扣叫进贯Cue-BiddingtoSlam（英文）.doc

Cue-Bidding to Slam Claudio Petroncini and Giorgio Belladonna, 1990 Translated by Daniel J. Neill, January 2004  Introduction Playing bridge you may happen to have something like this hand and dummy: ( Q x x x x ( -- ( x x x ( A K Q J x ( K J x x x ( A K Q x ( J x x ( x Whoever opener is, your system would be unlikely to allow you to stop at the right level of a 3S partial. Your observation, after having gone down in the contract of 4S (unless the opponents generously ignore the diamond suit), would reasonably be: “There’s no way to stop in a partial with 10 trumps, 26 HCP and a side singleton and void!” But, if we leave North’s cards the same, and switch South’s hearts and diamonds, even removing the Queen of diamonds, we obtain this layout: ( Q x x x x ( -- ( x x x ( A K Q J x ( K J x x x ( J x x ( A K x x ( x No matter whether the opening was by North or South, there aren’t many systems that have the advantage of a slam-investigating treatment sophisticated enough to find the ideal contract of 6S. Your observation, after climbing to the height of 4S, would be in this case, also correct: “With just 24 HCP what were the chances that the Jack third of hearts with South would face North’s void and that the 3 small diamonds in North would be covered by the Ace and King with South, the only set of holdings to make slam cold?” This example serves to show that point-count can’t be the only consideration; in fact the contract depends on many elements: suit-length, location of honors, and doubletons, singletons, and voids may each contribute to determining the choice of final contract. No system today lets you examine all the elements on which the contract depends a low level, and still offers the chance, in each case, to stop in a partial or to continue toward the more ambitious objectives of game and slam. Therefore accept that, when you are in the partial/game zone, in which you don’t always