Bridge Defense
Descriptions have been written to the best of my knowledge. If you see anything strange or have any questions, let me know at jefftang@gmail.com.
Defense Principles
Opening Leads
- 0 or 2 higher leads
- Ace from Ace-King
- Falsecards on opening lead
- Fourth-best leads
- Jack denies, Ten implies (Coded nines and tens)
- Journalist leads
- MUD
- Rusinow leads
- Standard leads
- Third and fifth leads
- Trump leads
Discards
- Lavinthal discards (McKenney discards)
- Odd-even discards (Roman discards)
- Revolving discards
Signals
- Attitude signals ("Come-on" signals)
- Bechgaard signals
- Count signals
- Foster echo
- Present count
- Scanian signals
- Sequence signals
- Smith echo
- Suit-preference signals
- Trump echo
- Upside-down count and attitude
- Vinje signals