CHAPTER 4 SIGNALING AGAINIST SUITS

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WHAT
YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN
CHAPTER:

•  Defenders must help each other to figure out the right thing to do by signaling with the spot cards they play to each trick
• There are three basic types of signal: attitude, count and suit preference
• It's usually easy to recognize the situations in which of these signals occur, and to distin¬guish between them
• Attitude signals 100
• Standard count signals 119
• Suit preference signals 127
• Practice hands 1 35
• Test yourself 137
• Solutions 141
• Key ideas 146

In bridge you are not allowed to talk to your partner during the play of the  hand.
Instead the cards you play on defense are supposed; to do the talking for you. You are trying to tell your partner what's on your mind by the relative size of the card(s) you play. It's called signaling . It's an art from.

Defensive signals come in three packages:

1. Attitude :how you feel about the suit partner has led.
2. Count    : how many cards you have in a particular suit, preference:
3. Suit Preference : which suit you want partner to lead.

It all pretty, but you can only give one of these signals at a time partner has to know which one you are giving!
Let's consider  each separately, paying particular attention to when each is given.
The idea is not to have conversations like this with your partner after  a signaling disaster:
You: "That was an attitude  signal you gave me, you know." Partner: "No way, that was a suit :ce signal, it was so obvious."