Lesson 9
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Correction of exercises

Start by asking if your "customers" didn't find exercise 1 a bit bizarre … Normally they should have found anomalies of the specification "vulnerable" and "not vulnerable" being of no use in partial contracts and the amusing contract of 7 + 1. Also check another possible error: for some 2 + 2 may be the same as 4

When you correct the first deal of the second exercise make gentle fun of those who propose contract with 27 cards in the two hands (insist on the absolute necessity of counting the cards before anything else); to correct this remove the 2 of Clubs. For the correction of the second deal of the second exercise, insist on the fact that you cannot play in a Major suit with seven cards despite the presence of Ace-King-Queen in Hearts and Spades. Playing in a suit is a matter of quantity of cards not quality.

Comprehension questions

Keep banging in the nail….

a) What is a fit?
b) What is a void?
c) I have eleven Hearts in the two hands: how many extra D points can I count?
d) What do I do when my partner opens and I have not got 7 H points?
e) What do I do when my partner tells me he has less than 7 H points and I have opened?
f)

What do I do if my partner says that we have the majority of the points but I only have 3 H points?