Winning Bridge

Winning Bridge

These Help pages can be downloaded here with the Winning Bridge Shareware game for Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP.

If you would rather read a book, take a look at the Help Index page for some suggestions.

Blackwood Convention

To use the Blackwood convention selected the Blackwood option in the Conventions Dialog.

The Blackwood convention allows a player to ask how many aces their partner holds.

To start Blackwood a player bids 4 no trump, their partner then bids:

0 or 4 aces: 5 clubs

1 ace: 5 diamonds

2 aces: 5 hearts

3 aces: 5 spade.

It is then possible to ask for kings by bidding 5 no trump with similar responses at the six level.