prize. Open to (teacher’s
br
name) students. Awarding of stars is
of
solely at the discretion of (teacher’s
lea
name) and level of student class will
tan
be considered. Game ends (enter
date). Limit one bingo card per stu- af
dent. tin
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ay, • Bid – Make the correct bid on a derstand just how important partner-
nto hand. ship communication is can be one of
re- • Inference – Correctly analyze the the toughest jobs a bridge teacher
information available from the will face. I start by using an analogy
bidding. that puts them in a known situation.
• Numbers – Keep an accurate Imagine you and your friend are
count of the number of points going to an auction where you plan to
and cards you’ve seen. bid on an item. You have some of
• Game – Make the right decision your combined assets in your bank-
ed about bidding or not bidding book and your friend has the rest in
ter game. Also win stars for deci- her bankbook. Somehow you have to
h a sions concerning sacrificing. use the “language of bidding” to de-
for • Overcall – Make the right bid as scribe to your friend what
an overcaller and defensive deci- is in your bankbook, and
en sions. you have to be able to
it understand what her bid-
for ding is telling you about what is in
an her bankbook. You and your friend
a converse back and forth in this lan-
on guage until one of you knows the
ne combined assets of both bankbooks,
all and that partner knows how high the
partnership can afford to bid in the
attempt to purchase the item.
hat
he Comparing bidding for a contract
un to bidding to purchase an auction
in- item helps new students understand
nd the purpose of the bridge auction.
Emphasizing the need to communi-
cate with partner and the idea of
shared assets helps them understand
Judi Shulman the concept that your side is working
Delmar, New York
with 26 combined cards, not 13 each.
r a The Bankbook Even when you have a beginning
ars bridge class with some returning
r’s There is no game that compares to
bridge players, it still helps remind
is bridge in its infinite variety, its level
them of the purpose of bidding.
r’s of complexity when it comes to
There is nothing out there that com-
will learning basic rules, and, most impor-
pares to the joy of playing bridge
ter tantly, in the partnership aspect that
with a partner, so get them thinking
tu- affects every part of the game. Get-
that way right from the start.
ting beginning bridge players to un-
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ABTA, P.O. Box 232, Greenwood, MO, 64034-0232
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C. Total Paid Distribution
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3. Copies Mailed at Other Classes Through
the USPS (e.g. First-Class Mail ) 0 0
4. Distribution Outside the Mail
(Carriers or other means) 100 100
E. Total Free or Nominal Rate Distribution
(Sum of D1 through D4) 100 100
F. Total Distribution (Sum of C and E) 574 576
G. Copies not Distributed; 176 174
H. TOTAL (Sum of F and G) 750 750
I. Percent Paid
(C divided by F times 100) 82.58% 82.26%
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FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

www.abtahome.com and www.teachbridge.com have

just been re-launched with a fresh look, better navigation, and tons of
great resources that are perfect for bridge teachers and students. Here’s a
taste of what you can find on the new sites:

• Stay informed about ABTA events and news, including this

year’s ABTA Convention in Atlanta
• Learn all about the Master Teachers Program and the Teacher
of the Year
• Check out the new “Find a Teacher” program - easily find ABTA
teachers by name or location
• Feature articles, columns and quizzes by great bridge authors
• Apple Basket Teaching Tips from ABTA teachers
Advice & insights from featured teachers and bridge authors
• Curious about teaching on cruises? Need some jokes to get
your class started? You’ll find it all here.
• Bridge on the Web: Links to helpful online resources for you
and your students
• Monthly deals - just for teachers - on books and software from
Master Point Press and Ebooksbridge

Stay in touch. You can share your feedback on the feedback form located on
the “Contact Us” page. If you would like to make changes to your contact
information in the “Find a Teacher” program, please contact Kathy Rolfe.

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