var CONV_NT = 1; var CONV_DEF2NT = 2; var CONV_PREEMPT = 4; var CONV_DEF2PREEMPT = 8; var CONV_SLAM = 16; var CONV_OPENING = 32; var CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE = 64; var CONV_STRONG = 128; var CONV_STRONGRESPONSE = 256; var CONV_STRONG = 512; var CONV_WEAK = 1024; var CONV_WEAKRESPONSE = 2048; var CONV_COMPETITIVE = 4096; var CONV_OTHER = 8192; var CONV_LINK = 32768; var CONV_ALL = 65535; usr='00213623P005'; var convUrl = new Array(1); var convName = new Array(1); var convTypes = new Array(1); var max=0; function addConvention(url, name, types) { convUrl[max] = url; convName[max] = name; convTypes[max++] = types; } function displayOptions(type) { var i for (i=0; i"+convName[i]+" "); } } function slider(prev, next) { document.write("

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'); } // next free at 233 // addConvention("1.html", "Ace Over Two-Bids", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("1.html", "Ace-Showing Responses", CONV_LINK|CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("2.html", "Acol Four NT Opening", CONV_SLAM|CONV_OPENING); addConvention("3.html", "Acol Three NT Opening", CONV_OPENING|CONV_STRONG); addConvention("4.html", "Acol Two Bids", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("5.html", "Acol Two Club Opening", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("6.html", "Allen Over Notrump", CONV_NT); addConvention("7.html", "All-Purpose Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("8.html", "Asking Bids", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("9.html", "Astro", CONV_DEF2NT); addConvention("10.html", "Astro Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("11.html", "August Two Diamonds", CONV_NT); addConvention("12.html", "Baby Blackwood", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("230.html", "Balancing Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("13.html", "Balancing Two Clubs for Takeout", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("14.html", "Baron Notrump Overcall", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("227.html", "Baron Three Clubs", CONV_NT); addConvention("15.html", "Baron Two-Notrump Response", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("17.html", "Blackwood", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("18.html", "Brozel", CONV_DEF2NT); addConvention("19.html", "Canape", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("231.html", "Cappelletti", CONV_DEF2NT); addConvention("20.html", "Cheaper Minor for Takeout", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("21.html", "Checkback Stayman", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("22.html", "Colorful Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("23.html", "Competitive Doubles", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("23.html", "Cooperative Doubles", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("24.html", "Constructive Major Raises", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("25.html", "Control Asking Bid", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("29.html", "Control Showing Bid", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("26.html", "Controlled Psychics", CONV_OPENING|CONV_WEAK); addConvention("27.html", "Convenient Minors", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("225.html", "Crowhurst", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("28.html", "Cue-Bid", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("28.html", "Cue-Bid Limit Raise", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("67.html", "Cue-Bid One-Round Force", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("30.html", "Cue-Bid Stayman", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("31.html", "Culbertson Four-Five Notrump", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("32.html", "Defence to Blackwood Interference", CONV_SLAM|CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("224.html", "Delayed Game Raise", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("33.html", "Directional Asking Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("32.html", "DOPI", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("32.html", "ROPI", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("34.html", "Double-Barrelled Stayman", CONV_NT); addConvention("35.html", "Double for Sacrifice", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("131.html", "Double Negative", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("37.html", "Double of One-Notrump Opening", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("38.html", "Drury", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("39.html", "Eastern Cue-Bid", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("166.html", "Extremes Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("41.html", "Feature-Showing", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("42.html", "Fishbein", CONV_DEF2PREEMPT); addConvention("43.html", "Fisher Double", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("44.html", "Five-Card Majors", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("45.html", "Flannery", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("46.html", "Flint", CONV_NT); addConvention("47.html", "Forcing Raises", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("48.html", "Forcing Stayman", CONV_NT); addConvention("49.html", "Forcing Style", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("50.html", "Four-Card Majors", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("51.html", "Fourth Suit Forcing", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("222.html", "Full-Barrelled Swiss", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("52.html", "Fragment Bid", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("53.html", "Fruit-Machine Swiss", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("54.html", "Gambling Three-Notrump Opening", CONV_WEAK); addConvention("169.html", "Game-Trial Bids", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("56.html", "Gerber", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("125.html", "Gladiator", CONV_NT); addConvention("58.html", "Grand Slam Force", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("59.html", "Grand Slam Force after Blackwood", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("60.html", "Help-Suit Game Try", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("61.html", "Herbert Double", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("62.html", "Higher Suits Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("63.html", "Impossible Negative", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("64.html", "Intermediate Jump Overcalls", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("4.html", "Intermediate Two-Bids", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("66.html", "Inverted Minor Raises", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("67.html", "Invitational Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("121.html", "Irregular Redouble", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("69.html", "Jacoby Transfer Bids", CONV_NT); addConvention("70.html", "Jacoby Two Notrump", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("71.html", "Jordan", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("65.html", "Jump Cue-Bid Limit Raise", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("72.html", "Jump Cue-Bid Overcall", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("73.html", "Jump Reverse Shows Singleton", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("74.html", "Jump Shift Shows Fit", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("75.html", "Kamikaze Notrump", CONV_NT); addConvention("76.html", "Kantar Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("21.html", "Kantar Two Clubs Only Force", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("78.html", "Key-Card Blackwood", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("79.html", "Key-Card Gerber", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("232.html", "Kickback", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("80.html", "Landy", CONV_DEF2NT); addConvention("81.html", "Lead-Directing Double", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("82.html", "Lebensohl", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("83.html", "Lebensohl after Double of Weak Two-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("84.html", "Light Opening Bids", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("85.html", "Light Preempts", CONV_PREEMPT); addConvention("86.html", "Lightner Double", CONV_SLAM|CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("87.html", "Limit Bidding after an Enemy Overcall", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("88.html", "Limit Major Raises", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("89.html", "Limit Raises", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("90.html", "Limit Style", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("9l.html", "Limit Two-notrump Response", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("92.html", "Long-Suit Game Try", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("59.html", "Malowan", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("94.html", "Mathe Asking Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("95.html", "Maximal Overcall Double", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("96.html", "Mexican Two Diamonds", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("97.html", "Michael's Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("75.html", "Mini-Notrump", CONV_NT); addConvention("99.html", "Mini-Roman Two Diamonds", CONV_WEAK); addConvention("100.html", "Mini-Splinter bid", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("223.html", "Minor-Suit Swiss", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("101.html", "Minor-Suit Stayman", CONV_NT); addConvention("102.html", "Minor-Suit Transfers", CONV_NT); addConvention("233.html", "Montreal Relay", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("103.html", "Multicolored Two Diamonds", CONV_STRONG|CONV_WEAK); addConvention("104.html", "Murray Two Diamonds", CONV_NT); addConvention("168.html", "Namyats", CONV_WEAK); addConvention("105.html", "Natural Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("106.html", "Natural Two Club Opening", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("107.html", "Negative Doubles", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("108.html", "Negative Free Bids", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("109.html", "Negative Response", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE|CONV_OTHER); addConvention("110.html", "Negative Slam Double", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("111.html", "New Minor Forcing", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("112.html", "New Suit Forcing At The One Level", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("146.html", "Nonforcing Stayman", CONV_NT); addConvention("114.html", "Ogust", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("115.html", "One Club Forcing", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("116.html", "One Diamond Negative Response", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("117.html", "One Notrump Forcing", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("215.html", "One-Two-Three Stop", CONV_COMPETITIVE|CONV_OTHER); addConvention("119.html", "Optional Double", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("226.html", "Penalty Pass", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("210.html", "Pinpoint Astro", CONV_NT); addConvention("211.html", "Positive Double", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("212.html", "Positive Response", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("213.html", "Positive Slam Double", CONV_SLAM|CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("214.html", "Precision Two Diamonds", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("215.html", "Preemptive Reraises", CONV_COMPETITIVE|CONV_OTHER); addConvention("216.html", "Prepared Club", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("230.html", "Protection Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("217.html", "Psychic Bids", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("26.html", "Psychic Controls", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("219.html", "Puppet Stayman", CONV_NT); addConvention("120.html", "Raise Only Non-Force (RONF)", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("121.html", "Redouble Implies No Fit", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("122.html", "Rescue Bids", CONV_NT); addConvention("123.html", "Responsive Doubles", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("124.html", "Reverse Drury", CONV_WEAKRESPONSE); addConvention("125.html", "Reverse Flint", CONV_NT); addConvention("126.html", "Reverse Truscott", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("127.html", "Revised Landy", CONV_DEF2NT); addConvention("128.html", "Ripstra", CONV_NT); addConvention("129.html", "Roman Blackwood", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("200.html", "Roman Gerber", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("201.html", "Roman Jump Overcalls", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("202.html", "Roman Key-Card Blackwood", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("203.html", "Roman Key-Card Gerber", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("204.html", "Roman Two Clubs", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("205.html", "Roman Two Diamonds", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("206.html", "Rosenkanz Redouble", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("207.html", "Roth-Stone Astro", CONV_DEF2NT); addConvention("208.html", "Roth Two Diamonds", CONV_NT|CONV_SLAM); addConvention("209.html", "San Francisco", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("130.html", "Schenken Two Diamonds", CONV_OPENING|CONV_STRONG); addConvention("131.html", "Second Negative", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE|CONV_OTHER); addConvention("216.html", "Short Club", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("133.html", "Short-Suit Game Try", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("208.html", "Slam-Try Stayman", CONV_SLAM|CONV_STRONG); addConvention("135.html", "Smith", CONV_DEF2PREEMPT); addConvention("136.html", "Smolen Transfer Bids", CONV_NT); addConvention("137.html", "Solid-Minor Preempts", CONV_WEAK); addConvention("138.html", "Solway Jump Shifts", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("139.html", "SOS Redouble", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("140.html", "Sound Opening Bids", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("141.html", "Sound Preempts", CONV_PREEMPT); addConvention("142.html", "South African Texas", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("143.html", "Splinter Bids", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("144.html", "Splinter Responses to One Notrump", CONV_NT); addConvention("107.html", "Sputnik", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("146.html", "Stayman", CONV_NT); addConvention("147.html", "Stayman Two Diamonds", CONV_NT); addConvention("148.html", "Step Responses", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("229.html", "Striped-Tail Ape Double", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("149.html", "Strong Artificial Two Club Opening", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("150.html", "Strong Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("151.html", "Strong Jump Overcalls", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("152.html", "Strong Notrumps", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("153.html", "Strong Two-Bids", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("154.html", "Structured Reverses", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("155.html", "Super Gerber", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("156.html", "Support Doubles", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("157.html", "Swiss", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("158.html", "Takeout Double", CONV_DEF2PREEMPT|CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("159.html", "Texas Transfer Bids", CONV_NT); addConvention("160.html", "Three Clubs/Diamonds Invitational Over One Notrump", CONV_NT); addConvention("161.html", "Three Clubs/Diamonds Preempts Over One Notrump", CONV_NT); addConvention("162.html", "Three Notrumps Balanced Forcing Raise", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("163.html", "Three Notrump Minor-Suit Preempt", CONV_WEAK); addConvention("164.html", "Three-Suited Opening Bids", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("103.html", "Three-Way Two Diamonds", CONV_STRONG|CONV_WEAK); addConvention("166.html", "Top-and-Bottom Cue Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("167.html", "Transfer Bids", CONV_NT); addConvention("168.html", "Transfer Preempts", CONV_WEAK); addConvention("169.html", "Trial Bid", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("170.html", "Truscott Defence", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("165.html", "Truscott Two Diamonds", CONV_NT); addConvention("171.html", "Truscott Two Notrumps", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("172.html", "Two Club Openings", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("13.html", "Two Clubs For Takeout in Balancing Position", CONV_NT); addConvention("174.html", "Two Clubs General Takeout", CONV_NT); addConvention("175.html", "Two Clubs 19 To 21", CONV_STRONG); addConvention("176.html", "Two Diamond Openings", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("177.html", "Two Diamonds Response to Artificial Two Club Bids", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("70.html", "Two Notrump Forcing Response", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("178.html", "Two Notrump Negative Response", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("179.html", "Two-Over-One Game Force", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("180.html", "Two-Way Game Tries", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("181.html", "Two-Way Stayman", CONV_NT); addConvention("228.html", "Unassuming Cue-Bids", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("182.html", "Unlimited Two-Notrump Response", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("183.html", "Unusual Two Notrump Overcall", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("184.html", "Unusual Over Unusual", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("185.html", "Unusual Positive", CONV_STRONGRESPONSE); addConvention("186.html", "Unusual Two Notrump Opening", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("187.html", "Value Swiss", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("188.html", "Variable Notrumps", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("189.html", "Void-Showing Bids", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("190.html", "Void-Showing Over Blackwood", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("191.html", "Voluntary Bid of Five in a Major Suit", CONV_SLAM); addConvention("192.html", "Weak Jump Overcalls", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("193.html", "Weak Jump Raises", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("194.html", "Weak Jump-Shift Responses", CONV_OPENINGRESPONSE); addConvention("195.html", "Weak Notrumps", CONV_OPENING); addConvention("196.html", "Weak-Suit Game Try", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("197.html", "Weak Two-Bids", CONV_PREEMPT|CONV_WEAK); addConvention("198.html", "Weiss", CONV_DEF2PREEMPT); addConvention("199.html", "Western Cue-Bid", CONV_COMPETITIVE); addConvention("220.html", "Wolff Sign-Off", CONV_OTHER); addConvention("221.html", "Woodson Two-Way Notrumps", CONV_OPENING|CONV_STRONG);