In ACBL tournaments, players are required to explain or pre-Alert to opponents regarding certain aspects of their methods, including unusual bidding treatments and/or defensive conventions, such as th [..]

A card, usually printed, with prearranged instructions to each contestant, telling him which seat to occupy and which boards to play at each round. The guide card may also enable a contestant to check [..]

  The same as total-point scoring.

 In bidding, the practice of making the cheapest bid when responding or rebidding with two or three four-card suits.

The play of an ace, 2, 3 and 4 on the same trick. The cards do not necessarily have to be in order.

The first lead on any hand, so called because the opening leader has not seen the dummy. This term is particularly applied when the leader’s partner did not bid, and the declarer’s side has bid only o [..]

 The hand of the declarer, as distinct from the open hand, now legally referred to as the dummy. The term dates from bridge whist, which introduced the idea of an exposed hand visible to the other pla [..]

A player who (often mistakenly) feels that he is better qualified than his partner to manage the hands as declarer. The usual method of operation is to pass with minimum opening bids but to respond wi [..]

A natural constructive response in a forcing situation where there is a bid available for an artificial negative or waiting response.

  A high-card holding that in usual circumstances will win a trick by virtue of the rank of the cards in either offensive or defensive play. Of course, in some distributional holdings or freak hands, [..]