. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. no trump. LEADING AGAINST TRUMPS If your partner has doubled a trump declar-ation, do not assume great strength in his handin the trump suit, and avoid a trump lead atall costs. Against any trump declaration, the bestsuits to open are those headed by two or morecards in sequence. The Avorst are those withhonors which are not in sequence when thesuit is short, and those headed by singlehonors which are not the ace. The best ofall openings are suits headed by both ace andking, as they hold
. Auction bridge; containing the official laws of auction bridge as adopted and used by the leading clubs. no trump. LEADING AGAINST TRUMPS If your partner has doubled a trump declar-ation, do not assume great strength in his handin the trump suit, and avoid a trump lead atall costs. Against any trump declaration, the bestsuits to open are those headed by two or morecards in sequence. The Avorst are those withhonors which are not in sequence when thesuit is short, and those headed by singlehonors which are not the ace. The best ofall openings are suits headed by both ace andking, as they hold the lead until Dummyscards are laid down, and still command thesuit. Every player should learn the various com-binations from which it is conventional to leadone of the five high cards—the ace, king,queen, jack, or ten. These leads are coveredby five simple rules. ^ The king is always led when it is accom-panied by the card next it in value, above orb,elow; that is, by the ace or the queen orboth. From any of the following combina- 100 AUCTION BRIDGE tions, the proper card to lead would be theking:. There are two objects in view in leadingconventionally. In the first place, you makethe most out of the suit by leading high cardsinstead of low ones. In the second place, ifyour partner is a good player, and knows theleads, he will be able to infer what combina-tion of high cards you hold. When playing against a trump declaration,there is little for the adversaries to do in theopening attack but to show each other whattricks they can win. This the leader does by AUCTION BRIDGE lOI Opening conventionally, while his partner in-dicates, by methods to be explained when wecome to the play of the third hand, whetheror not he can trump the smaller cards of thesuit after the leader has exhausted his wanningcards. If the king is led from any of the foregoingcombinations, it will win the trick, and thepartner will infer that the leader must holdthe ace. For the second round of the suit the
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