forcing bid

It is just a forcing bid to show an invitational hand.

But you can make the next forcing bid.

Culbertson advocated a slow approach to bidding, with many forcing bids.

Three diamonds was a manufactured forcing bid, aimed at discovering more about South's distribution.

Conversely, making a forcing bid, such as a change of suit below game level, shows extra strength or potential beyond the minimum.

A forcing bid is not necessarily a strong bid.

A forcing bid that creates no further obligation is called forcing for one round.

Usually a conventional, forcing bid that shows strength or an unusual hand, or a particular distribution.

Some make a jump to three clubs, an artificial forcing bid, to show diamond support and implying a balanced hand.

See also Forcing bid, Game force and One round force.

Such psychic shenanigans are sometimes exposed when the player passes a forcing bid by his partner, but that did not happen here.

Responder's only forcing bid is 2NT; all other bids are natural.

If you pass a forcing bid or violate your partnership agreements in some other way, your partner is unlikely to remain silent.

A game forcing bids creates a mutual obligation to continue bidding at least to game level, or to double the opponents.

All bridge bidding systems utilise forcing bids.

He was not, however, a magician in bidding theory, for, with one exception, he did not believe in forcing bids.

"Contains the famous accusation that forcing bids are equivalent to scratching one's head or blowing one's nose to convey information."

See also forcing bid, invitation, sign-off.

His opponent, Sidney Lenz, held the opposite view, favoring direct action with hardly any forcing bids.

"We lost to an awesome mare," said Del Carroll, who trains Forcing Bid.

There is, however, one iconoclast who believes that one no-trump should be a strong, forcing bid with a hand that may not be balanced.

After the opponents have bid a suit, a cue bid of that suit is normally intended as a forcing bid.

Compare non-forcing bid, forcing bid.

He reached three no-trump after a sequence that included an artificial forcing bid of two diamonds and had a difficult planning problem after the lead of the diamond jack.

I can't make another forcing bid; my bra is gone and-" "Was that a forcing bid?"