http://wcipeg.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter&feed=atom&action=historyUser:Brian/Bridge/Splinter - Revision history2024-03-28T14:31:18ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.2http://wcipeg.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter&diff=2088&oldid=prevBrian at 01:34, 13 June 20172017-06-13T01:34:09Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I'm excited about the great fit we have and I think we can make slam &rarr; initiate [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bidding]] or bid 4NT, [[User:Brian/Bridge/Blackwood|Blackwood]]. Note that the splinter has already shown suit agreement, so there is no ambiguity about which suit is trumps.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I'm excited about the great fit we have and I think we can make slam &rarr; initiate [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bidding]] or bid 4NT, [[User:Brian/Bridge/Blackwood|Blackwood]]. Note that the splinter has already shown suit agreement, so there is no ambiguity about which suit is trumps.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I don't have slam interest &rarr; Sign off in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4 of your suit</del>. If partner bids again, it is a [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bid]] or [[User:Brian/Bridge/Responding to Blackwood|Blackwood]] and partner's hand was possibly too strong for a splinter bid.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I don't have slam interest <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and the trump suit is a major suit </ins>&rarr; Sign off in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4M</ins>. If partner bids again, it is a [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bid]] or [[User:Brian/Bridge/Responding to Blackwood|Blackwood]] and partner's hand was possibly too strong for a splinter bid<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Brianhttp://wcipeg.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter&diff=2086&oldid=prevBrian at 01:14, 13 June 20172017-06-13T01:14:32Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">If partner splintered</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">alert </del>the bid.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A splinter '''always''' shows:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A splinter shows support, a void or small singleton in the splinter suit, and game-forcing strength with slam interest.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A splinter raise of a major shows at least 4-card support. Thus, in the sequence 1&hearts; - 4&clubs;, at least a 9-card heart fit exists, and opener's partner has a void or singleton in clubs. In the sequence 1&diams; - 1&spades; - 4&hearts;, opener shows exactly 4 spades and a void or singleton in hearts. (With 5 spades, they would have opened spades rather than a minor).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A splinter raise of a major shows at least 4-card support. Thus, in the sequence 1&hearts; - 4&clubs;, at least a 9-card heart fit exists, and opener's partner has a void or <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">small </del>singleton in clubs. In the sequence 1&diams; - 1&spades; - 4&hearts;, opener shows exactly 4 spades and a void or <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">small </del>singleton in hearts. (With 5 spades, they would have opened spades rather than a minor).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A splinter raise of a minor shows at least 5-card support.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A splinter raise of a minor shows at least 5-card support.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Making a splinter bid==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Splinters are usually bid with slightly less strength than what you would normally need for an invitation to slam; a minimum game-forcing hand can be enough for a splinter bid. Some partnerships have an agreement that a splinter bid is therefore limited in strength. With a very good hand, making a splinter bid can be disadvantageous since the information it conveys is less useful and yet it uses up a lot of bidding space. One could instead game-force with 2/1 or fourth suit forcing, then employ [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bids]] and [[User:Brian/Bridge/Blackwood|4NT, Blackwood]].</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It's generally ill-advised to splinter if your short suit is a singleton ace or king; doing so would mislead your partner about the amount of strength you hold in the other suits.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Evaluate your hand carefully before responding.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Evaluate your hand carefully before responding. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Partner is telling you that slam is viable if your hands "fit" with each other very well. The idea is that the splinter promises at most one loser in the short suit, so if your values are concentrated in suits other than partner's short suit, you have a good chance of being able to take twelve tricks in the other suits, losing at most one in the splinter suit. On the other hand, if you have values in partner's short suit instead of in the other suits, those high cards won't pull their weight, and the lower concentration of values in other suits may indicate losers in those suits.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have slam <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">interest </del>&rarr; initiate [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bidding]] or bid 4NT, [[User:Brian/Bridge/Blackwood|Blackwood]]. Note that the splinter has already shown suit agreement, so there is no ambiguity about which suit is trumps.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'m excited about the great fit we </ins>have <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and I think we can make </ins>slam &rarr; initiate [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bidding]] or bid 4NT, [[User:Brian/Bridge/Blackwood|Blackwood]]. Note that the splinter has already shown suit agreement, so there is no ambiguity about which suit is trumps.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Brianhttp://wcipeg.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter&diff=2084&oldid=prevBrian: Brian moved page User:Brian/Bridge/Responding to a splinter to User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter2017-06-13T00:34:01Z<p>Brian moved page <a href="/wiki/User:Brian/Bridge/Responding_to_a_splinter" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Brian/Bridge/Responding to a splinter">User:Brian/Bridge/Responding to a splinter</a> to <a href="/wiki/User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter" title="User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter">User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter</a></p>
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</td></tr></table>Brianhttp://wcipeg.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Brian/Bridge/Splinter&diff=2074&oldid=prevBrian: Created page with "==Meaning== A splinter is: * a double jump shift by opener's partner, or * a jump shift by opener following a single raise of opener's suit. For example, 1♥ - 4♣..."2017-06-11T04:26:19Z<p>Created page with "==Meaning== A splinter is: * a double jump shift by opener's partner, or * a jump shift by opener following a single raise of opener's suit. For example, 1♥ - 4♣..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Meaning==<br />
A splinter is:<br />
* a double jump shift by opener's partner, or<br />
* a jump shift by opener following a single raise of opener's suit.<br />
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For example, 1&hearts; - 4&clubs; is a splinter by opener's partner. 1&diams; - 1&spades; - 4&hearts; is a splinter by opener.<br />
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If partner splintered, alert the bid.<br />
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A splinter shows support, a void or small singleton in the splinter suit, and game-forcing strength with slam interest.<br />
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A splinter raise of a major shows at least 4-card support. Thus, in the sequence 1&hearts; - 4&clubs;, at least a 9-card heart fit exists, and opener's partner has a void or small singleton in clubs. In the sequence 1&diams; - 1&spades; - 4&hearts;, opener shows exactly 4 spades and a void or small singleton in hearts. (With 5 spades, they would have opened spades rather than a minor).<br />
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A splinter raise of a minor shows at least 5-card support.<br />
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==Responses==<br />
Evaluate your hand carefully before responding.<br />
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I have slam interest &rarr; initiate [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bidding]] or bid 4NT, [[User:Brian/Bridge/Blackwood|Blackwood]]. Note that the splinter has already shown suit agreement, so there is no ambiguity about which suit is trumps.<br />
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I don't have slam interest &rarr; Sign off in 4 of your suit. If partner bids again, it is a [[User:Brian/Bridge/Control bidding|control bid]] or [[User:Brian/Bridge/Responding to Blackwood|Blackwood]].</div>Brian